When slid my hands across the lid, it felt as if ASUS literally had removed a piece of the hood from the Lamborghini Murcielago (a magnificent late model roadster) and attached it to the VX2S.
The yellow lacquered finish and the magnesium alloy surrounding the frame give it the look of an actual car hood, as opposed to the more laptop like carbon fiber exterior of the Acer Ferrari 5000. (Both exteriors are gorgeous and required a collective effort from a lot of creative minds, so I'm not trying to take anything away from either one.)
Spring the latch and you'll find something that you don't often see on a laptop leather seats, so to speak.Because of heat issues, you have to appreciate how difficult it was for ASUS to use leather around the keyboard and palm rests.
It's stitched leather, to boot you actually can see the yellow stitches.
Given all the professional detailing and heavier metals it uses, the VX2S weighs more than most laptops in its class. It tips the scales at 7 pounds, almost 2 pounds heavier than the 5.3 pound Apple Macbook Pro 15 inch and this is coming from the company that designs the Apple chassis.
It's heavier than the HP Pavilion dv6500t (5.8 pounds) and the Toshiba Qosmio F45-AV425 (6.8 pounds), both of which have similar footprints. The VX2S's 15.4 inch wide screen is the glossy type that does a fine job of displaying high resolution photos and movie clips.
The glare coming from the screen, however, is not that convenient for office productivity applications. Its 1,680 by 1,050 resolution is higher than that of both the MacBook Pro (1,440 by 900) and the HP dv6500t (1,280 by 800), making it a better candidate for high definition content.
Too bad the VX2S doesn't come with an HD DVD drive. The keyboard experience is almost flawless, but it is not a big fan of the extremely hard to press mouse buttons.
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