El Reg has published a review of the Asus Lamborghini VX1 laptop. “The Lamborghini brand stands for luxury, speed and performance, but price aside, the Asus VX1 fails to deliver on the promise. It’s not a bad machine, but neither is it the laptop equivalent of its famous namesake.”
Would lead the charge for full blown build-your-own laptops.
I’ve wanted a laptop for a long time but the lack of control on my part isn’t worth it. IMHO.
What you can get currently in the form of barebones laptops, that’s not enough.
I want an asus laptop mobo with a lian li laptop case and an antec power supply with a samsung lcd screen.
Yeah, I know, this is somewhat off topic. Sorry. 😛
/rant
It may be off-topic, but I agree whole-heartedly.
I can’t bear to make my primary system a laptop because of this… Shuttle XPC is about the closet one can get to a decent computer at a decent price with the hardware you want and still be almost portable.
iwill makes a socket 754 barebones which is rather compact and quite nice. ZPC-64. Half height graphics card necessary. Maybe not enough performance?
——–Maybe not enough performance?———-
Nah. Lack of control and lack of standards is the problem.
There is no “LTX” standard.(“L” being laptop) For example.
For video connector, powersupply, where the videocard slot is positioned, where the power plug is positioned, external plugs are positioned, and so on.
Take a look at any ATX motherboard you’d like, that doesn’t come from one of the big OEMs. You’ll see *alot* of similiarities, and they fit in virtually any ATX case.
That’s what I want in a laptop. Total control. The ultimate enthusiast machine.
I can’t speak for others on this one, but I’d gladly give up compact for the ability to build my own from the ground up.
On page 3 of the review, it’s identified as an Acer VX1.
On page 3 of the review, it’s identified as an Acer VX1.
He also says the Gallardo is powered by a turbocharged 10 cylinder. It is not turbocharged.
How can such stupid mistakes lend credibility to the rest of his review? If he can’t even get minor details like that right, how can we take his review seriously?
Slap a fancy yellow lid on it and suddenly a Chevy becomes a Lamborghini?
I didn’t get the Ferrari one either.
No, you’re confused with Toy Ota, the junk in the auto industry.
The original “Lambo” was a pain to drive and was expensive without the refinements that had existed for about a decade. The Asus laptop here, if it is trying to compete with the Acer Ferrari, fits the bill.
I’m allready happy if this one doesn’t have exessive heat problems.The prize isn’t more than a Macbook Pro.Nice looks in my humble opinion.
Now we have Lamborghini-look Laptops, Ferrari-look Laptops, Mercedes-look Desktops, BMW-look Desktops,….
I don’t get it. Is there anyone apart from twelve-year-olds who find that appealing? That’s almost as goodlooking as having your pc blink out of an big window in eigth different colors.
I whish some PC manufactrors would discover taste.
There are some nice ASUS-Cases though, which make that Laptop seem even more displaced.
“I don’t get it. Is there anyone apart from twelve-year-olds who find that appealing?”
Rob Enderle.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1523503,00.asp
Sorry, but I still love this quote:
“One impressive piece of execution is that when you fire the machine up it plays a WAV file of a Ferrari race car revving its engine. That alone is worth the relatively low $1,899 price of admission. (I found it priced as low as $1,725 at PCVideoOnline.) Even when I’m in a meeting, I don’t turn the sound off because of the unbridled envy that seems to show up in the eyes of my, granted mostly male, co-attendees. So far no one has complained.”
I’m sorry, but until someone can show me a Lada Laptop, I’m not interested. Think about it:
It would never need upgrading, because they’ve been the same for ever.
You could leave it out in the snow all night and it would still boot up in the morning.
You could fix it with a spanner and some string.
No-one would ever steal it.
Show me a laptop like that and I’ll show you the colour of my money…
“Acer’s other team loyalty is AMD, so it’s perhaps no surprise Asus has gone with Intel.”
Nice logic.