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| Thread ID: 98106 | 2009-03-11 09:14:00 | Now thats my idea of a laptop........... | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 755593 | 2009-03-11 09:14:00 | From Toms Hardware...... Asus has certainly broken the mold on this one, as the W90 is one of the first Asus machines to sport an 18.4-inch, full HD 1920 x 1200 screen. Under the hood, the W90 has a X38 chipset, complimented by a 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo T9600 which sports a 1066 MHz front side bus and six megabytes of cache. This combined with 6 GB of DDR2-800 memory and a 320 GB 7200rpm hard drive make the W90 quite the "mobile" powerhouse. What really stands out on the new offering is the graphics. Asus includes an ATI 4870 X2 with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, which is more than enough power for any game currently on the market. The 4870 X2 sports both VGA and HDMI outputs, with the HDMI offering a output for the onboard 7.1 soundcard. Speaking of sound, the W90 includes its own Altec Lansing 5.1 speaker system. Many other laptop regulars also appear on the W90, including a fingerprint scanner, eSATA, Firewire, audio in/out, a 15-in-1 memory card reader, and four USB ports. For connectivity, it includes Bluetooth, wireless N, and a 2 megapixel camera. To power all this hardware, the W90 also includes a 12-cell battery. While the W90 may be portable, is it really a laptop? With a weight of 11.46 pounds and dimensions of 17.4-inches x 12.91-inches x 2.48-inches, the W90 isn't something you carry around at Starbucks or put on your lap while watching the news. If it wasn't for the backpack included with the laptop at purchase, finding a proper carrying solution for this behemoth would also be a challenge. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 755594 | 2009-03-11 09:23:00 | Mmmmm The CPU isn't very impressive...but the 4870x2....:drool I would have thought it would have been DDR3 RAM. And a bigger HDD, maybe RAID. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 755595 | 2009-03-11 09:23:00 | More in the "Lug-able" category perhaps? It surely would be a nice thing to have though. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 755596 | 2009-03-11 09:54:00 | A mobile 4870x2? | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 755597 | 2009-03-11 19:13:00 | More in the "Lug-able" category perhaps? It surely would be a nice thing to have though . Hump-able Heave-able Drag-able Scoliosis-of-the-spine-able :p |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 755598 | 2009-03-11 20:27:00 | I dont like CF or SLI at the best of times, putting them in a laptop, sorry, but that is both unnecessary, power hungry and prone to issues with both thermals in a laptop and drivers with AMD's inability to allow user profiles for CF. Why couldn't they just use the single 4870, or if they wanted more graphical power the 260 or 280 chip? I however like everything else about the unit.... |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 755599 | 2009-03-11 20:38:00 | Lap crusher rather than Lap top? | somebody (208) | ||
| 755600 | 2009-03-11 21:43:00 | Yeah 5+ KG's for a laptop, its definitely at other end of the "Ultraportable" scale... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 755601 | 2009-03-11 21:57:00 | Think of the piddly battery life. | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 755602 | 2009-03-11 22:11:00 | Does it come with a trailer hitch and wheels? I could prolly put my desktops on wheels and call them portable laptops too, but what's the sense of that? Want portability or want power? Somehow the two seems inversely probable and moronically an "oxy" in the same sentence. |
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