Built on Asus Equivelent of the W3J?

I like the W3J but I noticed the the ensemble only comes with 1.66 Core Duo, is this going to be be changeable at all or is that it? If this notebook is not planned to be to upgradeable is there going to be an upgradeable equivelent?

 

I'm sure as time goes, by, it will be refreshed with a faster CPU if the demand is there...
Other than that, I doubt there will be an "equivalent" in the Built-On series. The closest you'll see is the Z62 series...

 

Yeap, and the Z62 won't have the x1600.

The W3v was bumped from 1.6 to 1.8 I believe.

The 1.66 Duo should be fast enough, the numbers don't justify the true power at all

 

i like that saying XD

 

Ok so does anyone know of a ~14" Wxxx laptop that is going to give me a 2 GHZ Core Dou with an X1600?

 

Nope, no 14s in the mix yet with the x1600.

 

The 14" W3J will have the X1600, if specs are stable.
Not in production yet, so we'll see how the proto plays out.

Edit: Sorry, just noticed you were wanting a BTO model...
The Z62F will have at least an nVidia 7300.

 

Its kinda funny everyone sees 1.66 duo and they think its going to be slow. yet it blows away 2.0ghz pentium ms away. which was plenty fast for everyone 2 months ago.

 

Isn't that completely, totally not the case at all, to any extent, whatsoever?

If you for some reason are trying to perform two processor-intensive tasks at once, or are using specially-enabled applications, that would be true, but if you are using just one, normal application that takes serious CPU sycles, then you would be a lot better off with the 2.0 over the 1.66, even if you are running Firefox and a word processor on the side. I suppose on the Duo you could run two of that heavy application at once, though.

 

1.66Ghz was never fast enough for me, I like the Sony SZ160 but it only has a 1.83 ghz proc and an Nvidia 7400 card. I like the Macbook Pro but it only run Mac OS X for certain. The W3J is like a perfect compromise but has the slower 1.66Ghz proc. Why does Asus torcher me with a laptop that is very nearly perfect but falls short due to some nebulous decision to build it with a slow Proc? Can someone explain that?

 

It's a dual core processor!
Did you not read above?

 

The price of the W3j is already $1799 MSRP, which is ONE HELL of a deal. If they put something like a 1.8 or higher, the price will rocket up. Most users won't even know the difference between the two if they had one or another.

For all I know, ASUS could of started the MSRP at $1999 and everyone would still pick em up

 

That's a good point. The V6J and W3J, and V6Va all seem to be really good, especially when taking into consideration the price point. The price very well could have been higher, given the components and prices of competing laptops.

 

Yes the CPU is made to take advantage of certain apps that are made for the dual core. But if you read the benchmarks it performs better on apps that are only using one core than the 2.0 pentium M. go lookup the Super pie calculation on the 1.66 dual core. it does it in like 1.20 seconds that app only takes advantage of one core. My 2.13 pentium M cant even calculate it that fast.

The new cpus are not just dual core they are much faster than the older single core chips. They use less power have less heat and perform better with single or dual core. they are more efficient all together.

 

SRD, Coriolis and C9tech are right, I don't know why everyone is so let down by the 1.66ghz...you have to remember that it now has a 667mhz fsb (up from 533mhz), will be running 667mhz RAM (up from 533mhz), will have a SATA HD (should in theory run faster than the PATA equivalent) and most importantly, the 256mb x1600. It is an amazingly powerful machine in such a small package...the processor should be equivalent to the PM 2ghz in single core tasks...

 

Theoretically, if dual core is fully utilized, i.e. 2 x1.66GHz is equivalent to 3.32GHz Pentium M CPU. Multi tasking with CPU intensive applications will be able to fully utilize the dual core. In general, word processing, internet surfing, e-mailing, spreadsheet, etc. dual core will not be any meaningful better than Dothan or Banias CPUs.

 

The Asus Lambo will have them, but they are over $2000.

 

The lambo is going to be about 3000. more than a w2j

 

is the w3j out yet or when is it coming out?

 

Oh but I did read that and my response is so what? I want to futureproof my investment as long as possible (yes I realize that there will always be something better coming) in order to hold off upgrading as long as possible. I do the same with my desktop PC, when I upgrade I spend whatever I need to to get bleeding edge tech, then I live with it until it is painfully obvious that I need to upgrade again. I've managed to keep a single PC viable for about 5 years that way. The way I figure it it is the same as spending $1000 a year on some new POS advertised in Fry's or best buy.

Please understand I'm not trying to insult you or Asus I just fell that they are deliberately burrying their heads in the sand with this decission.

 

SRD you have a link for that? I'd like to check it out.

 

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2780
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2648&p=10 just some bench marks.