M51Sn: Review & Owners' Lounge

[terek]

is there a pictures for the m51sn?? i mean not the official image... the owners image.

[Fone_Bone]

It seems like this is the one to go for, if you like a suped-uped high-end monster of a laptop. But dos anyone know the noiselevel of this laptop? Is it noisy when you play demaning games? Dos it sound like a jet taking off, when you power it up?

[Fone_Bone]

is there a pictures for the m51sn?? i mean not the official image... the owners image.

Well, they have it at a germen dealership with lots of pictures. You can see them here:
http://www.notebooksbilliger.de/prod...ecial_2_3072mb

[deadmanwins]

It seems like this is the one to go for, if you like a suped-uped high-end monster of a laptop. But dos anyone know the noiselevel of this laptop? Is it noisy when you play demaning games? Dos it sound like a jet taking off, when you power it up?

I can't speak directly to the M51, but my M50 is very quiet. The fan and hard drive noise are both almost undetectable. Really, the only noise it makes is when the DVD drive is starting up a DVD/CD.

[jvmoore1]

It seems like this is the one to go for, if you like a suped-uped high-end monster of a laptop. But dos anyone know the noiselevel of this laptop? Is it noisy when you play demaning games? Dos it sound like a jet taking off, when you power it up?

mine is very very quiet on boot up and during gaming. granted i havent played much. but playing UT3 the other night for about an hr or so i didnt hear any noise at all

[Fone_Bone]

Nice! Well then, its settled. I will have to buy this! So... were in Canada is the best place to buy it? I live en Denmark, but is thinking about having it shipped to a friends familiy and having them send it as a gift or an forgotten item, due to the extremly high taxes and toll on stuff here... have found a place in Canada that has it to 1049$. In Denmark, the cheapest place it comes at an price of app. 1775$ (Canadien). Thats some difference, eh?

[Fone_Bone]

Hmm... Just found a difference between the one I can buy here in DK and the one in Canada... Its the cpu in the two...
The one in Canada: CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66GHz 667MHz 4M L2 cache
The one in DK: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 / 2.4 GHz 3 MB - L2
There is a huge difference in the raw power of the two, but how will the minor stuff affect the overall preformence? And is it worth the extra money? Or is it better to buy the processor in bulk and change it my self? Could realy use some advice here now... Don't know what is the better choise...?!?

[Wolfpup]

I think that 2.4GHz model is out over here, but it's a different model that costs around $200 more.

[CrimsonShell]

The M51Sn is extremely quiet. The DVD-RW drive does spin up a bit loud, but I have played Call of Duty 4 and a few other games on it and have no complaints about the noise of the laptop.
So far I have been very pleased with the laptop. I've been using it for about a week now. The speakers have virtually no bass, but I don't expect to get much bass from built in speakers on laptops anyway. The fingerprint scanner, face-recognition login features are awesome. The built in multi-format flash card reader is nice. I am researching the ability of using a SD (Secure Digital) card with Vista's ReadyBoost feature to speed up performance even more. Asus tech support tells me that with the latest Vista Updates downloaded, the card reader built into the M51Sn should support High Capacity SD cards up to 8GB or more. Another obvious solution for using the ReadyBoost Vista system cache features are to spend $89 on a ReadyBoost compatible ExpressCard Solid-State-Drive, or on a ReadyBoost compatible USB Flash Drive, but considering that both the ExpressCard and USB Flash drive would stick out the side of the laptop, if I could use ReadyBoost on a SD card that would be hidden out of the way, I would rather use that part of the laptop instead. ReadyBoost reports indicate they don't increase system performance too much, but I hear you can boot Vista about 20-40 seconds faster with ReadyBoost working for you, and that frame rates and application startup times are a bit faster.
I should also mention, I bought a 2GB memory stick to replace the factory-installed 1GB stick. So now I am running the M51Sn with 4GB RAM total.
I need to install some more games on here and try them, but so far this laptop is working very fast. I have been using laptops and desktops for years and am an avid gamer, so take it from me. This is probably one of the best gaming laptops you will find for under $1000. 250GB hard drive rules, and the laptops ability to output DVI or VGA to an external monitor is also nice.
I'll post more info as I try other things out on the laptop.
If you have any questions I can answer about my experiences with it, leave me a post and I'll respond as quick as I can. I really want to spread the word about this amazing laptop.

[Wolfpup]

Thanks for that great review! Nice to hear that it handles games without getting loud. That's important to me (and should mean it can handle Folding @ Home too without getting loud).

I maybe should have gone for it when it was one sale that one day