Jens Olsson

My newst investing is the cheap Asus Aspire 5738ZG notebook. The low price is nearly one of few things that is good with the product, nah now I am little mean, but still I have already have a mess with this little machine.

Ok, lets start with the design. Here I just have to say that they have success. But some times the product just feel cheap, for etc the keyboard, the buttons could be in more quality. Lets give it 4/5 on my new 5 stage rating system

Price VS what you get. Okay, the price is good. I bought it for 5990 Swedish money, skr. And the specs are pretty good for this price, Pentium dual core (ONLY WITH 1 MB CASE :$ makes me angry!) 2.0 ghz, 4 gb ddr3 (good), geforce G105M 512 mb dedi mem, 300 GB ide? So all the specs are good imo but still, the cpu with only 1 mb case is perhaps to low. And ofc you get Windows vista 32 bit system. And again, what were they thinking of? Why not just give the buyer 64 bit OS when the cpu supports it and when you only get out 3 gb from ram memory with 32 bit system. Well again supid.

For us Linux lovers this 32 bit OS is not any problem but when I just have to use Windows some times for games etc I want to use what I have bought? Btw, do not forget to burn out backup of your win installation, asus takes 30 $ for new CD if you forget it, very kind… -_-

So how does it work with Ubuntu then… Well actually not good at all. Ofc do not Nvidia have any drivers for the gpu at this moment so you have to use some random Nvidia driver to not get 6 screens. I have wrote a howto for this but still very time taking. The audio card does not either work as it should and you can just forget the webcam and microphone. Some times etc when I write this review I get the feeling of some smal lag and they cpu is using like 20% of both core when i have Firefox, Pidgin and Spotify running, not good.

But if you have a lot of time and like to “hack” around this computer is perfect for Ubuntu using, as well for Windows ofc.

And remember not to call the support. They a huge not care support, like the example for the copy of the win disc.

Total score 3/5, and 2/5 if the price would be little higher.