Review of W7J from PC Perspective

This is a very thorough and in my opinion very objective review of the W7J. I was leaning towards the W3J but after several weeks of research, I am now leaning towards either the W7J or the V1J. It is coming down to the screen and viewing angles. I do graphic design/web design and often review my screen with clients so I need a screen with excellent color and viewing angles. I don't like the Lenovo T60 but may end up getting it just because of Flexview. Anyway, from my reading, I am feeling that the W7J has a slightly better screen than the W3J. The W3J may be adequate for my needs.

Here is the review:
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?type=expert&aid=284

This may have already been posted but it was not included in the reviews section of NBR and I haven't seen it yet. They also have a review of the W5f.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=73224

And no I didn't find the review objective at all. It definitely didn't go into any depth about the issues.

 

In regards to the 200g over weight issue, this is because ASUS always puts the weight without the optical drive...and the travel draw installed...thus thats the 200g right there. In ASUS's defense they do state this on the spec sheet, but I can see that it is a bit underhanded.
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I think they raised some issues. Performance did not seem steller, battery life was on the low side and the heat issues... However, my main concern about viewing angle was satisfied.
As with most reviews, they tend to be based on short-term initial impressions and not based on long-term usage.

I only mentioned 'objective' because I've been reading so many posts and started feeling some of the posts were biased due to conflict of interest.

I'm still waiting on Merom and obsessing about which laptop to get
If Merom was out today on my list of choices, I would have decided and not be spending hours reading. The more time I research, the longer my list grows. I started by looking at the Sony SZ premium and now my list also includes W3J, W7J, V1, Dell Lat 620, Lenovo T60 flexview. Decisions, decisions...

With that said, do you have any other reviews that you feel may be more objective for the W7J?

 

Actually no. I haven't found an English review that wasn't subjective or came from a noob. the worst one so far that has been officially published has been the one on NotebookReview. When he compares a W7J with a Dell 8500 and pretty much seems to state everything is great, wonderful, and beautiful, there's a noob for you. The posts on this forum aren't very coherent either and the w7j lounge is pretty bad. I really don't see the point of lounges because I've basically read all of what has been said at the lounge, especially the w3j and a little bit of the a8jm, and its just mostly spam. I didn't mean to be offensive in any way if I redirected you to a previous post. As of yet I can't find subjective material on the w7j and it is a little disappointing.

 

I didnt realize how slow the ram speed in this machine was. Am I interpreting this correctly? The W3J has 667Mhz RAM which is more than twice the speed of RAM used in the W7J! Even if you wanted to upgrade from 266 to 333.. the intregrated RAM would still be 266. Would that cause compatibility issues or limit the performance of the 333 memory?

 

Took me a while to figure this one out, too, but the answers are in a few threads around here somewhere. The RAM is DDR2, which executes on both the up and down end of the cycle - effectively doubling the speed. Electronic engineering vs. Marketing.

Freq 266 is 533MHz RAM, and 333 Freq is 667MHz RAM.

 

Yeah I assumed people would have known that the memory was DDR and that the system frequency is not the same. I guess not in notebook land. The numbers work the same for all DDR 1 2 3. Never had this problem with SDR.

 

Thank you!!! Rep worthy!