Product Description
Enjoy true entertainment and real sound with the ASUS N61JV. Equipped with Intel’s new Core i5-430M processor and an NVidia GT325M graphics engine with 1GB DDR3 VRAM, the N61JV brings users true-to-life images for games, movies and videos. NVIDIA CUDA GPU computing technology provides faster transcoding times for music, photos, videos, DVD playback, as well as faster video enhancement and editing. Dedicated resonance space arrangement provides sound layering and enhanced detail. With 2.5 watt TV standard sound output and a 21cc amplifier, the N61JV improves and balances audio reproduction across different sonic ranges, particularly for vocals and low-band bass. Together with Altec Lansing speakers supported b… More >>
ASUS N61JV-X2 16-Inch Versatile Entertainment Laptop
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I thought that I found my next laptop. It has EVERYTHING that I’ve been looking for, except that I’m a UBUNTU LINUX user and this graphics card series IS NOT supported for use with LINUX. Reference: [...] I can’t believe it! Common ASUS, now I have to keep looking!
Rating: 2 / 5
Computer comes with an accidental damage warranty which must be registered within 60 days. I mail the card to the address written on the registration card. It comes back undeliverable. Mail it again, undeliverable again. I call and they say “the address changed, but now you have to register it online to make sure we get it quickly”. They send me to a crappy website [...] which starts off by asking for my computer’s “Seral Number”. Fill out a bunch of online information, they give confirmation page which says I need to mail more documents to a different address. What a complete waste of time.
Other than that crap, I like the computer.
Rating: 2 / 5
It’s a really fast and well designed computer, but within a week the bugs appeared. I’m left handed and Microsoft used to have left hand/right hand buttons. In their infinite stupidity they came up with a single button for switching mouse sides. After switching the finger pad would react with a menu every time you touched it. Called ASUS, who by the way does NOT give you their phone # in the packaging and the one on their website is on your dime. I got an 888 off the Microsoft website. For those of you needing help I wish you luck. I spent two hours with two different techs who kept putting me on hold (to read the manual). They had not clue one. I downloaded a driver and the tech didn’t recognize the text that appeared as the driver signature. It was a nightmare. Then after a few days the machine suddenly and inexplicably started “tink”ing after every mouse click. Nothing had been changed, no programs downloaded. I managed to turn off a few sounds in Sounds and got the problem mostly under control.
I think it best not to buy this computer. It may just be a lemon, but I went through hell with an HP (NEVER BUY ONE) and vowed to get something truly efficient and reliable this time. This computer is not it. I’m looking hard at Acer as it has a good reputation for toughness and long life. Sony too, but they’re a bit pricey for what you get.
Rating: 3 / 5
I’ve been using this computer for a little more than a month now, and I love it.
As a little background: I’m a computer science student graduating in a week. I’ve done a lot of work repairing laptops, so I know a nice computer when I see one.
Here are the highlights
> chicklet keyboard – despite the pictures of the computer up on Amazon, the computer ships with a standard US keyboard. There are no weird euro symbols, the shift keys are the right size, “at” and “backslash” are where you expect them to be. While that may not be a big deal for most people, as a programmer I expect my keys to be where I want them — I was holding my breath in fear of a euro-board when this baby shipped. Thank God for US keyboards.
> The nVidia GT 325M handles amazingly well. L4D2, Half-Life 2 all run with the settings cranked all the way up without any serious issues – around 30-40 FPS, up to 50.
Optimus technology is AMAZING. The only way you can tell that the computer switched graphics cards is by the LED lights on the sides (the blue lights turn white when the nVidia card kicks in). The nVidia control panel gives you a lot of options for setup with individual programs – make use of it!
> Battery life is decent, given the power of the computer. On power saver settings I can pull about 5 hours of note-taking for class.
> Screen is PAINFULLY bright. Don’t bother with a desk lamp – the webcam handles well in the dark, so just the light from the screen is more than sufficient.
> Core i5 w/ 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 64-bit win7, 500GB 7200rpm hard drive. With a real graphics card. for $900. wow.
There are some down sides to this product.
