Review: Asus Lamborghini VX2

The good: Solid construction; leather detailing; cool branded extras.

The bad: Kind of slow for a laptop named after a race car; expensive; poor battery life.

The bottom line: The Asus Lamborghini VX3 is the laptop recast as status symbol. It looks and feels like a luxury item; we just wish it had a bit more power under the hood.

Specifications: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (2.5 GHz); RAM installed: 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM; Weight: 3.7 lbs;

Introduction
Asus started with their Lamborghini models 6 months ago and VX2s is the third version of this series. From the outside this machine looks same as the VX1s, but under the hood a lot of things have changed. What’s new in this version is Intel’s update with new processor, chipset, network card and Intel Turbo Memory.
The graphic card comes from Nvidia with DirectX10 support. Geforce8600M GT with 512 MB memory gives this PC very good graphics.

Design
You can choose between a yellow and a hot carbon fiber pattern look on this laptop. This machine is very solid no matter how you look at it, they keyboard is very good and have a quiet clicking sound. The mouse pad got a little bit strange shape its wide on the top, but gets smaller the further you go down. Asus also placed some shortcut buttons above the keyboard. These are for activation and deactivation of the wireless network, bluetooth, and intern mouse. You can also find a button for media and power saving properties. With this machine you also get a rotating webcam on 1,3 MP and a inbuilt microphone.

Screen
The screen is very blank and shiny, and got a nice resolution of 1680x1050. The brightness and the contrast is very good, I really like this screen. The fan makes a lot of noise, but even the computer working hard or its in standby mode it don’t make any more or noise .

Performance
The model is not so much different compared to the older version in the Lamborghini series. The new CPU from Intel and the good graphic card are the two biggest updates. This version uses a Geforce 8600M-GT, the old version only got a Geforce Go 7700. Even though this version got a Geforce 8600M-GT it does not score much higher points on the different 3dmark tests, but remember this card supports DirectX10, something Geforce Go 7700 don’t. When we tried Doom 3 on this machine we had around 94 FPS, and on 3dmark 2006 we got 3207 in score.
We managed to watch DVD movies for 3 whole hours before the battery’s was dead, this should be enough for most movies.

Pros
+ A lot of connection facilities
+ High quality screen
+ Good performance
+ A lot of accessories

Cons
-Expensive
-The graphic could have been little bit better
- This laptop should have supported Blu-ray or HD DVD
- Very noisy fan

Value For Money

Our Rating