Any News On What Asus Plans With The W3J?

Do anyone have any news or rumours on what Asus plans with the W3J? It is really a great laptop, I hope Asus continues to upgrade it with the new technology coming out.

 

doesnt look like they plan on doing anything with it. one model is current and low inventory. it looks like they may not bring it back simply becuase the a8js is selling better. Obviously its selling better becuase it is more powerfull and cheaper. Its kind of like honda discontinueing to sell acura because the accord sells better. Asus marketing and client relations had many years to fine tune their appeal but alas they know nothing of this market.

 

It's a shame Asus isn't doing anything to the W3J. By far it is a better (or can be) than the A8 series. All it needs is a CPU/GPU upgrade.

 

The V2 will soon replace it, most likely.

 

i would considere it a great loss if the v2 would replace the w3. Obviously the w3 has a way better graphics card than the v2 will have (if the x1450 is similar to the x1400). That aside, the v2 is more a business notebook with fingerprint reader, the web cam, the spill proof keyboard, the dockingstation and maybe even 3g conectability. The w3 is more a extremly high quality performance machine that is still portable.

so besides the fact that those 2 are both 14" notebooks they dont have too much in common.

 

<3 my W3j =D

 

how can the v2 replace it, it has a sucky video card.

 

Anything is possible. I would find it a huge loss if Asus replaces the W3J with the V2. But, because the A8 is getting more attention over the W3J the replacement may occur.

 

It seemed to me that they wanted to influence the w3j customer to buy the a8js.

They made a rerelease of the models and put the cpu no one wants in the w3j.

So not to compete with itself it wants one performance model of mass production quality for the majority of sales, and then also a professional model with smaller scale production for a smaller market.
Different machines as opposed to directly competing with each other.

 

I understand ASUS's plans with the W3. The W3 has always been an 'all over the place' unit, it's a gaming notebook, its a travel notebook, it's well rounded - and because of that, the price is quite high. For students, it may not be a good suggestion, the Compal HGL30 is cheaper and almost the same specs. Thats when the A8js/p came along which was cheaper due to materials and other things(multibay, aluminum, etc.).

To make everything more specific, the cheaper A8 is targeted at gaming students who want something portable, the V2 for professionals who want a portable, durable notebook. Both are of pretty good quality, with the V2 more expensive with more features, like a dock, multi bay tray, etc. for business user, while the A8 has a better GPU, price point for the average college student without gimping on quality.

 

I still hope they do something with the W3J, hate to see this series end like that with such good build quality.