Asus U41SV owner here just bought during recent PC fair

Sure! It is a darn nice laptop for the price I paid.

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5 days old Asus U41SV with Logitech M510. I bought to use in college, at first just for assignment and presentation as I stay in college for almost 12 hours every day. If I didn't have laptop, I have to come back at night only can use my desktop and do work.

I bought this last Saturday at PC Fair KLCC. I had a budget of rm 3k and my criteria were : a) light and portable b) decent battery life c) good looking d) not an Acer, Toshiba or Sony

So in the end it was either a Dell Inspiron 14R or Asus A4x series but then I saw the new U series laptop. Instantly made up my mind based on the looks, didn't know it was such an imba laptop at the time.



Front view of the laptop. Full specs are in my signature below. The LCD screen is darn nice. Chiclet keyboard nice to type on, easy to clean also. The colour scheme is attractive (blue on black/ charcoal) and 'carbon fibre' near the LCD. Wrist area has matte texture, not glossy and comfortable for long periods.



Speakers are a bit soft but are made by Altec Lansing. I can't comment much as I normally use the Sennheisers I bought on the same day instead. nVidia Optimus technology saves battery.



Lid is aluminium alloy. This helps reduce the weight and since it isn't glossy, also easier to keep clean and presentable.



The laptop is only 2.2kg with the 8 cell battery. Pretty light and very portable. Profile is less than 1 inch as advertised. Very easy to store and carry around.



8 cell battery. This one is advertised to last around 10 hours.



Why do I call this laptop imba? Because it is very powerful for such a light portable laptop with a long lasting battery. With light usage (surfing web, listening to music, typing in Word or PowerPoint), this laptop can easily last >5 hours especially if you take advantage of the different energy profiles. For me, I use Power4Gear Entertainment and full brightness most of the time and the laptop still lasts at least 5 hours. Gaming on this laptop is very possible with the GT540M. So far I've run Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Mass Effect 2 and Bad Company 2 on either medium, medium-high or high and all are playable. While gaming today, I didn't realize the laptop wasn't charging. After 2 hours of Brotherhood, it had dropped from 70+% to 25% which was enough to last another 2 hours at least.

Build quality is solid I would say. The keyboard has little flex and is nice type on. Only problems I have are : a) SD card slot is exposed b) speakers underneath the laptop c) glossy surfaces are very easy to scratch d) no USB 3.0

Overall a nice laptop. Original price is RM 2,999. Thunder Match was offering RM 2,899 but I managed to get it for RM 2,750

This post has been edited by secondrate: Apr 21 2011, 08:41 PM

Posted not sure what to write also. Let me know if you want anything specific.

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Ah... forgot to mention the laptop came with a lot of junk installed. Best is reformat (but no disc provided? I had to use my own ori copy) then pick which software you want from the utilities and drivers disc

running nVidia 270.61 VERDE now

This post has been edited by secondrate: Apr 21 2011, 08:39 PM

Check the post above, let me know but this is the first laptop I chose and bought, other laptop was a 3rd hand one but also Asus

Asus website states 2.0kg with 6 cell, the screen on the display laptop said 2.2kg for this 8 cell. All I know is, much much lighter than my old 2.4kg - 2.6kg laptop. My back can tell!

Yeah, a bit warm. Sadly, no USB 3.0. Hehe, I really like the design of the U series.

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Added on April 21, 2011, 8:58 pmI read that the previous U series had keyboard flex. This one doesn't have much. Build quality I would say is pretty solid lor. But I don't like that the glossy areas get scratched so easily. I wipe dust off with microfibre also scratch. Left side of the DVD drive cover popped out last night but I pushed it back in and it's fine now. Should not handle the drive so roughly...

This post has been edited by secondrate: Apr 21 2011, 08:58 PM

Haha, pretty satisfied with mine. It seems like quite popular. My friend wanted to buy also but in the end no stock. He ended up with Inspiron 14R... everytime I see that fat thing I must

Don't know him haha. The other Asus booth upstairs offered me original price of RM 2,999 only so I went back to ThunderMatch.

Hehe... I can't really say about build quality... not used to laptops. Maybe in a few months. Gloss is nice to look at but... nightmare to take care of. That's why I love the brushed metal lid, one less thing to OCD about.

Mine is glossy. I love the color but quite annoying in class sometimes with the bright fluorescent lights.

Thanks . Nope, no flex. Maybe because the battery is below that carbon fibre area instead of the keyboard itself.

The one thing that seriously ticks me off is the glossy bezel around the LCD. Dust = scratch, wipe = scratch. One week old laptop already got so many, one year old leh? Especially since I take it everywhere. College, lunch at kopitiam, etc.

Just bought a Cooler Master Notepal X2 for my U41SV

I'm using U41SV, one of the latest in this series a fine companion. Light (2.2kg) + good backpack + long battery life = extreme portability. This model has good build quality, better than the older ones I think.

My 2-3 year old A82S is around 2.6kg

Whoever has problems installing the latest nVidia drivers because of Optimus, use the drivers from here :

LaptopVideo2Go

Worked for mine

Latest is 270.61?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7...hql-driver.html

got mine for that price at PC Fair damn worth it lor for that price

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Added on May 4, 2011, 11:24 ammy desktop blu-ray drive also never use wan too lazy go buy the discs, both ori and not...

This post has been edited by secondrate: May 4 2011, 11:24 AM

anyone know what this is? both sides also got OCD person here

I do not having to charge my laptop through my classes is a godsend and I still use it after class as I stay on campus for 8-12 hours sometimes.

So far no game problems, except Assassin's Creed Brotherhood but that was easily solved through the nVidia Control Panel by setting the gpu settings.

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Added on May 13, 2011, 7:45 amMight as well do full reformat like I did.

This post has been edited by secondrate: May 13 2011, 07:45 AM

Ya, its U41SV. The left palm rest gets very warm when gaming. Temperatures are acceptable, kinda like my desktop, in the mid-70s to 80s without a cooling pad.

Try the disc that came with the manual. That's where I found mine for my U41SV after reformatting also