My M6BNe has come !!

I haven't had much time to play with it yet [ ] since we have guests and I had to back to work [ !]

But I did unpack it, power it up, and tweak a few windows settings. [^]

Very first impressions: Feels about the same size and weight as my 15" Gateway 450. The overall design and fit/finish is excellent. If you are into cars, it's like how much tighter and cleaner a german car tends to feel compared to the average american car. The black and silver tends to accentuate that. I also love the LEDs of different colors and the rich blue lighted ring around the power button. It's kind of a cross between very executive and very outer space!

I don't have a read yet on speed. Of course it feels snappy, but it also is a clean windows install. I haven't mucked it all up with this and that yet. The screen seems just fine.

Powernotebooks was very helpful, pleasant, and accomodating during sale and delivery. They even shipped it with Sun's Java and Win XP SP2 installed. It has the Asus factory utilities installed, drivers for the ATI and Intel wireless, etc., and an OEM version of Nero. Not alot of junk to get rid of and make we want to do a fresh format and install. That's a nice

So, I'll be transferring stuff over to it tomorrow and will gather more impressions, take some pics, etc., before posting a full review in the review section.

Stay tuned!

Let me also enter a heart felt THANK YOU! to all the folks on these and notebookforums.com forums. We're all so obsessive It's so hard to shop when you can't see things things man to machine so all this input has been invaluable.

..............Peter

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Arrived Aug. 26th!!..............
Asus M6BNe 1.7GB Dothan w/Arctic Silver
15.4" WXGA, Radeon 9700 w/64MB
2 x 512MB Corsair PC2700 DDR333
Hitachi 60GB 7,200 RPM Harddrive
Combo 4X +/- DVD R/RW-CD R/RW
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 b/g LAN card
Windows XP Professional
3 yr warranty, 1 yr no dead pixel policy
from Powernotebooks.com

 

Big congrats on the purchase. I hope it all goes well, and I look forward to your review
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ASUS M6Ne 15.4" WSXGA 1.7 PM ATI9700 80Gb HDD 512Mb RAM

 

hey pstrisik, glad the notebook is working out so far and look forward to hearing more on your experience!

 

Thanks guys...... I'll try to post a review by Sunday, after working with it for a couple of days.

...........Peter

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Arrived Aug. 26th!!..............
Asus M6BNe 1.7GB Dothan w/Arctic Silver
15.4" WXGA, Radeon 9700 w/64MB
2 x 512MB Corsair PC2700 DDR333
Hitachi 60GB 7,200 RPM Harddrive
Combo 4X +/- DVD R/RW-CD R/RW
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 b/g LAN card
Windows XP Professional
3 yr warranty, 1 yr no dead pixel policy
from Powernotebooks.com

 

I'm presently deciding between an Asus M6BNe or a Compal CL56 based laptop. Any suggestions in this case?

I checked powernotebooks.com (they sell the CL56 under the powerpro brand) but I cannot find the Asus M6BNe on their site... any idea what's going on?

Thanks

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by evermore

 

hey folks,
one quick question can you give a price estimate for that config?
thanks
shr30

Acer Ferrari: I WISH!
singapore vs usa??

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by shr30

 

ahem... a bit over budget for me[ ] i need similar config (probably will give up on the chip and the graphics) for about 1200 ~~[?]

Acer Ferrari: I WISH!
singapore vs usa??