Asus a8jc, metallic case???

Hi,

Im interested in purchasing a Asus a8jc. It seems nice and portable. However i have not seen any reviews any where, and i was wondering if any one on this forum who has a a8jc, or who has experience with some to give me their views on it.

Also i heard that some of it is made out of magnesium/aluminium, is this true???

Thank you for your time

Gethin

 

Well, you prob could look at the A8Jm or A8Ja reviews, they're pretty comparable except for the graphics card.

I doubt it's made of magnesium/aluminium, it's hard plastic with a silver colour. The one with Aluminium is prob the W3J.

 

its mostly Plastic I believe. Only the W,V and M series use things like aluminum, carbon fiber, etc. There's no A8jc review on this site, but there is an A8ja and an A8jm review. the difference between these 3 are the video cards, thats about it. the JC using the lower Nvidia 7300.

 

Thanks guys.

 

ooo, one more thing.

Do asus pc's come with FAT 32 on their drives, or do asus use NTFS, cos im not to keen on my laptop having 2/3 partitions?

 

It comes default with FAT32 installed. You can always convert it to NTFS.

Default partitions can be easily modified with a partition manager later on (Partition Magic, GParted LiveCD etc etc)

 

Asus notebooks come with a FAT32 hard drive? Why?

I thought that everyone used NTFS these days...

Cyrus

(V6J on the way, woot! I'll see what the file system is when I get it, and probably I'll change it either way. )

 

I dunno... have no idea why they use FAT32... maybe quicker format for ASUS techs to install things? ....

 

I have Asus A8Jc. I can say that reviews of M/A-models tells most of important things. Something that I can tell is that 3dmark03 score is 4000 and 3dmark2001SE score is 13000. 7300 is enough to play BF2 at 1280x800 with low detail. And 7300 can get up to 512MB memory, not 256MB. And it has 128MB dedicated.

 

Is the card fast enough to use 512MB of memory? I think the system would benefit more if it has the 256MB of extra RAM the the GPU. Why is the card advertised as 256 with turbocache? Did you change a bios setting or something?

 

Thank you very much quattra

 

Quattra I was wondering how did you find the build quality of ur a8jc, and whats the quality of the screen like??

thank you

 

There isn't bios settings for TC. And I don't have make any changes in BIOS. Here is a picture from control panel.

It doesn't really matter because it doesn't take that memory in windows.

And what comes to build quality. I think it's great. Screen is almost perfect. There is minimal lightleak at the bottom of the screen but it really is MINIMAL. No need for RMA.

 

And I can also say that this computer works about 4½ hours with battery without any problems. So it works little longer than A and M models.

 

wow... 4.5 hours... very nice... I guess the video card takes a huge chunk of battery power.

How I wish ASUS would've made the A8Ja/m dual video card capable like certain Mac's so it could save power using integrated graphics while on battery, and only use the dedicated on AC.

 

Here is some pictures: http://www.edu.lahti.fi/~juha/