Asus N10

Not a netbook, not a notebook... yet it seems strangely appealing to a person like me, who wanted a netbook, but was irked by the fact that recent games could NOT run on the with their dx7/dx8 intel chipsets.Thanks for trying Crysis out on it! I want to get one and see if it runs Spore!

I've coined the term Not(e)book for this product! It sits on the fence I think... however it does fill a nice market niche in terms of an ultra-portable with decent gaming prowess. Will be very interested to see how it goes with battery life in general use. Nice review, and I linked to your earlier preview [url=http://www.electricvagabond.com/2008/09/asus-n10-notebook-has-respectable.html]on my site[/url]. The fingerprint scanner, large HDD and HDMI make for a nicely featured machine. However, the bevel around the screen is truly heinous and the keyboard sounds like it could be suffering a little bit from cheap-itis. I am sort of undecided about this one, on one hand I want to sell my Wind and get this, but on the other I don't want to slowly migrate to a full-sized notebook only to discover I'm about to go travelling with a brick in my bag. Anyway great review and thanks for helping with consumer decision making progress!

Greetings: If Asus thinks they will sell the N10 at 500 pounds about $1050 Canadian, they are totaly missing the boat. Netbooks have to be priced well below $400US, or they will not sell. Regards Robert

Maybe if asus held back launch and used the dual core atom...

If they actually bothered to test 3dmarks like some koreans didhttp://www.notegear.com/Content/Content_View.asp?TNum=809&kind=2&gotopage=1use your own translatorbut they showed why there was a bezel, its for the wifi antennaand battery life with 3 cell around 2 hrs with normal usethey had the review out around 1 month ago

Did I miss them or there is not a single reference to heat and noise in the whole review??I base my purchases mostly in those 2 parameters.

I don't get it, you might want to use the nvidia 9300m all the time, and possibly have better battery life optimization and 3d capabilities. 3DMark06 Scores9200M GS:1742: [HP DV5] P7350,4GB2067: [Samsung Q310] P8400,4GB2574: [Samsung Q310] P8400,4GB, 9200M GS overclocked to Core 750MHz & Memory 750MHz9300M GS:2242: [Lenovo Thinkpad SL500] P8600,2GB1695: [Lenovo Thinkpad SL300] P8600,2GB Note: This 9300M GS is a 128MB version - explains the low score?2211: [Lenovo Thinkpad SL400] P8400,2GBamazon US had those n10j-a2 with xp downgrade as an extra CD. using vista forcing the card to run dx10, however with dx9 on xp the card will be more capable at higher fps

yes i agree, however those 6 hour battery life on 6 cell will become 4 or 3.5. still pretty good !! some 1 will overclock this baby anyway

do you think its possible to play starcraft 2 on this or any other netbook?

Minimum System Requirements for Starcraft 2
Processor: 1.4 Ghz Processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics card: 128 MB RAM video card capable of Hardware TnL. DX10 is not required, but will be supported by SC2 and Blizzard are considering adding DX10 specific effects.
Pixel Shader 2.0 (Officially Confirmed)

Just similar to warcraft3's this is not CPU intensive, u may able to get to highish settings

so it might even work pretty good on a eee1000h?

it can barely runs it. the onboard graphic on 1000h will run at probably the lowest setting. check this page http://www.starcraftwire.net/forums
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gma 900 - 950 will probably wont run any 3d games at full speed trust me

Hi there! nice review!

one thing that isn't commented though is that the geforce9300 chip should allow much higher screen resolution for external displays (like TFT). if N10 allows watching HD-video in 1920x1080, by turning screenres to 1920x1200 its a very good selling point. even if it dont have a optical reader, videos can be transfered to the hdd.

also photoshop and especially office applications can be worked with in high resolution.

i hope a driverpatch will be released to eee901 so that it will allow more than 1024x768 for ext screens.

yes 9300m could do 1080p, the desktop version of 9300 has 16 unified shader, but this has 8, in theory 9300m is likely to be weaker than 8500gt desktop. with new drivers from laptopvideo2go.com 9300m should be able to decode 1080p on the fly. with nv panel u can set custom resolution anyway! (is maxed at 2048x1536)
the gma900 on the eee901, in theory gma900 supports up to 2048x1536, but wiki said 1600×1280. Does normal intel gma driver works with eee901 anyway?