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ASUS UL50Vt-A1 Thin and Light 15.6-Inch Black Laptop - 11.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) | 
| Brand: Asus
Category: Personal Computer
List Price: $849.00
Buy New: $823.53
as of 9/9/2010 06:18 MDT details
You Save: $25.47 (3%)
New (4) Used (4) from $629.00
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 1430
Color: Black
Media: Personal Computers
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU Manufacturer: Intel
CPU Speed: 1.3
CPU Type: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processors: 2
System Memory: 4
Memory Type: SDRAM
Hard Drive Size: 500
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Graphics RAM: 512
Display Size: 15.6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 15.4 x 10.4 x 1.1
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: UL50VT-A1
Model: UL50Vt-A1
UPC: 884840515579
EAN: 0008848405155
ASIN: B002P3KMPI
Availability: Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item.
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| Features:
| • | 1.3GHz Intel SU7300 Core 2 Duo Processor | | • | 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 2 slots, 4GB Max | | • | 500GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM), DVD Super Multi Drive | | • | 15.6" HD LED LCD Display, NVidia G210M Graphics with 512MB DDR3 VRAM, Wi-Fi 802.11 bgn, 0.3M Webcam, | | • | Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System (64 bit), *11.5 Hours of Battery Life |
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Product Description
UL50VT-A1 SU7300 1.3G 4GB SYST500GB 15.6IN W7HP 8CELL
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 34
 Clunky experience, feels cheap, bad support July 20, 2010
slp (Seattle, WA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Try one of these in person before buying! The keyboard and track pad are offset to the left to make room for the numberpad, making it awkward to use. The keys also have a cheap feel to them, which is kind of a distraction when trying to work. The result is that I avoid using this computer unless it's the only one available. Battery life is good, but it's too heavy to take everywhere, so it mostly stays plugged in anyway. Device driver support for linux is weak at best.
I had trouble making the recovery media, and when I called tech support they were very unhelpful and wanted to charge me $30 for the discs I was missing.
 ASUS UL50Vt-A1 Review July 14, 2010
leeNcopa
I love this computer: its size and keyboard, the thinness and light weight for its size and especially the battery life.
More or Less satisfying June 7, 2010
Abdullah M. Binghunaim (Cleveland, OH US)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I didn't like the product as much as i thought i would. It was slow in booting and starting apps which was frustrating to me since i am impatient and i'm used to having things run faster in my other laptop. I got this mainly because of the advertised 11.5 hrs running time. I would probably never use it again after the first few uses and i will just sell it. However, i still think it is rather good. I mean it's not really bad!
Asus is a winner May 29, 2010
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
This is my first laptop PC after using desktops for the last 11 years. All I can say is that I do not suffer from buyers remorse on this item. The touch pad is responsive. The laptop is very slim and portable. My only complaint is the screen is not a matte finish like the desktop monitors. (get alot of glare from light). I bought this as mainly a device to watch streaming movies and as a portable DVD player. I had it 15 days now so there is no way I can return it....its here to stay. Runs very quiet and the speakers are OK for a laptop. Does not get hot as the processor is a 1.3 GHZ duo core. Some of the plusses I like on this unit:
Runs Windows 7
Has a 9 hour battery life
Slim
Quiet
15.6 inch monitor
And as I stated, the only con is the screen is not a matte finish (gets glare from light)
Asus is the new kid on the block and they are coming up with some awesome technology. (They are also getting involved with electronic e-readers). I would say get this particular model as you get a nice 15.6 inch screen with a 9 hour battery life.
Very good laptop with excellent battery life May 15, 2010
M. Hillyer (California, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is written after using the laptop for about five weeks. Overall, I am very pleased with this machine. No buyers remorse yet :-).
Pros:
> The laptop looks very nice with the brushed aluminum case, but the shiny surfaces inside, as others have pointed out are fingerprint magnets. A quick swipe from time to time minimizes this problem for me.
> Stays cool in use (it doesn't get as hot as my previous HP laptop)
> Build quality seems very good.
> Screen is very sharp and bright - 1366 x 768 is perfectly adequate for my purposes as I won't be using the machine for graphics editing.
> The installed Windows 7 boots up fast and seems very stable (more usable than Vista was on my desktop, which I upgraded to XP).
> Plenty of fast RAM (4GB DDR3) and a more than adequate HD (500GB).
> Battery life is excellent (major reason I selected this model); I'm getting at least 8+ hours battery life with heavy use.
> The video and cpu performance mode switches are "seamless" (the screen blanks for up to 1-2 seconds).
> Installation of Xubuntu went without a hitch and all hardware including the wireless adapter was automagically detected. So I have a nice dual boot laptop (but see cons, below).
Cons (not enough to knock off a star):
> Screen viewing angle is fairly small (not sure if this is really a big con unless you want to show a crowd of people something on the screen)
> The machine comes with a fair amount of pre-installed software to get rid of. YMMV.
> I found Windows 7 UAC annoying enough that I turned it off. No problems so far, but I'm fairly paranoid about securing my system. Another YMMV.
> I find that Windows 7 hangs randomly on shutdown - I haven't had time to look into this yet, though. There may be a Microsoft fix available.
> Another Windows 7 problem - I have an old program which wouldn't run even in compatibility mode (although it ran fine on an XP laptop). I solved this by installing VirtualBox and building a Windows 2000 virtual machine, which runs the program perfectly. This might be something to try if compatibility mode doesn't work for you and you have an old Windows disk lying around.
> Installing Ubuntu's Nvidia proprietary 3D Linux driver bricks the machine - well, not exactly bricks as the machine can be resuscitated, but an MBR repair and complete Linux reinstall was necessary (this happened twice as I thought that perhaps I'd done something wrong the first time). Don't know why this should be as I never had trouble with NVidia's drivers on my Debian desktop. Of course this won't happen to you if you don't install Linux ;-).
Another point to note - ASUS partitions the HD with three partitions: a recovery partition, a "C" disk with the OS installed, and a "D" disk for data. This may not be what you're used to, but it can easily be changed using Windows 7 disk management tools. I repartitioned the disk anyway to install Linux.
Overall I think the ASUS UL50Vt-A1 is excellent value for the $$. Probably not good for heavy gaming, but plenty snappy in ordinary use. I haven't had the same problems that others have had with the mouse pad, but it does take a little getting used to. I haven't used the webcam much yet, except to see that it works. I plan to use it for video chat and I think it will be OK for that. I've connected the HDMI port to my HDTV, and the video is fine but I have to figure out how to get the audio through that cable too. I also find that I don't use the ExpressGate feature, preferring to just boot the machine into an OS. Perhaps I'll give it a try later.
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