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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
A built-in, swiveling Webcam highlights the Asus W5A. This small, off-white laptop shows its stuff on a 12.1-inch WXGA wide screen, and the entire notebook weighs just 3 pounds without its power adapter. You can record video or snap stills at all angles using the adjustable lens, which is mounted in a small chrome frame built into the top edge of the screen.
The capture software, LifeFrame, is elegant and powerful compared with the bare-bones apps that come with most camera-equipped laptops; it includes features such as interval and motion-detection shooting and a 3X digital zoom, and it even has a sepia-effect setting. As with most built-in PC cameras, picture resolution is low, just 352 by 288 pixels in this instance. The camera is easy to use. Just press one of the three shortcut buttons on the right-side screen frame. Along with activating the lens and launching the capture software, they turn on the microphone for recording sound with your video, let you take a snapshot, or zoom. Snapshots appear onscreen as thumbnails that you can drag into e-mail messages and other locations. A blue LED indicates that the camera is on.
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