Are there any Asus notebooks with Quadro/Firegl......

Well are there? Also there business notebook is what the v series? I was just wondering......

 

Business notebooks are the V series. I think the M series are comparable in quality though, and the U series aren't bad either. Don't know about the Quadro question.

 

AFAIK, Asus has never had a quadro or fireGL in any of their laptops. In terms of business notebooks, the V series is really the only one. I probably won't put the M series in or near the same category, but the U series might be the next closest kin to the V series. After all, the U6 does have a aluminum alloy chassis and feels far more durable than the M50 I previously owned. Just my 2 cents

 

I never had experience with the newer M series; I say it's comparable because I haven't seen any recurring build issues reported, and it's getting to be pretty venerable by now (the first models around 1 year? I don't remember exactly). This suggests it can be quite reliable.

On the other hand, there have been some complaints about the V series.

 

Actually, based on pricing, it looks to me like the new M notebooks (M50/M51 and M70/M71) replaced the A series notebooks, and are not business type notebooks.

As for the V series, there hasn't been a new V or W model in forever now. Bring back the W3, dammit!

 

Interesting so i wonder why they have never used Quadro/Firegl? Maybe they couldn't get a license to put it in there notebooks? Maybe asus should hook up with Lenovo or someone so they can get more experience in that particular field this is probably the only field Asus isn't good in.

 

That's very true; I remember the V series had a battery issue in the past, but I think Asus has fixed that now. I'm not trying to condemn the M series, but the M series never gave me a feeling of a "business" notebook. For example, the flex on the right side of the chassis, multi-media touchpad, and the fact that it lacks a sturdier chassis (ie aluminum alloy), never gave me a sense that it's made for the business sector. In terms of reliability, I think you're right. There wasn't any major issues with the M series, except maybe the screen quality on some of the earlier M50 units, but other than that, it's an excellent consumer notebook.

 

Quadros and fireGL are more for workstations rather than just a business notebook. It's really aimed for a small market segment (people who do CAD work etc). In the past few years Asus has been targeting the mainstream market, so I would highly doubt they will put any quadro/fireGL GPUs in their notebooks anytime soon.

 

The battery issue wasn't limited to the V1 - its just that it was the most popular notebook with the excessive battery wear. I know that the R1F had that issue, as did the V2, and one other one, I forget which.

 

V6. I don't remember the issue on the V2, though?

 

that another thing Asus needs to concentrate on, battery life they pale in comparison to other 13.3/14.1 inch notebooks that being said Asus is still a fine company.

 

Oh, I guess it was the V6, not the V2.

The V2 had a different problem - its 8600M GS was crippled to the point that it performed on par to most 8400M GS based 13" notebooks. And the battery life sucked, to boot. I dunno, Asus just has really, really horrible power management.

 

lol i second the power management thing, im looking for a portable notebook but as much as i want to buy an asus it pales in comparison tot he competition.

 

The Quadros are just different drivers, the chipsets are the same as regular geforces, you can convert almost any geforce to it's quadro counterpart by editing the inf that comes with the drivers, there are tutorials around.

 

yeah i know you can turn a quadro into a geforce but i heard its impossible to make a regular geforce into a quadro.

 

It can be done

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=539

 

interesting, i thought quadros were higher clocked then there geforce counter part.

 

No, they are the same, they just use certified drivers that are not available for their geforce counterparts.

 

That used to be true a few years ago, but then Nvidia figured it out and has been physically disabling hardware acceleration for certain operation on GeForce cards since 7xxx series and you could no longer get a fully functional Quadro by simply softmodding a GeForce card, which is still possible with ATI Radeon cards (thread about that in the HP section). This topic has beaten to death on all 3D related forums.

Installing professional drivers on GeForce cards isn't brain surgery, but it won't turn your GeForce into a "real" Quadro. Those softmods work only partially, you may see some improvements only in certain applications, which is still nothing near the real Quadro performance, and that's about it.

Also, if you read all the pages of the "tutorial" you posted and people's comments/results on their forum, you will find out precisely what I said above.

Here are some Quadro benchmarks for those who are interested to experiment and compare the results.
http://spec.it.miami.edu/gwpg/gpc.data/vp10/summary.html

Other than that, another Asus user already tried this softmod here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3911357


Now I don't want to discourage people or something, but just don't expect miracles from those softmods.

 

that's what i was thinking Dreamer thats why i was saying like what the heck, i never heard of that before. I remember looks at a heated topic about this and no one was able to get it done.

Maybe the Firegl' are higher clocked Radeons??.......

 

They usually have the same clock/memory speed, but sometimes this could vary depending on the manufacturer. However, all workstation cards come with GDDR3 memory, there is no DDR2 versions like with consumer cards.

You could find more here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=1597704#post1597704