~V1s Owner's Lounge~

i think he means its really quiet i dont hear a damn thing, i can barely hear the hard drive spin but thats only when i have the notebook upside down and directly on my ear....heh im telling you this thing is a beast...and yes the rom drive does get noisy but thats normal for a laptop drive...it isnt unbarable at all, it goes away once it spins up...

the heat is all vented through the right side, so as long as you have proper ventilation on ure lap or table, and ure hand isnt directly to the right of the vent u cant even tell its hot....the right palmrest gets a little warm, but only a little more then your hand from sitting there for a while....

 

Seems not too different from the V1Jp that I have here.

BTW, it DOES get a bit louder when the CPU temperature goes beyond a certain point (depends on which profile you're using, I've seen it step up the CPU fan at 60C in some cases and 80C for others).

 

How is the battery life?

 

Quick Question, If I was to want to upgrade my RAM to 4gb, do I only need 1 x 2gb stick, or 2x 2gb sticks (to replace whatever may be in there)

 

DeadEye, I believe that it comes with 1 x 2gb stick, leaving the other slot open. I don't have mine in my hands, yet (should on Friday), but I'm pretty sure that one more 2gb stick would give you your 4gb.

Edit: Comes with 2 x 1 Gb sticks. Thanks for setting me straight, matt_h1.

Of course, unless you are running a 64-bit OS (Vista or XP), you won't see the full amount of memory, topping out at around 3 gb.

 

It comes with 2 1gb sticks, I dont think any manufacturer sells 1x2gb stick as standard, You will need to buy 2x2gb and sell your other two. And as pointed out you will not see all 4gb unless you are running a 64bit OS (Vista, XP, Linux).

 

Oops, my mistake DeadEye. Could have sworn I heard it was a 2 GB stick.

 

Atleast some Lenevos are delivered with 1 x 2GB.

 

only if you ordered it to come with it.

 

I used Google Translation to try to have an idea of the german review that Maati wrote.

I saw the following sentence in the translated web page: "The matte WSXGA+ display..."

Does the V1S really comes with a matte screen, or is it a translation glitch?

 

Mine is Glossy, i think the european model is matte, but the north american version is in deed glossy...

 

Hi everybody,

Reading the maati's review, something didn't appear clear for me : is the V1S' 8600gt a MXM card or not ?

Thanks,

Lobogc.

 

Does anybody know if there is sata driver for xp and if it is possible to load the driver with a usb stick?

Thanks

 

I could remember wrong but I think that it wasnt a direct copy of a mxm slot rather something very similiar. Asus used the same slot thingy with some other notebook so it might be compatible with some later cards(if they come to use the same slots in new laps). I think I read that somewhere (or then I'm just 2 sleepy)

 

For my Vista experience score, my desktop graphics index is only like a 4.6, but my 3-d gaming score is like 5.1. Is the Vista desktop more demanding than a game?

 

Yeah! my laptop will be arriving tomorrow! I can't believe I survived the whole summer without a laptop. lol
Btw I ordered from ExcailberPC on Sunday.
Tim

 

does anyone know when excaliberpc is getting another shipment of laptops?

 

Me too! Wuuu huuuu!

 

Has anyone installed outlook 2003 under vista sucessfully on their v1s?

I have tried several times and keep getting an error saying I do not have sufficient permissions to access or read mapisvc.inf

I have tried to change the permissions of mapisvc.inf but am denied.

I only have 1 account set up under vista and it is set as an administrator.

I have googled but to no avail.

Somebody please help, I really need to get this running.

Thanks

 

One question: is the UAC disabled or not? You may have to disable it.

 

I'll be ordering my V1S very soon (probably beggining of next week) and want to replace the 200GB 4200 rpm HD (UK model) for a 200GB 7200 rpm drive - the retailer can install this for me.

To V1S owners out there, do you think this will have much of an effect on heat or battery life?

 

Mine should be delivered tomorrow, too. I ordered mine last Friday (wish I would have done express delivery like jourabchid did). Can't wait. Just have to figure out what the first steps are going to be once I get it in my hands.

Thinking about making a complete hard drive image, then wiping the whole thing clean and reloading Vista from scratch, along with XP in a dual-boot configuration.

If anything goes wrong, I can always just restore the whole hard drive to factory specs and start over. At least that is the plan..

 

let me know how xp is once u get it on there, driver and asus app wise, im not sure if the many of the files on asus's site are backwards compatible so ive been kinda holdn off...instead of being a guinnypig...

if u do decide to dual boot install xp first...it will be much easier then having to worry about editing the boot loader when vice versa...

 

DTrump, what program are you gonna use to image the drive? Thats a great idea btw, I wanna do the same thing and I cant stand the thought of watching the Asus recovery CD work for hours on end if I decide I want to start from scratch again.

