Asus U3S
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus U3SProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
Display: 13.3 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 1.8kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 80% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 5 reviews)
mobility: 57%, workmanship: 95%, ergonomy: 40%, emissions: 60%
Reviews for the Asus U3S
Foreign Reviews
Edler Begleiter
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 3-4/08 
, Length Unknown, Date: 02/22/2008
Rating: performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 80%
Asus U3S Subnotebook
Source: Minitechnet
online available, Long, Date: 12/14/2007
Rating: performance: 80% features: 80% display: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 100% ergonomy: 60% emissions: 80%
Test: Subnotebook Asus U3S
Source: PC Welt
online available, Medium, Date: 11/16/2007
Rating: price: 43% performance: 100% mobility: 37% ergonomy: 29%
70% ASUS U3S 13,3" 8400M-G
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 10/30/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 90% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 30% emissions: 40%
90% Asus U3S Notebook ultraligero
Source: Hispazone 
online available, Long, Date: 09/21/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 60% performance: 80% features: 90% mobility: 80%
Comment
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.
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.
>> 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.
T7500:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
13.3": This is a frequent and the biggest display format for sub-notebooks.
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.
1.8 kg: These sub-notebooks weight less than the average of all notebooks, but represent a heavier class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 12 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.
80%: 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.
