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    First impressions with Asus N10J-A1

    Discussion in 'ASUS Reviews and Owners' Lounges' started by Silvr6, Oct 8, 2008.

  1. x3baddad

    x3baddad Notebook Consultant

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    Check out the N80 14.1 inches of awesome gaming
     
    x3baddad, Dec 17, 2008
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  2. leebaldock

    leebaldock Notebook Evangelist

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    The N10 would be utter perfection with an 11.2 inch screen and a C2D in it.

    But of course we can dream as much as we like can't we! 2 weeks battery life in a 1kg form factor with a 13 inch screen with a beast CPU and beast GPU would be the perfect laptop for me! :D

    Yes there is no substitute...but then the N10 isn't for gaming IMHO. That's why I have my 17inch M570TU as per my sig. And my Q6600 desktop with an ATI 4870.

    My N10 is for my wife to surf the internet on the couch while I watch mythbusters or for showing all of our family pics and home movies to our relatives or for taking on the plane for my 2.5 yr old son to watch Thomas the Tank engine episodes to keep him occupied.

    It's also for our business to show power point presentations at seminars and to show clients financial information. It's a fantastic little portable unit with great battery life. It's got a bit more grunt than my old single core Athlon 3200+ PC which I use as a PVR - watch videos, TV etc on. or atleast seems to. That's about the level of performance I would say it's at based on gut feel.

    Yeh can't wait for the future for my 2 week battery life, 13 inch uber beast laptop weighing in at 1kg! Maybe in 10 years! :D :rolleyes:
     
    leebaldock, Dec 19, 2008
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  3. meansizzler

    meansizzler Notebook Consultant

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    Upgrade your driver to the latest one from Nvidia, I got a USB Blu Ray, NEC 5600, Slot Load, it plays blu ray discs at about 90% CPU load, so stutter free if the bit rate is lower than 20mb/s if it's over then you need to overclock, tried my dark knight blu ray, all the low birate stuff plays fine, but I think I will overclock and see if I get smooth playback of high bitrate content...

    The USB Bandwidth is about 8-9MB/s, so should be enough for up to 64Mbps bitrate, but then streaming that much takes up to 40% CPU, so you only have 60% for the decoding, which is not enough, hene the stutter on high bitrate content, I imaging playing back a high bitrate blu ray rip from Hard Drive would be stutter free, as CPU is only being used for decoding
     
    meansizzler, Jan 15, 2009
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  4. IKAS V

    IKAS V Notebook Prophet

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    Is the GPU soldered on, is there any hope for a liitle GPU upgrading?
     
    IKAS V, Jan 29, 2009
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  5. furyagain

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    why upgrade the cpu?
    the 9300M GS is heavily bottlenecked by the cpu!!!!

    upgrading the gpu to anything faster then a 9300mGS will be a waste of time and money ( even if it is possible)

    i will not wish a a better gpu on my n10j
    i only want a faster cpu...
     
    furyagain, Jan 29, 2009
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  6. IKAS V

    IKAS V Notebook Prophet

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    Well is the CPU soldered on then?
     
    IKAS V, Feb 7, 2009
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  7. peli_kan

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    What CPU could you even swap into there? I never thought about modding for a faster CPU in a netbook before, since I assumed that the motherboards wouldn't take them.
     
    peli_kan, Mar 1, 2009
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  8. IKAS V

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    The newer Atom 280, not really sure if it has any measurable performance over a Atom 270, but here's hoping it does.
     
    IKAS V, Mar 3, 2009
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  9. ALLurGroceries

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    CPU is soldered to the board, no chance of upgrading it. N280 is attractive for its reduced power consumption and the faster bus speed with the new GN40 chipset. The CPU itself is not much changed from the N270, as it's only 67MHz faster.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Mar 3, 2009
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  10. dalamchops

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    How high has people overclocked the Atom on this? I've only gotten to 2.0 and im kinda hesitant to go any higher.
     
    dalamchops, Mar 22, 2009
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  11. ALLurGroceries

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    The highest "stable" OC is around 2.1GHz.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Mar 25, 2009
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