Got the ASUS A6JA...

The looks are more Toyota then Mercedes, but it is ok for a work PC...

I love the feeling and quality of the keyboard...

The display is fantastic, wide screen is very usefull...

Speed, an image is better than a thousand words:

 

Congratulations with your purchase!


Are you going to write a review?

 

This is a review, I am not a reviewer...

But if there is anything you want to know, ask away, I will try to answer...

 

Maybe post some pics

 

It looks just like all the pics on the net...

Actually the gun metal grey is a bit goldenish...

 

could you make some pics anyway? there are not many picstures by owners and the press pictures are always edited.

how fast is the core duo 1.6Ghz compared to Desktop Pentium 4? like... 2.8 Ghz? Could you play CSS on it (if you have) set all grafics to maximum, thought AA off, and tell us the FPS?

How loud is the Fan when its at maximum and how long is it at maximum?

 

EXACTLY why you like to see "real" pics...not Photoshopped...etc.

Nothing more authentic than a picture of it sitting on a desk somewhere, that could be yours.

 

Core Solo/Duo Pentuim-Ms:
Core Solo 1.50GHz - 2.8GHz P4
Core Solo 1.66GHz - 3.0GHz P4
Core Duo 1.66GHz - 3.2GHz Pentium 4HT
Core Duo 1.83Ghz - 3.6GHz P4HT
Core Duo 2.00GHz - 3.8GHz P4HT
Core Duo 2.16GHz - 4.0GHz P4HT

 

*goes crazy* :centrino:


*and bets melorib shots the pics*

//some i have found on a forum... NOT ENOUGH though
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Magnat84/PICT1082.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Magnat84/PICT1081.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Magnat84/PICT1080.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Magnat84/PICT1087.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Magnat84/PICT1085.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Magnat84/PICT1083.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Magnat84/PICT1084.jpg

 

I dont hear the fan very often, just the disk now and then, if you go to 2005 3Dmark page, you probably can see the scores of different CPUs...

What I do for you guys, just took it with my mobile...

 

are you going to post the FPS in css, if you have?


btw. pic s, that is plural

 

Congratulation melorib.

I got my A6J not long ago. I cant say a single bad word about it. I am 100% happy with it. The keyboard is great isnt it?? I have never used a keyboard that feels so nice to use. If anyone is wondering whether to get one of these i have to recommend it 100%.

It may not look as fancy and sexy as other models but who cares? Its what it can do and what it costs that matters most to me. and the A6J delivers it all!

 

Somehow, I can't believe my eyes!! Another sucess for Intel big breakthrough in technology!!:centrino:

 

It's about right, the Pentium M itself is 1.6x-1.9x itself to match the P4HT.

If anything, those scores of the Core Duo should be higher. 1.66 - 3.4 P4HT is more like it

 

Congrats. I know you're not a reviewer, but you can try to be one. So lots of people can see how A6Ja works...

 

Your turn to help me...

I have windows XP home in German on disc C: and XP pro in English on disc D:

How can I uninstall the first one...

 

Oooooo, very nice. Glad you're happy with it.

freaking powerful machine man~!

Dayam.

I'd be jealous if I actually played games on my system

 

By formatting your harddisk, and thereafter installing W XP Pro on your C disk.

 

OOPS... I will wait for Vista to do that...

 

I am going to be nitpicking here - if you are going to make assumptions like these you should have a source to back it up.

The two core architectures are very different and are targetting two different markets.

It is oversimplified and you will find that a Pentium 4 at 4.00Ghz will have an edge against even the Yonah 2.16Ghz at many tasks (especially FPU intensive applications).

However, the Yonah excels at its intended market, being a notebook processor with a low Thermal Design Power and excellent performance.

 

Melorib: What is it you exactly wanna accomplish? You can't change driver letter of a boot/OS partition, without reformatting it. What you can do, is reformat the partition where the German XP installation lies and use it for storage purpose instead. This will still keep your English XP intact on the D partition, but you'll have an empty C partition, which of course now has a changeable driver letter. I don't know if I could cope with having D as my OS drive letter, but hey, life is full of changes

Here's some infromation from ms, you might wanna read:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/

 

Could you tell me where you picked it up from? ad how much it cost with those specs?

 

www.nutrius.de

1567,99 EUR for the ASUS Notebook A6JA-Q001H including
KB-Exchange, HDD Upgrade (7200rpm) and Shipment to Riga.

Thanks 4r0...

 

woah...you ahve a really nice camera on your mobile...

 

3.2 mega, its a Sharp 903...

 

Melorib,

I'm onto purchasing the A6Ja-Q007H with a harddisk upgrade to 80gb 7200rpm. I do have some questions though and I hope you can help me with these questions:

1) About the screen: does it indeed reflect that much as is said in multiple reviews online? Maybe you can make a picture of your laptop when it's standing in daylight, in front the window or something?

2) Since it is an Asus laptop, it will have an Asus motherboard. Does this laptop include the functionality of only listening to a cd when the computer is not completely started up? I.e.: Windows is not loaded, but can you already listen to a cd?

