ASUS W90 High-End Entertainment Notebook Unveiled

Asustek showcases a new high-end entertainment notebook – the ASUS W90 – at the ongoing 2009 CES Show in Las Vegas.

The W90 is a desktop replacement laptop with a 18.4- or 17-inch display, depending on model, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 or HD 3850 X2 dual graphics, or a single NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GS GPU, and the Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The system is based on the Intel X38 chipset and has three SO-DIMM slots for up to 6GB of DDR2 memory. Asustek’s high performance notebook is additionally equipped with the Turbo Gear function, which allows users to overclock the machine by “up to 25%”.

Other features include up to 1 terabyte of hard drive storage space using two HDDs, a DVD burner or Blu-ray optical drive, six built-in Altec Lansing surround sound speakers, an optional TV tuner, the AI Touch Media – a multimedia control panel located beside the keyboard, a 2-megapixel web camera, 802.11 Draft N wireless, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet LAN, and a 56k modem.

Regarding ports and slots, there are HDMI and VGA outputs, four USBs, an ExpressCard slot, Firewire, and an 8-in-1 media card reader.

The Asus W90 rus Windows Vista 64-bit OS.

UPDATE: The laptop is available now.

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[...] Asustek’s new entertainment laptop PC – the 18.4-inch ASUS W90 – is now available in the United States. [...]