ASUS N70 Series N70SV-X1 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo T9550(2.66GHz) 17.3" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD 7200rpm BD Combo NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M - Retail

Great for the price

Reviewed By: on 10/8/2009

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: 8-cell battery
Free bag and mouse
Free Win7 upgrade
Fastish CPU
Decent Video
blue ray
Hard drive space
Plays WOW 2x AA everything but shadows on high @ native res just fine 60FPS+(haven't ran any large raids yet though). Plays C&C3 just fine as well as Wolfenstein. The CPU chugs through most modern tasks Office, web browsing etc with no wait time. For the money without waiting for a super big sale I came to this model and a sony Viao.

Cons: Web cam is very low quality. On the same note so is the face recognition feature. Even though the N70 features altec lansing speakers...they are pretty horrible. When watching iron man on blue ray I can barely hear the voice, guns and bullets are audible and this is in my office - no noise.
The hard drives are faster then most 5400rpm drives, but imo not noticeable for everyday use.
Blue ray is a cool feature but in the cost of No CDR or DVDR burning. No where does is mention this, you can not burn anything with the BD-Combo just read ability. The OS comes so cluttered with bloatware I was forced to reformat which I was going to do anyways for 64bit vista ultimate.
Not much room for upgrade 4gbs Ram is max, GPU is what you get custom from ASUS, I need to do more research on the CPU however.

Other Thoughts: Nice laptop for the money, imo not a desktop replacement but for the price of this I wouldn't expect it to be. Overall I am satisfied. Newegg shipping and service once again spot on without issues. No dead pixels missing equipment or anything, from the west coast to the east coast

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Reviewed By: jeg on 9/18/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: -Great laptop at really good price
-Sreen Quality
-Hard drive space is exellent

Cons: SPEAKERSSSSSSS!!!!

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Go ASUS!

Reviewed By: KaDanK on 9/7/2009

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: This is the best bang for your buck on a gaming laptop/desktop replacement. Fast, fast, fast! Dual harddrives, set up in raid 0...Blueray! WOW! I used to buy HP...no more!

Cons: Getting the bluray software to work was a nightmare. BEFORE you load the software, update direct X to the latest version, and it will be seamless. Took a few hours of google to find this out.

Other Thoughts: Register your laptop within 60 days, and ASUS give you a drop, spill, surge, fire warranty for a year, on top of the 2 year warranty it comes with. Nobody offers that type of security and comfort in a laptop purchase. Qualifies for the windows 7 upgrade for free!

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