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Manufacturer Warranty
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- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
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- Return for refund within: non-refundable
- Return for replacement within: 30 days
- There must be a minimum of 8 dead pixels to declare an LCD display defective and eligible for return.
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awesome notebook
- Pros: Light, fast, wife thinks its pretty, easy access to everything inside. Linux (Arch Linux) installs without any problems recognizing all hardware out of the box. That was something i didn't exactly expect. ASUS quality. I've owned a lot of notebooks, thinkpads, hp's, macbook/ibooks, and this has by far made me only want to buy asus from here on out. You can't beat the warranty, service level. You truly get what you pay for.
- Cons: Not exactly a con but, the dvd drive is pretty noisy.
The screw heads holding it together break fairly easy. I broke one off just getting the keyboard off.
- Other Thoughts: Newegg had this laptop as a "deactivated item" when I wanted to purchase it, so I purchased it elsewhere for $160 more! A little annoyed at myself, but even at the price I paid this laptop was well worth it. Be aware this laptop is not available for the "XP downgrade" from asus. They do however have all the XP drivers available on their website.
Good laptop
- Pros: This notebook can be expanded to 4gb. The second memory slot is under the keyboard. Not too hard to do! It is light, and it has a 9 cell battery option. Remember that only 64bit vista or windows can use 4gb ram at this time.
- Cons: Keyboard is a little soft, but not a big knock.
- Other Thoughts: Very nice professional lap top
Double Edged Sword
- Pros: This laptop is still the best Bang for your buck product. It is overall around 1600$ and will give u stats equal to a 2500$+ laptop in many ways. There are problems however.... I mean for the dollar I feel this is a 5 star laptop, but it is advertised as much more and upon owning this laptop, while it is still top-notch, it is definitely over-hyped and many of its specs are lied about.
- Cons: first, this laptop's specs are not what they seem. The Video card (8600 gs) is vastly inferior to the 8600 gt and the 8800 will be comming soon. Furthermore, this video card is running at a DDRII level so it will not represent the stats a 8600gs would suggest if u investigate it.
second,
this laptop claims the ability to be expanded to 4gb of ram. THIS IS FALSE ADVERTISING! The laptop comes with 1 slot for RAM and there is currently no single SIMM/DIMM option for 4GB of ram so if you are intending to upgrade, forget it.
next, this laptop will provide you with no drivers whatsoever, asus usually has great drivers, often superior to the chipset drivers, but in this case many of the driver dont even work!
In order to get my video card to run in 64-bit vista I had to download forceware drivers from Laptop2govideo. I think because this is a bussiness version product an assumption has been made that images will be used so driver support is absolutely terrible.
- Other Thoughts: All-in-all I dont feel too bad about my purchase in terms of what i got for what i paid. However with the next generation of chips ands ddrIII comming to laptops this may not have been the best purchse unless u need to have a laptop now (like I did).
Overall I am mainly dissapointed with the fact that I am an advanced computer user, working in IT who has been using ASUS products whenever I can for over 12 years because of their superior quality. So, to get a product that does not represent its stats and, frankly, lies about it capabilities, irks me. --The video card will not perfom at the levels expected, the ram is not upgradable, and the AC power cord runs so hot that it burns skin to the touch and thus has failed on me after about 3 weeks.
But i mean, for a 14" laptop running at 2.4ghz it runs vista 64 ultimate no problem and is still better than dell, ibm, and hp equivelently priced products I have seen.
| Model |
| Brand |
ASUS |
| Series |
V2 Series |
| Model |
V2S-B1 |
| General |
| Operating System |
Windows Vista Business |
| CPU Type |
Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 2.40G |
| Screen |
14" WXGA+ |
| Memory Size |
2GB DDR2 |
| Hard Disk |
160GB |
| Optical Drive |
DVD Super Multi |
| Graphics Card |
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS |
| Video Memory |
256MB |
| Communication |
Modem, Gigabit LAN and WLAN |
| Card slot |
1 x Express Card |
| Dimensions |
13.3" x 9.6" x 1.2-1.4" |
| Weight |
5 lbs. |
| Tech |
Intel Centrino Pro Mobile Technology |
| Other Features |
Fingerprint reader
Intel Turbo Memory: 1GB |
| CPU |
| CPU Type |
Intel Core 2 Duo |
| CPU Speed |
T7700(2.40GHz) |
| CPU FSB |
800MHz |
| CPU L2 Cache |
4MB |
| Chipset |
| Chipset |
Intel PM965 |
| Display |
| Screen Size |
14" |
| Wide Screen Support |
Yes |
| Display Type |
Wide XGA+ |
| Resolution |
1440 x 900 |
| Operating Systems |
| Operating System |
Windows Vista Business |
| Graphics |
| GPU/VPU |
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS |
| Video Memory |
Dedicated 256MB |
| Graphic Type |
Dedicated Card |
| Hard Drive |
| HDD |
160GB |
| Memory |
| Memory |
2GB |
| Optical Drive |
| Optical Drive Type |
DVD Super Multi |
| Optical Drive Interface |
Integrated |
| Communications |
| Modem |
56K |
| LAN |
10/100/1000Mbps |
| WLAN |
802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN |
| Bluetooth |
Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR |
| Ports |
| Card Slot |
1 x Express Card |
| USB |
3 |
| IEEE 1394 |
1 |
| Video Port |
1 x VGA, 1 x S-Video TV-out, 1 x HDMI |
| Other port |
1 x E-SATA & USB combo port |
| Audio Ports |
1 x Microphone jack; 1 x Headphone jack |
| Audio |
| Audio |
Integrated Sound card |
| Speaker |
Internal Speakers |
| Input Device |
| Touchpad |
Yes |
| Keyboard |
Standard Keyboard with 88 keys |
| Supplemental Drive |
| Card Reader |
8-in-1 card reader |
| Webcam |
1.3 mega pixel(swivel) |
| Power |
| Battery |
Lithium Ion |
| Physical spec |
| Dimensions |
13.3" x 9.6" x 1.2-1.4" |
| Weight |
5 lbs. |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
3 years limited |
| Labor |
3 years limited |
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Reviewed By: bukue2 on 3/2/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
