I'm currently running it on my ul80vt. The issue I (and others) were having with the brightness settings being reset every startup seem to be fixed. It's still buggy, as it sometimes doesn't want to remember the settings for what to do when the lid closes.
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I bought a UL50V (win7 64) a couple of months ago because I needed a road machine with good battery life. Plus I got sick of my heavy, leg burning Vaio & its 30 minute battery life.
Not disappointed at all because the battery saving mode when it switches to the onboard graphics and throttles back the processor seems to work well, though it is a little dodgy at times.
Long thread here and I've read through some of it, but am I correct that the Asus Live Update app does nothing? I launch it and assume it executes the file ALU.exe *32 which I can see in Task Manager.
I want to update the bios, software and drivers but am a little afraid to -- as pointed out by many others here, the Asus software update page leaves much to be desired and lacks descriptions of various fixes. Sort of afraid of getting into a mess -- you know the old saying, if it is working don't update. I have a fear of whack-a-mole updates where one problem is fixed and three new ones created.
Anyway, I'm pretty happy because it suits my needs well which is mostly to run a few business apps and work online. The LCD panel doesn't have a great contrast ratio, but I didn't buy it to watch video or do photo editing.
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Hello fellow UL80Vt owners.
For those wanting extra performance for games, follow the thread below to o/c to 1.9 Ghz!
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For anyone questioning the build quality of the UL80VT, I just found my 2yr old son sitting on the keyboard, he weighs approx 13kg. No damage done.
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The quality could be better. Compared to the U30JC I just bought, it's just not quite as good. That said, hopefully the next version of the UL80 will come with an aluminum exterior instead of the plastic one we have now. The increase in chassie stiffness and lack of fingerprints is just so nice.
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So I have to use the button at the top left of the keyboard to change to/from nvidia card.
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Reading in the UL30Vt owners lounge it seems several are having varied results modifying the Asus Hybrid driver to the new Nvidia 197.16 version. If it will work on the UL30Vt, it should in the UL80Vt as well. Has anyone been able to get a 100% result-with Open CL, Cuda and Direct Compute all functional and mode switching working with both the hardware button and Power4Gear? If so, please post up you detailed instructions so we can all benefit. Sadly, if we leave it up to Asus, it looks like we'll be waiting an awful long time. Thanks
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can anyone do me a favour...
I was under the impression that I'd be able to watch 1080p youtube clips on my UL80VT.
Just went to youtube, searched for "1080p Nvidia" then hit the first link... but the picture does not flow smoothly at all, or look sharp.... Which is at odds with practically every review I've read on UL80VT which says it can handle 1080p with no probs.
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Make sure you have Flash 10.1 Beta/RC installed on your UL80 and have hardware acceleration enabled as well as your nvidia GPU enabled. See if this helps playing 1080p videos. -
Last night I updated nvidia drivers to 197.16 and oc'd cpu to 1.9ghz. I'm wondering if the updated drivers are causing the issues....
Unfortunately I never tried watching 1080p videos on youtube before tonight. So I don't have any clue as to whether or not they would have run smoothly on the stock settings, hence my original query. I have a sneaking suspicion that if I had tried to view the 1080p clip last night, before updating the drivers, it would have played smoothly (as per the internet reviews of the ul80vt which indicate this is the case).
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This might seem like a simple question, but how can you tell which video driver is currently running -- the discrete or the NVidia? Also, how do you manually switch? I have the UL80vt
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reposting: Is there any way for me to rebind the FN + Arrow keys (Media player keys) to be used in winamp instead?
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To switch between the 2 graphics options, press the top left button (with an arrow pointing).
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What do the ATK drivers do? I thought I would reinstall.
There are 5 ATK drivers, PowerGear4 and 2 Video drivers (NVidia & VGA Patch). What order should I install these in? Are there any others I should install?
1 ATK ACPI Driver
2 ATK Hotkey
3 ATK Media
4 ATKOSO2
5 ATK Generic Function Service
PowerGear4
Nvidia Driver
VGA Patch (is this needed)
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If anyone wants to update your Hybrid Driver to 197.16 Itaru posted these instructions on the UL30Vt forum:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=6114037&postcount=3073
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You have probably noticed that the sound volume, even when maxxed out is still fairly low. Here is an easy fix:
Right click on your white speaker icon in the taskbar, choose "playback devices"
On the playback tab, highlight "Realtek High Definition Audio-Default Device"
Click properties-another window will appear
Choose the enhancements tab
Scroll thru the choices available to the very bottom one "Loudness Equalization" and check the box, then click apply.
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Those interested in updating the hybrid graphics driver to 197.16 should go here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=6120876#post6120876
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Hope this is the right place:
Just got a ul80vt-a2, fresh out the box, charged up the battery fully, unplugged it, and at 100% battery it's saying it has just over 6 hours of life. Anyone had this problem? Any suggestions?
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just received it today. very nice.
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I've got the rubber palmrest version from best buy - what are you guys using to clean the rubber material with?
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Just got my shiny, silver A2 via beachcamera @ebay.
Let me just say that after many hours of research, I pulled the trigger on this and I am very happy with my purchase. I just wanted to thank you guys for all your input.
The other contenders were the M11x, Dell Studio XPS 13, and the UL30VT.
I went with this based on the battery life and its performance. I'm looking to play some light-moderate games, price/value, and the fact that it has an optical drive (vs the UL30VT).
So here are my questions:
Will this play Starcraft 2 well?
Should I perform a clean reinstall of Win 7?
What are your recommended settings for getting 7-8+ hours on one charge?
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I am currently trying to decide between the UL80vt-a2, UL30vt-a1, U30jc-a1, and the Sony Vaio CW and I have a couple of questions if anyone has the time to answer them.
1. I have read that the UL80vt-a1 has build quality problems, is this true of A2 as well? And is the UL30 really built much better (I would like an optical drive)?
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I wanted to share a very frustrating experience trying to use Eclipse on this laptop in case someone else runs into it.
I had not been using my laptop for any kind of software development until I was in a training class at work for the Google Web Toolkit. We use Eclipse at my shop. I was trying to do code completion using Ctrl-C and every time I would do it, the keyboard would produce some type of Asian characters on the screen until I did another Ctrl-C to toggle it off. After much digging, it suddenly recalled seeing a posting about Asus preinstalling the Korean keyboard on this laptop to ease in support should it be returned for fixes.
I literally had to REMOVE the Simplified Chinese (or whatever it was) keyboard from the laptop in order to use code completion in Eclipse. -
These are tools made to be carried on a pillow in a clean room?
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and while we are here... a whole bunch of really cool looking covers!! But I still like my brushed aluminum.
http://www.sgpstore.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=UL30a&x=0&y=0 -
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Oooooooh. I just ordered one of them for my UL80VT. I really love this thing but always HATED the wrist rest area. I will report back after I receive/install mine.
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Just got my UL50VT today and i love it! HOWEVER im having issues playing world of warcraft. it installs but wont even load! i get a error saying no valid display was detected! anyone getting this too?
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whats the difference between the UL80vt-a2 and UL80vt-a1?
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Discussion in 'ASUS Reviews and Owners' Lounges' started by sighie, Oct 24, 2009.