Posted 06/26/2008 at 11:09:54pm

I'm looking at my employer provided Leveno Thinkpad T61 and my wife's X300 with their much lauded keyboards and wouldn't you know it but what do I see in the lower left hand corner, UNDER the shift key and to the LEFT of the control key??? Why wouldn't that be the Fn key??? Well I'll be!

 I guess the Asus engineers aren't the only ones that think that's the right place for the Function Key...

Posted 06/26/2008 at 11:09:13pm

I'm looking at my employer provided Leveno Thinkpad T61 and my wife's X300 with their much lauded keyboards and wouldn't you know it but what do I see in the lower left hand corner, UNDER the shift key and to the LEFT of the control key??? Why wouldn't that be the Fn key??? Well I'll be!

 I guess the Asus engineers aren't the only ones that think that's the right place for the Function Key...

Posted 06/26/2008 at 11:08:34pm

So I just bought a F8Sn (writing this note on it now) and I could not disagree more with your rating of it....

First off on ZIPZOOMFLY and several other vendors $1099 gets you:

"ASUS F8sn-B1 T8100 2.10GHz 14.1in 250GB HDD 3GB PC2-5300 (DDR2-667) 802.11a/b/g/n DL DVD +- R/RW Windows Vista Home Premium Notebook Black Retail"

Which more then resolves the performance issues you claimed for non-gaming apps while still giving you a baby game machine.

By the way that price includes a 2 years warrenty with free shipping both ways and a 1 year accidental damage warrenty...how much extra is that on the MAC and ACER?

I, on the other hand, spent $1336 shipped and got the F8Sn-C1 which has the same warrenty but incudes:

"ASUS F8Sn-C1 T9300 2.50GHz 14.1in 320GB HDD 3GB PC2-5300 (DDR2-667) 802.11a/b/g/n DL DVD +- R/RW Windows Vista Home Premium Notebook Black Retail "

In this case the screen resolution is 1440x900 and looks great...

and build quality is excellent....

The C1 is at least as fast as the Dell and Mac Pro for $1000 less....And while its true that the battery only seems to get me around 2h:30m....I would rather have the Graphics and CPU power....

Besides, for the difference in price between this laptop and the others I can afford to buy an extra battery.... :-)

Posted 06/26/2008 at 11:07:40pm

So I just bought a F8Sn (writing this note on it now) and I could not disagree more with your rating of it....

First off on ZIPZOOMFLY and several other vendors $1099 gets you:

"ASUS F8sn-B1 T8100 2.10GHz 14.1in 250GB HDD 3GB PC2-5300 (DDR2-667) 802.11a/b/g/n DL DVD +- R/RW Windows Vista Home Premium Notebook Black Retail"

Which more then resolves the performance issues you claimed for non-gaming apps while still giving you a baby game machine.

By the way that price includes a 2 years warrenty with free shipping both ways and a 1 year accidental damage warrenty...how much extra is that on the MAC and ACER?

I, on the other hand, spent $1336 shipped and got the F8Sn-C1 which has the same warrenty but incudes:

"ASUS F8Sn-C1 T9300 2.50GHz 14.1in 320GB HDD 3GB PC2-5300 (DDR2-667) 802.11a/b/g/n DL DVD +- R/RW Windows Vista Home Premium Notebook Black Retail "

In this case the screen resolution is 1440x900 and looks great...

and build quality is excellent....

The C1 is at least as fast as the Dell and Mac Pro for $1000 less....And while its true that the battery only seems to get me around 2h:30m....I would rather have the Graphics and CPU power....

Besides, for the difference in price between this laptop and the others I can afford to buy an extra battery.... :-)