A Manly Mobile Model? - The Asus W3J

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Laptopical's Matthew Brodsky takes a break from the theatrics of Cristiano Ronaldo's diving at the world cup to report on Asus's latest offering. This manly machine has everything you need from a middle weight college and/or gaming laptop. Excellent build quality, 1.83GHz worth of Centrino's finest and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 chip.

Asus has releaseda bigger, more dude-friendly laptop in its new W3J. This guycomes with a 14-inch display and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600graphics chipset. That adds nearly an extra pound (0.4 kg),compared to Asus' more petite and dainty W5J. But that poundbrings with it an extra two inches of display, and men like itbigger and better.

And whereas the W5J had a whitechassis, the new W3J is metallic gray and silver. Them's mancolors. There are lots of blue lights on the laptop, too, to illuminate indicatorsfor power, hard disk usage, Wi-Fi activity, and to highlightthe Asus W3J's power button. They'll remind any man of theblacklight he used to have in his college dorm room, the one he'dturn on when inviting the chicks over for a romantic night of PBRpounders, Led Zeppelin, and Dorito chips.
But you know what dudes like as much as size and college chicks?Speed, man. And the W3J doesn't let down in this all-importanttestosterone category. It's got Intel Duo core processors as itsengine, with two 512 MB DDR2 for turbo boosts.

Add that to the 256 dedicated MB of memory for the ample X1600graphics cards (which can tap out at 512 MB if needs be), and youhave a laptop that can show you a good time late night when you're gaming inthe privacy of your own home.

And just for the ladies, in case any of you are still out therereading this, the Asus has staying power too. It lasted 2.75 hours on its 4-cellbattery, but could reach 4 hours of performance with its optional8-cell battery. And it's got a big brain-100 GB of standard harddrive. That's sure to please for about $2,200 (1,209 pounds). Ifyou're interested in learning more about this sterling Asus, the folks at Trusted Reviews.com examine the W3J in alot more detail:

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