Sager seems to be the most affordable. Once it goes to other custom resellers, they'll slap on additional costs and doohickeys. Just like Origin and Maingear.

But you should see how both perform and how they handle cooling. Best to get the cooler one.

Apparently, I read somewhere that Alienware quietly decommissioned its M11x line.

If can still find, U46SV, if not just get a the new IB equipped U-series.

Let's see, superb battery life, a refreshing design change from regular Asus notebooks, pretty decent performance, slimmer and relatively lighter than most other 14" notebooks.

To be honest, Ivy Bridge is not something that brings much improvement over Sandy Bridge. Performance advantage is slight and power saved is still negligible.

It will be the processor and perhaps the graphics which we have yet to confirm. For now, we know it will most likely be a dual core Ivy Bridge processor coupled with an Nvidia GT620M, which performance wise wouldn't be too different from the U46SV. The GT630M is basically an overclocked and rebadged GT540M. Sure there might be the HD7970M and GT650M, but Asus isn't going to put those into their slim and light division. I wouldn't really count on having long battery lives with those GPUs as well.

So, I wouldn't say that the U46SV is bad value for money, in fact by merit of it's battery life/performance ratio would justify its value quite well. Alternatively, you can get my own U41SV for your girlfriend. Some places are selling it for a measly RM2000 which is a total steal.

Well, their testing of games is quite taxing because they turn up anti-aliasing.

For me, I can run it on high just fine. Even my A42JV could do it to and still be under 90C.

Basically, just the design. However, the newer U46SV has a slight processor upgrade and maybe HDD increase as well but otherwise, it's essentially just as redesign.

The Y480 is also a nice choice, however, the GT640M LE is probably just Fermi based rather than the new Kepler architecture so performance isn't going to be too different compared to a GT630M. Goes without saying that battery life won't be as long either.

No idea about the TimelineX though. It's more of a business one since it carries the TravelMate moniker. But I doubt it's available locally.

It seems that the U46SV has been refreshed into the U46SM with a GT630M in some places.

About RM2400-2500.

If I'm not mistaken, it's the i5-2430M with 4GB RAM. Though there may be i5-2450M equipped units around. 4GB RAM is standard but adding another 4GB is pretty cheap. RM65 for a single stick from Kingston.

Probably by the end of the month or next month.

It's GT650M with GDDR5 instead apparently.

I've a feeling, there would be the i5 priced below RM3k and the i7 about RM3.5k.

Still disappointing. The most disappointing refresh for the A series yet.

Only difference from the current A series is the IB processor and slightly different chassis.

I think this is the review we are all waiting for,

The Eurocom Monster 1.0 aka Sager NP6110.
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?...ing+netbook&p=2

Well, plain design and it's fat.

Otherwise, it's a Fujitsu

I am actually looking forward to this MSI Wind U270 with Brazos 2.0 APU. Unfortunately, the price isn't very attractive.



http://chinese.vr-zone.com/16558/msi-u270-...-1800-05102012/

I'll say faster than the old Zacate E-450 since it has a bump in clock speed and the HD7340 is about 10% faster than the HD6320 it's replacing.

This particular model, the selling price in Japan of about 46,800 yen or RM1800.

But then again, the pricing there is always higher than what we can get here.

I'm honestly more interested in the Asus 1225B with these internals really

Hard to say, for now the 1225B has been confirmed with the older E-450.

Well, hope they release a 1225BX with the Brazos 2.0. I like the new Flare design a lot.


It's the first one announced for a netbook. Acer also has a 14" using it. I'm gonna have to guess another month or two if MSI pushes it hard.

Sooo.... what's next for you eh?