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What Do You Think of ASUS Laptops?
Dan Guisinger asks: "I'm looking at replacing a laptop that was recently stolen and came across ASUS's new B1000 series laptop. It seams to have everything one could want, dual FireWire ports, DVD, CDRW, 15" screen, upgradable Pentium III cpu using mPGA2 sockets...it even has finger print security. My only problem while looking at the specs is the measly 1024x768 XGA resolution it supports. I am unable to find reviews on this laptop, nor most other ASUS laptops. Can anyone speak of the quality of their laptops overall? How about this particular model, has anyone seen or used the B1000?"
what exactly is a first post anyway? hrm, ill have to search msn for it
Wide screen, DVD, CDRW (external firewire), 30G drive, Radeon Mobile gfx, 512M, 1000/100/10bT ethernet, and an internal 802.11b card. Mac OS X is really sweet. I can run CorelDraw and IE5 right next to a bash prompt and GAIM.
Granted, the damned thing cost me almost $3200 but I love it still.
Chris
. . .How much would a Beowulf cluster of these weigh, and would it still be portable AND ahve the 6 hour battery life? ;)P
You are not the customer.
Beware the wrath of /.ers when you post a broken link.
Let the listing of corrected links begin:
I hope you're not pretending to be evil while secretly being good. That would be dishonest.
It sucks. The suckiness of the suck is exceeded only by the sucking sound of the sucky suck. Many will note the sucking of the suck sucks through the suck. But I feel the suckiness outweighs the suck of the suck. It had a fine suck when applied to my sucker, but some might fine the suck too sucky for their sucker.
In conclusion, the only suckier suck that might suck more is the Suck2000, but that's a matter of personal taste. Bottom line, it sucks the suck off a duck.
Ti Book.
And this is lame, Rob. Can I ask what folks think about Velveeta now? How about Charmin?
Byuing laptops is nonsense. They are really overpriced and have little computing power. The bst thing is to build your own laptop. This can be easily done by ripping a standard TFT display apart and gluing some standard board to it. This is even better than a normal computer because it has no case and so the cooling is much better because of the more air all around. Fresh air is always healthy not only for computers. Getting a useable keyboard might be a little problem but there are these rubber keyboards which are designed to be waterproof which can be glued to the other components. And you want of course a CD-RW, DVD, HDD etc. which all can be glued easily to the other components. Power supply might be a little problem, but the mainboard and the TFT use usually max 12V so this can be done easily with batteries, rechargeable prefered. I really biuld one of these thing. And yes, it didn't work but I think this is because of linux and I should have used FreeBSD instead because it's more Windows compatible.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
I feel ANUS laptops aren't that great. They only have one port, and while it is multi-purpose, I think the user interface is pretty shitty. Also, I've found ANUS laptop owners seem to think that their ANUS laptop is the best, and everyone else's stinks. Furthermore, the BUS for the ANUS laptop can become clogged with too much traffic, and sometimes requires an uncomfortable ANUS probe to correct the problem.
Oh, wait, this is a story abous ASUS laptops isn't it? Sorry about the mixup.
First of all when did slashdot change from listing interesting and important news to a place where we ask questions about which laptops are better ? I have seen an alarming number of these types of "articles" recently which are nothing more than questions. Second of 1024x768 is good for a laptop, I like my Fujitsu C Series Lifebook which has a max resolution of 1024x768 with 32 M colors, it also has 2 PCMCIA slots, a Fire-Wire out, S-Video out, and digital audio out for DVD's. A combo DVD player / CD-RW drive, 4 USB ports (no serial or ps/2 ports) , 1 parrallel port, infared communication port, 3.5 floppy drive, standard audio out and microphone input. Mine has a P3 800 mhz processor with 256 MB ram (came with 128 MB) and 20 gig HD. The only problem i've had with linux on this laptop is the sound doesn't work right.
I've rarely read a better review that offers such a sublime balance between informed, insightful analysis on the one hand, yet is suprisingly compact and well-written on the other hand.
I know what my next purchase will be.
[] BrandX totally sucks! Buy BrandY!
[] BrandX r0xx0rs! Woot!
[] BrandX mentioned Linux like 6 years ago at a party when it was drunk! Everyone buy one!
[] Write your own drivers you l4m3r!
[] Why is this an ask slashdot question? Read a review site!
[] Brink back quickies!
[] CowboyNeal
Just wait till some crappy band steals your nic.
Unfortunately, you can want everything, it's just that very few us of can have it. I'm hoping I can help my teenaged children learn the difference before they go off to college and the campus credit card reps try to convince them that they can have everything they want... at 21% annual interest.