Asus A8F

Notebook Specifications

Reviews for the Asus A8F

Asus A8F Notebook Review
Source: Notebookreview.com
The Asus A8F is an excellent choice for people on a relatively tight budget looking for a portable system to do general office tasks. Power users and gamers should avoid it, as should those looking for something to carry around constantly. This notebook computer is most comfortable with general computing tasks and flies through them all without a hitch. The long battery life and silence make it the perfect choice for students looking to work in a lecture or in the library. The included Asus carry bag and optical mouse are nice touches for first time users. There are certainly cheaper options for this specification, but as the saying goes, you get what you pay for.
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Preis/Leistung teuer, Mobilität gut, Verarbeitung gut, Emissionen gut
Comparison, online available, Very Short, Date: 04/27/2007
Rating: price: 40% mobility: 80% workmanship: 80% emissions: 80%

A new workhorse in Asus’ stable
Source: Star Techcentral
The screen comes with Asus’ “Colour Shine” technology, and I found it to be bright, with sufficient contrast and vibrant colours. Its side viewing angles are good, though its vertical viewing angle could be better. If you’re not interested in new games, and can live without a PC Card slot, the A8F would be a good choice as a general-purpose notebook. It offers great performance, decent battery life of about five hours, a quality screen, and is quite affordable at under RM4,600. Pros: Great performance; quality screen; good specs. Cons: Mediocre graphics performance.
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Leistung zufriedenstellend, Ausstattung gut, Display gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/20/2006
Rating: performance: 75% features: 85% display: 85%

Foreign Reviews

71% Office-Notebooks
Source: Chip.de
online available, Very Short, Date: 11/04/2006
Rating: Total score: 71% price: 85% performance: 64% features: 86% display: 52% mobility: 63% ergonomy: 81%

Asus A8F
Source: c't
online available, Short, Date: 07/10/2006
Rating: performance: 75% features: 75% display: 75% ergonomy: 75%

78% Einzel(kern)-Kämpfer: Im günstigen A8F setzt Asus den Core Solo ein, Intels neuen Einkern-Prozessor
Source: PC Welt
online available, Short, Date: 07/07/2006
Rating: Total score: 78% price: 82% performance: 71% features: 72% ergonomy: 90%

80% Schneller mit Doppel-CPU und UMTS
Source: PC Professionell
online available, Short, Date: 07/07/2006
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 85% features: 71% ergonomy: 92%

76% Asus A8F-H006H
Source: Connect
online available, Short, Date: 06/14/2006
Rating: Total score: 76% performance: 74% features: 68% ergonomy: 82%

Comment

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

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.

Intel Core Solo: Single core version of the Core Duo and successor of the Intel Pentium M; Because of the 65nm reduced structure width also smaller current consumption than Pentium M (maximally 27 Watts); the performance is comparable with the equivalent clocked Pentium M (somewhat faster because of a few improvements).

T1300:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

14.1": 14 inch display size is a mixture between the small formats of subnotebooks and the 15 inch standard display.
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.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

2.4 kg: This notebook is lighter than the average of all notebooks. It is too heavy for sub-notebooks. 14 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

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.

Asus reviews

76.25%: 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.