Asus U1F

Notebook Specifications

Reviews for the Asus U1F

70% Asus U1F
Source: PC Mag
ASUS laptops have fervently pushed the design envelope in the past two years. After all, AsusTek is widely considered one of the top five ODMs (original design manufacturers) in the world. It makes every laptop component imaginable, including chassis designs for Apple computers, so it's only logical that it would excel in this area. The ASUS U1F ($2,100 street) is the company's latest bid into the ultraportable market. It weighs a svelte 2.7 pounds and rocks LED (light-emitting diode) screen backlighting technology. The U1F is a traveler's delight—that is, if you can live with carrying an external DVD drive. Only a handful of vendors use LED backlights in their laptops.
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3.5 von 5, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/02/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% mobility: 80%

80% Asus U1F
Source: Pocket Lint
As a slim and lightweight notebook, Asus has got things right with the U1F, as we found it a great machine to carry around and work on. It may not be the most powerful notebook out there, though and the battery life detracts from the overall usability but if you’re looking for an ultraportable that won’t break the bank, then it’s worth considering.
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8 von 10, Leistung mangelhaft, Mobilität mäßig
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/21/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 50% mobility: 60%

80% Asus U1F
Source: PC Advisor
With a shiny black lid and real leather wrist rest, the £1,399 Asus U1F puts the "ultra" in ultraportable. The lightest Windows Vista laptop we've reviewed, the Asus U1F was a dream to review on the move as it weighs just over 1kg. This ultraportable has lots of appeal: lightest weight, most stylish exterior, six-hour battery life, and a good screen. But sluggish performance and the absence of a built-in optical drive hold it back.
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(von 5): 4, Preis/Leistung 3.5, Verarbeitung 4.5, Ausstattung 3.5, Mobilität sehr gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/24/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% features: 70% mobility: 90% workmanship: 90%

75% Asus U1F
Source: PC World
Accented by a shiny black lid and real leather wrist rest, the $2199 (as of April 11, 2007) Asus U1F puts the "ultra" in ultraportable. The lightest Windows Vista laptop we've seen, it weighs 2.4 pounds, no heavier than a teacup Chihuahua. The thin case offers a surprisingly full set of connections, including built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless communications. You could use the bright screen to find your way out of a cave, and the battery lasts for more than 6 hours on one charge. These are good qualities for an all-day, on-the-go laptop to possess. But can you type on it?
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(von 100): 75, Leistung 76, Ausstattung 77, Akkulaufzeit gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/11/2007
Rating: Total score: 75% performance: 76% features: 77%

80% Asus U1F Ultra-Portable Notebook
Source: Trusted Reviews
Asus has definitely proved that it knows how to build an ultra-portable notebook – the U1F is small, light and incredibly stylish. It’s also great seeing a dual core CPU in a machine so small. That said, I think I’d probably still go for the VAIO TX3XP, with it’s integrated DVD writer and nine hour battery life just tipping the scales in Sony’s favour.
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(von 10): 8, Preis/Leistung 8, Leistung 8, Ausstattung 8, Mobilität sehr gut
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 02/16/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 80% features: 80% mobility: 90%

Foreign Reviews

90% Subnotebooks
Source: Handys - 6/07
, Length Unknown, Date: 11/07/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 50%

Kompakt, mobil, stark
Source: SFT
, Length Unknown, Date: 10/31/2007
Rating: performance: 40% features: 80% mobility: 80% emissions: 90%

Das 1-Kilogramm-Notebook
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 9-10/07
, Length Unknown, Date: 09/24/2007
performance: 80%

Asus U1F Subnotebook
Source: Minitechnet
online available, Long, Date: 09/14/2007
Rating: price: 80% performance: 60% display: 80% mobility: 80% workmanship: 100% ergonomy: 80%

84% Test Asus U1F Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck
online available, Long, Date: 08/28/2007
Rating: Total score: 84% performance: 64% features: 80% display: 70% mobility: 91% workmanship: 92% ergonomy: 86% emissions: 77%

85% Sub-notebook Asus U1F
Source: PC Welt
online available, Short, Date: 08/15/2007
Rating: Total score: 85% price: 84% performance: 79% features: 97% mobility: 76% ergonomy: 98%

Snob-Notebook: Asus U1F im Test
Source: Netzwelt
online available, Very Short, Date: 07/18/2007
Rating: performance: 80% display: 50% mobility: 80% workmanship: 90% emissions: 80%

80% Asus U1F
Source: ZDNet
online available, Short, Date: 06/29/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 60% features: 80% mobility: 90%

90% Passt fast in die Hosentasche
Source: Notebookjournal
, Length Unknown, Date: 04/23/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 70% features: 40% display: 100% mobility: 90% workmanship: 80%

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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 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)

U2400:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

11.1": This is a quite small display format for subnotebooks, which is not very common.
The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs few current, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1 kg: This subnotebook is one of the most lightweight of all notebooks and can be carried very easily. There exist hardly any models in this extreme class of weight. 7-9 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

81.4%: 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.