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asus_n90_3882gGeneral Over view
Graphic addicts who are in search of a big-screen notebook with design will definitely find Prefer the ASUS N90 it is  an 18.4inch behemoth having a full HD display with Blueray drive  and a massive 1TB of storage for storing libraries of high-definition content. It priced at $1,799, which is Approx Rs-89950 which is not much fo the product but its not so cheap even but this notebook lacks some of the raw graphics power found in similarly priced desktop replacements, and even Speakers are not up to the mark.
Design or aesthetics
The first thing that we will notice in ASUS N90 is that it has massive girth and a attractive design; ASUS has taken great care in ensuring that this PC screams high quality. The notebook’s lid and base feature a black- glossy-Infusion finish with a subtle pinstripe and swirl design. Unfortunately, the N90 is a fingerprint and smudge magnet which in my openion must have been taken care of. At 9.4 pounds it’s also quite the haul but not in comparison with ASUS W90 which is 13.4-pound the company’s other 18-incher.On its right side we will find a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on/off switch, dual headphone jacks and an Express Card/54 slot having two closely placed USB 2.0 ports. Built into the left side is a 2X Blue ray drive  and that’s not all it is having an 8-in-1 memory card reader. On the back of the PC, there are two more USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, and a Kensington Lock slot over all a great piece of art and technology combined.

The user interface
Having wide base provides  ASUS N90 plenty of room for comfortable touch-typing “chocolate” keyboard (as ASUS dubs its shape), but there is some light flex which is of more concern, however keys themselves are very much touch sensitive and  they offer plenty of travel but lack the springy feedback we prefer. In addition to this the right Shift key is oddly undersized. On the upside but  ASUS includes a full numeric keypad.
Infect on the other hand the touchpad doesn’t possess the same gloss as the rest of the lappe, the attractive pattern which extends across its surface which helping it to mesh well with the rest of the base. It is 3.3*2.0 inch; it’s  just not enough room to navigate with ease. Besides it has a large mouse button that’s loud, but gets the job done well.
At the left of the keyboard is a strip that has four neon-blue backlit buttons that let us adjust the visual settings ie (Vivid, Theater, Soft, Normal, Gamma Correction),a button to enable or disable the touchpad, switch battery modes (Quiet Office, Battery Saving, High Performance, Entertainment), and launch Express Gate, ASUS’ branded version of Splash top.
Positioned below these buttons is a jog wheel that let u control the N90’s volume, as well as mute audio by pressing a button in the wheel’s center. We preferred this jog wheel to the futuristic multimedia touch control panels as its more easey to control the volume more accurately, such as those found on the Acer Aspire 8930G-6448 or ASUS W90.

Pros
1.    High-def display and Blu-ray
2.    Attractive design
3.    Huge 1TB hard drive
4.    Two-year warranty
5.    Has both touch pad and mouse buttons.
6.    Has Blue ray drive
7.    Has considerable waight of 9.4 pounds approx less then 4.5 KG
Cons
1.    Low speaker volume
2.    Fingerprint-prone design so its deficult to maintain it
3.    Mediocre graphics performance
4.    Has not so good Touch pad.

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Audio and Video Performance
ASUS N90 which have the display of 1920 x 1080 full HD served up bright colors and deep blacks, which made movies and Web pages pop. The glossy display which have few reflections, but they were not  as severe as the ones we’ve experienced from other notebooks. As such, we enjoyed viewing because of its  wide viewing angles when watching We Were Soldiers. While outputting the movie to a 32-inch Samsung monitor using an HDMI cable resulted in no hiccup experiance audio and video playback.
One might think that having Altec Lansing speakers with SRS Premium Sound would probabely make movies and music sound as good as they look, but we may be wrong. While watching the Bluray version of We Were Soldiers, the clarity of the sound was a step above the run-of-the-mill notebook, but were are disappointed by the relatively low volume. The speakers also sounded weak when we played NOFX in Slacker at full volume.

Webcam
Above the display is a 1.3-megapixel webcam that enables us to video chat with friend’s video that we observed featured good color replication that, unfortunately, suffered from some motion blur when we moved around. Designed to work in conjunction with the webcam is Lifeframe 3, an application that allowed us to take snapshots at various resolutions (ranging from 160 x 120 to 1280 x 1024), shoot video 160 x 120 to 640 x 480 and implement wacky visual effects such as oversized hats, masks, and other  special but common effects.

asus_n90_3927gPerformance
The product has 2.66-GHz Intel Core-2-Duo T9550 processor and a 4GB of RAM which produced a PCMark Vantage score of 3,568, which is 228 points less than the desktop counterpart. Still, we were able to chat with friends in Meebo, having several tabs open in Internet Explorer 8, and stream music from Slacker without a performance hit.
We tested the N90’s performance by transcoding a 5:05 MPEG-4 clip to AVI using Handbrake. Converting the file with no other open applications running in the background took astonishing 6 minutes and 11 seconds, which was just 3 seconds slower than the mark shown by HP ProBook 4710s . Which has a slower 2.53-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 processor but the same 4GB of RAM. When we converted the file again while compressing a 4.97GB folder of mixed media using jZip, the task completion time Leaped to 13 minutes, almost 2 minutes longer than the HP ProBook 4710s.

