Asus G1S or Compal IFL90?

If I was to spend around 1,900 bucks on a laptop out of those 2 which would you choose?

 

I like the G1S personally, but the IFL90 is not a bad choice. IFL90 will cost less though.

 

Both have their pro's and con's - though the IFL90 has not shipped, and until reviews/opinions from owners come out, its hard to say.

 

id choose the one with the better product support

Yet both the Asus and Compal are boutique products the Asus has and is becoming more and more visible as a mass marketed product.
Check youre own market area and ask questions to where the Compal will get serviced and down time.

 

Wait till a few nbr members get them and see what they have to say, Being at the bleeding edge of technology can have its downsides

 

Well with powernotebooks.com you get

on their Compal models. That seems like a pretty good warranty to me.
Tim

 

The G1S looks a lot nicer, but it's more expensive.

1. Does anyone know how the battery life is going to compare?

2. Does the 512mb card in the IFL-90 make much of a difference, I've read some posts about the laptop not being able to utilize that much memory, and the 512's will only perform slightly ahead of the 256's.

3. What about the durability, which notebook will make more sense to a mobile college student who wants to take notes in class, do his studying/hw, and game on his laptop?

4. When is the official launch date for the G1S (or approximate) and will powernotebooks.com be selling them?

5. For a workhorse that will double as a gaming laptop is the G1s or the IFL-90 more appropriate, or would I be better of looking into an older cheaper laptop like the Compal HGL-30 or something? (Asus G1p perhaps)

 

The key operative words in my post were 'own market area'
Here in Canada, namely metro toronto you'd be lucky to find Compal's in any recognizable retail stores.
Ive bought products before that had a niche market namely Nakamichi that had fantastic warranties. But when it had a problem it was hell getting it repaired.
Ive been in that movie, aint gonna do it again

 

1. From what I've read, the Compal should have longer battery life, although ASUS might have fix the issues with ASUS notebooks.

2. I don't know what the memory type is for both laptops, but 256mb is usually a lot, and anything above that won't be utilized much by the system. AFAIK, the GPU matters more than the amount of memory on the graphics card.

3. Durability wise, both notebooks are well above average. Better than some Dells and Acer (home user series like Inspiron, etc).

4. There are other sellers besides powernotebooks.com, for example xoticpc.com, milestonepc.com, you can check the link in the sticky that coriolis compiled above. Either way, I think it is best to ask the seller themselves, some of them post here, others you can go to their website and get their e-mail.

5. Obviously the newer laptop with better FSB, and GPU would be better. I don't quite get what you're asking here. I think the HL-30 has max. go7600, I'm not sure how that compares to the newer GPUs in the G1S and IFL90, but they should be at least comparable, most likely a little bit better.

Maybe other forum members can help you better.

 

Yeah I understand what you mean. However Compal is a large manufacture. In fact they are the second largest manufacture in the world.

When you buy an Asus laptop you are purchasing it from a reseller just like Compal. If you need to have your laptop serviced you need to send it back to the reseller. This is the same policy for Asus I believe.

Basically you just want to make sure you are buying from a reputable reseller and a lot of positive feedback. Plus you want to make sure that they have been around for a while so they don't go out of business.
Tim

 

1. You have the option with the IFL90 of a 9 cell battery vs 8 cell in the G1s, plus I believe overall the IFL90 has better battery usage anyway

2. right now 256 is really all you need as f4ding said, and any extra it needs it can use your regular ram as well i believe. the thing is w/ dx10 fairly new i would expect games requiring dx10 to up the amount of video ram required, and although you may still be able to play with 256 mb of VRAM, i would assume you would get better gameplay with 512

3. Durability shouldn't be an issue, both laptops are also under warranties

4. If you are like me and like to purchase from known stores, newegg just got the SantaRosa F3 Series, I would expect them to sell the G1s within a week or two otherwise Milestone does have it for sale already

5. well with the IFL90 you can spend about the same amount of money, even less, and get a lot more out of it CPU and RAM wise, especially if you get Robonson (which the G1s doesn't offer)

personally i'm debating over the same two laptops and i'm probably going with the IFL90 i'm just waiting for reviews of the G1s and confirmation that the IFL90 has the 8600M GT gpu

 

Asus are the third largest manufacturer in the world. They make their own, sony and apple's notebooks.

 

Asus does have 12 cell batteries on the market, they may release one for the G1s

 

they dont plan on releasing the 12 cell for the g1s