ASUS Lamborghini VX3 & U2E Photos, Part 1

Initial thoughts:

U2E
The Asus U2E is one sexy notebook. It's fashionable leather styling would blend right in next to Louis Vuitton handbag. It feels just right holding it with one hand. Very mobile indeed and loaded with features. Optical drive, fingerprint reader, webcam, cardreader, micro-dvi, this notebook has it all. (32GB SSD option) Opening it up the styling continues. The touchpad is darker brown than the inside leather and blends well. Top interior border has a grille like motif that makes it quite unique while the lower interior border is metallic. U2E, It just looks and feels great!

VX3
The Asus VX3 has the same signature Lambo yellow and logo as its big brother the VX2 but is now much tighter making it easy for those of us on the go all the time (similar footprint as the U6). The VX3 is quite unique in that there is a sleek black rectangular grille that runs along one side. The cool thing is that there are LED indicators under it that shines through like headlights. Opening it up one immediately notice that the black leather palm rest is stitched just real car leather. The touchpad defies convention and is a inverted t****zoid with a finger print reader built in.

 

Very nice. Any improvements on the battery front here or are we still limited to 2 hours?

 

Pictures are nice, but specs are better.

Does anyone know what the VX3 has under the hood? When is this going to be released? I have read January 2008, but where is it.

Penryn was touted for release, but there has been a dearth of computers so far.

 

Can't comment on the battery life, but we expect to do reviews on some of these up upcoming notebooks when they become available.

The VX3 prototype has an Intel T9500 2.6Ghz 45nm w/ 6MB L2 Cache, Geforce 9300M G 256MB and 3GB of RAM. Asus USA indicated that the company will focus on the specs more than ever along with brand recognition.

 

any idea how much approximately they will be out for?

 

MSRP has not been finalized yet, but the VX3 should be around 3k like the VX2.

 

3k! Ridiculous--That is more than even the LG XNOTE 300.

I would have compared it to premium Sony pricing, at around 2.2k tops....guess I won't be buying one. My wallet would have bled at 2.2k, but it would have been justified--3k without an SSD is just ludicrous.

 

Well, VX-es in general have ludicrous prices. And they are yellow, too...

 

I wonder how much Lambourghini charges them to use the brand?

@Excaliber: Will there be a Penryn U6S? Is the CPU soldered to the U6S motherboard?

 

asus does not maike any notebooks with soldered cpu. penryn does work in most of their models already but asus is still working on bios updated to resolve various small issues with new penryn chips.

 

excuse me for my lack of sense in fashion, but leather is just to girly(or business womanly). I'm still into U1 even with no built in DVD writer

 

people pay top dollar for styling. asus offer what none others do. how many manufacturers you see offering a full line of leather notebooks? people do pay for it just like they pay for paint color. it can be girly if it is in pink. if you want people too oooooooh aqnd aaaaah when they see your laptop asus has that effect but it costs top dollar. u1 is now replaced by u2 which will be out in q2

 

I like the VX3. I wouldn't buy one myself, but not a bad notebook. I am a fan of the leather notebooks though. That, or brushed aluminum (still love the V6).

 

U1E has a soldered CPU. They have some discontinued models with soldered chips as well, like the U1F and S6F.

 

Im definitely interested in the Lambo VX3 does anyone have any updates on price and/or availability?? Thanks

 

This isn't really a notebook that you can justify based on value of for money. Its a fashion item. For 3K you could get a notebook thats much, much faster.

 

Asus VX3 has been available for a little more than a week now. You are looking at about $3100-$3200. Thanks!

 

Or even two notebooks that are equally fast, and look less kitschy