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    Release date and price for N6 Series?!

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by So1AR, Feb 22, 2012.

  1. CompUG

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    When does the 14inch come out, Any expected release date? I see all this talk about DDR3 VS DDR5 whats the main difference? I only use my laptop to watch movies, youtube browse the web and use office suite a lot. I will also play D3 when it comes out..
     
    CompUG, Apr 21, 2012
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    thats me, i have decided to go with gigabyte p2542G, it has 660M with DDR5
     
    Silverfern, Apr 21, 2012
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    you wont need a as powerful GPU, but for those of us who does a good amount of gaming, and plan to use this PC for a while, DDR3 just isnt good enough
     
    Silverfern, Apr 21, 2012
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    how thin is it? looks pretty sexy
     
    PaKii94, Apr 21, 2012
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    I like the laptop, but the thing is, they are probably going to put red arrows on the WASD keys since it is their gaming laptop.
     
    bensmith0212, Apr 21, 2012
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    looks pretty good, can't wait to see some reviews.

    lol, I love how this is the n6 series forums and now we are all talking about different laptops because of how disappointed we are.
     
    Kema97, Apr 21, 2012
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    well asus didnt give us anyhting to be exceited about :(
     
    PaKii94, Apr 21, 2012
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    excited* sorry :(

    The only thing that I like about the asus, is the design, specs is just average.
     
    bensmith0212, Apr 21, 2012
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  9. PaKii94

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    lol thanks for the spell check :rolleyes: but yeah design needs to go along with beastin specs for it to be good
     
    PaKii94, Apr 21, 2012
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    Though in all fairness these are multi-media laptops, one cannot expect the best of everything.
    It's an all-around class, so seeing a 650M in them is already a nice bonus.
    Not to mention they are Kepler's even, don't think the difference can be seen on a 15'6 screen.
    Since some want to play their games at 1080p and all, perhaps they should be looking at GTX675 or better cards?
     
    Arai, Apr 21, 2012
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    its obviously possible to put a 660 into a 15.6 chasis. 675 is a fermi card, will produce a lot more heat and use a lot more power. thats why i want a 660
     
    Silverfern, Apr 21, 2012
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    going from ddr3 to dd5 wont need a design change.... thats all i want and the asus is a prime contended :) but ddr3 will just be too much of a bottle neck for 1080p
     
    PaKii94, Apr 21, 2012
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  13. Arai

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    Yeah I hear ya, why settle for less if you can get more for a few bucks :)
    Gigabyte is a small player when it comes to laptop or something, as there's no dedicated forum for that brand.

    If this Asus comes with GDDR5 then I'll totally buy it, if not then probably the Gigabyte with a 660M
     
    Arai, Apr 21, 2012
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  14. Silverfern

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    gigabyte is mainly a motherboard manufacturer, but they are a quite reputable company quality-wise as well. the p2542g will be a refresh of the p2532n, which received good reviews, so any design flaws should be sorted out on the p2542, thats why i am not worried about quality at all. it will be quite expensive, at around $1350. if asus puts a ddr5 650 into the N56, i will probably go with asus instead
     
    Silverfern, Apr 21, 2012
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    Looks good. The GT 650m w/ GDDR5 at 850mhz actually should be faster than the GTX 660m w/ GDDR5, which is typically runs at 825mhz. Its CPU, the 45w i7-3610QM, is also an edge faster than the 35w i7-3612QM we're expecting in other laptops like the N56.
     
    SInC, Apr 22, 2012
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  16. Silverfern

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    that laptop looks really nerdy though :S not something i want
     
    Silverfern, Apr 22, 2012
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    They downclocked the gt 650 with ddr5 to 735mhz. Because nvidia can't afford tohave a gt beat a gtx.
     
    Kema97, Apr 22, 2012
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    This or Gigabyte might be my next laptop..
     
    CompUG, Apr 22, 2012
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    When will we know if it comes with a DDR5
     
    CompUG, Apr 22, 2012
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  20. Silverfern

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    i am guessing april 29th or sometime close
     
    Silverfern, Apr 22, 2012
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    as long as it doesnt have flashy styling or bulkiness im fine... tbh the gigabyte's lid makes it look more nerdy than the msi atm (if it remains yellow) the msi doesnt look bad and it doesnt have the AW design look. im just wondering how bulky it wil be



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    hmm its thicker than other notebooks with gt 650m
     
    PaKii94, Apr 22, 2012
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    i feel just plain yellow is fine, but that msi is too many diff colors and strange drawings on it, i dont like that
     
    Silverfern, Apr 22, 2012
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    Ah yeah, that's probably true for the MSI laptop. On the tweakers info page, I thought it stated that the MSI's GT 650m is clocked at 850mhz, but that appears to just be a general description of the GT 650m, not specifically the MSI's. It would be interesting if MSI did ship a high clocked GT 650m w/ GDDR5 though.
     
    SInC, Apr 22, 2012
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    I really hope they don't drop the bomb on the Asus, I mean the thing has a nice design, sound, backlight keyboard, 1080p screen, Ivy Bridge processor at 2.3ghz.

    Now all we need in it is a GTX 650M with GDDR5 dammit! and the picture will be complete :cool:
     
    Arai, Apr 22, 2012
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    haha i guess we all got diff tastes :p but what drawings are on there?
     
