Asus N10 Review — the First Netbook For Gaming

Kim Hawley writes "Mobile Computer has a review of another new netbook from Asus. The N10 comes from Asus’ notebook division rather than its Eee PC division, and has an impressive specification. Most notable are the ExpressCard/34 slot and switchable nVidia GeForce 9300M graphics, and the video shows the N10 playing Call of Duty 4 very smoothly. Pre-orders in the US are around $600 – about the same as the Eee PC 1000. The N10 is closer to a traditional laptop than a true netbook, though – is feature-creep killing this new market already?"

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17"-ers play games just fine, except for the heat

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Seriously, on a 17" screen with a decent video card (nvidia go 7900gs), I *could* play most modern games pretty well and look great, with my trackball mouse added on (I do that with my desktop too). The problem is, a 17" laptop is like sitting a TV on your "lap." You really can't, unless you are trying to get sterile.

The real problem is heat dissipation. Until now, only 17" form factor laptops could (theoretically) tolerate such heat. Even the 17" Dells are having huge failure rates due to their insufficient heat removal schemes. My video card is now borked, giving BSODs, and the notebook forums are rife which such stories. So let's see a mini with a robust video card get away with it.