W3V: Help in Figuring Some Things Out

I just recently got a w3v and I was wondering about a few things.

1) In Firefox, if you middle-click on a tab it closes it. Is there some way to do this when I'm using the touchpad?

2) I'm loving the glossy screen, makes colours more vibrant. However on turning it on I see a bright light coming from bottom half of the screen. Is this just a reflection of the glossy screen of the ambient light in my surroundings?

3) What is the normal battery life for this notebook? I'm getting around 3 hours, I just want a quick survey so maybe people who have w3v's who have extended their battery life can give some tips.

Thanks alot for your help.

 

Lemme give it a go!

1. Nope, unless you get an extension of some sort, I like middle click to open new windows in tabs, but the touchpad doesn't do that neither

2. Light leakage? Not sure what you mean...

3. Can't answer this neither but, a. did you undervolt? b. Change your avatar+sig?

 

Ah...so you finally got one! Congrats on the purchase.

1) Not sure...you can play around with the Synaptics settings, but I don't think it's possible to emulate a "middle button" on the touchpad. Who knows, maybe it is... but I haven't seen that option anywhere.

2) You appear to be describing slight light leakage...although it's possible that it's just ambient lighting causing the distortion.

3) Most W3V owners I've seen say they get about 3.5-4 hours of life with brightness down and the CPU throttled down... I get a little over 4 hours on my Z63a. I guess you're getting pretty average battery life for the W3V.

 

LOL. Yes I will. Just trying to get some good pics of my notebook

I did undervolt with NHC. AuroraS post made me realize that I had the brightness turned up max... I checked it again and it's not that bad getting 3+ hours of battery time with the brightness turned up high.

Ah yeah I know what you mean. I guess I shall do a search for programs that can do this. I wish the synaptics drivers offer more customization. Kinda like if you press/tap a certain corner of the touchpad, it will act as a middle click.

I'm actually not getting the heat palm rest issues that other w3v owners are reporting. I opened up the case for the hard drive and I noticed a copper heat spreader that orients itself towards the bottom of the laptop so I guess that's why. Plus it's only a Pentium-M 740 so that's why I probably get little heat.

The light leakage problem is not that bad in my opinion, but I'm not as picky as other users.. I just notice it when I turn on the laptop and during the Asus boot screen, it shows when you're viewing the screen from certain angles. Btw, this screen is bright! If I have a white background with the brightness turned on to high I could probably go blind with repeated exposure looking at the screen.

EDIT!

 

LOL...I know what you mean. I usually keep the brightness around 40-60%

 

I might do that too now. It'll also help conserve battery life since I had it on Max Brightness all the time. (Ahhh my eyes the goggles do nothing!)

I found the solution to the middle click touchpad problem. I posted it on my post before AuroraS'

 

as far as battery life....... go into your gpu settings and make sure that powerplay is going to max battery whenever you are on battery power. this will throttle down the gpu and give you more life. i believe the default is for a mix of performance/batt. life. but since you most likely wont game on battery just set that to full on max battery under the ati powerplay setting and you should get some more time. i get near 4 hours

 

On my Toshiba, I think you can do "middle click" by clicking both the left and right buttons simultaneously. I do it every once in awhile by accident.

 

Yeah I actually figured it out when trying reading Coriolis' and AuroraS' posts.

I got it configured so that when I tap the top left corner of the touchpad it's a middle click. The two bottom corners on the left and right are for back and forward buttons on the browser. I haven't decided on what the top right corner will do when I tap it, but on the Synaptics configuration screen you can make it so it will perform a macro.

 

haha i love that video!

and I actually find it easier just to use ctrl-w to close tabs in firefox, but then again, i'm a keyboard shortcut whore. mouse-less surfing all the way!

 

To close tabs, I use the TabX extension -- it puts an X conveniently on each tab! I don't like the Firefox default, I always closed the wrong tab.

 

Hi I also have a asus w3v and i had a couple questions i wanted to ask.
I noticed that when im on battery mode the computer cant be set on "super high performance" and when i was playing NFS most wanted it was soooo slow on battery mode. I tried turning off power4gear, but it didnt change anything.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

I also noticed the speaker can sometimes be really low. For music its ok. Its mostly for DVDs and some divx. I heard about some program that could change that. Anyone know which one would that be?

thanks

 

Oh yeah.

Where should the option for Hypermemory be? Lavalys and Windows report my x600 to have 128mb which I think is highly unlikely. But it doesn't seem to be taking memory away from the system.

Oh yeah. About a month ago, someone posted up some settings for their color management in the display. They claim it to be a good color setting for colorshine displays... does anyone know what post I'm talking about?

 

You're referring to this post:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=25959

 

Try the "High Performance" profile if you want to play games while on battery.

For the sound, try updating your UAA drivers from the Asus website; I believe there are new drivers available which make the sound output louder.

 

Cool... Man.. how many times do I have to thank you S Hehehe..

 

man... I tried the colour correction scheme in that thread, as per the directions listed there... it's totally unusable! is it only for ATI cards?