Reviews - Gigabyte U2442

[HEXUS]

Gigabyte tries its hand at high-end Windows 8 Ultrabooks.

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[3dcandy]

£900 + is still too much cash to tempt me...

[sykobee]

Only five annoying stickers for £910. I'd feel cheated.

[Deadlight]

For that money I'd expect at least 1 USB 3.0 slots really/ Even my Dell x15 has 1.

[scaryjim]

For that money I'd expect at least 1 USB 3.0 slots really ...

Erm ... first sentence of page 2:

Comfortably under an inch-thick at its fattest point, Gigabyte does well on the I/O front, with an SD card-reader, two USB 3.0 ports, full-sized HDMI and a power inlet on the right-hand side.

[Deadlight]

Either it's been changed since originally posted, or I'm going mad!

[kalniel]

Nice, but as Hexus note, these things need to get closer to tablet (or whisper it: netbook) battery life.

[Attila the Bun]

I know that...really...looks shouldn't come into it but if I was forking out that sort of dosh I would go for the Zenbook and bugger the spec difference

[bobharvey]

1600x900 ? for 680 quid? Do they think I am stupid or something?

[Spigsy]

Looking at the Gigabyte website, and also on Amazon where I see it for sale, this laptop is equipped with the GT640M, not the 650 as mentioned in several places within the review. This would explain the lower clocks and 3D mark performance compared to the true GT650M in the Scan system.

It doesn't help that Nvidia's naming scheme for mobile GPU's is as clear as mud. In this and previous generations, they have regularly used the same model number to sell different architectures/GDDR types and clocks. Any added transparency in reviews would really help people like myself who are looking to get the best mobile GPU performance they can within a set budget.

I had the same problem when I bought the laptop I am now looking to replace 4 years ago- the 9600M in my Acer 6935 was available in at least three different forms, with performance that varied anywhere up to 15% in the benchmarks I saw. Retailers often don't clearly state the specific architecture or GDDR involved.

[Breadcrust]

That is one baaaddd mac book wannabe.

[sinoka56]

Looking at the Gigabyte website, and also on Amazon where I see it for sale, this laptop is equipped with the GT640M, not the 650 as mentioned in several places within the review. This would explain the lower clocks and 3D mark performance compared to the true GT650M in the Scan system.

It doesn't help that Nvidia's naming scheme for mobile GPU's is as clear as mud. In this and previous generations, they have regularly used the same model number to sell different architectures/GDDR types and clocks. Any added transparency in reviews would really help people like myself who are looking to get the best mobile GPU performance they can within a set budget.

I had the same problem when I bought the laptop I am now looking to replace 4 years ago- the 9600M in my Acer 6935 was available in at least three different forms, with performance that varied anywhere up to 15% in the benchmarks I saw. Retailers often don't clearly state the specific architecture or GDDR involved.

check the GIGABYTE U2442F version

[sinoka56]

That is one baaaddd mac book wannabe.

you're completely a stupid apple fanboy , does apple include SSD with HDD with Discrete GPU?

no? does the normal macbook have 900p? no? does it come cheap as this with a good GPU? no?

so read before you post