ASUS N70 Series 17.3" Intel Core 2 Duo T9550 4GB Memory Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit N70SV-X1

Pros: -Price, price, price: This is hands down one of the best deals for a laptop. The ratio of power to cost is rather high

-Plenty of power behind it; it can play TF2 and WoW at full settings and still maintain framerates of 50+ with other programs running in the background. Also benchmarks well with Windows, as someone else has posted.

- Full keyboard with numpad

-x64 OS

- Blu-Ray drive

- Construction is sturdy

Cons: - It gets rather hot, but that's to be expected with most notebooks in this hardware category

- The left and right click function are on either side of a single button, and clicking is a bit loud.

- Finish likes to pick up smudges and fingerprints (the included cloth does a good job of cleaning them, however)

- Lots of bloatware

- A bit heavy

Overall Review: - The screen has a glossy finish

The good far outweighs the bad on this. It's an incredibly hard deal to beat, and it's worth every penny.

Pros: Nice screen, graphics, this computer has potential if you want to invest a lot of time fixing its flaws.

Cons: Blu-ray didnt work, took a fair amount of confusion to get it operation. The updated software on the ASUS support website shows a dropdown list for 32-bit versions only, which for some reason they havent fixed (the 32-bit OS version listed on the website is 64-bit compatible as well, which I only found out by talking to tech support).

I was also under the impression this would be a DVD+RW with Blu-ray+RW, but the software only lets you burn from the E:\ to the E:\. Which means, I have no idea.

This computer is very buggy from a software standpoint, and customer service is like a Chinese fire drill. The first time I called tech support, I was told this computer is not Blu-ray equipped, and had an argument with the person who told me to read the specs, which made me pretty ticked off. I haven't received clear instructions or advice on anything, and have already called ASUS tech support 5 times.

The system also has a lot of bloatware.

Overall Review: None