3) Does the laptop make a lot of noise, or is it rather quiet? Does it make a lot more noise when the computer's working hard?

Thank you very much in advance for your answers. I know I've just signed on today, but these are some questions which more people whom I know have. Thank you again!

Joost

 

1) Yes it does reflect a lot, but the image is so good I can still read better than with mate screens, it really looks good, even with reflections...

2) Yes, you dont even have to open the lid, the controls are still accessible...

3) I rarely hear it working, sometimes I can hear the disc, and particularly readind CDs the fan blows noticeably...

 

Wow, that's cool. So you can just pop in a cd and start listening it? Do you maybe know how long the laptop will run cd's without the computer loaded? I.e.: how many hours can you listen to the music?

One last thing: does the 7200rpm 80gb harddisk produce a too high temperature? Or is it hardly noticable by temperature that you've got this great harddisk in the laptop?

Thank you very much! These answers have already convinced me of buying this laptop, it's just an amazing thing!

Joost

 

I dont use the ASUS to play CDs, although I was surprised by the quality of its speakers, when I played the demo included...

It has different power modes depending of the usage, so it should last very long just playing CDs...

The right side of the laptop, where the HD is, gets a bit warm, not unconfortable, I feel it when I use the mouse pad, but since I got a Bluetooth mouse, I dont touch there any more...

 

I'm just a bit curious about the keyboard. On the bottom left most key, is that the fn key or the ctrl key? For most laptops I think it's a ctrl key, but that's not the case for this one? Also, I've read a review that says the keyboard is a little stiff, how's it feel so far?

 

I think for all Asus notebooks, the bottom left-most key is a Fn key.

 

Fn

As I said, I love the keyboard, the little extra stiffness feels like more quality, soft keyboards feel cheap, I am never sure if the key worked or not...

 

Fn on the left bottom, ctrl to the right of it. Should have been the other way around IMHO, ctrl to the bottom left and fn to the right of ctrl...

the keyboard feels really good imho, one of the nicest keyboards ive ever tried.

 

One final question and I'm pretty much sold. When you go into display settings, is there a choice to stretch the screen while maintaining aspect ratio? My old laptop only had an option to stretch to all 4 sides of the screen which would distort all my old games.

 

I just tried and it stretched, didnt see any optional settings, but I am no expert...

 

I just ordered mine can't wait till it's here

 

melorib and Siriusde, where did you buy your A6Ja's, I mean, like what country or store or whatever. I have not located any in the US or Australia or the UAE. And I wrote Asus asking where they are selling but no reply. Thank you.

 

I bought mine from www.nutrius.de

 

Thank you for the link. I see they list the screen WXGA but not the WSXGA, but Asus lists a WSXGA screen as well. Any insight on this? Thank you again.

 

More pictures of A6Ja, I found it on Cnet Taiwan. THey are reviewing A6Ja...

















And I have a question, it's A6Ja using a PCIMA instead of Express Slot.. Because Cnet Taiwan said that they use old modle to put new component...

 

WXGA is enough for me...

The site where I bought mine says 1 PCMCIA II and 4-in-1 Card Reader...

By the way, mine has DDR3 video memory, and the ones sold in Portugal have DDR2, mine got 100 points higher 3Dmark 2005...

 

I just need a bit of clearing up with the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 on this laptop? I notice it says that it has 256mb VRAM. With a laptop such as the Acer Travelmate 8204, it also has this card but it says it has 256VRAM with up to 512 hypermemory. Is this also the case with the Asus A6JA or is this only on the 8204?

 

As far as I know, it's the same with the Asus.

 

G'Day,

Can anyone tell me the differences bet A6Ja and A6Jc ?

I am getting either one of next week but has no info..

Also, how's fans for these model ?

My lappie will be running in max. capacity most the times as I will be using

it as desktop replacement..

Thanks.

 

lightation, remember that ALL notebooks will have fans blazing at full speed when running at max performance all the time.

You can't have a quiet notebook that is running at full performance because it needs to stay cool.

I'm sure the fan noise is acceptable.

 

So the Asus A6JA seems like a great notebook. What's the best way to purchase one for use in the US? Any good resellers?

Thanks!
Sprezz32

 

A6Ja is not available in US. But you can get A6Jc with nVidia GeForce Go 7300 with 128MB video memory. Don't know if it is enough for you.I received mine yesterday.

 

About that stretching thing: you can set in the ATI Drivers wether you want to have apps stretched or not (then with 2 black borders on the sides)

 

Cool, thanks! I was just a bit nervous about that because some models of mobility radeon didn't support maintaining the aspect ratio (like my current acer aspire 2012).

 

Hi,

Im thinking of getting the A6Ja instead of a sony vaio i had in mind. I have a few questions though:

1) Is the screen matte or glossy?

2) Is there a lot of bloatware pre-installed?

3) What is the ASUS customer service like?

4) What is the build quality like?

5) Whats so good about the keyboard?

Thanks!