Pros: Very beautiful LED screen, powerful graphics card, decent processor, a ton of useful (USB, Firewire, esata, HDMI, and S/PDIF) ports, excellent speakers (for a notebook), mostly full size keyboard, good two year warranty and one year accidental damage warranty, ability to remove all bloatware from the system on startup, Expressgate button works well to boot a fast OS, and is relatively silent and cool running even under load.

Cons: More keyboard flex than I'm used to, easy to dirty the screen and finish of the shiny keyboard, glaretype screen gets annoying in bright sunlight, there's still the keyboard lag problem that was found in the M series, includes 4 GB of RAM yet only ships with a 32-bit OS, microphone is poor, optical drive noise sounds like a jet engine compared to the rest of the notebook.

Overall Review: Overall I love this notebook. It scores 4698 with modded drivers from laptopvideo2go, and comes with restore disks that let you pick and choose what bloatware and applications you wish to install. Aside from the keyboard flex, lag, optical drive noise and poor microphone I see very little wrong with the notebook.

Pros: Solid laptop for a solid price. It looks nice and performs well. A definite recommend.

Cons: Keyboard requires you to thoroughly press some keys, and the touchpad buttons can be quite stiff/loud, but besides that this laptop is amazing.

Pros: ASUS is aiming at the sweet spot with this laptop - size, performance, price, aesthetics. This laptop replaced an ASUS F8Sn - we had a love/hate relationship, liked the specs, hated its style. Also, the 9500gs of the F8Sn and the 1440x900 panel did not add up how i wanted it to in gaming. This N80 on the other hand has a GPU/Panel combo that are well suited for sustaining framerates while gaming. The machine in general will run just about anything nicely - the express gate is cool function too. QUIET!

Cons: I mess around with some programming and web creation IDE's - I suspect the 1280x800 resolution will be less convenient to that end (like two apps/docs opened side by side). That being said, i knew i was accepting that tradoff and so far the resolution is not an issue.

Overall Review: As soon as I saw this laptop I knew it was the balance I was looking for in a notebook - and believe me, i've been searching. In six months I've had an ASUS M51 (too big, gave to my sister) and the F8Sn (sold it). I browsed many brands but nothing quite fit the bill. *note* This lappy ships w/ 32bit OS. Installing 64bit is a cinch - all the drivers you need are on the drivers disk. You do the install, then pop in the drivers disk and it does the rest (apps too). I performed this manuver with the F8Sn in which asus had NO 64 bit vista drivers on their site, and still don't - but they were all on the driver cd nonetheless, along with all the apps. So, maybe the XP downgraders might want to see if this is the case for them - drivers for xp are not on website, but they may very well be on the CD, I don't know.

Pros: Good lap top. Asus quality product as always.

Cons: Vista 32bit Os. If you have or know some one with a 64bit disk you can load Os and use the product key that came with laptop, thats what I did.

Overall Review: Driver cd that comes with laptop has 64 bit drivers and apps on it.

Pros: I'd like to echo all the comments a prior reviewer gave this laptop - for the money I'd say it's the best and most powerful notebook out there right now. I reformatted and installed Vista x64 (be sure to get the x64 drivers from the ASUS website if doing this; it comes with Vista x32 installed and drivers for that version) and it runs amazingly well. As long as your hard drive is defragmented you shouldn't notice issues due to 5400 RPM speeds. As for DDR3 memory, that would have put this laptop into another price category - not what I was looking for. It's off the charts on the Vista Experience Index (for what that's worth...) and, for example, it runs Fallout 3 perfectly. So far battery life is great (even with my custom power plan which is largely the same on AC vs battery power). Once again, great service from Newegg.com for getting it to me in less than 48 hours!

Cons: There are no Windows XP drivers available for this laptop. (I haven't tested Linux on this, don't know what Linux distros would do with this setup.) But, I don't consider that as a con; just something to be aware of. If you're buying this laptop with all the latest hardware, it's time to move on to Vista. A year and a half ago, Vista was as bad as everyone said it was. Today, Vista (especially x64) is where it should be with driver and software compatibility (or rather, 3rd party products are where they should be with Vista support) and before considering the lack of XP support, I'd really suggest it's time to move on (Windows 7 won't work with XP drivers either - it's now time to let XP go). As for other cons, I haven't had time to find any yet with one exception: the beautiful, shiny finish of the cover, hand rests, touchpad keys, etc. will show any figerprint that gets anywhere near this thing even from the cleanest hands!

