U1F feels sluggish ?

PCWorld review of the U1F says performance is sluggish.

What do you do on your Asus U1F and does it feel sluggish ?

 

He must be running super pi while trying to multitasking. It is a 12.1" ultraportable notebook. It has 6 hours of battery life. If you feel it is too slow for word processing and web browsing, then upgrade the 4200-rpm 80GB hard drive to a 7200 rpm hard drive. It will drain half hour but probably worth the speed increase.

 

In the begining due to the vista and only 1 gig ram , I felt sluggish. But once I increased my ram to 1.5 gig and now I installed XP ,,it really worked well.Actuallly I ran atleast 5 to 6 applications to check it , It really performed well.

 

Interesting. How is driver support with XP? And what about battery life?

 

The good thing about u1f is that asus support website has provided all the drivers for xp.And also the utilities like TPM , finger print , cam and other good utilties are also provided , including updated bios is provided.And the battery life with a 6 cell battery provided is coming around 5 and half hours if you are using it in battery saving mode without WLAN and BT , but if u are using it heavily then I am getting 4 hours.

 

it should feel slugish, it has an underpowerd cpu and 4200 rpm drive. Sure it feels slugish compared to a santa rosa or even napa platform that weighs 3 times more. I love reviewers that say the obvious but do not state the obvious. The obvious being you wont find an 11" for the same $$$ that doesnt feel slugish. pc world is not lying but their review sucks.

 

Thanks for the info guys.

 

I love the styling on the U1, but performance wise it is indeed a little lacking. I wouldn't run Vista on it myself, but it should handle XP all right (my Z33 is fine at 800 Mhz on battery with a tightly tuned XP install) as long as you aren't pulling stuff off the slowwwwww HDD all the time.

 

The slow harddrive doesn't bother me. I intend to buy the 64Gb SSD in a 3-4 months.

I more worried about the 1.06 Ghz Core Duo which looks really weak and I'm trying to gather as many hints as I can about the CPU's performance.

Meanwhile I'm also trying to take a look at other options like the Toshiba R500.

 

Get a Sony TZ, it's the best ultra-portable on the market today and it has a dual-core and SSD, which gets around those "sluggish" problems. But I would also put XP on it. Dynamism will pre-install XP for an extra $150.

 

I hate Sony. They have ZERO customer support. I'm not willing to pay their price and not be able to get any help when I really need it.

Their support staff are trained to give specific sets of answers, anything outside of that scope is too much to ask from them.

 

You think ASUS is any better? I live near them and I can't begin to tell you the fun I've had with a very flawed *$3,000* VX2.

 

I haven't heard many cases of people having a problem with Asus.

Sony on the other hand. Tons loads stories here and there.

 

I have a U1F and it works very well.
I loaded XP on it and everything works except the audio.
I finally got it to install drivers, but it still doesn't show an audio device.
I may just wipe it and start over, but it still takes time.

The Asus website does have drivers for XP on it.

Interestingly, while try to get XP to install, I tried the Vista re-load process that comes with the laptop. Basically, the Vista re-load installs Vista, then requires the special disc that came from Asus with the laptop, which proceeds to use DOS commands to install all of the drivers and support software for the laptop.
It's too bad they didn't make a disk like that for XP.