Part 2 of my Real Review of the ASUS X5DIJ Laptop
by Jonathan on 28th Nov 2009 in Reviews
Ok, it’s been a week, and so far the laptop is performing well. I’ve installed Office 2007 Enterprise, which is running well and programming websites in PHP has been easy peasy. I think the wireless card has to be the best one I’ve experience yet, although I’ve never had anything that you would call premium hardware on that front. But still, it seems faster than my PC’s connection which goes via 100Mbps Ethernet!
Just finished watching a couple of programmes in iPlayer and the Intel graphics handled it fine, so that’s all good – I never expected much from the X4500.
Everything’s still nice and quiet, a small amount of hard drive noise when Windows is installing updates and the battery life is still good for about 4 hours of web / word / programming.
On the subject of battery life, I recently had trouble with a Dell Insprion 1525’s battery. It’s just over a year and a half old but the battery now lasts no more than 30 mins at best. I’ve been looking into how best to prolong the life of a laptop battery so I will post what I find out soon. I’ll also be using the X5DIJ as a guinea pig to see how long I can make it live for.
Stay tuned for the battery life tips and part 3 of the review – although the laptop’s working so nicely I doubt I’ll need to say much more on the subjet. Maybe when I’ve installed Windows 7.
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Jonathan Phillips is the founder and main author here on Division by Zero. A PHP developer by trade, Jonathan spends his days building and marketing websites at his company, Phillips Internet Limited and the rest of the time coming up with ideas for websites and businesses he hasn't got time to implement.
Sue M
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Seen this Asus X5DIJ Laptop in for £399. Seems a good buy, but just one thing concerns me. In the specifiation does not mention an ethernet port so not sure if it has one or not so don’t know if to go for Samsung R519 instead
divisionbyzero
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Hi Sue,
Yes it has an ethernet port, gigabit speed if your network supports it.
All modern computers have them now, in fact what they’re most likely to be missing now is a modem port.
Hope that helps, /0