Overall Review: I would strongly recommend this laptop for anyone looking for a mobile office / occasional-to-moderate gaming machine in one. It's light-weight, compact enough (yet still accommodating so your hands don't get too cramped typing on the thing) and easy on the power. It should run anything today's games can throw at it and it's got more than enough security and connectivity features for business applications as well. Plus, I haven't had problems with glare even in well-lit rooms (haven't been outside on a sunny day with this as of yet).

Pros: First of all, this laptop looks GREAT. I bought this one to replace my old A8jm and I was delighted to find that the layout of all ports are familiar and even the battery packs are interchangeable. This laptop is significantly more silent than my A8jm, which was praised for being quiet 2 years ago. In fact, its the most silent laptop I have ever seen, period! The LCD screen is another strong point. Not only are the images sharp and clear, but it is so bright that I actually found myself turning the brightness down a notch or two. The chassis design is slick, with an almost futuristic yet classy look. The laptop itself is very light (for laptops) and quite thin. This laptop's graphics card/ CPU combo "OWNS" all source engine games (including Left4Dead) and pretty much all other games released winter 2006 and prior.

Cons: As there are lots of positive reviews below this one, I'll point out a big negative that made me wish I had thought harder about choosing this particular laptop. One of the other posts had somewhat over rated the gaming capabilities of this laptop. You should know that while the title 9650m GT may look powerful and flashy, it is really just a renamed 8600. That said, >>Do not expect to run this laptop Farcry 2/Crysis/Tomb Raider Underworld like a hit knife through butter. << Crysis and Farcry 2 are unplayable on high, DX10 settings (20fps) and stagger on medium (30fps). TR underworld runs at 30fps with AA off on native resolution (playable for an adventure game). Fallout3 runs well on medium and slowly on high. Installing windows XP will give you an extra 2-3 frames for each game if you intend to go through the trouble of hunting down the drivers (which asus does not supply).

Overall Review: Regardless of these performance issues with the latest and most demanding games on the market, this laptop is downright awesome. I dare say that it is the best choice for someone seeking perfect balance of price, performance, and size. While some complain about the air vent being on the right, I (as a right-hander) have always found it to be a good thing in my A8jm as it warms up that side of the table for me on a cold winter day! Oh that reminds me, though the graphics card is not much better than a 8600 performance-wise, it does feature new technology (55nm was it?) which makes it run significantly cooler (and therefore more silently!). >>If you need a laptop NOW, the n80vn-g is the only sensible choice!<<

Pros: Core 2 Duo 2.4(CPU) , 9650M Gt(GPU) 320Gb Hard Drive, 4Gb Ram. 14" is just the right size. Very Smooth & Fast. Good for anything you can think of. Very nice looking when it's clean of finger prints. The bag & mouse are just fine for travel. Runs left for Dead(a new game) very smooth with Shaders set to very high. I don't think you can find a notebook with this graphics power for less money. Very Very Low Noise Output.

Cons: Shows finger prints on case, and they really should have only put 256mb or 512mb at the most on the video card, because 32bit vista only uses 4Gb memory total this includes video memory , hard drive memory , ect. that means that this system will have a little less than 3 Gb to work with, unless you install Vista 64. If you have Vista 64bit it can use it all. About the keyboard you can feel a little spring to it on the left side, the right side is firm, but it's really not a big deal

Overall Review: Tip to use Vista 64. Download a tool called (Activation Backup & Restore for OEM Windows Vista) then get a 64bit vista disc or download one somewhere. and use your own Activation Restore file, it's Legal.

Pros: the specs aren't bleeding edge but they are great for the price and size.You will want to order a copy of 64 bit vista from MS to take advantage of all the RAM(5gigs). beautiful screen even if the resolution is 1280x1024.it's a 14 inch screen so the resolution fits nicely. this laptop will play old-/semi-old games great and it will get you by on low-medium settings on newer games and even high on games that are optimized well like CoD4. comes with built in wireless G/N so wireless range is awesome.comes with a decent bag and mouse. good battery life. right now I'm sitting at 83% with 2 hours and 40 minutes left ASUS provides a 1year free accidental warranty if you register the laptop. I love newegg like every one else but that's really just unbeatable.

Cons: came with 32 bit vista,have to order a copy of 64 bit through MS for 10 bucks.

Overall Review: it's not a desktop replacement, but if you want a not so giant laptop with some decent power and a not so large price tag,this was the one for me,and might be the one for you.