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Rejuvenate your retina with unparalleled HD experience in its full resplendence, stay in touch with people around you, and entertain yourself even on the move with enhanced audio. Everything from a single gadget? Yes. Asus answers with its latest effable gadget, the superb Asus M70. Asus M70 Laptop teams up one terabyte hard disk, 17 inches WUXGA widescreen, 1.3megapixel web camera and a Bluray optical drive that puts you in an entertainment pool.

Sleek, small, portable, and potent, in the U series, Asus manages to fit all of the elements of top-notch laptops into a tiny frame. Whether portability or performance is your biggest concern, there is a U-series match for you.

For business travelers and professionals, U series notebooks are a stylish, user-friendly option. Looking at the U series models, you get the impression that no space is wasted. Indeed, Asus designed the U series to perform essential business functions. So, don’t expect the most technologically advanced notebook. Asus provides consumers with a notebook that is small, stylish, and competent. Equipped with Intel Core Duo processors and Wi-Fi enabled, they’ll help you do your job faster.

And forget the in-flight movie; U series notebooks have gorgeous LCD screens with LED backlights for an optimal DVD viewing experience. Keep track of the battery, though, the six-cell lithium-ion units drain quickly during DVD playback.

In business, appearances count, and Asus designed the U series to make a good first impression. From the smooth, sharp exterior to the intuitive inner layout, U series models are chic and comfortable. Don’t worry about durability; the U series notebooks are small, but they’re tough.

The VX2 is the second laptop born of Asus and Lamborghini’s collaborative efforts. This new model keeps the corporate yellow livery but adds faster components and a widescreen display to the mix, along with tweaks to various elements of the chassis.

We’ve become so used to companies putting form before function on fashion products, so it’s good to see that Asus hasn’t fallen into the classic design traps here.

Design:-

Asus has put a lot of thought into the design and presentation of the VX2. The retail box consists of the laptop itself, a Lamborghini carry case, Lamborghini wireless mouse and a Lamborghini chamois for polishing purposes, all inside one of the most stylish laptop presentation boxes we’ve seen in some time.

The VX2 comes in two flavours — a black carbon fibre premium edition and the standard yellow version, which we’ve reviewed here. The bright yellow lid had as many detractors as it did fans in our office — it’s a retina-searing shade that’ll either win you admiring glances or make people think you have a serious taste deficiency.

The revered Lamborghini badge sits in the centre of the outer lid — an ideal position for showing off to fellow commuters. There’s a black honeycomb mesh panel near the hinge, behind which is a set of white LED status lights for the power, battery, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

Questionable though the outside may be, you’d have to be a cold, heartless beast, or a vegetarian, not to love the leather interior.

 

ASUS has two major series of gaming laptops – the G1 Series and the G2 Series. While the G1 Series more often than not sports NVIDIA graphics, the G2 Series features ATI graphics. Around the middle of last year, we tested a gaming laptop from the G1 Series, the G1S. It was happy; it offered the latest NVIDIA mobile graphics. A year afterward, and with ATI taking to the competition, ASUS has a new AMD-ATI setup below the G2 Series of gaming laptops, the G2K. Can the G2K give (more-or-less) equivalent or better performance than the best the G1 Series has to present?

AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core TL-64 2.2GHz, 2-CH DDR2, L2 cache

AMD ATI RS690M chipset

2 GB DDR2 667 MHz

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600, 256 MB DDR3 VRAM

250 GB SATA HDD (7200 rpm)

8x LightScribe Super Multi Dual Layer DVD Writer

17-inch WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050) ColorShine TFT LCD

Standard 88-key keyboard

Touchpad with 2 buttons and 2-way scroll

Modem: 56K internal

Ethernet LAN: 10/100 Gigabyte LAN

WPAN: Integrated Bluetooth 2.0

5 x USB 2.0 Ports

Card Reader 5 in 1 (SD, MMC, MS, MS Pro, XD)

Dimensions

Size: 40.5 cm (W) x 31.4 cm (D) x 3.84 cm (H)

Weight: 4.1 kg (with 8-cell battery pack)

Layout and Design

The Asus G2K is hideous: just a quick look and you get the sentiment it’s a powerhouse. It has brushed metal all around, which makes it rugged, and has red slapped onto it instead of the green on the G1S. In the G1S, the green signify the NVIDIA setup, and here (in the G2K), it’s red for ATI. You do get the feeling that this laptop screams, “I’m a Gaming Laptop.”

The layout is dirt free from the front, giving the gamer all the comfort, with only the right and rear featuring ports. The pica below should give you a perfect idea. The front, though clean of ports, has the media buttons, which feature the same way in the G1 as well as the G2 series.

Turn the laptop so its back faces you and you’ll notice the neat layout of the hardware behind screwed doors; it’s very simple to improve or even put back things if something goes faulty. Open the lid and take a quick look down; it’ll be reminiscent you of fish gills because of the air vents located on either side of keypad. Unluckily, the keypad design has stayed the same, with pretty thin directional keys.

Performance

The Asus G2K will be the first of the AMD Turion TL-64 we’re testing — it sits on a chipset of its own, the ATI RS690M, which is basically the mobile version of the better-known 690G motherboard. The setup seems very talented, but it doesn’t beat the G1S hands down. Here are the artificial benchmarks — and an analysis will follow.

