Buying Asus in taiwan

i'm currently in Taipei, been looking around a lot for a W3J or V1J notebook. Does anyone in the area have any place they can recommend? i'm thinking about buying a stock W3J With Core Duo 1.66mhz and 1gb ram and upgrading it myself to 2gb ram and Core 2 Duo if/when i deem the 1.66 isn't enough tho i'll have to cop the warranty, although after using 3 asus laptops the last 8 years ive never had a single major hardware fault. The price here is still cheaper than buying in canada even after buying the extra processor!

 

Talk to Jason, he's in Taiwan ... and look at some of the people in this thread who bought their A8Js in Taiwan... maybe you can ask some of them?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=80993

 

If you can wait for a couple of weeks, I think asus will bring out W3 with merom(probable with T5500/T5600) in Taiwan. bear in mind the Asus modles in TAIWAN usually comes out with slower prcessors than NA models. but they are also a lot cheaper.

The best online price I have found is NT 42200 for the stock W3J (with T2300 1.66 GHz / 1G / 100G ). If you do not want bey it online you can use this price as a guide.

Just vist the Nova computer Mall in Taipei, there should be 5-6 Asus dealers there.

Hope this helps.

JC

 

JC, do you know how much a V6Va and V6J would run in Taiwan? I'm visiting this winter to do a study tour.

 

emm... I don't think they sale V6va anymore, it's an old modle.
a quick serach shows: V6j ( CD T2400 T2400/15.1 SXGA+/100G/DVD+RW/1GB), to be around NT 57999. I don't think they will update V6J to merom but I could be worng.

personally I think the A8js (with merom T5600 1.83 GHz / 1G / 120G / DVD-Dual
nVidia Geforce Go7700) at Nt 47200 to be much more attractive from a spc and price point of view.

JC

 

thanks, i'm going to go check out Nova again, i went a few days ago but couldn't find what I wanted :<

oh JC, could u give me the link for that site you found for W3 @ NT 42200 ? I'd like to take a look, thanks

 

Keity,
I bought my Asus in Taiwan in Hsinchu...at NOVA, I have founda cheep dealer there, BTW, if you can go Tainan it is more cheaper...

 

sure, here is the link. I hope you can read chinese. the second link is for all of the merom modles avaiable in Taiwan at present.

http://sh2.yahoo.edyna.com/nb-shop/item.asp?item_id=1131879

http://sh2.yahoo.edyna.com/nb-shop/item_cata.asp?cata_id=1022552

JC

 

Just sharing with you...I have the A8Js and i have installed the game Just Cause and its work with no issues! but the i can pick up only 1024X768 and not what the laptop is offering, there are higher resolution but not supported by the screen, will test it in my 37 philips LCD soon!

 

Hi Ashand, most games-even new ones-are designed to be ran at standard 4 : 3 screen, not widescreen, contrary to what someone said here previously. If you want these standard-designed games running at 16 : 10 (1280 x 800) you have to hack or trick the games. For Just Cause, check http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6725&sid=56cfed11a23d5534d18022b6fd4c46b2
How is your A8Js' performance with Just Cause? How many FPS do you get?

 

Who is this Jason? Is he someone on these forums who can get ASUS models which are only available in Taiwan? I ask because I am interested in getting the F3Ja, which unfortunately isn't available, and isn't likely to be available. It seems like that model is similar to the S96J, only with some minor improvements (i.e. DVI out, Fn and Ctrl keys FINALLY switched ).

 

Why not F3Jm? If you buy F3Ja, you will face the graininess problem... which has not been fixed for F3Ja up to now.

 

Hmm, are they similarly priced? I looked at the F3Jm, and it is priced 1700 CAD (maybe about 1800 with the upgrades I want), which is quite a bit more than I want to spend - I am ideally looking to spend 1400 CAD. I thought the buying the F3Ja from Taiwan might be less expensive.