ASUS N50 or N80

I'm looking for new laptop for travel and outside of desktop, also I'm heavily usage on internet and moderately on games, also will off to college in next this fall.

I was concern about design issues, however there's problem about newegg and they wouldn't accept refund for less than 14 days when you aren't recommended with performance or design of laptop, also I want make sure before being too late, also I wish that retail store would offers more laptop with dedicated mid-range video card.

I found from consumer review (newegg), they said N80 has keyboard flex and keyboard lag since there's no one say for N50.

Other model or brand is accepted, I just want spend at no more than $1,400 and must have range of GeForce 9600 series or related.

 

I have a n50 and let me say besides being a finger print magnet the N50 is an AMAZING laptop! I can play rainbow six Vegas 2 completely maxed out with no lag and thats on battery!

 

I'm pretty much sold on the N80. The N80 has a lower res, which will make games perform better with the same graphics card, bigger harddrive (320gbs to N50 240gbs), it's smaller and more mobile as well.

 

Which is more keyboard flex or keyboard lag?

 

I think the N80 is the the version with the keyboard flex and lag. however, there are fixes for it. I've read somewhere on this site that people have fixed the lag somewhere in BIOS.

 

I have an n80 and have not run into the keyboard lag. Several people have attributed the lag to the touchpad driver, which I uninstalled with no loss of functionality. Keyboard flex seems worse for some than others and I have noticed very minor flex on mine.

Overall its a very solid notebook. The N80vn-x1 is available on newegg for $749 w/$100 rebate and $50 coupon code EMCABAHAC. Free shipping as well, quite a deal.

 

Get the N80!! 750 for it is a great deal.

 

I wrote one of the reviews about the keyboard flex and lag. After disabling the touchpad in BIOS I no longer have any lag. It comes with an okay basic Logitech optical mouse, so you probably won't need the touchpad anyways.

Compared to cheap notebooks you see at say Best Buy the flex is pretty much nothing. However, if you've ever typed on an old Thinkpad or anything it'll annoy you.

Someone in another thread talked about opening their keyboard up and tightening a screw or something that helped out. I haven't tried it yet but it does seem like it would be a cinch to disassemble it.

The X1 model (the $750 one) has a weaker processor and smaller hard drive. Personally I'd go with the GP011C model just for the faster processor since I've heard the T5800 uses a 65nm processor so it would be slower and use up battery life faster.

 

seems hard to justify a slightly faster processor and slightly smaller HDD for $400

 

I have the N80 and my keyboard sucks. No lag but sometimes it misses keystrokes as well as having a ton of flex. I believe mine to be more defective than others though. The rest of the system rocks.

 

I made changed my mind about prefer 15.4 inches then N50 would be good for me, however still questioned about keyboard flex and lag issue.

 

I need touchpad to work for travel due need for browse the internet without mouse.

I'm big guy and feel concerned about flex keyboard could be uncomfortable, also I haven't experience like that on ASUS G1S.

If newegg offers return the notebook if you are not satisfied then shouldn't be issue for me to make more concern before final decision.

I'm looking for G50 too.

 

There's no flex on the N50. I haven't experienced any lag at all.

 

It would be good news for me.

Thanks for answer my question, also fingerprint reader is located on middle and seems useless for me.

Does N50 offers battery with 9 cell? I don't find from ASUS e-store.

 

just pulled the trigger on N80Vn-X1

 

I don't think that there is a 9 cell battery, since the battery goes in the bottom, meaning that it would have to stick straight down.

 

Congrats on your new purchase! I'm sure you'll have tons of fun with your new lappy

As avanish mentioned, there is no 9-cell battery option for the N50 since the battery compartment is a fixed sized.

 

Thanks. Hope it gets here ASAP.

 

You means like struck in N50 laptop and can't remove like MacBook Air?

 

No, the battery is removeable, but the compartment is a fixed sized, hence a larger sized battery is not an option for the N50.


Image from Freakish123

 

$750? Wow what a deal. As if this notebook wasnt already a hell of a deal can wait for n81 with the 4670 though

 

Now, I made consider to buy N50 in Feb and hopefully ASUS wouldn't replace this model with newer ATI card because I don't want ATI graphic card anymore due driver and hardware issue in past.

I'm big fan of GeForce.

Thanks to all of you helped here.