Asus F3M
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus F3M (F3 Series)Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 128 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.8kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 77% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
mobility: 30%, workmanship: 40%, ergonomy: - %, emissions: 40%
Reviews for the Asus F3M
Foreign Reviews
84% Günstige Hardware im Test" - Notebooks
Source: PC Games 
, Length Unknown, Date: 07/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 84% price: 80% performance: 50% emissions: 40%
70% Fehlende Kompetenzen
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Short, Date: 03/27/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 30% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 40%
Comment
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150: Integrated graphic card (shared memory) for AMD based laptops (nForce Go 430 MCP). The performance is slightly better than GMA 950.
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.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
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.
TL-52:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
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.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.8 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in 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.
77%: 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.
