Asus has announced new Dolby driven laptops. The Asus A7J is compatible with Dolby Home Theater and features a surround sound system ready for playback through the notebook’s speakers, as well as a digital TV tuner and remote control.
The features Dolby Digital Live which converts any audio source in Dolby Digital in real time, “immersing players in high-quality surround sound that puts them at the center of the action”, Asus claimed.
The Centrino-branded machine is based on a 2GHz Core Duo T2500 processor. It’s got a 17in, 1,680 x 1,050 display driven by an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of dedicated memory, expandable to 512MB using HyperMemory-linked system RAM, of which there’s 1GB of 667MHz DDR 2. Connectivity comes courtesy of 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. It offers 120GB of HDD storage and a DVD±R/RW slotload drive.



