My Laptop

GOT myself a new laptop few days ago. An Asus M51V entertainment laptop. The spec quite good and acceptable by me except for the graphic card which isn't that of a decent one. Anyway the laptop is bought with no intention for heavy gaming. But hopefully it can support Diablo 3 where rumours said to be released soon. With a 15.4 inches shining screen, it's seen to be too big and too heavy, weighing at estimate 2.8kg. Plus adapter, mouse and carrying case/backpack, carrying it around for long period is really tiring. Come in Window Vista. I kinda hate Vista now as it always has auto update and hang without reason. Experienced few times already since I bought, Vista sucks. The keyboard is a full function keyboard. Before using, found it is placed nicely, but after using it, found it a bit hard to use the numerical pad because right hand tends to hit harder on the button and the buttons is placed closely to each other. I think its kinda useless for me as I won't be using the numerical pad. I'm more used to use the numerical button on top of the keyboard. The camera can be turned 180 degree to the back. The battery can last only 2.5 hours when I use with minimum usage(surf net, no sound with low brightness) but lasts only 1.5 hours when used on higher usage (songs, video, high brightness) because of the big screen, it consumes more power. This laptop is designed for entertainment, so watching movie is really nice. The Altec Lansing speaker can be considered high end built in speaker for laptop, at least it outperforms other built in speaker. The maximum resolution is 1200x800 which i think is not suffice. I hope it can support up to 1600x900 resolution.

- Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor P8600 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz, 3MB On-Die L2 Cache
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
- Mobile Intel® PM45 Express Chipset +ICH9M
- 4GB DDR2 800 MHz SDRAM, 2 x SODIMM socket for expansion up to 4GB SDRAM
- 15.4" WXGA/WXGA+/WSXGA+ Color-Shine (Glare-type),Asus Splendid Video Intelligent Technology
- ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD 3470, External 256MB VRAM Hyper Memory up to 1024MB with 2G system memory, 2048M with 4G system memory
- 2.5" 9.5mm SATA 320GB,5400rpm
- 5.25" , 12.7mm DVD Super Multi Double Layer
- 8 in 1 card reader, SD,MMC,MS,MS-Pro,mini SD w/ adapter,MS-Duo,MS-Pro Duo via adapter
- 1.3 Mega Pixel swivel web camera
- Integrated Intel® High Definition Audio chip (Azalia) and 10/100/1000 BaseT
- Built-in Bluetooth™
- Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 5100 ABGN
- Built-in Azalia compliant audio chip, with 3D effect & full duplex
- Built-in speaker and microphone (Digital Array Mic)
- Full keyboard function
- 36.5 x 26.9 x 2.8 - 4.0 cm (W x D x H), 2.95 kg (6 cell battery pack)
- 2-year limited global hardware warranty (upgraded to 3 years)


The box


Spec







Can use face to logon


Light sensor to automatically adjust brightness at day or night
Array Mic - better in voice detection.
Express Gate - can boot laptop in (really) 8 seconds and use for surf net, skype, chat, play games etc.


Asus carrying bag


Free gift - backpack


Come together in the box - adapter, Asus mouse, cable tie, manuals, drivers, modem cable


Free gifts - laser mouse, water proof bag(my laptop can't fit in), Kensington lock, keyboard skin, headphone, cooler pad, laptop cleaner




System information




can choose face logon, fingerprint logon or password logon


watching BoA