Asus M51 Series
Processor: AMD Turion X2 RM-70, Intel Core 2 Duo P9500, Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, Intel Core 2 Duo T8100, Intel Core 2 Duo T8300Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650, NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
Display: 15.4 inch
Weight: 2.91kg, 3kg
800, 900, 1200, 1299
Average Score: 82.6% - good
Average of 10 scores (from 17 reviews)
mobility: 52%, workmanship: 73%, ergonomy: 80%, emissions: 54%
Asus M51SR
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus M51SRProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 3kg
Price: 1200 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 70% - average
Average of 1 scores (from 2 reviews)
Asus M51S
Source: PC Games Hardware - 4/08 
, Length Unknown, Date: 03/05/2008
Rating: performance: 90% display: 50% workmanship: 80%
70% Asus M51SR-AP053C
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 02/14/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% performance: 40% features: 70% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 70%
Asus M51SN
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus M51SNProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS 512 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 2.91kg
Price: 1299 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 88.8% - very good
Average of 5 scores (from 11 reviews)
95% 15,4-Zoll-Notebook
Source: Com! - 8/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 08/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 95% price: 90% mobility: 50%
95% 15,4-Zoll-Notebook
Source: Com! - 8/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 08/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 95% price: 90% mobility: 50%
Asus M51 SN
Source: AON.at
online available, Short, Date: 07/04/2008
Rating: features: 80% mobility: 40% ergonomy: 100%
ASUS M51SN-AS029C
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Medium, Date: 05/05/2008
Rating: price: 100% performance: 100% display: 80% mobility: 70% workmanship: 60% emissions: 40%
Asus M51SN-AS029C
Source: WCM - 5/08
, Medium, Date: 05/01/2008
Rating: performance: 95% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80%
Aktuell und vielseitig
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 5-6/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 04/18/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 90% emissions: 40%
80% Asus M51SN-AS029C
Source: Gamestar
online available, Very Short, Date: 04/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80%
Verspielt unterwegs
Source: SFT - 4/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 03/26/2008
Rating: mobility: 80%
84% Test Asus M51SN Mutimedia Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck
online available, Long, Date: 03/25/2008
Rating: Total score: 84% performance: 95% display: 85% mobility: 68% workmanship: 84% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 82%
Asus M51S
Source: PC Action - 5/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 03/19/2008
Rating: performance: 80% features: 80%
90% ASUS M51SN-AS029C
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 02/19/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 70% performance: 90% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 50% workmanship: 50% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 80%
Asus M51VA
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus M51VAProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo P9500
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 3kg
Price: 1200 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 80% - good
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
80% Test: Asus M51VA mit Intel Centrino 2
Source: PC Welt
online available, Short, Date: 06/20/2008
Rating: Total score: 80%
Asus M51SE
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus M51SEProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 3kg
Price: 900 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 80% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
80% ASUS M51SE notebook review
Source: Pocket Lint 
The Asus M51SE is a stunning notebook for the price. We found it loaded and ran quickly and the large keyboard means you can type in comfort. While battery life is less than ideal, the sheer raw power of this notebook makes it ideal for anyone needing a quality, and affordable, powerhouse machine.
(von 10): 8, Preis sehr gut, Ausstattung gut, Verarbeitung gut, Mobilität schlecht, Display schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/20/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% features: 80% display: 40% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80%
80% Asus M51SE
Source: Techradar
At this price, the Asus M51SE represents great value for money. It offers excellent performance, style, comfort and features, and its all-round abilities make it an ideal laptop for home use.
4 von 5, Preis sehr gut, Leistung exzellent, Ausstattung exzellent, Display gut, Mobilität mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/29/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 95% features: 95% display: 80% mobility: 50%
Asus M51T
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus M51TProcessor: AMD Turion X2 RM-70
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 3kg
Price: 800 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 72% - average
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
72% Asus M51T
Source: ZDNet
online available, Medium, Date: 09/16/2008
Rating: Total score: 72% price: 80% performance: 70% features: 80% mobility: 60% emissions: 30%
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 HD 2400: This DirectX 10 graphic card from ATI is the direct competitor to the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS graphic card for laptops. It features the Avivo HD video engine. The performance is not enaough for DX 10 games and high settings.
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470: Faster clocked HD 3450 and successor of the HD 2400 XT but with DirectX 10.1 and due to the new 55nm process, higher clockspeeds. Avivo HD video functions allow the decoding of HD videos.
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.
NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS: Middle class GPU that ist about 10% faster than a similar clocked GeForce 8600M GT graphics adapter. Therefore, the card does not deliver enough performance for very high details with DirectX 10 effects of demanding games like Crysis.
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650: The Hd 3650 is a middle class graphics card (in 2008) and compareable to an 8600M GT GPU from Nvidia. It is fabricated in 55nm process and due to Avivo video engine the graphic card can support the processor with several video operations (HD video too).
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
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.
AMD Turion X2: The Turion X2 (without 64) is based on the Turion X2 Ultra, but has only 1024 MB L2 Cache and is therefore slower (performance compareable to the old Turion 64 X2). Because of new parts from the K10 architecture, the CPU should be more energy efficient.
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.
2.91 kg:
This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.
3 kg:
82.6%: This rating is to be considered as average, because the amount of notebooks with better ratings is about equal like the amount with worse ratings.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
