Asus V6J Review link

I don't drop in here too often, but I thought you might be interested in this nice review of the V6J that I came across:
http://xbitlabs.com/articles/mobile/display/asus-v6x00j.html

Enjoy.

Cheers,
Chaz

 

nice find...interesting review...kinda agree about the current cpus aswell...in 6months they will be outdated....in away I wish intel had just skiped the current dual cores and focused on getting the next ones out !
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You should come around more often ChazMaster.

Good link and review - I like how they show stuff like the track pad light...etc. Cool stuff.

 

While we are taking about V6j reviews, mine should be done soon, I just need to do benchmarks and edit the review, hopefully I finish it this weekend, just thought I would add that for those who want another review.

 

Thanks Chaz, this model is on my shortlist at the moment so the more reviews the better.

Look forward to your opinion too, Caleb.

 

I just got mine on Monday from Proportable.com and the system is just what I wanted...function and style combined...I am very happy with it and with the service I received from Proportable.com!

I recommend it highly! If you have any questions please feel free to ask!

 

Can I have yours?

 

Yeah the thing I cant understand is that the current 34bit Yonah are running in 64 bit Mac powerbooks? does that mean that these mac's are running at 34 bit??

Anyway I thought about waiting for the new 64 bit Dual core processors but even if you have the new 64bit processor, its going to be a while before Vista and associated software get up to speed, I read a review of vista last week, and it has been pushed till 2007 release, and it is a bit of a system hogg in its current beta state, so I am prepared to buy now and upgrade in 1-2 years once 64bit is up and running well with both OS and software.

But then again I have a PII 300mhz Donkey.......... so am hanging out to get my W3J.

I saw the V6J last week in the shop, had the glossy screen, the build quality and finnish is just superb! in my opiion it would have looked better with a brushed aluminium lid like the W3J but a very nice laptop.

 

No, OS X is available in 32/64 bit PPC and 32 bit x86 editions. Many people are speculating that Apple is holding off on releasing the new powemacs until Merom is launched. Partly because they're concerned that current G5 owners would consider going from 64 to 32 a step backwards... and partly because they have a lot of the quad core G5s left in stock.

Personally, I consider 64 bit to be not that important for general computing at this stage. Unless you need the extra address space or support for 64 bit integers, you're just not going to see a big improvement in performance in most applications... with the possible exceptions of media transcoding (currently handled by SSE) and encryption applications.