Amitabha From WB (Apr 1, 2015)
on Flipkart
Asus --- Chinese product. Nice compact, strong plastic build. Small in size, very light weight 1.5 kg. It's very portable... I carry it around with ease.
Screen size is 11.6 inches, okay for my purpose. Product comes with No windows installed, just DOS. Ships with DRIVER CD, that's a good thing. Most of the drivers are streamlined for Windows 7 -64bit, but just a few are Win 8.1 compatible. Not much problem, if you care to download a few mb-s of drivers from the Asus website.
Let me give you some solid advice.
When I tried to load Win 7 64, I saw the blue screen of death a few times. Then I entered BIOS and changed the Operating system from win8.1 to windows 7. Then everything ran smoothly. I divided my 500GB HDD into 3 primary partitions, 60GB for O/s, another 340 for storage & 100 for Linux( may be Bodhi linux2 + Nikhila Appl.) for later.
The windows system runs MS-Office programs, like Access, Excel, Word. Other software run okay too, which are not too heavy-duty. Nero-9 took a while to install. The processor is intel N2830 dual core with base frequency of 2.16, which boosts to 2.41 GHZ... pretty impressive. And no excess heating issue, as the processor only consumes 7.5 watts. Battery life... mine lasted 3 hours of loading software, with "Balanced Power management". The laptop can Hibernate properly. Only con is 2 GB of DDR3 ram. But look @ the low price tag of 16,000! I got it for 15990 and opted for delivery within a day with extra 90/=.
Flipkart and WS-Retail (seller) they are very dependable and I like their service.
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Pt2 review on 10/5/2015: The display is poor. While running DVD movies, I see bespeckles & the mov skips a few frames from time to time. I think it's the 1MB VGA cache!
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