Battery Life

The G2K has an 8-cell battery with a rating of 4800 mAh. The battery pack does very well, according to specifications. The laptop delivered 2 hours of standard usage; when used for gaming, it would last around an hour and a half, which some gamers will protest is a bit poor.

In Lastly, The Asus G2K sells for around Rs 1, 17,000 exclusive of taxes, and comes with a one-year warranty. The price is way too much as compared to what the G1S is being offered for: Rs 88.3K these days, elite of taxes. It’s a kilo less in weight, and is a better at graphics performance. We’re here looking for a gaming laptop, which puts the G1S back at the top as one of the best gaming laptops around; the G2K is more like a powerhouse, a desktop stand-in with a 17-inch screen and good presentation overall. Still, agreed the price, we aren’t pastime for it.

Sub-notebooks or Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs) have been around for quite a while now. They have a smaller, lighter footprint than standard notebooks, thanks to their lesser screens and because some features (like the optical drive) having being in use off.

Most of the sub-notebooks that were in the market till 2006, however, belonged in the premium segment, making people think twice before investing in one of theses. Then in 2007, Asus indistinct all that by giving the world the Eee PC. Considered as an derivative of the OLPC idea, the Eee PC has made portable computing come within the reach of a large segment of the general public who couldn’t afford it thus far. We’re sure you’ll want to know what it’s like, and what we think of it, having spent a as using and taxing it. The bundle consists of the Eee PC, the series charger, a soft case, and a driver CD. I liked the one-piece adapter (it’s not of the typical bulky kind laptops use) — it’s only slightly larger than your average cell phone charger, as you can see.

Design

When I saw the Eee PC in print ads, I imagined the device to be bigger; I realized how small it really is only after I got my hands on it. The Eee PC 4G is available in black as well as white. The white model looks like a shrunk Apple MacBook, and the black one (which we received) has that “business-professional” appeal So you can see how small the thing is, here are a few pictures of it alongside my 15.4-inch HP Pavilion notebook. They look quite the father-and-son pair The Eee is a small more than half as large as my HP laptop

The small 7-inch display has a good resolution of 800 x 480; it’s pretty bright. Above the screen is the webcam; though it’s not as high-res as the 2MP sensors on standard laptops, the quality is decent. In low lighting, I got around 10 fps, and a respectable 30 fps in good lighting conditions. The cam can record videos in the OGG format — pretty usable all in all.

The screen is covered on both sides by two strips of speaker grilles. The speakers deliver decent output, though a bit lower on quality as compared to those on a regular laptop. Below the screen is the “solid” sort of keyboard; in order to fit a full QWERTY piano into the shorter-width frame, the bulk of the person keys has been conciliation upon. The first time I used the keyboard, I was skeptical about it. I was steadily able to get used to it; I can now type decently fast, although there is the occasional typo. People with large hands might have a problem at what time they try typing on it for the first time, but let not that first impression be the last — you can get used to it, even if it’s got to be called “cramped” in the end.

The touchpad is smaller than usual, and there’s only a vertical scroll line on this one. Space restraints probably dictated that a horizontal scroll line couldn’t be incorporated. I had one problem with the touchpad from time to time: although the pointer navigation was all right, it did not respond to tapping fine sufficient I sometimes had to use the buttons. The Eee PC is built of traditional stiff plastic materials like the ones used in typical notebooks. The build quality is good; it doesn’t feel cheap at all, even though it is, price-wise. Even the screen hinge is pretty strong.

Performance

Since this is a Linux-based notebook, we couldn’t run our standard benchmarks to gauge performance. But my overall experience was that it runs pretty fast. Most of the time, multitasking doesn’t make the OS drag. Videos were played back pretty smoothly, and data transfer rates were pretty decent, too.

Battery

My first battery test consisted of the Eee PC being put in full brightness mode and connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi. I surfed wirelessly, played music off a memory card or the Internet, watched YouTube videos, and used the word processor from time to time. With all this, the battery lasted two hours and forty minutes. In the second test, I played a DivX video off a memory card. Here, the laptop’s battery stayed alive for almost two and a half hours. That means good battery life; under power-saving conditions, the laptop should definitely be able to give you more than three hours.

With respect to heating, my experience suggested that the Eee PC heats up about the same as measure up to to standard laptops, if not more (when used for longer periods of time). It is definitely not a chilled-out machine, but you can’t consider this factor a deal-breaker. Finally, when it comes to in payment noise, there is almost none. That’s mainly due to the absence of a rotating hard drive and an optical drive which also reason vibrations along with noise. The only little din that is emitted is from the system fan, but it’s hardly obvious. This one’s pretty much a silent worker.

The Asus Eee PC is available for a retail price of Rs 18,000, and that’s well-priced for sure. That much cash will fetch you an upper-mid segment smart phone; the Eee PC can do a lot more. It’s easier and more contented to type on its keyboard than on QWERTY-pad cell phones. The target audience would include beautiful much anyone — right from school-kids to business specialized. The Eee PC definitely can’t be considered a primary PC; it just is not predestined to be one. It can very well be a just right friend to your home PC. I’ll sign off with this: this laptop is a worthy speculation. I do think it has ushered in a new era of portable calculate, and other manufacturers are come up with alike aid.