Hello everyone, I purchased this yesterday and am extremely happy with it so far. It replaces (and blows away) a Gateway P173FX-XL. The only problem was the keyboard, but the ASUS Live Update did the bios and that seems to have fixed it.
I told the BestBuy folks I wanted to be able to stream the laptop onto hdtv and they immediately said the netgear p2tv 2000 would do the trick. Turns out it wont, so far anyways. I looked at the intel site for the requirements to use wireless display,
http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wtech/iwd/sb/CS-031059.htm.
This laptop has everything (2630QM, Centrino® Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150), with the exception of Intel HD graphics..?? Should I install this driver? Will it conflict/mess up the nvidia drivers already installed? Netgear support is no help because this laptop is not on their list,
http://www.netgear.com/landing/ptv_supportedlaptops_usa.aspx and BB Geek Squad 800 number was clueless. When I called BB store the lady that answered said no one, including geek squad, has any experience with p2tv and so couldn't help. Sheesh, I'm a little irked at BB at the moment. I dont remember salesguy name but I may hunt down tomorrow.
Tried to install the intel wireless display driver and receive error message of, "This platform is not compatible with Intel Widi or the application is in use. Please see log for more details." When I check out the log, though, it tells me everything 'passed' or okay. The log is a .csv file, and I have no idea how to post that here, but happy to with instruction.
If anyone can help I sure would appreciate it. I have an old back injury that flares from time to time, like now, such that I cannot sit for any amount of time, so I am using laptop on stand next to bed. Would be heaven if I could get this on big screen. Injury also keeps me from using my acer 3d monitor (attached to desktop) which leads to next question, how to turn on 3d in laptop?
With FSX running full screen, I press the button next to power button, but it just indicates it is changing modes, from entertainment to high performance, etc, and nothing about 3d. I have also tried the start/nvidia/enable-disable 3d to no avail. The 3d drivers were already installed, and yes I have the glasses, so I'm at a loss.
FSX is a real CPU hog, and this is the first laptop that will run it smoothly with most settings on high, so very well done ASUS. Thanks in advance.