Montevina and Puma-based ASUS notebooks leak out

With Intel's Montevina platform (hopefully) on the way and AMD's claim that "over 100" laptops will launch with Puma, it's kind of surprising that we haven't seen even more pre-release info on machines due to ship with the new chips, but apparently ASUS is getting ready to hit us with some new gear at Computex. Based on the existing M51 and M70 lines, the M51VR will feature a 2.26GHz Penryn P8400 with 3MB of L2 cache on Montevina's 1.06GHz bus, while the M51VA and M70VM (pictured) will get 2.53GHz T9400s with 6MB of cache. ASUS should also be showing off the Puma-based F5Z and X50Z laptops with 1.9GHz AMD Athlon64 X2 QL-60 chips, 667MHz buses, ATI Mobility Radeon HD3200 graphics and 15.4-inch screens at Computex, so it'll be interesting to see how these bad boys do side-by-side.

[Thanks, Sergio]

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[Eric @ May 28th 2008 5:38PM]

Ohh, sexy, sexy, sexy.

[phanbouy @ May 28th 2008 6:28PM]

alright, Peter! Oooh! Oooh!


....better use a rubber, dude.

[Blaine Oliver @ May 28th 2008 5:42PM]

Is this all you do? You say first, then expect not to get flamed? Well the only thing your first in, is failing..

[bk7 @ May 28th 2008 5:43PM]

Can't we just have you banned instead?

[matt @ May 28th 2008 5:44PM]

is your "one love" posting first on engadget?

[404 @ May 28th 2008 5:50PM]

Oh good, now that one or two companies have started announcing new-platform laptops hopefully the rest will follow.

I'm tired of rumours, I want facts dammit!

[301 @ May 28th 2008 6:29PM]

you can't handle the truth.

[maveric101 @ May 28th 2008 10:39PM]

that keyboard is kinda messed up.

[Vidit Bhargava @ May 28th 2008 6:12PM]

thats like having intel and amd head-on...lets see which comes out the winner.

[andy @ May 28th 2008 6:17PM]

LIke most AMD Intel battles:

Intel has the top performer.

The AMD platform is more than sufficient for almost everyone.

So, you either break the bank and get the top performer, or get everything you NEED at a little lower price.

[iofthestorm @ May 28th 2008 9:35PM]

AMD will at least have the edge in terms of integrated graphics, which might honestly be more important than CPU power at this stage since pretty much any CPU on the market is sufficient for almost any case besides squeezing the most FPS out of a given game. Games are far more often GPU-limited than CPU-limited.

[Fara @ May 28th 2008 6:16PM]

I demand a Monevina W3. Best. Laptop. Ever.

[daliminator2000 @ May 28th 2008 8:21PM]

Agreed - I absolutely love my W3J. I don't know why they discontinued the line... they should have just slapped a webcam in it and updated a few things to keep things consistent.

[David @ May 28th 2008 6:19PM]

This isn't Asus enough, it needs to be enthroned in leather.

Having said that I think one of these would look good in suede, thoughts ppl?

[Fara @ May 28th 2008 6:22PM]

Suede is a bit too fragile. Though I have thought about that as well, when thinking on how my own designed laptop would look.

But I know something better: Velvet.

[David @ May 28th 2008 6:27PM]

Oh baby, that would feel almost too good;
I might end up with stickykeys..

[Fara @ May 28th 2008 7:13PM]

How about satin? Or cashmere?

[phanbouy @ May 28th 2008 6:27PM]

heart touching, huh? nothing like maudlin screen savers to make me turn my wallet upside down

[Some_Jerk @ May 28th 2008 6:28PM]

Where is the track pad on this laptop?

[Phoenix @ May 28th 2008 7:08PM]

...On the front. It's covered in media shortcuts, but that's the trackpad.

If you can type and read the article, and more importantly see the picture at all, presumably you have eyes. Please use them carefully next time to avoid further embarrassment.

[Some_Jerk @ May 30th 2008 6:57PM]

Thanks, Phoenix. I know it must have been very taxing to answer my question AND be a complete d-bag.

[sinai @ May 28th 2008 6:54PM]

mobile cpu platform stories are completely useless without battery times to go with them.