The Asus C90 Satisfaction Poll

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genius . ox

 

I think there's a big "but" attached to any recommendations. CPU power is looking like less and less of a good enough reason, very close to getting a new desktop and all I find myself doing at work is playing COD4 which isn't getting the greatest FPS. As soon as a new video card will be released for the C90S my opinion may change. The 4965AGN card issue has not been fixed which means no internet unless I plug it in, the fan is load at night if I just wanna use it in bed its a bother, my Max GT 3.6 3G Express card won't work unless I either have the C90S plugged in or in standard mode, but I'm fortunate in the fact that I can use Gaming Mode in both XP and Vista and that in the past couple of months it has helped me keep my sanity.

I bought the C90s because it represented what I enjoyed on desktops, not just the power, but also the freedom of putting it together myself (limited). I really dislike how difficult it is to find an pick out the right notebooks for myself and the C90S just suited me, alot better then my last notebook of infamy Toshiba's Satellite P105-S9722 and S9337 (a really, really bad mistake). I really hope there will be a good and reasonable upgrade from the 8600M GT soon or else this notebook can be officially be written off as a another bad idea. As I said, the CPU power alone really isn't gonna cut it much longer and it should be benching alot higher then it does. I might just cut my losses and get a Mac Book Pro, XPS M1530 or a Thinkpad T61.

 

Personally I find that once you work out all the quirks of this machine, it's a very good one. So if your a enthusiast and a tweaker, this machine is for you, and you won't mind the small little quirks that need to be worked out. On the other hand, the C90 is not for user who expects a fully polished product out of the box.

Of course, future upgradeability/scalability is important so I'm with RangerXML with this one as it would be a much better machine if the GPU was upgradeable to something more powerful ie; 8800m or even newer 9XXX line.
However for it's current performance, it rivals high end notebooks at a fraction of it's size and price. Not many notebooks could fall in this category, so give the C90S credit and Asus credit for releasing such a product. Now they just need to solidify it's stance and solve all the bugs before it gets written off.

On a good note though, the "C" series seem to be an Asus focus in the upcoming months, so I'm a little optimistic as to what Asus has up their sleeves. The release of the C30, C80, and C70 may help develop new upgradeable products and solve issues with the C90.

 

I Personally love it, but my dad's going crazy whenever a little thing goes wrong, so I may end up getting a new laptop, as I just found out my power cord is breaking.

 

what diff between c 30 , 80 , 70 .... screen size only ?

 

Well not just that, but possibly different compatible CPUs/GPU based on heat/cooling capabilities and the amount of space. I would imagine the C30(13.3") being severely gimped with limited CPUs supported as the cooling device would be much smaller compared to the C90s. I would imagine that the C70(19") + C80(17") could possibly support SLI, Quad-Core Penryns, and even dual hard drives etc. We don't know the details of that yet.

 

The new models if they still plan to release them are going to have many upgrades, like use of the new cpus (penryn) better chipsets, ect.

But any information on them since the release of the C90 has not hit my ears so I wonder since the c90 has a few too many issues to meet the standard quality of Asus if they may be backing out. Just time will tell I suppose.

 

i totally agree with , i think all c90 pro related to it's bad chipset

i'll try to collect some information about them soon and post them

 

Don't forget, not all C model notebooks are desktop CPU based. There where originally suppose to be 2 C90, one the C90S we have, the other Santa Rosa based never saw the light of day. Some of those, like the 13.3" model might not have desktop CPU.

 

No. The C30 last I heard will still be using the Desktop processor. I think you were talking about the C91 that was santa rosa based? Doesn't make sense to release it because it would compete directly with the other Asus models(ie G1S).

This was quoted from the Asus Headquarters show a couple months back.. of course things could change.
http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=805

 

c90 model is not worthy to buy if you dont have the time to play with its config...too many issues and time consuming tricks to get it work. People has expend as much money that could have use to buy another model with better capabilities just to test this machine. Video is not so upgradable since MXM card hasnt become so commercial as ASUS claim it would before the launch of the C90S. Even the new C90P have has the same case with almost the same motherboard and finnally they understand it was a mistake to release the c90s with 3gb support. Dont get me wrong, C90S is a great machine with some complicated issues to be solve before getting it almost full functional...

 

...the C90S has only 2 slots for RAM, it can only handle 3GB, but can still do dual channel with a 1GB+2GB configuration. With the exception of some new mobo heat sinks the C90P looks exactly like the C90S.

 

thnx a lot for replying and explaining RGS , RangerXML and DX 3what is c90p specs ?

do u advise me not to get c90 , if i didn't what is the alternative for 1200 $

( photoshop , watch many many movies ( will video card affect ? ) , and surfing internet )

 

The C90P has a P35 chipset rather than the 945G (so it can support the 1333fsb Core 2 Duo). The video card seems to be identical to the C90S so it *should* fit.

 

thx for replay .... for (( HD )) MOVIES will video card effect from 8700m gt and 8600m gt and even the 8400m gs lol ???

 

No, any DX10 cards (except 8800GTS 320/640, 8800GTX/ Ultra) have an HD decoder on them. If you got another card, it's all on the cpu

 

Look, a 8400M G will play an HD movie exactly like a 8800M GTX quad-SLI would okay?

 

thx : D