Asus A7 Series
Processor: AMD Turion 64 MT-34, AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52, AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56, AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58, Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, Intel Core Duo T2300, Intel Core Duo T2400, Intel Pentium M 740Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, ATI Mobility Radeon X700, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G, NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
Display: 15.4 inch, 17.1 inch
Weight: 3.9kg, 4kg, 4.1kg
1000
Average Score: 79.82% - good
Average of 17 scores (from 30 reviews)
mobility: 42%, workmanship: 87%, ergonomy: 76%, emissions: 71%
Asus A7JC
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus A7JCProcessor: Intel Core Duo T2400
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 128 MB
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x990 pixels
Weight: 3.9kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 75.57% - good
Average of 7 scores (from 9 reviews)
40% Wouldn't waste my time again
Source: Ciao.com 
Advantages: Not many, decent screen size, remote control TV; Disadvantages: Breakdown, Bad Service, Buggy, Windows XP media edition; ...time with this laptop or ASUS again. When the laptop was actually functioning it seemed to be okay. The product is shipped with Windows XP media edition which allows the use of a included TV remote control. The screen size is big enough to make it a decent TV/DVD player. I found that the TV was a little too soft sometimes even on the maximum computer volume so i bought some peripheral speakers which solved the problem.
kurzer subjektiver Erfahrungsbericht eines Benutzers; online abrufbar
katastrophale Bewertung, aber vielleicht ein wenig subjektiv...
(von 5): 2, Preis/Leistung 1, Leistung 3, Mobilität 1
User Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 08/09/2006
Rating: Total score: 40% price: 20% performance: 60% mobility: 20%
90% Asus A7J 17-Zoll Core Duo Notebook Test
Source: PC Perspective
It wasn't too long ago that 17 inch laptops were considered excessive and its usefulness questionable, but today we are seeing an increasing number of people ditching their noisy desktops for larger laptops that are just as functional while being somewhat portable. The Asus A7J 17 inch laptop we are reviewing today is marketed as a media laptop, but goes much further than that. With a Intel T2300 Core Duo CPU and dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, you can certainly do a lot more than just watch movies. The Asus A7J has a lot of strong features that make up for just a few minor quirks in design. The super sharp 17" display with the Mobility Radeon X1600 256MB adapter will keep most people happy whether you're watching a DVD, playing games, or viewing photos online.
sehr umfangreicher und voll ausgestatteter Testbericht mit vielen Seiten
4.5 von 5
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 90%
86% Test Asus A7Jc
Source: Notebookcheck 
, Length Unknown, Date: 10/30/2006
Rating: Total score: 86% performance: 90% display: 87% mobility: 55% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 89% emissions: 73%
Doppelkern-Kraftwerke
Source: SFT
, Length Unknown, Date: 10/15/2006
76% Grosse Klappe: Asus A7JC
Source: PC Go
online available, Very Short, Date: 06/30/2006
Rating: Total score: 76%
90% Halbzeit-Unterhalter
Source: SFT
, Length Unknown, Date: 05/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 90%
85% Neue Multimedia-Dimensionen
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy
, Length Unknown, Date: 05/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 85%
62% Spiele-Notebooks im Vergleich
Source: Gamestar
, Length Unknown, Date: 05/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 62% price: 75%
Asus A7JC erstmals angetestet: Großbild-Notebook mit Intel Core Duo
Source: Netzwelt
online available, Very Short, Date: 02/09/2006
Rating: performance: 95% features: 85% workmanship: 85%
Asus A7DC
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus A7DCProcessor: AMD Turion 64 MT-34
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128 MB
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x990 pixels
Weight: 3.9kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 83.75% - good
Average of 4 scores (from 4 reviews)
87% Breitbild-Avantgarde - 17''-Notebooks
Source: SFT
, Length Unknown, Date: 03/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 87%
87% Breitbild-Avantgarde - 17''-Notebooks
Source: SFT
, Length Unknown, Date: 03/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 87%
75% Fernsehspaß mit Turion64
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy
, Length Unknown, Date: 02/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 75% price: 75%
86% Mobile Spiele-Riesen - 17-Zoll-Laptops
Source: PC Games Hardware
, Length Unknown, Date: 02/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 86% price: 85%
Asus A7J
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus A7JProcessor: Intel Core Duo T2300
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 256 MB
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x990 pixels
Weight: 3.9kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 81% - good
Average of 1 scores (from 2 reviews)
Asus A7J 17-inch Core Duo Notebook Review
Source: PC Perspective
It wasn't too long ago that 17 inch laptops were considered excessive and its usefulness questionable, but today we are seeing an increasing number of people ditching their noisy desktops for larger laptops that are just as functional while being somewhat portable. The Asus A7J 17 inch laptop we are reviewing today is marketed as a media laptop, but goes much further than that. With a Intel T2300 Core Duo CPU and dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, you can certainly do a lot more than just watch movies.
