News - ASUS-Lamborghini Eee PC VX6 ultraportable races onto the scene

[HEXUS]

Stylish 12.1in notebook touts a dual-core CPU, NVIDIA Optimus graphics and USB 3.0 for £499.

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[kingpotnoodle]

Considering that for £500 a Dell M101Z is available with 4GB RAM, better hard drive, decent speakers and build quality and a more balanced combo of CPU and graphics power I wouldn't say this looked like a great buy...

[Methanoid]

Considering that for £500 a Dell M101Z is available with 4GB RAM, better hard drive, decent speakers and build quality and a more balanced combo of CPU and graphics power I wouldn't say this looked like a great buy...

considering that a quick look on youtube vids shows how one guy even returned his Dell M101Z cos it was a hairdryer and pumped out too much heat I think this might be an OK buy.

Then again, check the Eee forums and you'll see reports of failed charging pins inside of a month on the 1215N model this is based on.

Pity, plus optimus is limited to x1 PCIE bandwidth thanks to Intel

[duc]

I'd rather save £100+ and get the Acer Ferrari netbook.

[kingpotnoodle]

considering that a quick look on youtube vids shows how one guy even returned his Dell M101Z cos it was a hairdryer and pumped out too much heat I think this might be an OK buy.

Not for me it isn't, nice and quick and cool enough to sit on my lap on the tube, I've been quite happy with it as a well balanced small machine. Good enough to play some older games at OK settings, and I can run Civ V at minimal settings.

[semo]

£500 for an atom? gtfo

Kudos on USB 3.0 support, thumbs down on platform choice. They should have waited for bobcat

[ccl2003]

The D525 is too slow to run most CPU-hungry applications particularly video/audio/photo editing applications even with 4 threads (2 physical, 2 logical). Intel should consider dropping the Atom platform for midrange to high end netbook/ultraportables due to its relatively poor battery life and disappointing performance not to mention the steep price tag.

Sure it can run games but then again how many people are going to use their netbooks to play FPS games for instance? A platform should always be a balance between cpu and gpu power imho. The ION's performance is negated by the slow cpu which is a big disappointment really.