ASUS X75A-DS31 17.3-Inch Deals

By Walter - (UK)

This review is from: ASUS X75A-DS31 17.3-Inch Laptop (Black) (Personal Computers)
I like the 17.3 inch screen, it works great, and the price was right. I'm so glad I didn't get a laptop with a small 15 inch screen. Battery charges fast. There wasn't a lot of bloatware to remove. Asus has a nice smart gestures utility to suppress any Windows 8 gestures that become annoying. It is fast enough for my purposes and Asus has 24/7 support and 1 year warranty, plus 1 year accidental warranty. I didn't really want Windows 8, but that's what you're gonna get. After 3 weeks intensive training, I now am comfortable with Windows 8. The laptop has really fast wake-up from sleep (they are not kidding when they say 2 seconds). However, it runs warmer than I had expected when the charger is plugged in. On the negative side, there isn't a free period of Windows 8 support for complicated issues from either Asus or Microsoft due to being an OEM copy of Windows. That's probably typical. However, Microsoft will help with minor things free of charge.

 By Adrian -(CA)

This review is from: ASUS X75A-DS31 17.3-Inch Laptop (Black) (Personal Computers)
This review is with this PC running Windows 7
Pros:
PRICE
Handles HD Movies Well
i3 2370M (CANT WAIT TO TEST VMWARE & GNS3 using this processor)
You can downgrade to 7 64-bit
PRICE

Cons:
WINDOWS 8

spent all day downgrading from this windows 8 garbage, back to windows 7 64-bit, and installed all the drivers, from Asus website. Got a copy of windows 7 and did a clean install. ITS WORTH IT. 8 IS FOR TOUCH SCREEN DEVICES, EVERYTHING BACK UP AND RUNNING PERFECT. NOW

I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE GIVEN THIS LAPTOP A 5 STAR IF IT WITH 7 LOADED.

UPDATE: SOME IMPORTANT THINGS I FORGOT TO ADD....

1. THIS LAPTOP HAS ONLY 1 OPEN RAM SLOT. THE 4GB RAM IT COMES WITH IS BUILT IN (SOLDERED ON).
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? IT WILL ONLY SUPPORT UP TO 12GB DDR3 RAM, NOT 16GB. (SHOULD NOT MATTER TO THE AVERAGE USER)

2. THE PROCESSOR CAN ONLY TAKE ADVANTAGE ON 1333Mhz DDR3, however you can install 1600Mhz.
I Just upgraded this PC to 8GB.

Windows Experience Index Rates this PC at 5.8/7.9 (Graphics being the lowest score)

By Stealthvette - (USA)

This review is from: ASUS X75A-DS31 17.3-Inch Laptop (Black) (Personal Computers)
I needed a laptop with a large screen because I use it as my desktop and attach another monitor to it for working on spreadsheets for our insurance brokerage. The display is OK but not magnificent it would be nice to have some knobs to control the contrast and color as it is a bright display but kind of washed out.

Since I work with primarily business applications that aren't gobbling up huge bandwidth it is a good basic machine with an adequate size (500 gig) hard drive.

I did have to struggle with Windows 8 and downloaded some start shells and other gadgets to get the system to work like Win7 so am happy, now.