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PC Magazine have published a review of the Asus U36SD-A1 ultraportable laptop. 'Like the Apple Air 13-inch, Acer AS3830TG-6431, and Samsung Series 9, the U36SD-A1 omits an optical drive to keep its thin profile. You can find an internal DVD burner in the Toshiba R835-P50X and Sony VPC-SA2GFX/BI. It has all of the other standard features, including two USB 2.0 ports, one USB 3.0 port, Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, VGA, and HDMI. A media card reader is located on the right side, while a 1.3-megapixel webcam is situated above the screen. The 640GB, 5,400rpm hard drive is spacious, surpassing the 500GB ones found in the Tosbhia R835-P50X and Acer AS3830TG-6431. You won't find cutting-edge wireless technologies like Wireless Display 2 (WiDi 2.0) and WiMAX, though, like you would with the Toshiba R835-P50X.'

PC Advisor have published a review of the ASUS Lamborghini VX7 gaming laptop. 'The ASUS Lamborghini VX7 is an option for gamers who want a fast laptop that also looks the part. Like the famous luxury sports car manufacture it shares its name with, the Lamborghini VX7 is built to turn heads and designed with performance in mind. There is nothing modest about it and there is nothing cheap about it. You pay a premium for a well built machine that can handle most recent games quite well and we think it's a machine that will have a long lifespan thanks to its high-end specifications. However, there are still areas in which the Lambo could be better.'

Laptop Magazine have published a review of the Asus G53SW-A1 gaming laptop. 'Following the design cues of its 17-inch cousin, the G53SW-A1 has the same angular lines as the F117-Nighthawk stealth fighter and a matte lid that resists fingerprints. Unlike Alienware and MSI, ASUS goes with a less-is-more approach. You won't find customizable multi-color lights here, just a white, light-up ASUS logo and an engraved Republic of Gaming emblem on the lid. The two rear vents further sell the fighter plane motif, but also help cool the notebook and provide noise dampening. The G53SW's interior reveals the same smooth black matte theme. The only exception is the display bezel, which is made of texturized plastic. The black matte palm rest uses a rubberized material, giving it a soft feel.'

HotHardware have published a review of the Asus G73SW Sandy Bridge gaming notebook. 'Now in its third generation, the G73SW represents an architectural upgrade to what was already a powerful mobile PC. The goal remains the same, which is to recreate the desktop experience in a portable form factor. Whether you need to hammer out a spreadsheet, encode a Blu-ray video, or frag some foes at a LAN party, the G73SW promises to help get the job done. By all means, this is a desktop replacement, but with the addition of Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture, there's potential here for battery life to be extended beyond what you would normally expect from a high octane notebook.'

CNET have published a review of the Asus U36JC A1 (Core i5 460M 2.53GHz -13.3" TFT) laptop. 'Clad in a matte black magnesium shell with a smooth finish, the U36JC adopts an all-black, angular look that's clean and instantly attractive. In several ways, the formal lines resemble those of the Alienware laptops or Asus' Republic of Gamers laptop, the Asus G73. It's also similar in size and design to the Toshiba Portege R700 series, but, as mentioned above, without an optical drive. The upper lid swings open on two raised hinges, floating slightly above the base, and a thick raised back lip partially contains the U36JC's eight-cell battery. The U36JC is nearly as thin as the recently reviewed ultracompact Lenovo IdeaPad U260, but it has a wider and deeper footprint.'

CNET have published a review of the Asus U35JC-A1 laptop. 'Much like the UL30A, the U35Jc-A1 is slim, angular, and decked in lots of brushed metal; in many ways, it comes across as a throwback design, like a DeLorean in laptop form. The very thin upper lid is backed in brushed aluminum, the small centered Asus logo looking more EPCOT-era than ever. Inside, a light gray-silver, patterned, glossy plastic surrounds the keyboard deck, while glossy, black plastic surrounds the inset screen. Asus' keyboards are almost universally of the raised Chiclet-style kind, but they're not all made equally. Some Asus laptops have exhibited serious keyboard flex; but that isn't the case with the U35Jc-A1. The very solid-feeling keys were great to type on, and aside from our gripe with the awkwardly placed arrow keys and a right-hand side of page up/down buttons that needlessly squish the Enter and Shift keys, it makes for an excellent experience.'

A review of the Asus UL80JT (Core i3 330UM 1.2GHz, 4GB, 500GB, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit) laptop has been posted over at CNET. 'The Asus UL80JT-A1 is part of a family of slim Asus laptops that we've generally liked quite a bit since their inception, going back to the UL30A. Crisp angles and a combination of black plastic and aluminum give this laptop a sharp but smudge-collecting profile. The thin brushed-aluminum lid has glossy plastic on its interior surrounding the inset screen. The keyboard area is decked with brushed-metal-like smooth black plastic. Two separate chromed plastic buttons on the top left and right of the keyboard create a bit of confusion as to which is the actual power button: the left one boots up Asus' Quick Start OS, the right boots Windows 7.'

A review of the feature-rich Asus N53JN laptop has been posted over at Trusted Reviews. 'Inside the N53JN doesn't want for processing power. A 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 processor handles the day-to-day, supported by a 3MB Cache, 4GB of DDR3 RAM. Meanwhile graphics switches between a 1GB Nvidia GeForce 335M for the intensive work and Intel's power-efficient integrated graphics. For storage there's a 5,400rpm, 500GB hard drive. Throw in the Blu-ray player, the aforementioned audio enhancements, and a generous two-year warranty, and the N53JN represents decent value and lacks for little. Much the same can be said for the connectivity. On the wireless side of things you get 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 - not 3.0 as seen in a few laptops and mobile phones of late.'

PC World have published a review of the ASUS ROG G73Jh gaming laptop. 'The $1599 G73Jh swings hard in our benchmarking, rating an overall 89 in its performance score while rattling off 111 points in our WorldBench 6 test suite. An Intel Core i7 Q 720 running at 1.6GHz powers nearly any application, from content-creation to gaming. In the Unreal Tournament 3 test (at high-quality, 1024-by-768-resolution settings), the laptop pulled in an average of 92.5 frames per second; that shows enough power to keep any current title smooth. We pushed the system further, testing the latest titles, including Just Cause 2 and Metro 2033. Both look and play great. With the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 GPU and a gigabyte of dedicated graphics RAM, it might be a while before some upcoming title causes this system to break a sweat.'

PC Magazine have published a review of the Asus U30Jc-1A laptop. 'In terms of physical size, the U30Jc-A1's 13.3-inch widescreen has as much workspace as the MacBook Pro 13-inch, despite having different screen resolutions (both are considered WXGA). A 14-inch widescreen, as seen on the Dell i1464-4382OBK and HP Pavilion dv4-2153cl ($749.99 list, ) would be the next size up. The Asus UL50VF-A1 bumps it up even further with a 15.6-inch screen and weighs about as much as the U30Jc-A1. The island-style keyboard means the U30Jc-A1's square keys are non-interconnecting. It's not a traditional keyboard, like the one found in the Dell i1464 and HP dv4-2153cl, and it doesn't have a backlit function like the one on the MacBook Pro 13-inch.'