For the price of some netbooks, Zazz is today selling the ASUS K51AC full-featured laptop. You should probably buy one.
The K51AC has a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 LCD, 320GB HDD, 6-cell battery, DVD super multi drive and 4GB of RAM built in. It’s powered by a AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core Processor, has n-grade wireless, a 3-in-1 card reader, 4 USB ports and an HDMI out. and is selling for just $690. It ships with Vista Home Premium, but just stick Windows 7 on it and you’ll be fine.
You should hurry though – the deal’s only on today, until stocks run out…
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Wilson Cheng
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM4 HDMI ports?
Nick Broughall
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 12:30 PMThat would be awesome, wouldn’t it? Fixed now…
Janina
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 4:13 PMThis would be the worst laptop I have used, the keys are ‘tacky’ ‘Win 7 on it slows it down, only a few hours battery life, and I haven’t got too far in trying to find out about it.
The only positive so far is that the keyboard is ‘normal’ so great for operators but probably wouldn’t be a big selling point apart from students as the keyboard is the same as Desktop, apart from that – if I had bought it myself it would go back to seller for refund.
Janina
Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 6:10 PMWell I have had more time to use this unit and I am either doing something very wrong or the original specs are out. Asus tech have no idea or it really is a red herring.
The specs say
you can run XP but no drivers offered by Asus
the webcam is stated as 1.3mgp – Asus tech state this is the bottom of the ladder camera so don’t expect to see or hear anything in sync.
Asus tech say the webcam cannot be disabled to install external webcam.
Don’t try using a flash drive to carry data between an XP system and Win 7 – you will find that you waste a lot of time.
Setting Window live mail so that you can copy to flash drive will take some work also – this is a MS problem not Asus
So far the only positive is that Asus are now looking into the incorrect information on their website about the XP OS which they didn’t know was there and I may get a refund, if so TU Asus.