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    Successor to the w90

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by hoofhearted, Oct 7, 2009.

  1. hoofhearted

    hoofhearted Notebook Evangelist

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    Does anyone know if Asus is planning a successor to the W90?
     
    hoofhearted, Oct 7, 2009
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    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    Poor selling model, and was pretty much outside of Asus new market focus area...

    Probably not a direct successor, no, but perhaps something else to fill in that upper end multimedia/gaming in the G7x series with the new mobile i7 chips.
     
    ClearSkies, Oct 7, 2009
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  3. hoofhearted

    hoofhearted Notebook Evangelist

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    I guess that is true. As appealing as the 3dm06 scores produced by twin 4870 seems, the practicality of a 15.6" model that I can take on the road outweighs it. My real "work" needs are dual HD and fast CPU. Yet I can still game.
     
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    The W90 was a horrible laptop though. 4850 GPU's OC'd and labeled as 4870 with GDDR3 memory (instead of GDDR5) with horrible driver support and inadequate cooling. Hopefully Asus does NOT make a successor to that failure.
     
    5150Joker, Oct 7, 2009
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    wirleaon Notebook Guru

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    I sure hope it's more than just a successor, because the current one is no where near a "success" :p
     
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    It would be nice to have a high end laptop without all the gaudy lights and colours of the Republic of Gamers series...
     
    Amnesiac, Oct 8, 2009
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    oh, no one likes that thing? i thought the w90's were the king of laptops based on the cards, the screen, and the ridiculously low price point.

    that's too bad it live up to the specs it carried
     
    bravo261, Oct 12, 2009
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    I have mine and love it. I would not trade it for any other laptop out there period. Well maybe I would do a 1:1 trade for a equal spec M17X but I would not buy the M17X because it would have cost almost 50% more for near equal specs.

    It was ATI's fault not Asus for the drivers, Asus has been begging for driver support and didnt get it. So Asus did the right thing and pulled the cord on the model because they did not like selling a model they could not properly support. Thats a big thing to do.

    Anyways great speakers, great screen, fast cpu with great overclock, cheap price, best looks of any laptop I know of, dual hard drives, dual high end gpu's, and all the other fixings (blueray, finger print reader, hdmi, etc) there is nothing to bash about this laptop except the lack of support. The video card issues and drivers were the one and only flaw and it fell on ATI not Asus.

    As for a new refresh or anything of the sort, as far as I know it is not going to happen. After the W90 didn't make it I think they are going to step back and keep it simple for a while with high end single gpu laptops for a good price and with the good quality and warranty that makes Asus so nice to buy.

    Maybe after some time has passed with some simple models to regain there losses they will try another high end king laptop, but I think they want to just leave that to Sager & AW because in general those laptop types are always the ones with the most problems.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Oct 12, 2009
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