Official Waiting for the ASUS K-Series Thread

Yeah the K40 is in a few Canadian stores as well, I want the K51 with that nice HD4860 to show up though!

 

U series looks yummy also.

 

not quite as yummy as your desktop though

 

i still prefer the asus k

 

The K40 with the 102M GPU is a little underwhelming for my needs, we need the 4860!
C'mon ASUS, we need some sort of timetable.

 

I am still betting that Intel is trying to delay the AB especially with the news that they definitely paid companies not to release new AMD products

Record anti-trust fine ftl..

I wonder what kind of innovation we might have seen had it not been for this anti-competitive behavior

 

A german site states that "Tigris" comes in September. Sadly enough the Asus K-Series comes with the aged Puma Platform... That's ridiculous. Thanks Asus, I'm out of the K-Series.

 

Keep in mind that Puma systems will likely have a price drop to make room for Tigris.

 

pcvonline officially has the k50ij-b1 out for $839.95 CAD and the k40in-a1 for $949.95 CAD, looks like the k51ab might really make it under $1400 CAD when it comes out, my hopes are up. but i guess a k51ab for under $1000 US was wishful thinking.

 

wow that spec is just sick... must be extremely fast...

 

Computex 2009 will confirm the puma successor(tigris).

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090518PB200.html

 

interesting, it would be only so lovely if tigris came out for the k series which seems highly unlikely. Maybe another series of asus will come out with tigris and a 4860 before the end of august ;D

 

GenTech now has the K series available for sale:

http://1toppc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=SRCH&Store_Code=GPS&search=K40

 

Ok so seems the 14" models of the K series are out, although the long awaited K51 which is basically what half the people are waiting for is showing no sign of life lol

 

haha more like 99%. Any K-Series without a 4860 GPU is irrelevant.

 

Exactly!
Don't get me wrong the K 40 is very nice but we all really want the K 51, hopefully this means the whole K series line of laptops will be released soon, and yes I too am awaiting word on the 4860 GPU's.
Soon.Soon. :crosses fingers:

 

they wants to put tigris inside it i saw it in my dreams

 

The K50 will be out tomorrow, but there's no sign of the K51 (yet).

 

k50 out tomorrow where?
and yea the 4860 is definitely the bread and butter of the k series and probably for 99% of any other person looking for the k series.

 

Yeah the K50s have appeared on Canadian resellers' sites >.>

Darn it they're saving the best for last lol

 

Nice to see the K's are out.. I'm really torn between this or Lenovo Y450

 

no i was only curious because it was out at smaller retailers already. (namely PCVonline) At any rate, it can't be long now.. 12 days till the end of may and the arrival of the k51ab

 

hummm, well let's hope

 

Oh a few other resellers have it. Just shopbot it and you'll find at least a few places.

Oh the wait the wait >.>

 

Well folks, the K50 is available now at Gentech:

http://1toppc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=SRCH&Store_Code=GPS&search=K50

Specs are a bit disappointing, but at least it's cheap and has an LED screen

 

But the MSI EX625 is only a few bucks more.

I want to see that K51AB. The one with the 4670.

 

Unfortunately, I don't think that will be happening in the distant future

 

have faith my friend, have faith.

 

They'd probably beat Dell to the Studio XPS 16 update. I'd assume it wouldn't be too far off as I don't think Dell would release BIOS adding support for it months early.

 

Do you really think the K51AB with 4860 GPU is NOT going to be released in North America?
That would be a very bad thing and upset a lot of people around here who have really looked forward to this laptops release.
:cry:
I will be totally bummed if this laptop is NOT released for us
I'm crying on the inside................

 

I would cry with you

 

if it does not come out in America blame Intel, with their sinister rebates to stop competition.

 

Nobody(i.e. Intel) cares about Canada so there's still hope for us!

 

Iv been searching for other Amd laptops with turion ultra and mobility 4000 series, i found this one HP Pavilion dv7-2045ea available in UK. i cant find it on any US shop that sells this AMD cpu laptop, seems less likely for K51AB series to not be released in the America.

 

excusez moi? I care about Canada! That and their Tim Hortons

All kidding aside, AFAIK, i don't think there's any plans for Asus to release a K50 series notebook with a dedicated GPU since the US/Canada already has the N51Vf and the G50Vt. In terms of marketing strategy, it's not quite ideal for Asus to release a model that would directly compete with their other models (aside from their eeepc line).

 

The above post is pure speculation...

 

The part where I said Asus will not release a K50 w/ a dedicated GPU in the US is not speculation. The reason I offered above was.

 

Ahah Tim Horton avec Capuccino glacé!

I hope you are wrong David.... i hope

 

well that's not a k51 so its all good. I should be getting news in about 8 days.. weeee

 

you guys don't think there is any possibility that they are delaying it to pair it with a tigris platform?

 

possible, but computex 2009 is just the showcase of tigris. I'm not sure if production could start so soon after an showcase. That is unless they plan to delay the k51ab by a few months and raise the price of the product.

 

From what ive been reading recently computex seems to be very interesting..... there should be a good amount of stuff shown/revealed.

 

there is always a possibility, that would be a excellent suprise and scare Intel to lower prices

 

Actually that's possible, seeing as how releasing it right now would make it compete with the G50VT

 

Dman too long! Hard to wait. Any news from Asus would be great! Like a possible release date... or maybe a confirmation on the specs so then we could have a reason to wait!

 

instead of focusing on information that asus is giving us, we should focus on what asus is not giving us, and that my friend are the specs to the k51ab and the k71. The only reason i can see this occurring is because they are making revisions to the top end models which make include the possibly tigris chipset from AMD. It seems to fit seeing as how there have been many complaints from different people including us saying how there's a necessity for things such as e-sata/hdmi/bluetooth and a need for better AMD processors capable of delivering more performance then a t5800. Manufacturers listen, and when there are demands/opinions that seem to be relatively the same to a manufacturer, they change in order to fit the needs of the consumer.

 

They're still playing with fire. If Intel really has taken action against AMD in the US(wouldn't put it past them since they have in the past), then the K51 may simply be put on hold until it all gets sorted out.

I would prefer if this wasn't the case however so yes, the tigris platform would be nice

Asus is making a leap by using an AMD CPU(even if it is the new ones as it'll be a free ballgame as to how they perform in real life), but considering the K series is supposed to be "budget", I suppose that's in their goals and we may all be pleasantly surprised

 

what do you mean "making a leap by using AMD?"

and i understand that the possibility of intel taking action against amd as well.. im looking optimistically

 

So we are waiting 1 week or 1 month or 1year? Thats what I mean with a release date...

 

i'm thinking the end of q2 release.