ausführlicher Test mit Geräteaufbau und Testwerten und Bildern; online abrufbar
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 06/01/2006
81% Asus A7J
Source: PC Welt
, Length Unknown, Date: 01/05/2007
Rating: Total score: 81% price: 81% performance: 88% features: 95% display: 80% ergonomy: 81%
Asus A7V
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus A7VProcessor: Intel Pentium M 740
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon X700 256 MB
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x990 pixels
Weight: 3.9kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Sehr Gutes Preis Leistungsverhältnis - Die Multimedia Maschine
Source: Notebookforum.at
online available, Very Short, Date: 05/01/2006
Rating: price: 95%
Asus A7Tc
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus A7TcProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 256 MB
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x990 pixels
Weight: 4.1kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 80% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 4 reviews)
Asus A7TC
Source: c't
online available, Short, Date: 06/20/2007
Rating: performance: 90% features: 80% display: 80% mobility: 50% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 70%
80% Klangwunder in 17-Zoll - Asus A7TC-7S017C
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Short, Date: 03/27/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 30% features: 70% display: 70% mobility: 30%
The Asus A7Tc employs AMD’s new Turion X2 dual-core chip to see if there’s an alternative to Intel
Source: ZDNet
online available, Short, Date: 10/02/2006
80% Asus A7Tc
Source: ZDNet
, Length Unknown, Date: 07/31/2006
Rating: Total score: 80%
Asus A7S
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus A7SProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G 256 MB
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x990 pixels
Weight: 4kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 84% - good
Average of 3 scores (from 8 reviews)
Asus A7S - Santa Rosa - First Look
Source: Trusted Reviews
So after much hype and noise, Santa Rosa notebooks have finally arrived and we have two examples here in the office to look at. Riyad is casting his gaze over a Samsung, while I have in front of me a large beastie from Asus - the A7S – a large desktop replacement entertainment machine. A large, powerful brute of a machine that is more beast than beauty. The new Santa Rosa CPU is fast but we’ll only really get excited about the Santa Rosa once we see Turbo Memory equipped machines.
ausführlicher Test mit Geräteaufbau und Testwerten und Bildern; online abrufbar
Leistung gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/09/2007
performance: 80%
75% Asus A7S-7S056C
Source: Connect - 12/07
, Short, Date: 11/29/2007
Rating: Total score: 75% performance: 90% features: 82% mobility: 69% ergonomy: 59%
87% Notebooks für alle
Source: PC Games Hardware - 10/07
, Length Unknown, Date: 09/05/2007
Rating: Total score: 87% price: 70% performance: 40%
Asus A7S
Source: c't
, Length Unknown, Date: 07/20/2007
Rating: performance: 80% features: 90% display: 70% mobility: 40% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 70%
DX-Notebooks
Source: PC Games Hardware
, Length Unknown, Date: 07/01/2007
Rating: performance: 60% display: 80%
PC-Ersatz mit neuer Technik von Intel und Nvidia
Source: Netzwelt
online available, Short, Date: 05/23/2007
Rating: price: 80% performance: 70% features: 90%
90% Multimedia-Glotze mit "Santa Rosa"-Chipsatz
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Short, Date: 05/16/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 50% features: 90% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90%
Vier ASUS laptops getest
Source: Hardware.info 
online available, Long, Date: 09/20/2007
Rating: mobility: 40%
Asus A7M
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus A7MProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 128 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 4kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Preiswerte Alternative zum heimischen Großrechner
Source: Netzwelt
online available, Short, Date: 04/12/2007
Rating: price: 95% performance: 95% features: 90% display: 50% mobility: 50% workmanship: 80%
Asus A7k
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus A7kProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 4.1kg
Price: 1000 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Asus Z83/A7k
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Medium, Date: 05/29/2008
Rating: performance: 70% features: 80% display: 80% mobility: 40% workmanship: 90% emissions: 70%
Comment
Asus: Asus is an international manufacturer of medium size. In German and English speaking countries nowadays many notebooks of Asustec are reviewed. Nevertheless rather few laptop models achieve top-positions according total ranking and prize/value-rating.
