Asus recently rolled out two new laptops, the $1,088 X71SL-A1 and the X71SL-B2.  The former runs Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHZ CPU processor and Windows Vista Business OS. On the other hand, the X71SL-A1 runs Vista Home Premium  with the T5800 at 2GHz.

Both laptops feature 17-inch screens, SiS M671DX chipset, and NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G 256MB graphics card. You can also expect up to 320GB HD, 4GB of DDR2 memory, 1440 x 900 pixels resolution, and DVD burner.

Other specs of the laptops include the following:

• Bluetooth
• four USB ports
• an ExpressCard slot
• 8-in-1 media card reader
• Firewire
• fingerprint reader
• 8-cell battery
• 1.3MP webcam
• HDMI and VGA outputs
• 802.11n wireless connection
• Gigabit Ethernet LAN

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