Nvidia’s CUDA Technology
Which is designed to enable the graphics processing unit  to crunch video data, Nvidia’s CUDA technology allowed us to transcode the same 5:05 clip from MPEG-4 to AVI (using vReveal, an application designed which is designed to take advantage of this technology in just 4 minutes and 23 seconds a savings of almost 2 minutes. Transcoding it while compressing the 4.97GB folder took 11 minutes and 46 seconds which is two minutes less than when we tested with CUDA. If you’re a video enthusiast, using CUDA–enabled software is a must for speedy processing.

Graphics Performance
Nvidia Ge-Force GT 130M graphics card with 1GB of memory inside the N90 notched a 3DMark06 score of 4,944. That result is 1,400 points less than that of the average desktop replacement (remember, high-end gaming rigs populate this space), but was significantly higher than the HP Pro-Book 4710S’s which has 2,384 score. However, the N90’s 3DMark Vantage score of just 1,680 was one of the lowest we’ve seen in recent months.

Comparing 3DMark Vantage results with similar laptops
The GPU performed adequately when we tested Far Cry 2. It ran at a decent 26 frames per second in auto-detect mode Having a  (1280 x 720-pixel resolution), but dropped to an intolerable 14 frames per second when we bumped up the resolution to 1080p infact we couldn’t play at that point. By comparison, the $1,699 17-inch MSI GT725 tore through the game at 84 frames per second at 1024 x 768, and 44 frames per second at 1900 x 1200. Despite that it has less than stellar graphics scores, the GPU is solid enough in globe-trotting in Google Earth, which we used to zoom to various locations without any bumps.

Massive Storage and Slow Boot Time
As the book is meant for If we have large libraries of music, photos, and high-definition video, the N90’s 1TB of storage divided across two 500GB, 5,400-rpm hard drives  should provide with enough capacity for your storage needs. On the other hand booting the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system took a  1 minute and 27 seconds which I think is very slow. The lappe has notched a 16.9 MBps data transfer time when we copied a 4.97GB folder of mixed media using our LAPPE transfer Test, which was much slower than the 23.2 MBps category average.

Wireless Strength and Battery Life
The 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi radio showed an excellent throughput on our wireless tests. It pushed data along at a rate of 21.1 Mbps at fifteen feet away from our access point, which dipped slightly to 20.2 Mbps when we placed the notebook at fifty feet away. Both scores proved better than the 19.6 Mbps and 16.3 Mbps category averages. This allowed us to enjoy smoothly high-def Hulu content .
With many desktop replacements, the N90’s battery life isn’t the longest. In reality its  at just 1 hour and 51 minutes, it’s about 45 minutes shorter than the category average. Considering Itssize, you probably won’t stray too far from an outlet anyway.

Software/ Warranty
The Lappe is Bundled with a software package that includes standouts as Adobe Reader 8, ASUS Copy Protect to prevent some one from copying data to a removable storage drive, ASUS Data Security that is for encrypting the drives, ASUS Smart Logon face recognition with LifeScribe disc labeling and printing, it a 60day trial of Ms-Office 2007, and Win-DVD Blu-ray for ASUS. The company backs the N90 with a two-year global warranty which includes one-year of accidental damage and 30-day Zero Bright Dot to ensure that all of the pixels are functional. With a Toll-free tech support available 24/7.

Other Configurations options
To save a couple of hundred dollars, check out the ASUS N90SV-A1, which has same configuration, but reduces the drive capacity from 1TB to 500GB.

Verdict
Priced at $1,799 which is approx 89950 Rs, the ASUS N90 offers a huge high-def display for enjoying Blu-ray playback, Having a attractive design, and a huge amount of storage space. Given that this isn’t a gaming rig, we can live with the not so great graphics performance. But we think a sound system on an 18-inch notebook should offer a better volume. If pure performance is paramount, the MSI GT725 packs a 2.0-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Quad 9000 processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 graphics, Blueray, and a full HD display for $100 about 500 Rs less—if you’re willing to downgrade to a speedy, yet much smaller 320GB, 7,200-rpm hard drive  is the other option for you.

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