ASUS impressed the world with its lightweight, inexpensive 13.3-inch UL30 over the summer, and just last week impressed us with its switchable-graphics packing bigger cousin, the UL80Vt. Now the 30 is getting the discrete treatment, enabling users to choose from molasses rendering and “all-day computing” battery life or slightly more robust graphics and slightly (about an hour) shorter longevity. The system also packs DDR3 memory, a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor (able to be overclocked), and that “stylishly robust” aluminum lid. No word on release or price, but the earlier Vt models didn’t come with a massive leap in MSRP, so we’d expect this one not to fall too far from UL30’s $749 street price.
[Thanks, Neti_Neti]
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ASUS’s UL30Vt announced, somehow finds room for discrete graphics originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Categories: Laptops Tags: ASUS, asus ul30vt, AsusUl30vt, discrete graphics, DiscreteGraphics, intel core 2 duo, IntelCore2Duo, SU7300, switchable graphics, SwitchableGraphics, ul30, ul30vt, vt
It’s not quite on the scale of the netbook revolution, but the CULV ultraportable uprising does seem to be gathering steam. Latest on the scene is BenQ, with its 13.3-inch S35 and 14-inch S43 Joybooks, sporting a choice between a single core SU3500, dual core SU7300, or some old and busted Celeron 723 / 743 chips. From what Acer’s Timeline series has shown, the 1.4GHz SU3500 is a major step up from Atom machines, while making for ridiculous battery longevity. BenQ claim you’ll be able to squeeze more than five hours of juice from the default batteries and there’s an eight cell option on the S35 that is rated for 11+ hours. Hard drives clock in at 500GB, Bluetooth, WiFi and the like are all present, and the S43 also gets an ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330 GPU option to make it stand out. The announcement is for Asia only so far, but we see no reason why these laptops shouldn’t make it to more familiar shores as well.
[Via Engadget Chinese]
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BenQ endows S35 and S43 Joybooks with CULV, kicks ‘em out the door originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Categories: Laptops Tags: benq, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Solo, Core2Duo, Core2Solo, CULV, joybook, joybook s35, joybook s43, JoybookS35, JoybookS43, Radeon HD4330, RadeonHd4330, s35, s43, SU3500, SU7300, thin and light, ThinAndLight, ultraportable, ultrathin, ulv
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