Coming in today with no fewer than five new laptops -- the U50VG, K50AB, K70AB, K50IJ and F52Q -- the
king of market segmentation is clearly still in good form. Announced in Italy today, the main attraction for Intel fans is the U50VG, which sports a 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo T6500 chip alongside 4GB of memory, 250GB storage, and a Geforce G 105M for a price of €943 or $1,320. A backlit chiclet keyboard, WiFi and a 16:9 display stretching to 15.6-inches fill out the spec sheet. The AMD-based AB variants are 15.6 (€793 / $1,107) and 17.3-inches (€868 / $1,212) respectively -- their main attraction being an ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 purring inside -- whereas the latter two models are targeted at the budget-conscious crowd. Click through for exhaustive specs and info on each model.
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posted Jul 10th 2009 10:31AM
When does the Asus V23RX200B come out? and the 200E form?
This is how I know Asus is crazy:
F6Ve laptop - Refresh Your Senses with Subtle Fragrances.
"Delight your senses with the elegantly designed and refreshing scent of the F6Ve. Draped with a special “Libera” exterior, the F6Ve subtly delivers a refreshing scent to the user, invigorating the senses."
http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=64&l3=845&l4=0&model=2820&modelmenu=1
What's a Geforce 105 exactly? If the 120 is a re-badged 9500, and the 130 is a 9600, are we talking something along the low-end lines of a 9100M?
A 105m is a slightly faster 9300, average 3dmark06 score of 2388 according to NotebookCheck. In other words, not good for games!
So MickyG, what notebook does sport a gpu good for games with a price at the same level of this one? (I'm not saying this one is good, I just wanna buy a good lap for games!)
Less vs. Fewer: "...no fewer than five new laptops...." (Laptops are countable and indivisible.)
[bionictulip returns to grammar nazi club meeting]
Backlit chicklet keyboard, nice. All mobile devices should have this option.
came in last week at Best Buy. one of them has a core SOLO in them. Pretty lame.
DAMN. I need to trash my W3J as soon as possible... It's served me well, but ASUS's newer models keep getting better and better.
A backlit chicklet keyboard? Didn't Apple do that first with their Macbook Pros?
Didn't Apple steal the chiclet keyboard design from Sony and not invent backlit keyboards?
I hate this HP-like naming scheme. Why can't these companies just give their products easy to remember names like Dell or Apple?
And still we wait the K51AB - the only one in the series I am interested in. Dammit!
You can find a review of the laptop on a Romanian website. I hope Google Translate works well.
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.go4it.ro%2Flaptopuri%2Fasus-4014916%2Fu50vg-4632238%2Fasus-u50-un-laptop-stralucitor-dar-cu-lacune-4632190%2F&sl=ro&tl=en&history_state0=
Conclusions: glossy; illuminated keybord, but bad construction; illuminated touchpad with multitouch support; decent all around performance.