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External display notebook 15.4-inch screen size is indeed interesting. Looks luxurious from the outside to the inside of Asus N50Vc and showed that aesthetic value is part of an unforgettable time to build these computing devices. But of course nothing will display means if the performance of the notebook is not as good as it looks.

15.4-inch screen mounted in here still use a 16:10 format which is becoming obsolete other notebook manufacturers. Although this format is less friendly to play the movie but to be used to work is clearly more comfortable because there is a clear extra lines to make the software interface to be more comfortable in the eye. Unfortunately this screen using glossy coating that makes it sensitive to light from the outside. Also from the screen viewing angle is also not too good.

Fortunately, the input devices are connected not disappoint. In addition to not have a confusing layout, the construction of the keyboard keys do not interfere with performance when typing. Interestingly again there is the numeric keypad on the right side of the line of buttons, like on the PC keyboard. Touchpad also extremely broad size responsive so no trouble those who are not accustomed to using the input device is a mouse replacement.

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In 2009 the IDF took place in San Francisco this week, Intel also introduced several new processors, chip-chip precisely designed to work on my laptop. There are three introduced Clarksfield chip, the Core i7 bring to the laptop form factor. Two of them are ordinary quad-core, and another is the Core i7 Extreme (Core i7-920XM) that the Turbo mode can run up to 3.2 GHz.

Dell and Alienware have responded quickly presence of the mobile Core i7 is a new laptop. Asus did not want to lose.

Taiwan producers to bring this M60J announced immediately. This 16-inch laptop equipped with a Core i7 720Qm 1.6 GHz or Core i7 820QM 1.73 GHz. Other specifications include 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GPU GT240M, DDR3 RAM up to 4GB, hard drive with a maximum capacity of 1TB, Blu-ray drive (optional) and 1366×768 screen resolution.

Price? Asus did not want to announce it. However, the processor price alone was U.S. $ 546 (820QM) and U.S. $ 364 (720QM).