Shopokey News: The biggest element that will obviously get people to take notice of the ASUS W7J is indeed, its beautiful widescreen display. The 13.3′ WXGA runs natively at 1280 x 800 resolution and incorporates ASUS(asus Asus Eee PC 701 laptop battery)’ Color Shine (glare type) technology to greatly enhance image contrast and picture quality. Colors are as crisp as they are rich. Similar to Sony’s XBRITE technology, Crystal Shine technology (high brightness) ensures the colors are at its brightest and clearest, even in outdoor situations. The results are absolutely stunning and a sight to see. Unfortunately, the glossy screen induces glare making it hard to see from certain angles.
Still, the risk remains that a battery fails or you need it to run longer than it is capable of. A sealed-in battery leaves you stuck in both cases.
Or does it? You may not be able to swap out a dead battery for a charged one in flight, but you can still use an external battery to power the laptop. These external batteries connect to the laptop’s power jack, and are roughly the same size as a spare internal Dynabook Qosmio F40 battery.
Sanho, for example, sells such Apple laptop batteries for MacBooks; and these batteries also let you plug in USB devices, such as iPhones. They connect via a power cord, so you don’t need to place the external battery right next to the laptop (which would be impossible on most airlines’ tray tables). The lowest-capacity version costs $200, or $40 more than the equivalent Apple internal battery. Battery Geek offers a similar product that works on a variety of PC and Mac laptops.
I suppose it’s nice to be able to connect directly to a larger HDTV or LCD capable of the connection, but this is the ONLY video out source on this laptop. No VGA, which means, if you have a nice standard LCD that has been (and continues to be) a awesome performer with DVi or VGA – you’re outta luck! (Unless you pick up a spendy adapter…)
Management at this level is implemented by IBM(ThinkPad G40-2384 battery) Systems Director. Basic tools such as system discovery, firmware and software management, and system availability monitoring are included for free. Other plug-ins to Systems Director such as virtualization management and energy configuration can be purchased.
When liquids meet electronics, you can’t waste time. Conductive liquids cause most of the initial damage. Immediately unplug the laptop from its power cord, and pull out the NC6400 battery. Don’t bother closing programs or saving data.
This unit inherits a lot of nice features for this price point…but remember when I went on above about how it doesn’t fully utilize them? Here’s an example. This unit features an HDMI port – which is awesome for transmitting video/sound at the true digital level – however, without a blu-ray drive to natively support those fancy HD resolutions…it’s almost moot. You could load up your HD programming on the hard drive, but that requires an extra step that most consumers won’t be looking at