Asus X Series
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Hawk-256) TK-53, Intel Celeron M 520, Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, Intel Pentium Dual Core T3200Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650, ATI Mobility Radeon X2300, ATI Radeon Xpress 1100, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100, NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Display: 15.4 inch, 17.1 inch
Weight: 2.6kg, 2.7kg, 2.8kg, 3.9kg
600, 700, 800, 1100
Average Score: 77.5% - good
Average of 14 scores (from 21 reviews)
mobility: 48%, workmanship: 68%, ergonomy: 72%, emissions: 80%
Asus X51R
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus X51RProcessor: Intel Celeron M 520
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 128 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 75.83% - good
Average of 6 scores (from 10 reviews)
Asus - X51RL review
Source: IT Reviews 
While the display does suffer from a narrow viewing angle, you really can't moan too much about this well equipped laptop which is a bargain at the asking price.
Display mangelhaft, Ausstattung gut, Preis gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/10/2008
Rating: price: 80% features: 80% display: 50%
Will ich Billig?
Source: c't - 16/08 
, Long, Date: 08/15/2008
Rating: performance: 50% features: 70% display: 70% mobility: 30% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 90%
Tele2 & UPC Notebooktest
Source: e-media - 9/08
, Medium, Date: 03/15/2008
84% Sparbook
Source: Computerbild - 8/08
, Medium, Date: 03/15/2008
Rating: Total score: 84% price: 90% performance: 50% emissions: 80%
80% Asus X51R-AP167D - Eine dicke Core-2-Duo CPU für wenig Geld?
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 11/30/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 70% features: 10% display: 50% mobility: 50% workmanship: 50% ergonomy: 70%
58% Test: Asus X51R-AP134C (Notebook) - Das Geiz-Notebook
Source: Chip.de
online available, Very Short, Date: 11/30/2007
Rating: Total score: 58% performance: 58% features: 68% display: 64% mobility: 38% ergonomy: 82% emissions: 80%
Sparfüchse unterwegs
Source: c't - 25/07
, Long, Date: 11/16/2007
Rating: performance: 40% display: 50% mobility: 40% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 80%
82% Asus X51R-AP003A
Source: Computerbild
online available, Short, Date: 06/05/2007
Rating: Total score: 82% price: 90% display: 50%
70% Bürokraft für Sparfüchse
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Short, Date: 06/01/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% performance: 30% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 60% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 80%
81% Test Asus X51R Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck
online available, Short, Date: 04/29/2007
Rating: Total score: 81% performance: 62% display: 88% mobility: 69% workmanship: 86% ergonomy: 85% emissions: 79%
Asus X50R
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus X50RProcessor: Intel Celeron M 520
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.8kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 79% - good
Average of 3 scores (from 5 reviews)
72% Sparbücher bis 750 Euro
Source: Connect - 2/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 01/10/2008
Rating: Total score: 72% performance: 80% mobility: 40%
83% Asus X50R-AG268P
Source: Computerbild - 26/07
, Short, Date: 12/28/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 90% performance: 85% features: 77% display: 85% mobility: 77% ergonomy: 77% emissions: 89%
Preiswerter Notebook-Einstieg
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 11-12/07
, Length Unknown, Date: 10/10/2007
Rating: price: 80% display: 80% mobility: 60% emissions: 80%
82% Not-Bücher
Source: TV Movie Multimedia - 9/07
, Length Unknown, Date: 08/29/2007
Rating: Total score: 82% price: 80% performance: 40% workmanship: 80%
Schneller Dual-Core-Prozessor und nicht spiegelndes Display
Source: Netzwelt
, Length Unknown, Date: 08/14/2007
Rating: price: 100% performance: 80% features: 80% display: 60% mobility: 50% emissions: 50%
Asus X50V
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus X50VProcessor: Intel Celeron M 520
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 128 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.8kg
Price: 800 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 60% - poor
Average of 1 scores (from 2 reviews)
Konkurrenz für Aldi?
Source: PC Welt
online available, Short, Date: 09/17/2007
performance: 70%
60% Asus X50V Superstar AP048C
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 09/06/2007
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 30% features: 70% display: 30% mobility: 30% ergonomy: 50%
Asus X72SA
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus X72SAProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 3.9kg
Price: 1100 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 90% - very good
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
90% ASUS X72SA-7S017C HD3650
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 05/07/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 70% performance: 70% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 70% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 90%
Asus X50N
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus X50NProcessor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Hawk-256) TK-53
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.6kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Average Score: 81.5% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
80% Asus X50n
Source: Techradar
In terms of performance, this is clearly a budget laptop. The use of an AMD Turion 64 Mobile X2 processor and 2048MB of memory resulted in a MobileMark 2007 score of 111, which is less than half of what can be expected from the latest processors. However, for word processing, using the internet and basic office tasks, this machine is more than usable. At this price, manufacturers tend to keep extras to a minimum, but you'll find a DVD rewriter fitted, as well as a webcam. Ports are kept to a minimum, but with four USB ports, ExpressCard, SD-card slot and VGA-port, you'll be able to add sufficient peripherals. There is also a Wi-Fi switch, so you'll be able to preserve battery life when wireless LAN is not required.
4 von 5, Verarbeitung gut, Display sehr gut, Ausstattung gut, Leistung schlecht, Mobilität schlecht
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 09/24/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 40% features: 80% display: 90% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80%
83% Sparbook
Source: Computerbild - 8/08
, Medium, Date: 03/15/2008
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 90% performance: 50%
Asus X51L
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Asus X51LProcessor: Intel Pentium Dual Core T3200
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.8kg
Price: 600 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section X51L (Model)
Average Score: 80% - good
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
80% ASUS X51L-AP173D
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 11/20/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 70% features: 10% display: 50% mobility: 50% workmanship: 50% ergonomy: 70%
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.
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.
ATI Radeon Xpress 1100: The successor of the Xpress M200 integrated shared memory graphic card is based on a x300 core. Aero Glass should run fluently on the card.
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M: ATI Radeon Xpress 200M is the shared memory integrated graphic card from ATI based on a X300 core. In general it is a bit faster than the Intel GMA 950 graphic core.
NVIDIA GeForce 7000M: It is an integrated (shared memory) graphic card, inserted in nForce 610M, for laptops with AMD processors (socket S1).
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on a Mobile Intel 965GM chipset. It is the successor of GMA 950 and features a fully programmable pipeline (supports Aero Glass fully and DirectX 10 with newest drivers). The peformance of the X3100 is clearly better than the GMA 950, still demanding modern games won't run fluently.
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 X2300: Renamed X1350 graphics chip and, therefore, only DirectX 9 capable.
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.
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 Celeron M: It is a Pentium M with halved level 2 Cache and limited on FSB 400. The characteristic of this processor is the speed, which is hardly slower than an equivalent Pentium M. However it can change the speed not dynamically like the Pentium M and therefore needs without load more current.
It is also available as Low Voltage Version with very small current consumption.
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 Athlon 64 X2 (Hawk-256):
Intel Pentium Dual Core: The return of the name Pentium, though it is a Yonah core. In fact, it is a double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption.
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.
17.1: Nowadays, meanwhile the 17 inch display size is a more frequently offered standard format for desktop-replacements. 17 inch laptops are built only in 16:10 format.
The DTR-Laptops can't be carried easily, need much current, but on the other side texts can be read easily and high resolutions are no problem. DTR mainly are intended for stationary usage on desks, where the weight and the energy need are unimportant.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.6 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.
3.9 kg:
This laptop is heavy below average, compared with the average of notebooks. Therefore especially desktop replacements fit in this class of weight.
77.5%: 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.
