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    News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    DO WANT!

    I wonder how much it will be.
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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    about £650 to £800 if my amazon based prediction is correct.

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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    There's so many things i want right now it's not even funny. But I will need to get a new laptop soon and i'm definitely gonna get a thin and light one. This looks perfect but I would really like it to have an SSD... Not to worry I'm prepared to wait until the right one comes out

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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    The best part of it's specs is the battery life. Some laptops have become a complete joke in the battery department, they're virtually a glorified UPS.
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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    This may even just be the UK equivalent of the UL80Vt as the specs are nearly/actually identical (can anyone else confirm or deny? The model numbers get pretty confusing for laptops I find)

    If you're interested, full review with benchies here (confirms battery life is real):
    http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3665

    Agree, SSD would be killer, except that a decent amount of storage is also desirable. Maybe the future is 1.8" or 2.5" SSD system plus 2.5" HDD storage, even in a lappy...

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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    There's already mini-PCIe SSD cards, they'd do the job for OS/Applications quite nicely. The technology is there, there's just no simple way to mount user profiles on an non-C: partition with Windows.
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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    If you want an SSD just buy the laptop with the lowest spec hard drive and swap it over yourself.

    Done this with my past few laptops - generally turns out cheaper than having the manufacturer upgrade you to the larger drive and many drives now come with extended (3yr+) warranties.

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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    Quote Originally Posted by Noli View Post
    This may even just be the UK equivalent of the UL80Vt as the specs are nearly/actually identical (can anyone else confirm or deny? The model numbers get pretty confusing for laptops I find)

    If you're interested, full review with benchies here (confirms battery life is real):
    http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3665

    Agree, SSD would be killer, except that a decent amount of storage is also desirable. Maybe the future is 1.8" or 2.5" SSD system plus 2.5" HDD storage, even in a lappy...
    The ASUS UL80Vt slots in between the 13.3" UL30Vt and the 15.6" UL50Vt. It includes a 14.0" LED backlit display and DVD writer built in.

    Currently the UL30VT available now at $799 in the US. Anyone know when / how much these will be in the UK?
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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    Nice specs...

    But is the keyboard any good? I still only buy IBM's due to this, had my fingers burnt before on crappy keybaords.

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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    Anyone heard about a uk release for this? Really need a laptop before the months up and this seems the best 13inch ultraportable. Amazon.com have it at a price which works out to £525 but I don't know if they'll ship to uk, plus delivery and customs charge might be quite a bit.

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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    Quote Originally Posted by crazyfool View Post
    Anyone heard about a uk release for this? Really need a laptop before the months up and this seems the best 13inch ultraportable. Amazon.com have it at a price which works out to £525 but I don't know if they'll ship to uk, plus delivery and customs charge might be quite a bit.
    I've been checking regularly for an update on UK release and so far nothing. I'm also waiting for this one.

    Just to complicate things, Asus recently showed off the UL30JT:
    http://zedomax.com/blog/2010/01/10/a...-review-video/

    They've basically updated everything from CPU (Intel Core i7 – 640UM/620UM), discrete GPU (now using the G310M w/ 1gig) and better plastic on the inside. Overall battery life should improve further - due to the reduce power draw of the i7 chipset with onchip gfx vs. CULV with onboard gfx. And release date 4-8 weeks. Same gloss screen however.

    So anyone's guess whether we'll even see the VT variety over here, or perhaps they'll just switch to the JT.

    If anyone finds out more, keep us updated!!
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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    I also saw the ul30jt and was going to wait but if it comes out in 2 months that will most likely be a us release so we will still have to wait longer. So tempted to get it from amazon.com

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    Re: News - ASUS UL30Vt notebook: ultra-thin, discrete GPU and 12 hours battery life

    Quote Originally Posted by crazyfool View Post
    I also saw the ul30jt and was going to wait but if it comes out in 2 months that will most likely be a us release so we will still have to wait longer. So tempted to get it from amazon.com
    I've never ordered directly from the states. I always assumed the international freight and export duty would cancel out any savings...

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