> number pad keys are small
> the nVidia card doesn’t play nice with the computer on battery, and driver support is still a little immature. This hasn’t caused me serious issues, but every now and then serious games will hang for 2-3 seconds. This happened to me twice playing through portal (about a 4 hour marathon) and more often in L4D2 – sometimes it happens every 2-3 hours, sometimes it happens every 10 minutes… I have to assume drivers, as I can’t find any other probable cause. Still looking into this… Framerates on battery power, even on High Performance power settings are around 10-15… seems Optimus doesn’t play nice with battery power yet.
> ASUS ships their computers with TONS of crapware. And by tons, I mean “do a clean install the moment you get your computer”. The driver disk is very handy – you can re-install all of your drivers, including some that aren’t on the ASUS website by simply checking/unchecking boxes and hitting go. This is much easier than sitting around and uninstalling 20 useless programs that shipped with the computer. Seriously – I don’t need 3 third-party applications doing power-management and wi-fi management… it’s built into Windows.
> This bugger is heavy. If you’re after something portable, don’t bother. If you want a moderately-carriable laptop that will play Left for Dead at your buddy’s house… well… keep reading.
> ASUS touchpads are their own animal… you’ll have to spend time dorking with the settings before it works the way you want it to. There is NO dedicated scroll section of the pad – it’s multi-touch scrolling only. You get used to it, but it takes awhile. Eventually you’ll find yourself using multi-touch for right/middle clicking things… it even works. sometimes.
Conclusion:
This processor has a lot of get-up-and-go for a laptop – it’s not an i7, but this computer won’t cost you $2000 either. 4GB of DDR3 RAM, with support for up to 8. 1GB of dedicated video memory, and a real graphics card. Sound is reasonable for a laptop. It has two USB 2 ports (I believe it says that a 3rd is shared with the eSATA port, but that is NOT the case), a single USB 3 port, eSATA and HDMI. A few more USB ports would have been nice, but it’s not bad. The webcam and built in mic work surprisingly well.
For $900 this is an amazing computer, especially with the USB 3 and wireless-N support. I expect the nVidia issues will probably work themselves out with newer drivers in the near future, but in the meanwhile the chip is still very usable (as long as you aren’t on battery…)
Rating: 4 / 5
BEST NOTEBOOK UNDER $1000.00,IT IS SO FAST AND THE GRAPHICS ARE AMAZING.I PERSONALLY ONLY BOUGHT HP(hp has been over pricey like sony lately)BUT LEARNED OF ASUS ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO.I FIRST PURCHASED A NETBOOK BY THEM WHICH WAS GREAT.I BOUGHT THIS NOTEBOOK AFTER I RETURNED A ASUS UL80VT IN WHICH I LIKED BUT THE BUILD QUALITY WAS BAD.THIS IS THE BEST NOTEBOOK BAR NONE.THE NVIDIA OPTIMUS IS GREAT,I GET OVER 3HRS.I MADE SURE I UPDATED THE GRAPHICS CARD TO 189.79 AND MADE SURE ALL THE UPDATES GOT INSTALLED.EVERYTHING WORKS PERFECT AND COULD NOT BE HAPPIER.I DID A SYSTEM RESTORE AND MADE THE HARD DRIVE AS ONE(C).I ALSO PURCHASED A Asus SBC-04D1S-U Slim External Bluray Combo Drive,DISASSEMBLED IT AND SWAPPED OUT THE DRIVES.IF YOU DO THIS IT WILL NOT RECOGNIZE THE NEW DRIVE UNTIL YOU RESTART AND GO INTO THE BIOS AND AND CHANGE IT FROM SATA TO IDE.NOW I HAVE EVERYTHING ON MY LAPTOP AND BLURAY LOOKS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING ON HERE(PURCHASED CYBERLINK 10 ULTRA 3D ON EBAY).ONLY DOWNSIDE IS NOT HAVING BLURAY BUILT IN,NO INTERNAL BLUETOOTH AND ONLY 6 CELL BATTERY(WHICH I THINK THEY DIDN’T WANT TO MAKE IT ANY HEAVIER).THIS IS A PERFECT LAPTOP WHEN TOPPED WITH BLURAY.
Rating: 5 / 5