Planning to get this notebook oso. But then i hope there will be a model wif 14' inch LCD and 8600M GT but not 8600M GS ^^

lolz.... perhaps mayb x2600 HD in 14 inch? It is possible? Anyway, can s41 battery change to 9 cell? 6 cell juz not enuff for me.... lolz

it supports N wireless, pls refer to the official website ^^.

so the s41 comes wif win xp driver cd?

Hi guys, I'm one of the new owner of S41 bought from john yesterday ^^.

First i'll review the salesperson--Mr. John. Nice guy, better than those in other shop who acted LCLY and treat customers like idiot. However, it will make me happier if there is more free gift lolz!

Next I'll do some short review on s41,

Temperature - Medium hot. After some usage, the temp on left hand side will be quite hot. The adapter is extremely hot but it's normal.

Speed - It's still consider so so for me. Able to do some multitasking wif 2 gb of ram without much lagging. BUT lagging and slow respond are still exist. However, it's definitely more responsive than single core processor. (Graphic review is below)

Design - Ermm it's normal when u c the outlook. Especially the pattern they put on the cover is not visible so u might think it's black color. But when u open the laptop, everything inside is very nice ^^

Ergonomic - I hate the touch pad, it looks cool but it's located abit to the left which leads mis-touching when i'm typing. And i hate the way benq design the WLAN and bluetooth switch, when WLAN on it's blue, when it's bluetooth on it's amber, when it's both on it's purple, the color is so hard to recognize. And the ports and dvd rom location are extremely bad for me since i'm placing the laptop at the right edge of my desk.

Benq's software - I installed only Qpower and Qhotkey which is very important for me. Qpower is not 100% compatible somehow, it's like it couldn't locate the address of the hotkey, everything is fine except it can't change the display brightness itself. While Qhotkey is lack of many functions unlike acer which has next, previous, play, stop, pause, turn off lcd.

LCD - Nice and very nice. Extremely bright, i can live forever even wif the darkest display.

Speaker - Loud but lack of bass. Forget about wat benq said about the SRS. Use the speaker only when u dun have external speaker wif u.

Battery - Not yet test

Last but not least Graphic Card - Dunno y it couldn't run 3dmark06 . error: invalid bitmap file. Maybe it's my win xp problem.

3dmark03 - 7899


3dmark05 - 4896


ermm, honestly john, ur free gift is abit lame... lolz... *peace*

hey hey hey guys, go back to the topic, benq s41 ^^

huh? got such thing? s41 need cpu hotfix for win xp or not?

and one more question, if let say u dunwan to use the card reader and u go to device manager and disable it. will it still consume power?

yo john, add me to the list.

gosh, the dvd-rom is abit lame.... always got disc eating sound...

yup....dvd rom could my CnC 3 dvd at the first time, after that it couldn't read the dvd ever again. Whenever i put it inside, it'll has those weird sound coming out.

And one more thing, my Qpower when startup eats my 50% cpu for quite long time which makes my lappy laggy even though it's a core 2 duo!

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Added on July 4, 2007, 4:26 pmYo guys, do u found laggy playing C&C 3 in High graphic setting wif ur s41? Mine is quite laggy.... main bcoz of the gf8600GS not powerful enuff lolz..

This post has been edited by Jeffery: Jul 4 2007, 04:26 PM

lolz mayb benq's one no use. Last time i'm use acer one is quite good ^^

ermm correct me if i'm wrong. GDDR3 is using DDR2 while GDDR2 is actually using DDR only. Benq website won't say this kind of thing coz it's too technical liao....

ermm ermm... dun understand

Performance over price is definitely one of the best u can find beside Acer Gemstone 5920. No OS bundled, coz santa rosa platform + Geforce 8600 GS + 14"inch lcd it's impossible to bundle wif OS. Design is ok ok, u can read thru this thread and find some review by some of the users.

lolz... i forgotten to state the pricing. But that shud be understood wat.... u can c my signature and most of the forummers here hv good knowledge wif computer stuff shud understand why am i saying that....

This post has been edited by Jeffery: Jul 9 2007, 07:39 PM

anyway, how big the difference between T7100 and T7300? Just 200 mhz more and 2mb L2 cache more per core, is that a big difference?

but for gaming and normal usage, can u notice the diff?

lolz... nothing is perfect even for 8800 ultra, i agreed. But ppl who chose this laptop for this kind of price, we shudn't complain about the CPU. Since only very demanding application will make us notice the diff ^^

This post has been edited by Jeffery: Jul 11 2007, 05:46 PM

Disadvantages for Malaysian S41 user, Taiwan has 160GB 7,200 RPM HDD for s41....