Thread: Asus Lamborghini VX ii

Asus has made some pretty singular Lamborghini-branded products, most notably the VX6 netbook, but the monstrous VX7 may really deserve its supercar badge – the 15” laptop is a top-end multimedia and gaming powerhouse, with the cost and bonkers styling to cope with.


Underneath the head-turning chassis there are evenly effective parts furnishing heaps of function, together on the desktop and in games. The Intel Core i7-2630QM processor may only function at 2GHz, but Turbo Boost can push it up to 2.9GHz for a welcome function raise in lightly-threaded apps. It handled an entire score of 75, assisted through a quickly 71 in the single-threaded picture editing try. Two massive 750GB hard disks furnish more than sufficient space for a vast multimedia collection, which you will be capable to back up to Blu-ray utilizing the BD-writer optical drive.




Graphics function arrives courtesy of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 460M, which may not be diluting edge any more, but is definitely even capable of playing most games – in Dirt iii it handled a smooth 39.3fps at our default circumstances of 1,280x720 pixels, High detail and 4x anti-aliasing. It still got a superb 38fps at the VX7’s native 1,920x1,080 resolution once we disabled anti-aliasing.


The laptop may have Nvidia's Optimus tech, which switches screen duties to the processor's incorporated graphics when you are not playing games, but the laptop even scored badly in our light-utilize try. Three and a half hours away from the mains basically limits the VX7 to home utilize only, especially as the power brick weighs a kilogram – your bag will weigh near 5kg with the laptop and its charger inner.


In everyday utilize, we soon observed a some trouble with construct quality – the keyboard tray flexed dramatically below minimum pressure, the touchpad buttons would catch on their plastic surround unless we pressed them dead center, and the carbon fibre-effect panels are created of cheap-experience painted plastic. The power and screen hot keys too behaved oddly, sometimes triggering every other’s circumstances when pressed.