Deal of the Day: $70 Saving on Asus and Western Digital Mobile Computing Bundle

Amazon are giving a $70 saving when you purchase an Asus K50IJ-C1 laptop along with a Western Digital 250GB My Passport external hard drive. The laptop has a high definition LED based 15.6″ screen and is powered by an Intel Core Two Duo T6500 processor running at a nice 2.1GHz. 4GB of RAM is included with this laptop and it has 250GB of storage on a SATA 5400 RPM hard drive. It runs Windows Vista Home Premium and overall it’s a very powerful laptop.

The Asus laptop uses Asus’ Super Hybrid Engine that helps give more battery power too and thanks to a wireless 802.11 B/G/N lan card it can also connect at high-speeds if you have a wireless N router.

Asus Laptop Specs

# Operating System: Genuine Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
# Display: 15.6-inch 16:9 Wide Format 1366×768 HD LCD Display (Color-Shine/Glossy Screen Technology)
# Intel Platform: Intel Core2 Duo T6500 Processor (2.1GHz)
# Graphics: Embedded Intel GMA X4500M
# Wireless: 802.11 B/G/N Wireless LAN
# LAN: 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
# Memory: 4GB DDR2-8002
# Storage: 250GB HDD (5400rpm drive)
# Optical Drive: DVD Super Multi Double Layer
# Camera: 1.3M Pixels with Auto-Focus
# Audio: Built-in Azalia compliant audio chip, with 3D effect & full duplex
# Speakers: Altec Lansing co-brand speakers featuring SRS Premium Sound
# Microphone Built-in microphone
# Card Reader: 3 in 1 card reader (SD/MMC/MS)
# Input/Output: 1 x Microphone-in jack, 1 x Headphone-out jack (S/PDIF) 4 x USB 2.0 ports, 1 x RJ45 LAN jack for LAN
# Video Output: 1 x VGA port/Mini D-sub 15-pin
# Keyboard: 19mm full size 88 Key with MS Windows function keys
# Battery Pack: 6 cells (2900mAh)
# Power Supply: Output: 16 V DC, 4.7 A, 90W / Input: 100~240 V AC, 50/60 Hz universal
# Dimensions: 14.57 (W) x 10.08 (L) x 1.22~1.40 (H) inches
# Weight: 5.73 lbs (with 6 cell battery pack)

The Western Digital My Passport external hard drive has a 250GB capacity and can connect to the laptop via a USB 2.0 connection. It’s perfect for storing music, photos and video on or for creating a backup of your laptop should you loose the data for some reason.

The deal of the day – well, it’s a few days actually, can be found over at Amazon. Be sure to enter the promo code of ASUSWEST when ordering to get the discount applied to the items.