Asus W5F - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The Asus W5F comes with smooth matt black finish, an integrated swivelly webcam and Intel innards

Pros: Appealing, if simple, smooth matt black finish. Packs a decent processing punch

Cons: Lacks design flourishes. Feels a bit light and flimsy

Pros: Good design, Solid Build quality, Good battery life, Very good performance levels, Well priced (outside of Croatia at least) -- $1,700 in the U.S., Quite small and portable

Cons: No fingerprint reader (not for me but for some people it's a problem), No cute little light to shine on my keyboard when in the dark, No trackpoint pointing stick, No serial port (I need it to use JTAG interface), No Gigabit LAN, No Infrared port (but ...

Review summary: Thin-and-light ultraportable runs fast and comes with built-in Web.

Pros: Fast ; Thin and light

Cons: Smudgeable white case, Stiff mouse buttons

Pros: Attractive wide-screen display ; decent-size keyboard ; good speaker quality ; impressive selection of ports, including S/PDIF output ; built-in dual-layer DVD burner ; 100GB hard drive

Cons: Expensive ; case seems cheap ; poor camera image quality ; lousy support terms

Verdict: The Asus W5F provides a number of great multimedia features, but because of its relatively high price, suspect case, and poor warranty, we can't recommend it over similar laptops from major manufacturers.