Lower end of Graphics Cards for users who want to play games. New games should run on these cards, but only with decreased details and mediocre resolution.
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 is a middle class graphic card for notebooks of the X1000 series. Its performance can be compared with NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600.
ATI Mobility Radeon X700: ATI Mobility Radeon X700 is the middle class graphic card for notebooks of the X000 series (the 1000 series). Its performance can be compared with NVIDIA Go 6600. Technically it is comparable with the desktop X700 graphic chip + energy saving functions.
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600: The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 is a middle class video card of the 7000 series and suited for games of the year 2006. The performance is very similar to ATI X1600 / X1700. Compared to the desktop 7600 it is clearly slower.
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G: The 8400M G is a pared-down 8400M GS with only half as much Stream Processors and a smaller memory bus. Therefore, the performance is much lower and only as fast as the old 7400 card. Only MPEG-2 acceleration.
Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100: The NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 / 6150 is an integrated graphics card of the NVIDIA nForce Go 430 MCP for AMD Turion notebooks. It doesn't have any integrated memory, but uses a part of the mainmemory (up to 128 MB) like the direct competitor Intel GMA 950. Therefore, the gaming performance is quite moderate and can only be used for elder games.
These cards should be able to display all current games with fluent framerates but not all with high detail settings. Especially demanding games like Crysis, Age of Conan, or Mass Effect are only playable with lower settings. Less demanding (and older) games, like Fifa 08, Command & Conquer 3, or Battlefield 2142 can be played with higher detail levels.
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600: This is a DirectX 10 graphic card from ATI and direct competitor to the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS graphic card for laptops and performs in games much better than the Nvidia card.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core Duo: Double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used together by the double. The maximum capacity of 31 watts is only 4 watts more than with the Pentium M (predecessor). Both cores are lowered automatically and independently of each other by speed steps down to 1 GHz. In addition it now supports also SSE3 instructions. At least it is just as fast as a equivalent Pentium M. With applications, which were designed for multi-processors, the performance can be nearly twice as fast as with the Pentium M (e.g. CineBench around 86% fast)
AMD Turion 64: This is a derivative of the Athlon 64 with SSE3 with nx storage protection, 32 and 64 bit support, integrated memory controller for PC3200 memory, mode for low capacity, HT800 and 2 variants ML with 35 Watt and MB with 25 Watt consumption. Regarding the consumption MT might be very similar to a Pentium M. The speed is moderate and approximately as fast as an Pentium M with equivalent clock speed.
Intel Pentium M: With Intel chip set (855 or 915) and Intel WLAN also available with the name Centrino (name for the package).
In the comparison very fast per megahertz and very modest with weaknesses in floating point operations.
It is also available as a low voltage version with very small current consumption.
AMD Turion 64 X2: AMD Turion 64 X2 is intended to be positioned against the Intel Core Duo was presented in 17. May 2006. The current consumption is not higher than with Centrino-Duo-notebooks (TL-45 with ATI Xpress and Mobility Radeon X300). This means, that approximative the same battery runtime and fan functions can be expected (with this chipset). However, the performance was 20% below the T2300 (1.66 GHz) due to the lower L2 Cache (Core Duo has 2048 Kbyte shared L2 Cache). Nevertheless, the performance is sufficient.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
15.4: 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays.
The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
17.1: Nowadays, meanwhile the 17 inch display size is a more frequently offered standard format for desktop-replacements. 17 inch laptops are built only in 16:10 format.
The DTR-Laptops can't be carried easily, need much current, but on the other side texts can be read easily and high resolutions are no problem. DTR mainly are intended for stationary usage on desks, where the weight and the energy need are unimportant.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
3.9 kg:
This laptop is heavy below average, compared with the average of notebooks. Therefore especially desktop replacements fit in this class of weight.
4.1 kg:
79.82%: This rating is not convincing. It must be considered, that there exist hardly any laptops, which receive a rating below 60%. This notebook is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
