ASUS Reviews

Great bang for the buck

By: Anonymous November 17, 2007

Review:

I did a lot of research to find good power for a reasonable amount of money, and I found the Asus G1S.  I've been very pleased with it.  You do have to get Vista, but so far I've only had a few problems with Vista, and it does have great eye candy.  The G1S is powerful enough to run Vista smoothly.

Don't worry, it's easy to get the flashing green lights to turn off.

Great Laptop but lacking XP driver support

By: zenimus November 17, 2007

Review:

Don't get me wrong, I love this laptop.  It's beautiful.  It's powerful, great sense of style, compact, built to last and it's priced competitively to boot.

I really am in love.

However -- not everyone wants to or can switch to Vista, myself included.  Upon startup, first boot, idling on the desktop, Vista was using *choke* 1GB of RAM.  (Half the total physical memory!!)  I was clear vista had to go and ASUS sure does not make it easy.

ASUS does not provide XP drivers but after a few hours of reading forums, I found that many users had used drivers from other ASUS products with complete success.  I've since installed XP and every device is working perfectly.

You will find extremely useful instructions here
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20071101223530203&board_id=3&model=G1S&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

However annoying it may be, you do have to manually slipstream SATA drivers into your XP install.

This laptop is great... but ASUS, common, give us XP support -- Vista is a pile of s**t.

its ok!

By: xxwckdkl0wnxx November 5, 2007

Review:

Pros: Small, light, durable, full featured.

Cons: "Standard" Desktop mode is disabled by default and Asus made it hard to enable. Keyboard IS small. Screen is a little small.

This is a great little machine for someone who is either new to computers or who wants a secondary machine. The interface is very easy to use and has been optimized very well. Even with 512MB and a lowly 900MHz processor, this system does most of the intended tasks "fast enough". It is by no means a desktop replacement or main machine replacement for a power user. I got this to complement my 17" Core2duo MacBook Pro. Sometimes I just want something that will fit in my pocket, this will do the job. Overall, I would recommend this machine to anyone who just needs a basic machine (portable or otherwise) to perform the "normal" tasks like surfing the web, e-mail, chat, VoIP, document editing. You can't beat it for the price.

Solid

By: Anonymous October 23, 2007

Review:

First off, I'm no techie...I'm just an average user who was looking to upgrade my laptop. I just bought a digital SLR camera and wanted a machine that could handle all the post-processing that needs to be done. My on-line research had narrowed me down to the Lenovo Thinkpad T61p or a Dell Latitude D830. Off I went to a bricks and mortar store.

I went to two different PCCyber stores in Ottawa. Both times, when I mentioned what I was looking for they suggested the Asus G1S. Both times they used the word "solid" to describe the machine. I was sold.

The machine is slick and looks great. It's super fast (at least a lot faster than my 4-year-old Dell Inspiron). And the lit-up green "eye" that sits below the keyboard is super-cool. Seriously, though, this is a "guy's" machine on the outside. But on the inside it's for the multi-tasking power user.

It's only been a week, but I'm in love with my new machine (especially since I learned how to turn of the other flashing green lights on the sides of the monitor).

You can help by Writing a review