Asus N61JA / N61JQ

anyone here who owns N61JA? i'm a prospective buyer of the JA model. i just need more infos/reviews. i'm interested with your feedbacks regarding the nb. heat, keyboard, gpu, screen, touchpad, etc, stuffs like that.

any response here is greatly appreciated. thank you.

 

Also, can u mention overclockability and how it affects 3dmark score

 

Check out the owners forum, you'll get about 69 pages worth of information there.

 

Hi there. I'm thinking about buying one of these laptops. Actually, I'm more interested in N61Ja model. I've seen that some people in this forum have this model so maybe you can comment on battery life? How long it lasts during stress and idle modes? Also, what about switchable graphics? Core i5 have integrated intel gpu so is it possible to turn it on? Someone in this forum wrote switching between gpus will be available with later radeon driver releases, can someone confirm it? Thanks in advance

 

N61JA model is never shipped by Asus to resellers and hence probably no one has this model. Asus has either virtually stopped this model or made a pause for rectification for switchable graphics for dual core i3/i5/i7.

But anyway, the screen size of all most all Asus laptop are of 1366x768 and this is the deal breaker for me. So crap screen with such latest hardware Now checkout Dell's new Vostro and Precision lines launched today. It rocks. Also have a cat eye at LogicBuy for HP Envy 15 coupons, few days before it was available for $1099 usd only !

 

The decision to use that screen is probably for a very good reason.

The average user would buy a mid range notebook, launch a game like MW2, set the resolution to maximum (like 1080p, well, why not?) and then be disappointed by the 10 FPS they get because the video card is significantly choked by the bandwidth. Then they will complain and post everywhere that the notebook is a bad performer. It's well known that performance of these 128-bit GDDR3 video cards will take a nosedive at higher resolutions.

 

The OP has not said that "he/she wants a gaming laptop"
BTW, someone does not buy a laptop to game only (at least me who never play games), laptops/computers are mainly for work/multimedia purpose. Anyway if you have 1080p screen you can always reduce it to lower before you play games, but if you have 1366x768 screen you can not set it to 1080p resolution

 

I think the N61JA model was shipped to resellers, just not everywhere in the world.

For instance, I think you can buy them in Australia.

 

Correct ! I take my worlds.

 

Yes, N61Ja was probably stopped only in the USA. In Europe as well as Australia this model is available

 

But then ASUS is making laptops to appeal to as large a segment of the population as they can, not just the OP.

In any case, the people that frequent NBR comprise a small, tech savvy segment of the population. Plenty of people I know figure there's no performance difference between gaming at different resolutions, or just don't pay attention that sort of thing.

Lastly, people that buy notebooks for work (like corporate environments) usually go for business line notebooks like that of Dell or Lenovo, not an ASUS. If you look at the ASUS official website, the N series is the eNtertainment series, with a focus on graphics / sound, and quite frankly, when playing a game or watching a movie on a 16" screen, I have a very hard time telling between 1080p and 1366 x 768 when the figures on the screen are moving about.

 

Even the sound is of bad quality on this "N" series multimedia specific laptop from Asus

 

hehe, well, the price / performance ratio's kind of unbeatable on this notebook, though. And, during the years I've used notebooks, I don't recall using them with built in speakers very often.

 

if you use external speaker, its sound quality is much better. i think the sound card quality is quite ok. i compare both dell and asus with external speaker, asus got much better.

 

It's better than most. I just lacks a subwoofer which makes it sound a bit flat.

 

Dropping the res on most LCD's makes them look like crap, especially when displaying text in a game.