I am also an owner of this laptop for a year now, and I am having the similar issues as Pete. This is the second time I will be replacing the battery for it. My hard drive is still ok, but batteries are begining to drain my pocket ($40-80 CND + 13% Tax + S&H depending on purchase). Every 6 months the battery looses 96% of its life expectancy.

FettesPS: any problems yet?

So happy to read this… as i am a proud owner of it as well… and i picked it up during the same sale

its just awesome… it even handles battlefield 3 !!! im amazed!!!

The color is not black if you look closely under sun light it is a deep dark sexy brown, this threw me off when I read the specs at asus but they state it is a brown.

Windows 7 is installed on your hard drive, if you should get a virus or a crash you can reinstall windows it is there, I did not do back up but I had to reinstall widows because I installed the wrong driver for nvidia, just a tip Only use the driver from ASUS do not bother going to Nvidia website it won’t work.

I only had this problem because I was trying to make it work with the online virtual worlds “Second life” and there software was not really compatible at the time so I had to do a lot of tweaking at one point, but did not have any problems right off the bat with another games or software. I had some problems with the touch pad, it was very sensitive but if you’re using an external mouse look for the touch pad setting , you can set the touch pad to deactivate when it sees a usb mouse, otherwise when you typing and your palm touches the touch pad it screws you up lol.

The Original Price I saw was around 1000.00 when it first came out and it was on sale at 799.00 but the store owed me a lot of money so I took this model and felt I should of gotten more out of it at that price or at least a I5 but I took it and ran because they were going under. 500.00 is a great price and for what you get. Now around 700 will get you an intel Core I5, but really laptops never made a good gaming machine look at a desk top. but I have many ASUS mother boards over the years and so far it has not let me down and you are with a great manufacture with a long great history.

No complaints about the built in WI-FI and you should have the Altec Lansing speakers. Sounds great.

I have a 5 year old acer travel mate 250, still works like a charm, but the same story, it is the batteries. I am sure this product will last a long time as long you take care of it plus this computer is the easiest to clean the cpu fan then other laptops, a few screws from underneath and a cover comes off, get a”Can OF Air” and go for it. Every Six months clean it I would suggest.

PS: my Asus k52j is awesome