14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft and Amazon.com are offering a special deal on new ASUS U43Jc laptops pre-installed with Windows 7.
The U Bamboo, as the computer is known, is available for purchase for $999 at Amazon.com, and the online retailer will throw in a $150 gift certificate that customers will be able to use towards another purchase.
The U43Jc is part of the Bamboo Collection from ASUS, a moniker related to the natural bamboo that the OEM used in combination with the aluminum when the machines was designed.
Inside the U Bamboo, “is an Intel Core i5 processor, 4 GB of RAM, a 500GB 5400rpm hard drive, and NVIDIA GeForce G310M discrete graphics, which are instantaneously switchable to integrated Intel HD graphics using NVIDIA’s OPTIMUS technology,” revealed Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph.
“If you’re not familiar with OPTIMUS, you need to be – it allows you to toggle between GPUs instantly with zero flickering and maximum battery life,” he added.
The Windows 7 ASUS U Bamboo special offering was kicked off on August 17th, 2010. Customers have plenty of time to take advantage of the deal, as it will run through September 5.
However, they should also considering hurrying, especially considering the fact that the offering will only be available as supplies last.
“Aside from the graphics, the U Bamboo has the usual suspects in terms of drives and ports; DVD super-multi, USB, ethernet, VGA and mic/headphone. (…)The ASUS U Bamboo is one of the first laptops to offer a USB 3.0 port for wicked fast data transfer,” Rudolph added.
“Battery life was very good, netting me about 8 hours of real use over the weekend. A lot of that has to do with ASUS’ highly customizable “Power4Gear Hybrid” application and “Super Hybrid Engine” that go a long way to helping you squeeze every second of uptime out of the battery,” he explained.