Asus L8400-B Review

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Asus L8400-B
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Jay Hasell.'s Review of Asus L8400-B Laptop

13th Jun 2000

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
Good Points

Powerful for the price. Equivalent to Toshiba Tecra 8100, Sony VAIO and Dell Latitude for a cheaper price.


Bad Points

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General Comments

The Asus L8400-B laptop I bought came with a Pentium III-500 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM, 12 GB hard drive, integrated modem/network card, a 6X DVD-ROM drive, 8MB video card and 16 bit sound card. A nice little unit.

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  • Guru. on 19th May 2001

    I found the previous reviews to be lacking in respect to detail.

    I agree that the Asus is value for money. Good bang for buck compared to rivals which is why I bought one.
    However, reviews did not cover performance areas or features properly.

    I am still evaluating mine and my verdict is not in yet. I am testing with 4 OS and hardware compatibility is good, ...except the standard Realtek NIC.
    Of major importance, was this laptop hardware fully compliant with windows 2000 professional and windows 2000 server.

    I have had major problems with creating a working MS Client boot disk for this laptop for the realtek card. However, the same NIc is working fine with w9x, NT4, 2000 and LINUX OS. Also you can option for onboard modem instead of NIC. I would advise this instead of the realtek NIC. If you require networking, get a PCCARD NIC adapter which also supports DOS drivers.

    Build quality, chasis is solid. Port replicator addon
    excellent.

    8x DVD fantastic. DVD which ships with the ASUS is a quality DVD drive which can be made region free.
    Very handy for international peoples such as myself.
    TVout feature works. I was disappointed that this out was not true SVideo but is comparable to even the top end DEll laptops.

    Hard disk size. I optioned the 20 GB...just big enough.

    I am pushing my laptop fairly hard so the Jury is still out on this one.
    So far, I don't regret the purchase.
    Choose the modem onboard If want the dos disk network boot capability.

    The video display is good quality.