Battery life, as I mentioned above, wasn't one of the notebook's strong points.

I quote from my review "A full charge will lasted about 2 and a half hours with wifi on, bluetooth off, in power saving mode and about 25% brightness, doing normal web browsing."

For my notebook, I reckon it could probably hit 3 hours with all wireless off, minimum brightness, vista aero off doing some basic office stuff. 2 hours seem a little short to me.

Have you calibrated your battery? Charge it up to the maximum and run it down, repeat maybe once more and see what happens..

As for the webcam, just open a program called 'asus lifeframe'. Or else just install msn or skype, and just start a video conversation..You should see your face soon..

   

oh wel..im first year in computing..lol...hmmm..wanna get a good notebook... my choices was dell, that acer and this asus.....twinhead aint my option...found out tad del is 7 hours battery life...thats like wow..bout i compared if i wanna get dell's specs same as asus it will be more than 5k....which i dun tink i would wanna pay tad much....acer travelmate was also in my head....not sure...cuz some ppl says asus is much better than acer in everythinng...im not trying to be bias....

well if you can wait for a while more, there's a PC fair on the 7-9 December 2007.
I'm quite sure there'll be models that are cheaper and hold the same specs.

affordable fine...good???hmm....STIL!shud i get asus??gosh most ppl doesnt know this brand

yea but stil if the product not good not many ppl wil buy rite..lol!..

acer or asus wor

try not to get into a fanboyism flamewar, but i wouldn't touch or go near any acer.

I do not own an acer, but my gf does. So , the job of reformating the nb and maintaining it became my duty automatically.

I've have so much problem with the acer till i literally gave up. to list down afew,

the nb have an ATi x1300 card, but when i was looking for the driver in ATi's website, i could find all other nb brands but not ACER in the official site. fine. next step would be searching for them in the Acer website. Which i found the driver, but then when installed, it is not supported. Hence, the X1300 card is useless in that nb now.

there's a built in webcam. then again, installed the provided drivers with the cd and again , no hardware found. hence again, the webcam is useless.

since i couldnt freaking get the x1300 working, i couldn't hook the nb with the projector. hooking it on the projector give me shit load of issues. ( not to say i have no experience in these settings, in fact, i've hooked up pretty much other brands of nb to different lcd projectors)

there's more to come, but guess i should stop here.

Asus? my sister is using the M5, and being a girl who knows little about computer, she handles it 2 years without any major problem besides there's one time where the charging component gave a buzzing sound. but problem was rectified n solved very fast by asus.

with their renowed name in motherboard making, i would rather trust asus and acer.

no1 best selling in malaysia ? with that kind of price, any brand would be no 1. I accept the fact that acers are cheap, but not exactly the best bang for buck nb. and yea, try not to believe too much in advertisements.

That i agree..haha.. even the charger and mouse also can't comfortably fit in it.. But it's small la and the size ngam ngam fit a 12 inch notebook, plus a small A4 sized file..To tell the truth I'd rather have a 12 inch bag than a 14 inch one..

Cyril..any complains with ur lappy? I haven't used mine much out on the field yet..

Im ex W7J (13.3") onwer im very happy with it but couse of financial prob that time i let it go

geno and cryil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO MORE STOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SO SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aiyo..was to sad......got ask..but if order no promo

u got msn ar???lazy wanna ask her..lol..hmm..i duno..i wan the 1gb free upgrade!

lol...i duno..but but haih dumb battery life!lol.tanehua u own an asus??hey nice bookmark pics..u do huh??

genotypic,

hv u try fingerprint sensor? izzit good? wat izzit for? n then, i read from website it support 3.5g....hv u try it?

does it come with sim card slot?

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Added on August 21, 2007, 3:01 pmU1F look smaller....any1 noe the price?