I just got a K50AB from All-IT. Very impressive notebook for its price!

Was considering the K40AB for portability but fell in love with the full keyboard (numeric pad!) of the K50AB.

Same price as K40AB. I pre-ordered mine, so they had my unit of K50AB sent there since there is only K40AB on display and stock only K40AB.

Just came back from PC Fair today. Apparently, the K50AB ran out of stock! Maybe they didn't estimate the demand would be so good even though at a higher price.
But K40AB still have stock though.

Change the setting in BIOS to Native IDE.

My K50AB came with an Asus mouse too, but 250GB hdd.

I've compared K50AB side by side with K40AB. Everything is the same.

The K40AB will look sharper as the screen is smaller, which is common sense.

Yes, it has a DVD-RW drive. Must be setting problem on your Nero. Try recheck.

To detect HD4570, go to BIOS and change setting from PowerExpress to dGPU.

What do you mean exactly?
I don't think the K40AB itself has any heat issues.

The internals of the Asus K50AB for those interested.
Had to open to upgrade my RAM to 4GB last time.

My K50AB side by side with my PC rig with 24" LCD.



p/s: sorry for the mess in the background. need to clean.

I have to say I'm also experiencing the fixed brightness issue on Vista running on AMD/ATi latest drivers.
I feel like just switching back to the stock drivers that come with the CD.

After updating Windows Vista, the brightness control issue seems to be gone. And now I can freely switch between HD3200 and HD4570. Awesome.

i can confirm that by updating Vista completely, my brightness control with the AMD/ATi drivers problem has been solved. now can change brightness w/o having to restart.

Ok. Something weird happened.
I was testing the laptop sleep function after updating Vista, and it seems to work perfectly now! and I can wake-up the laptop without any screen blank issue.
but after I did that, my laptop now runs with the fan at quite high speed (like when the laptop usually starts up).
now i get a noisier laptop but my temp in air-conditioned room is now 36 deg (idle).

problem is now, I tried turning the laptop off and on, and restarting, but the fan speed is still the same. so it seems to be some software issue perhaps.

thanks for this update. asus came a little too late since i already installed vista. sigh.

u can remove the authorization settings to remove the annoying notifications when installing programs, etc.
about sharper movie image, XP and Vista looks the same to me.

yes, this is GPU (HD4570) temp. goes up high if I game on it. and even the internal GPU (HD3200) has temp sensor.

IMHO, laptop-coolers will not help much for notebooks with air-intake design such as the K40/50AB.
I use an air-cond to solve the problem.

GTA4 is more RAM and graphic-RAM dependent. Even some gaming rigs with insufficient RAM and graphic-RAM will suffer lag.

I encountered similar problem before. But solved it by updating my windows completely.

Anybody know any suitable laptop backpack to fit the K50AB? Most laptop bags I think are fit for 15.4" max whilst the K50AB is 15.6".

haha. another thing also. the K50AB is a larger in length and shorter in width due to 16:9 aspect ratio screen, whereas older wide-screen laptops use 16:10 aspect ratio screen. i think one day i have to bring my K50AB to the shop to test out on the bag before buying.

most laptop card slots memang like this one.

Were you using 3200 or 4570 for that?

I find the the 3200 cannot meet my expectations for gaming, even though it is a lot better than Intel GMA graphics on other laptops.
But once I switch display to 4570, silky smooth all the way.

Previously, only laptops with 17" and above had numeric keypads.
But these days, most laptops come in at 16:9 aspect ratio screen which make them wide enough to accommodate a numeric keypad even at 15.6".

Most people would find it increases productivity a lot by having a numeric keypad as calculating/keying numbers can be very fast. Also, it helps in gaming such as Dota.