Here’s our first, hands-on review of the ultra luxurious Asus NX90Jq Bang & Olufsen Notebook. Designed by Bang & Olufsen, the Asus NX90Jq features an 18.4 inch HD display, with a pair of Banhg & Olufsen speakers either side. It is powered by an Intel Core i7 Processor, and comes with NVIDIA GeForce GT 334M graphics. Other specifications include 1280GB of storage with dual drives, USB 3.0 and a slot in Blu-ray drive. The Asus NX90JQ also features dual touchpads, as you can see from the photos the touchpads are located either side of the keyboard.
The speakers extend past the screen like a huge, albeit elegant, pair of elephant ears. It definitely took great skill to design a laptop around vertically mounted speakers of this size, but you can’t help but question the materials that cover the frame. Sound coming from a Blu-ray movie (Avatar), high bit-rate music files, and Dolby’s 7.1 surround sound tests are fully immersive, as if you’re sitting in a movie theater. It’s arguably the best sound experience on a laptop, even surpassing the Dell XPS 15, which, at the time it was tested, had the best audio experience on a media center laptop.
With an 18.4 inch screen plus the speakers either side of it, it’s not the type of notebook that’s easy to leave the home with — and its battery life won’t be long enough anyway. It’s definitely a stay-at-home notebook and its reflective panels and very good audio performance make it a great media centre machine through which you can play all your video and music.