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We have collected 2 reviews of the Asus NX90JQ-A1. Experts rate Asus NX90JQ-A1 6.5/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Asus NX90JQ-A1 and Asus Laptops.
Not all laptops are designed to be carted around town. Some are supposed to sit in your room looking pretty, playing movies and music. The 18.4-inch NX90Jq from Asus is just such a machine. Our model packed a quad-core, 1.73GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 6GB of RAM for the frankly ludicrous price of £2,000 or so.So you like lightweight little netbooks and ultra-portable laptops like Apple's MacBook Air do you? Move along, chum -- this isn't the computer you're looking for. Make no mistake about it, the NX90Jq is huge. It arrived in the CNET UK skyscraper in such a massive, heavy black box that we thought somebody had mistakenly dropped off a gravestone. We couldn't see any names carved on it, so we immediately set about polishing our finely chiselled bodies by doing some bench presses with it. In case you didn't realise, this is a very wide laptop. With a screen size of 18.4 inches, the NX90Jq is incredibly wide. Add onto that the extra two inches either side of the screen for the speakers and you're left with a laptop measuring a whopping 530mm wide. At 36mm high, it's not exactly slim either, so good luck finding a carry case big enough to help you lug its 4.4kg body across town.
The Asus NX90JQ-A1 ($2,530 street) is a media center laptop. While you might be gawking at the full 1080p, 18.4-inch widescreen if it were another laptop, in this one, your eyes are fixed on the mammoth, side-mounted speakers. Merely looking at the laptop is entertaining, as flashes of the classic Maxell commercials with the iconic Blown-Away Guy come to mind. Indeed, the speakers, co-developed by Bang and Olufsen, are the main attraction. But there are plenty of other features worth noting, including the dual touchpads, top-of-the-line Nvidia graphics, and a quad-core processor. Serious audiophiles have been waiting for a laptop like this, but like all specialty products, the NX90JQ-A1 will cost you dearly. In terms of design, the NX90JQ-A1 is more bizarre than revolutionary. Its width alone, at 21.8 inches, is unprecedented for a laptop and unlikely to fit in any conventional laptop bag. Moving it beyond the confines of your room will take some mental and physical preparation, as the NX90JQ-A1 weighs a monstrous 9.4 pounds. It's heavier than its 18.4-inch counterpart - the Acer Aspire AS8943G-6782 ($1,600 street, 4 stars) (8.2 lbs) - by over a pound.