The best compliment my Asus has recieved...

"That thing looks really old school!" followed by "What kind?"

 

They said your Z33 was "old school" ? The design is going on four years old, but even today it still looks fresh enough..... certainly not as old school as your thinkpads would look.

 

Well, it actually does remind me of a Northgate 386 laptop that my dad had, from just before Thinkpads came out. Charcoal grey, about the same size, although it had sharp corners and was a little thicker.

The person saying this was one of the.... 'Blingier' people in my Aero class. He had just set down is P4 3.6 Dell workstation beast laptop, which proceeded to start making a huge dustbuster sound as soon as he did anything.... Even just MS Word... Probably anything without a huge blue blinking 'XPS' light is "old school" to him. That's why I took it as a compliment

Styling was probably 25% of my decision on the Z33, with the Asus brand name, the price:size/features compared to other 12" models, and price erformance compared to other integrated graphics machines in general being the other factors.

One of my sisters good friends bought a $4000 Alienware. It has been back to the shop 3 times now - I think it's been 'working' for about 1/3rd of the time he had it. She constantly harasses him about how her Thinkpad actually *works*, and that it was a $3500 model too (it was, in 2002). I told him he should have gotten an A8Js and told him the specs and his jaw just about hit the floor.

 

Haha.... HE has the "old school" laptop, lol.

 

I haven't had many people say much about my V6j, the occasional Acer comment, but all the Alienware/Dell people are too confused about life to realize whats going on, which is most people on my campus.

 

Sounds more like a wannabe Blingy guy if he's sporting an old brick-laptop to me though...;p.

 

Oh, there's nothing wrong with portable stovetops, hell, they even do some computer these days.

 

I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 from 1999. It can run pretty hot, but it doesn't sound like a dustbuster LOL. Still looks somewhat decent too.

 

My brothers old HP stove top P4 beast can overheat in under two minutes without even loading an OS, its absolutely ridiculous...

 

To be honest, I found the heating on the A31p (P4-M 1.7) to be nowhere near as bad as I expected. Fan isn't too loud, either. It's well-designed for what it is, I guess.

A friend of mine bought an old Dell C600 to do word processing and such, and that thing BURNS! Even though it's only a PIII-M. It has one dinky little fan about the size of a quarter that is completely useless.

My Z33 idles at 41-43 usually the way I have it undervolted, which is awesome since the fan doesn't even come on until 45. It's silent.

 

Mine runs about those temps, but the fans are usually on. My brothers laptop was one of the real P4s, not a P4-M, so it ran really hot. Lets put it this way, the heatspreader and heatsink from that computer weigh almost as much as my computer.

 

One of the main things (probably the main things) which made me decide on my V6J is the "old-school" (i.e., classical, "no sh_t, just business" plain look). I still think it is the best-looking notebook out there.

In my opinion, the XPS is nothing but a kitschy collection of colored leds and silvery plastic. No offence to XPS owners.

 

Yeah, the V6j is what notebooks should be like, no doubt about that.