Asus X83VP - 14inch with ATI4650

I can't seem to find any discussions or any 'official' info on this new model, the X83VP.

My mind was pretty set on a UL80VT, but I just noticed this model available at XoticPC.

http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-x83vpa1-p-2702.html

Higher res 14inch monitor than N81. P8700 cpu vs T9600 cpu in N81. ATI4650.
Starting at $940.


Would you trade hours of battery life of the UL80VT for the performance of the X83VP?

 

looks good. it really depends on if you want to play games at high settings or not..

if you just game a bit at normal settings then go for the UL80VT and you'll gain 5 hours of battery life.

personally, I would take the 10 hours of battery life, light weight and decent graphics of the UL80VT.

 

Care to speculate if the UL80VT will be able to handle Diablo3 when it comes out? That's my main concern.

 

allow me to quote someone...

Here is a Blizzard quote on the system specs:

Jay Wilson: Currently we have no plans for specific DirectX 10 support. Right now are running a DirectX 9, and we run on a pretty broad range of systems, really fast. Overall, across-the-board Blizzard's goal is that all of our games support a broad range of systems. We don't jump up the system specs in any grand way. We have no intentions of being a high-end game, and certainly no intentions of being an exclusive DirectX 10 game at this time...

We don't exactly know what the system specs are yet, but we'll try to keep them pretty low. We make a lot of decisions about what we do and do not put into our graphics, in order to keep the game running fast. One of the reasons why we talk a lot about art style, and how we focus a lot on art style, stylization of art over... when we do that it allows us to have a good looking game about falling back on technology, our technology does not have to carry us when we have such great art in the game.



so don't worry and get the UL80VT