 

According to Iced-Tea (MXM-Upgrade) it Looks like another "flipped" MXM card, like with the A8 series. based on the picture of it from the German (matti's??) review.

Not sure what exactly a flipped MXM card is, but it would seem if you wanted to replace it (and it were possible) you'd need another flipped MXM card to replace it with. :tongue:

 

I'm guessing it will make it hotter and lessen the battery life

I just ordered too! Also upgraded to the Hitachi 200GB 7200 rpm drive. Ordered from Gentech. I waited all summer, held off on Lenovo T61P and Compal IFL90. If the HP 8510p had the 2600 XT, I'd have taken that over this one. Can't wait any more months!

I requested they not enable Turbo, based on earlier reports of decreased performance.

 

are any of the pre loaded apps actually necessary?

 

I've got an older copy of Ghost (version 6, maybe ), but I'm pretty sure that won't work with the newer SATA drives with Vista on them. I also have a copy of Acronis True Image Home 10 that, while there appear to be some issues, people have had some success with when making full drive images. I just have to test it out to see how it works.

Going to be an interesting weekend, and it's going to take a good deal of restraint on my part to not just rip the thing open and start playing with it before I even get to make the backups. I still need to create the slipstreamed XP install, also. The wife is not gonna be happy when I'm not paying attention to her all weekend!

 

I wish I would have thought of that, now I'm going to have to figure out how to turn it off myself.

I'm going to use a copy of Vista Ultimate I have for a fresh insta
ll.
Anyone know if that will turn off turbo memory unless I decide to re-acitvate it?

 

I think you will need to go into the device manager (not sure if it is the same name in Vista) and disable Turbo memory. I think I am going to try Turbo memory for a while and then disable it and see if there is a difference.

I am also thinking about dual booting with XP...just need to figure out the drivers. Maybe we should make a thread for XP drivers that work on the V1s.
Tim

 

Has anyone ordered from MilestonePC and received theirs yet? When do they get shipments?

 

does anyone know when excaliber is getting another shipment? I hate being in the dark!

 

I will send excaliber a PM or an email to check for sure. I thought Asus was giving reseller small shipments every week, but I am not sure.
Tim

 

All right, so at least the 8600gt seems to be removable, in a "ASUS special" MXM format ? If maati or an other V1S' owner could confirm that (open your notebook ) , it would be great

Thanks,

Lobogc.

 

Yes UAC is disabled but still can't install.

 

why would the turbo memory make performance slower?

 

some bittersweet news for anyone who ordered from excaliberpc: I called and found out that they aren't getting any more V1S' for two weeks, but they will have a more powerful processor.

 

more powerful processor? that's pretty expensive to go to the 2.4 GHz. I might be wrong but that processor is about a couple hundred more than the 2.2GHZ.

 

intel announced price cuts for september that and they have a new line up coming up so it makes sense for ASUS to upgrade the processor.

 

I was on the preorder list for a V1S this week, but missed out because the ringer on my cell was broken when excaliber called . Now I'm on the preorder list for the new model, which has a T7700. Hopefully it's two weeks or less until they have stock!

 

are the people who are on preorder right now automatically upgraded or do they have to pay extra?

 

I was searching in excaliberPC and I couldn't find absolutely any reference neither any link about an Asus V1s T7700 . If anyone knows more information please post a link here as soon as posible. Thanks

 

yeah this will piss me off if its the same price as mine, i just dont understand how they could do that so quickly...

 

Does anyone know how to remove the second partition that Asus has installed on the hard drive? Do I need to completely re-install Windows?
Tim

 

They're upgrading the processor? That's neat for people who haven't ordered yet like me

Too bad they're still sticking with the 5400 rpm 160 GB drive..

 

Tim Just so you know, There are actually three partitions on the drive, One is the invisible boot sector and it takes up 8GB.

Then there is VistaOS and Data, If you plan on installing XP keep the Data partition and just Rename it XPOS or something. Other than that there are lots of utilities to merge partitions without wiping them and you keep all data intact, The best one I have found is Acronis Disk Director Suite.

 

So the 7.81gb volume before my vistaOS volume is the boot sector? Whoops. I tried formatting that to use it. Did I completely screw something up? Right now it's unallocated. My computer seems fine though.

 

The easiest way would be to use a live CD. If you don't know what that is, hit up the Linux forum to for more information. Thats how I always get my drives arranged, through a Linux Live CD.

 

it was exactly 8000MB. I am not 100% sure because I havent tried it yet but I think that was the Instant on Media player thing, Where you dont have to boot into Windows to play Videos and views pictures. Im not sure if the V1S does that but its a fairly standard feature these days.

 

Hey Matt did you reformat your laptop when you got it? I am considering doing that with mine to remove all this Asus Pre-Installed crap.
Tim