    PaKii94, Apr 22, 2012
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    i think we all hoping for it :p
     
    PaKii94, Apr 22, 2012
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    those crazy lines and stuff, just tells anyone who sees it "this is a gaming laptop!"
     
    Silverfern, Apr 22, 2012
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    Lol true but it's not like other flashy gaming laptops
     
    PaKii94, Apr 23, 2012
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    itsfuntodobadthings, Apr 23, 2012
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    This is from the review i posted earlier. Obviously horribly translated, but what are they trying to say here?

     
    itsfuntodobadthings, Apr 23, 2012
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    that looks really good, but i will be buying from store though, and i am in canada
     
    Silverfern, Apr 23, 2012
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    haha its obviously written by a chinese guy with poor english, if you can find me the chinese version of the page, i can translate it properly for you.

    i still prefer the gigabyte to be honest, it has far easier access to its guts (gpu, cpu, heatsink) than the asus N56. the gigabyte has a hatch at the back for all that
     
    Silverfern, Apr 23, 2012
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    it is certainly a very good looking laptop, pity the graphics card is way below par

    also, i dont think its acceptable that the acer timeline can both outperform the N56 and at the same time have a better battery life
     
    Silverfern, Apr 23, 2012
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    Yeah.. they did test a rig with pre-release hardware though, not a final version

    eg. they mentioned the drivers were really out of date
     
    itsfuntodobadthings, Apr 23, 2012
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    As Anandtech stated, it's more than likely that the N56 will ship with a different GPU or have GPU upgrade options. I highly doubt that Asus would release a laptop with a GPU slower than the previous generation's (N55 had GT 555, faster than GT 630).
    As for the Acer Timeline "outperforming" the N56, ignore the PCMark benchmarks as they're very biased towards laptops w/ SSD's, though it is true that SSD's make a large difference in laptop performance. The Asus N56's gaming benchmarks should also considerably improve with the expected GPU upgrade.
    From the benchmarks, the Asus N56's i7-3720QM has very good CPU performance, faster than any non-overclocked Sandy Bridge laptop's. The LCD panel is also far above average, offering full sRGB coverage and good contrast. I'd say that the Asus N56 will be a solid buy when it's released, especially if Asus decides to go with the GT 650M w/ GDDR5.
     
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    i will be sorely tempted and forced to reconsider if asus puts ddr5 in the 650!

    i dont think they will be putting in the 3720 will they? i think the release CPU will be the 3610 right? i personally dont care too much about the CPU, since GPU is the bottleneck in most cases.

    by the way, anyone know if the thickness listed on anandtech is with lid closed or open?
     
    Silverfern, Apr 23, 2012
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    "While it appears like the palm rest could be aluminum or some other metal, in actuality it’s just silver plastic, but it still looks nice".

    I thought that part of the notebook is aluminium. Maybe it´s plastic because it´s a pre-release version?

    P.S. I don´t follow any others notebook launchs in the past, so i have one question. It's common to manufactures to change the components frequently? I have this question because some of you are expecting that asus put the GDDR5 on Asus N56, but we alrealdy know that they put DDR3 version. Or your expections is not to May, but for december?
     
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    I am not sure about this, but did asus say anywhere that the palm rest would be made of aluminum? i usually just look at pictures and not much of the words...

    they might have other versions of the same model down the road, e.g. right now they have two version of N56, one is N56VM and the other is N56VZ, they have diff graphics card i think, with VZ version being more powerful. maybe in the future, they will have an ATI/AMD card version?
     
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    ouch i wanted aluminum palm rests :p but not everyone has the time to wait for themto release amd card one
     
    PaKii94, Apr 23, 2012
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    I wonder if they removed the backlight from the keyboard, I was browsing through the Finnish manual of the laptop and the Fn 4/5 keys are not covered.

    The manual skipped those 2 keys in particular when illustrating.
    Here's a link: Finnish manual N56V

    Hello DDR3 GT 650M < I guess this answers our questions.
     
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  43. Silverfern

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    yeah DDR3 650...something we DONT want, but something asus INSIST on giving us
     
    Silverfern, Apr 23, 2012
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    I don't remember where, but i'm pretty sure that i read that is aluminum a lot of times in different places, but maybe they only said that is aluminium because it looks like aluminium lol
     
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    Arai, Apr 23, 2012
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    Hello DDR3 GT 650M < I guess this answers our questions.[/QUOTE]

    Yes we alrealdy know that ;). That information is like in 20 different stores. That's why i made the question, why are some people with hope that will be different from that. But Silverfern already explain why :).
    I personally believe that different cards will be avaliable, but not until september or october, but i really want to be wrong =P
     
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    The N76 don't have GDDR5 version? Too bad indeed...
     
    JXulo, Apr 23, 2012
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    seriously? even N76 doesnt have ddr5? does asus think the world is only full of asus laptop and they only need to compete with their G series?
     
    Silverfern, Apr 23, 2012
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    How much gain do we get from DDR3 vs DDR5? Is it really substantial to warrant this hue & cry?
     
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    when you are gonna use it for 4 years, yes, and it was already stated that ddr3 will be a big bottleneck at 1080p. plus if it really doesnt matter that much, why would asus not put in the ddr5? it would obviously attract more buyers. asus want the G series to perform much better than the N series so that people will be willing to buy G series as well.
     
    Silverfern, Apr 23, 2012
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