Can use onboard graphics only? heh
save up battery life


What's the highest clock speed you manage to get?

No, but you can select between those two

That is the highest I achieve so far, not bothered with anything higher. The limitation is the graphics, not the CPU

I need a laptop with more raw power for virtual machine environment
So the proc speed is matters to me

virtual machine environment? What's that
Anyway if you need a more powerful number-crunching cpu, den get urself a C2D 2.4ghz+
If you aiming for real-life performance, the hdd speed matter more.

hey all sifus, need your help here.

when i press (FN key + F5/F6) to increase and decrease the brightness, it doesn't have any effect.....why leh ??

does it have to do with the installation process? maybe error in the installation ? or caused by the settings ?

i restarted a few times also same.....

this lappy are available in what proc?ZM84 or RM74?

i see some shop show it available in QL-64??

2k is a good bargain but im afraid the machine will overheat after playing games with long run.

It have something to do with ATi driver that doesn't allow you to change that. I'll check out how can I get that thing working again

Define overheat? Do you even have this laptop to begin with? Check out other laptop equivalent to this, and see their temperature is A LOT higher. God I wish I can delete stupid POS like this in my thread

Its only availabe with QL-64 to keep the cost down

Wow, there are so many people with amd phobia here.
If you handle computer hardware long enough you would realize that most of the time, it's other part like psu, mobo, hdd, gpu failure that spoil the system. System failure due to CPU is very very rare from my experience.
Maybe you can name me a notebook that don't heat up during heavy load, I would like to buy 1 myself too.
Don't forget that it's an asus, NOT acer , with 2 years global warranty too.


#Chill TaiKor najmod, relax. Let that guy buy a laptop with Nvidia 8600M for 3k+ then regret after servicing thrice in 6 months.

This post has been edited by InFe_eD: Jul 19 2009, 08:55 PM

im hunting K40ab at upcoming pcfair

Dun say 2k machine will hot, even 10-20k laptop run gaming also will hot...

Performance-wise, Athlon Ql-64 and Turion Rm-74 are on par, rm-74 have higher HT-link and 3 P-stat under CnQ but that's it.
While turion Ultra ZM-84 have bigger L2cache, you have to keep in mind that K8 architecture don't benefit as much as intel c2d from bigger cache, It depend more on Hyper-Transport. But seriously, hdd speed matter more in real-life perfromance.

wanna get one for myself too...soon..

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Added on July 19, 2009, 9:07 pmwanna get one for myself too...soon..

This post has been edited by chewchew: Jul 19 2009, 09:07 PM

Any high-end graphic card would be very HOT (pun intended )

Agree, so wan use laptop for gaming, dun complain it HOT~~

So hmm, can anyone here try and install a virtual machine and play with it?
Much appreciated if someone can do it and try, I wish to know briefly on how it performs

sound very good with the gpu How about the Street Fighter IV benchmark result? grade B with AA enable?

Yeah, AMD phobia is in 2001 or 2002 during Thunderbird era, I don't know why anyone still thinks that way, they forgot the Prescott altogether, it even worse

To tell you the truth my cousin have BenQ S41 with that 8600M GS, been using it for a year now, still fine, I give him advice to use it properly, and good thing his laptop still runs fine But even though that laptop have 128-bit memory vs HD 4570 64-bit coupled with very slow 500MHz DDR2 memory, I surprised that HD 4570 is faster than that, the 8600M can barely run CnC: KW at 800x600 low detail, I just stunned that HD 4570 can run it on high, at native resolution!

AMD Athlon 64 X2 QL-64 is on par with which Intel Processor? T6400 or P series?

T6400 ba...