ASUS W90 Series 18.4" Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 6GB Memory Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit 90NQXA3931CB8KQL450Y

Pros: Fast. Quiet (besides the annoying MS sound blurbs), WIDE, pretty and full of accessories. I love the backpack as well. It's a great system. Wonderful desktop replacement. Bluetooth mouse is a plus... works great. The surround sound freaks me out.... never had 5.1 Dolby come out of a laptop before (awesome).

Cons: It gets hot up near the touch controls, just below the screen (not surprising with a quad core). It had a graphics issue that caused it to blue screen right out of the box. I simply retrieved the latest ATI drivers and it was fixed in about 10min. Was a little frustrated with the 'don't see it, don't worry about it' Microsoft Vista control. Too used to XP do-it-yourself settings, i suppose. It's better now that I took some control back. Power supply is as big as my foot!!! I'll use it for defense in a dark alley i'm sure. When the sound is really loud, there is some minor vibrations from the housing around the LCD.

Overall Review: So far, this has been a wonderful machine. I give it an overall 4 of 5 because of the graphics issue (otherwise a 5). But I understand that ASUS ships these as is, and it probably sat in a box untouched for a couple months. The driver came out just recently. If you buy this for portability, you must drive a forklift. If you want to game, this machine won't let you down. Even played WoW and Crysis at highest graphics and had no issues. Please don't buy this and complain that it's too heavy.... it's a DESKTOP REPLACEMENT.... silly rabbit.

Pros: Amazing form factor. Truly a desktop replacement. Impressive in quality of notebook design. Decent sound from the Altec Lansing speakers. The backpack is very high quality also.

I give 3 stars for what " could have been" an amazing product.
I have high hopes to get the situation rectified.

Cons: Driver support for the 4870 mobility version is not up to par as of yet. ATI has not updated a modded INF file for the latest drivers they released to ASUS on 3/31/09.

Asus support is questionable, as I had one tech tell me to " call back tomorrow because I do not know this model well enough to help you" - Asus does not have 24 hours support as they claim.

The W90 has the capacity to be a fabulous machine, but the mass production lacks serious quality control issues from my perspective. And, i have my doubts on Asus support, regardless if its 2 years... its seeming no better than Dell at this point.

Overall Review: RMA'd back to Asus as a DOA product.

I cannot review on gaming performance as my system has HDD isssue which did not allow installation wizard to run. Would lock up on installs.