ASUS UL80Vt-A1 14-Inch Thin and Light Black Laptop – 11.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) : ASUS UL80Vt-A1
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ASUS UL80Vt-A1 14-Inch Thin and Light Black Laptop – 11.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) : ASUS UL80Vt-A1
The thin and light ASUS UL80Vt is a harmonious blend of form and function. Powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo ultra-low voltage processor, it boasts an impressive 11-hour battery life for all-day computing. It also sports user-centric features such as a multi-gesture touchpad and provides an impressive multimedia entertainment experience with Altec Lansing speakers and an NVidia G210M graphics engine (users can turn the graphics card off if longer battery life is needed). All of these features and more are shrouded in a robust brushed aluminum lid that not only looks magnificent, but also helps in maintaining the notebook’s stylish exterior day after day. ASUS notebooks come with ASUS’ 360 service program that includes a 2 year global warranty, one month zero bright dot guaranty, free two-way shipping and twenty-four hour tech support seven days a week. Plus it comes with a FREE One Year Accidental Damage Warranty protecting your notebook from drops, fire, spills and surges.
ASUS UL80Vt-A1 14-Inch Thin and Light Black Laptop – 11.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) : ASUS UL80Vt-A1 Review
Best Laptop ASUS UL80Vt-A1 Ever! My first review! Cuz it rocks that much!
I don’t usually spend my time putting in reviews because it doesn’t benefit me much (I know, kind of selfish) but this product was just too good to not leave a review, especially since there’s no review here yet.
I’ve been looking at laptops for years now, always looking for the one that hits all the sweet spot. I didn’t NEED it so I was able to just keep waiting for the right one. Here were all the things I was looking for.
Fast speed – For gaming like World of Warcraaft, etc.
Long battery life – It’s not mobile if you’re chained to power cord.
Decent price – Nobody should be paying more than a grand for a laptop.
Temperature – This is something many people don’t think much about until too late. Laptops get HOT, and then they’re no longer LAPtop, but a DESKtop.
DVD drive – Because I like to keep my options open.
Every laptops I’ve seen through deal sites, etc NEVER met all of these criteria. Until now. This computer really is THE laptop to get right now.
Pros————-
Great speed – I just ran World of Warcraft and it runs SMOOTH with mid-high setting. I also saw from another review that this can run Farcry2 or Crysis2 at 40fps which is pretty damn good.
LED screen – This takes some getting used to since I’m not used to seeing such rich black on monitor but it looks bright, crisp, and shiny. (latter might be issue if you live with many light fixtures)
Video – YES it has Nvidia video card on top of Intel integrated. This allows for awesome gaming which many other laptops just can’t do.
Temperature – It doesn’t burn! 
It still gets warm, especially on left side near vent but it’s not so hot that I have to put something underneath to shield my lap like previous laptops I had.
Weight – I’m kinda scrawny guy and I can lift this with one hand with no issue. This will be handy as you move around the house or carry in yer bag.
Battery life – AWESOME. just check any other review on this because they’ll all tell you this thing last a loong time. It was tough to find laptops that can last long WHILE also having great performance AND be under a grand. Now there is.
ExpressGate – It allows you to turn on a laptop from off or hibernation mode, into special operating system that has skype, photo, and web browser among others. So if you need to google something quick, now you can! There’s downside to that in cons section.
Cons———————-
Keyboard – This is very minor annoyance but I want to be thorough. When you type, sometimes, you hear this light metal ringing-ish sound that’s coming from metal underneath the keyboard. It’s not the quietest keyboard you’ll use but it won’t drive you crazy either.
Touchpad – I had to figure out the issue with this because it was bugging the hell out of me. It has two and three finger gestures like scroll and right/middle click. Issue was it wasn’t accurate and working sporadically. Scroll especially was driving me nuts because it’ll scroll at its own speed/time. I tried pressing my fingers lightly/heavily but difference. Then I figured it out. You have to have you movement straight up and down or left/right. When people use the touchpad, we usually have our hand in an angle so we end up scrolling in almost like \ instead of |. Well, touchpad doesn’t like that. Same goes for right/middle click that requires 2-3 fingers. It works best if you have your fingers in same x axis. Some people won’t be affected since they’ll use mouse but if you’ll be using touchpad a lot, be prepared for bit of adjustment. Oh, and if you prefer to click the button instead of tapping the touchpad for mouse clicks, exercise your finger because button’s bit harder to press than other touchpad buttons I’ve used.
ExpressGate – Idea is great. Execution, not quite. I was expecting instant on like when you come out of sleep mode but unfortunately, there’s still some wait involved. 10-ish seconds I believe. Also, Asus installed regular monitor version of expressgate onto this widescreen laptop so everything’s stretched to fit widescreen. So far, I haven’t figured out how to change resolution in this mode. It’s good for quick browsing but not for long session.
Power cable – OMG, where do ASUS think people live in? Castles!? Power cord is the longest I’ve ever seen. About 10-11 ft total (big power block right in the mid point). And although it comes with velcro strip to manage the cable, I found there’s too much cable to roll the cable neatly. Just prepare for some mess when packing cable. Good thing this has 10 hour battery life so you won’t have to deal with cable too much.
All in all, Pros are all important crucial items and Cons are minor annoyance at best. This is really the best laptop you could get at this price with this much features and performance. I remember coming across Sony and HP that had similarity (good speed, light weight, dvd) and those were going for 1800ish.. and it didn’t even have 10hr battery life. If you don’t believe me, when you go out for laptop shopping, just have this computer’s feature written down and compare. You ain’t gonna find one that beats it easily.
EDIT:
Couple things I came across after prolonged use.
1. It does get hot, especially near vent but only when I’m using it intensely like 3d games. but it doesn’t get hot on the surface much. Just underneath near vent.
2. Changing performance mode requires you to quit any apps that use video card, such as Photoshop, games, etc. So change before you load them. Otherwise, when you press the button to change the power mode, nothing happens.
3. OMG FINGERPRINT MAGNET. EVERYWHERE. >.<
Still loving it though.
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