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    Soon upgrade to two 14 inch laptops? F81Se and X38Vm

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by stupidonkey34, Jun 22, 2009.

  1. stupidonkey34

    stupidonkey34 Newbie

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    I haven't found any articles to prove this but seeing as both the

    F81Se-X1
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220517

    X38Vm-X2
    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...=asus&lp=7&type=product&cp=1&id=1218044029788

    are fairly old models, do you guys think there will be an "upgrade" model that will come out by the end of the summer?

    I will be an incoming college student that is looking for a laptop that is both cheap, and small (size and weight), but able to play games such as WoW, Empire: Total War, Dawn of War II. So far these two have really caught my eye even though i already had the X38 and had to return due to problems.

    Any advice or additional ideas for laptops would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!
     
    stupidonkey34, Jun 22, 2009
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  2. racerman119

    racerman119 Notebook Consultant

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    you should look at the u80 and n81 series. U80 is due soon maybe mid july and n81 is already out. Fyi if you get an asus from bestbuy you wont get the 2 year warranty with 1 year accidental which is why the price may be a bit less.
     
    racerman119, Jun 22, 2009
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  3. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    With Intel not having a major platform refresh due this summer, the only thing Asus is likely to do with their models for the BTSchool season is a minor update.

    This usually amounts to a slight bump in cpu, maybe the next step up for HDD capacity, and *maybe* a gpu refresh if ATI/nV has something coming out.

    In any event, any model updates are quite unlikely to have a serious system performance improvement over the current stock.
     
    ClearSkies, Jun 23, 2009
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