Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
So far I only have so much to report.
Upon receiving mine I detected no major issues just thru turning it on and
booting it up, it's not in overclock mode of any measure but I feel none
of the amazing hot heat on the left side of the palm rest.. kinda warm but
not anything in the sun's bursting rays of doom =p
I was looking at the built in cam and it doesn't look like a cereal box toy.
It's small but constructed seemingly good enough to withstand some impact
as opposed to say thin dollar store quality.
I can't say at the moment what all works and doesn't, it's performing it's 2nd
recharge after calibration.
The screen is really something in my opinion, its finger print reader protects
your windows login, programs from launching, and even files themselves.
More details on the finger security later.
The black top glossy finish is reminds me ALOT of the finish on my
black/onyx gameboy DS.
Inside though was brand new clean, it's hard to imagine anyone ever tested
the laptop at all, none of the boxing it came it appeared to of ever been
opened period, if they did any testing it had to of been done before it was
ever boxed at all.
Thats all for now.. more later.. hopefully pictures =p
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Update 1:
The bottom of the C90 where the GPU is located can get quite hot
I do not advise having it sit on your bare skin!
The air that comes out of the back fans can also get pretty hot.
It might be possible to heat stuff =p Although I do not advise it.
The left palm rest remains a hand warmer and still is nothing in the
range of deadly hand melting hot. Mind you thats WITH the 7200 RPM
Hard drive (160gb) installed from seagate.
I would advise getting a laptop cooler thing that goes beneath it if your
planning on overclocking period. I also recomend an AC'd room.
Do not plan on taking this thing to the beach on a hot day =p
If your just gonna sit in class, keep it on normal mode and take
your notes, you won't bother anyone.
I've got 3GB ram in mine, it's running amazingly fast, if not faster than
any other pc I've ever had/built or worked on but that is MY experience.
Even on a wireless speed of 54mbps things go smoothly online.
Ethernet based it's even faster (at least to me it is).
I don't have any tv cords yet to play around with that.
I have a Razor phone but haven't gotten to testing if it
connects with it for file transferring.
All my usb 2.0 ports work.
I've not burned any cd's/dvd's with it yet.
I'm still installing things though, the screen is still really nice.
I'd advise leaving the sheet of plastic that covers the screen for a lil while
even if the yellowish tape annoys you at least for a short while you can
avoid harming your precious new screen =p hell replace the yellow tape
with clear tape =p
Even at distanced angles I can see my screen pretty clear so if your
planning on watching any porn and not getting caught I'd get a screen
to go over it that stops others from seeing what your doin ^.^;;
None of the keys stick at all, if your going to complain about the finger
mouse area being colored silver I'd live with it and learn how to softly
brush the tip of your finger across it instead of jamming your finger down
and putting indents into it as theres no need to use so much pressure.
If your going to whine about it anyways go get a mouse and destroy that
thing instead. It's a wonderful laptop don't do anything that'd harm it.
If lights annoy you, well.. theres only 2 blue lights coming from this thing
when opened, and closed only the tiny blue power light. Their not sharp
to me but I'll leave that to others to decide, either way it's alot better than
some laptops that have like 4 or more annoying lights or big ones on the sides.
I didn't notice the built in cam move on it's own, I think some people expected
it to turn up and down.. someone needs to correct me if I'm wrong.. but I
can turn it manually towards me or behind the laptop, as for pics taken with
it, mine isn't fully tested more on that later.
I've not had one BSOD or crash yet, I hope to not ever get one.
I've not experienced any tiredness from carrying it open or closed around
my house, the bag it came with though is very nice and has it's own zipper
lock which I will make great use of ^.^
Theres a spot for a locking mechanism so you can buy one of those table
locks for this c90 and keep it from bein stolen. If you need to know what
brand the c90's documentation recomended it was Kensington lock types
but I don't have one yet.. more on that when I have one to personally
recomend.
The finger print reader.. by far one of my favorite things to use on the c90.
I'm having fun using it to login to windows, I've locked out manual password
inputs at this point, no one but me can login XD and even works for temp
logging out if you decide to walk away, also works on locking files and
preventing entire programs from being able to launch; I believe it also
supports locking sites you tell it to block without your finger print.
I plan to do more things so thats all for now =)
I've not gone into gaming/overclocking mode yet. I've nothing to report there.
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Are those idle temps?? If it is then the 8600m gt is running pretty hot.
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Wow 81-85c on normal use? Might even go over 100c when gaming.
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not normal use, i have mine with no power saving..full time job all the way and that is ok for nvidia sites
the only thing in standard mode is cpu.
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My Review of C90s
Discussion in 'Asus' started by Corzama, Aug 10, 2007.
