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When you order this laptop it will be black, like what everyone else says. This is a beautiful laptop with great design features. I would give this product 5 stars if they had an LED backlit keyboard. This is the only thing that is missing from this laptop! Other than that this is totally worth the money!
Rating: 4 / 5

Not really much to say here that hasn’t been said elsewhere but if you are looking to use it for pretty much anything, this is the notebook for you.

It has a perfect balance of specifications vs price. If you are trying to find the best notebook for under 1k this is undoubtedly it!
Rating: 5 / 5

Some people are blind (it IS brown. Not black. You have to hold it it bright light to see this however which is elegant in my opinion) and others are just plain stupid. This laptop is hands down awesome. It does run hot, but the i7 720qm thermal specification is 100c!!! Don’t worry about it running in the mid 50′s to 60′s range. Just make sure you turn the power cord to the back or it sort of obstructs the fans; which are dead silent. I will be buying a cooler pad for this. It has a 2-3 hour battery life depending on your battery settings. But if you are buying this machine, you are aware that the components you’re buying are not low power, economy parts. They are parts designed for making your life simple and easy with regard to your laptop. And they are very successful. Windows boots to idle extremely fast and NOTHING I have done so far has caused so much as a hiccup. Streaming Pandora, running UTorrent, up to 15 Firefox tabs running, pulling viedo files off my network and burning a dvd simultaneously? The 4 physical and 4 logical cores barely move. Feel free to check your email in the meantime. I would recommend reinstalling windows 7 with the disc to a single drive. You will have to reinstall the drivers and whatnot, but this is a very simple task. It eliminates the bloatware others have complained about. By the way, the bloatware didn’t slow this thing down a hair the first time I booted her up. The touchpad is as good and better than any other. I did buy the wireless microsoft mouse and I also recommend it. Wireless N shows 150 mb/s for me and I get full signal with a netgear wndr3300 throughout my house.

The ONLY problem I could imagine, unless you’re a tool and think not having xp is a problem, is that the screen can be glossy. Doesn’t bother me though. Otherwise, plug the HDMI into a plasma 50 inch or something and watch the 5730 ati really tear it up! Pull the trigger…. Buy it.
Rating: 5 / 5

I ordered this laptop about a month ago and have been very impressed with both the performance and the look/feel of the notebook. This is my first ASUS after bailing off of the HP bandwagon for the last few years. The slim design and light weight package are very attractive. The keyboard gives a nice resistance when typing (almost as if it has some kind of magical ‘type-assist’#….as well as plenty of space between the keys. The other comments regarding resolution are somewhat right, depending on what you’re doing with it. The Video Magic software from ASUS allows for enhancement for videos, and I’ve been impressed with the output. The only disappointment would be if you do a lot of work in PS CS4…the resolution isn’t the best for fine-tuning high-res photos. Not really a big deal.

The only other downside is that my webcam is upside down. Jeers to ASUS for not yet addressing this problem with this model on their website. I used a 3rd Party workaround and it seems to work now #in most cases#.

Otherwise, great speed….loaded CS4 in under 30 minutes and it boots Photoshop CS4 in under 10 seconds, twice as fast as my duo core HP.

Overall, for the price, this laptop is hands-down a GREAT value.
Rating: 4 / 5

So I bought this Laptop in January, at the time it’s features were unrivaled by any other vendor. One of the first I7 and 5 series gpu’s lay before my eyes. I promptly sold the dualcore asus I bought in October for the same price and picked this one up and I must say it was well worth it. Dump the bloatware and this thing just what seems to be a limitless about of desktop processing power.

For single threaded apps it overclocks the clock speed to 2.8ghz, for multi-threaded it uses 1.6ghz two threads per core that works wonderfully in windows 7. As for the gpu I regret that I haven’t put much on in the way of games, however I saw a notciable improvement in video playback on both it’s led screen and my monitor colors just seem more vibrant and the playback is smoother I don’t know if this is just because I haven’t used an ati card in awhile or no. The only game I have tried was street fighter 4 everything on max with no AA left me with 60fps at the native laptop resolution.

As for the case and screen the the led screen is alright, the viewing angle isn’t so good thought it is still backlit I would say my other screen was better in fact. As for the case all around the keyboard and keypad is rubber.. I don’t honestly know how I feel about this yet, as for the plastic it’s pretty chaep it’s a good thing this thing comes with a accidental warranty because I have dropped it in the bag while reaching down for something and it left a mark.

all in all you can’t beat what this thing packages anywhere else. USB 3.0, I7 CPU, ati direct x 10 1gb gpu, 4gb ram upgradable to 8gb, bluetooth, wireless n. What more can you ask for? Other than ati to upgrade their mobile drivers! ^_^ well worth the price.
Rating: 5 / 5

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