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Gigantic ASUS periodical reveals and specs numerous new laptops
Curious what's inside a new ASUS laptop? Then Notebook Review has the treat for you -- earlier this month, forumite David took the time to download the company's massive 108MB ASUS World Magazine PDF and laid out the spec sheets for not one, not two, but a veritable smörgåsbord of potent portables. There's 36 in all; we've told you about some of them before, to be sure -- but others are getting solid specs for the first time, and there are even a few diamonds in the rough. Enough chit-chat, on with the show! U-series: Otherwise known as ASUS' Bamboo Collection, the U-series laptops were highlighted at CES, where we discovered they would have Core i5 CPUs and USB 3.0 support. Well, that's not the whole story. They've also all got NVIDIA Optimus auto-switching graphics between an onboard Intel GMA HD and the GeForce 310M 1GB. Oh, and forget Core i5 -- these machines support processors all the way up to the 2.66GHz Core i7-620M. Highlight: The U30JC, with a combo Blu-ray drive and a chiclet keyboard that won a iF Product Design Award. UL-series: ASUS for "UnLimited," you can read UL as "ultra low," as in Intel's ultra low voltage (ULV) processors that provide 8+ hours of battery life and let these notebooks stay cool despite being under an inch thin. We saw the UL80JT sport NVIDIA Optimus at CES and got hands-on with the Optimus-equipped UL50VF; now, the UL30JT now has it as well. Highlight: That same UL50VF, with an estimated 12+ hours of battery life. More after the break -- save pricing and availability, unfortunately -- or feel free to hit up the source link to download the entire electronic magazine for yourself. %Gallery-89273%
BenQ's Joybook A52 widescreen lappy
Damn skippy BenQ has a new Joybook out that will almost certainly never make it to the US: the A52, to you. As usual, BenQ has foregone any serious product photography (seriously, what the hell kind of backwards company wants to show off their consumer electronics on the internet, we ask?), but despite a wide 16ms 15.4-inch DBEF (Display Brilliance Enhancement Film) WXGA (1280 x 800) display, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics, Core Duo CPU, 802.11a/b/g, drives up to 120GB, dual-layer DVD burner, and PCMCIA slot, this kinda low-ender only lands with Vista Basic. Don't worry though, Taiwanese consumers, we hear Asia's a pretty sweet place to pirate the occasional copy of Windows if you need a quick bump to Ultimate.[Via MobileWhack]
