Emmanuel

Mine is a barebone M860ETU, I had a Sager before but it was an M860TU, no Quad-Core support!

I'll give you the boot time Friday when I'm done upgrading it.

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Portable gaming FTW!!

melinapayne

Yeah. I'm going to be getting one of these soon. It turns out we customized to have the same exact specs! I GUESS I BEEN WATCHIN U



2.56GHz Monteniva (45nm)
4GB DDR3
500GB 16MB Cache 5400RPM HDD
WSXGA+ 15.4" (1680x1050)
Nvidia GEforce GTX260M, 1024MB DDR3
8*8*6*4 Super Multi
7-in-1 Card Reader
8-Cell
Fingerprint Reader
Arctic Silver Thermal Compound (yay!)
64 Premium




what are the specs on some games (FPS)?
Boot Time?

ErBall

A mini-bump I guess, but I threw a Gskill Falcon SSD into it (basically the same drive as an OCZ vertex, just got it at a much better price) and it has completely transformed the laptop.

This thing 'feels' faster than my old core i7 desktop due to how quickly everything opens, saves, loads...yaddaa yadda yadda.

Anyone looking for a decent laptop, I highly recommend this sucker.

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Asus Mobile

Where did you get it from? Where did you get the GPU? What did you do with the 260m?

kinubic

good buy there mate enjoy it. i have an asus g1s lol and whenever i bring it to starbucks people stare at it. sometimes they come over ask what kind of laptop i got lol xD

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joman2055

how's it fit in a backpack? would you recommend it for college use?

pred_0212

Looking at your setup, I noticed you have external speakers, something that I am going to use a lot when my 8662 comes. How are you plugging these into yours? The external speakers I have are stereo so I just used the headphone jack (but in your pictures, yours isnt being used). Thanks for the help.

Marshmellow17

I'm going to be ordering mine within the week hopefully, just gotta let a couple bills go through. Think this would be good for college? Im going to be going into engineering, so hopefully it will be good for the kind of work ill be doing. Hope the batter lasts decent as well

butteredtoast

Im looking at getting this laptop for college. It will mainly be used for schoolwork and a little bit of gaming(CS:S more than anything else most likely, and i would like it to be good enough to run SC2 and D3 when they come out).

I was wondering if someone could tell me the difference between the Q9000 and P9700 processors. Which one would i benefit more from?

Also, it seems like this laptop is easily upgradeable when it comes to HD's. If i bought the laptop with a regular HD and ended up wanting to put an SSD in it, would that be too difficult?

Asus Mobile

OK a Q9000 is 2Ghz if quad threaded sure great if not? Well.

P9700 what 2.8Ghz? If not quad threaded it will crush the Q9000.

Yes the HDD is easily upgradeable but so are all notebooks. HDD, RAM and CPU. GPU is the one that has issues. But this one is better at that being MXM.

Also nothing wrong with starting your own thread in the future.

P9700 will do better for most at this time for most people.