Asus A7S

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Reviews for the Asus A7S

Asus A7S - Santa Rosa - First Look
Source: Trusted Reviews Archive.org version
So after much hype and noise, Santa Rosa notebooks have finally arrived and we have two examples here in the office to look at. Riyad is casting his gaze over a Samsung, while I have in front of me a large beastie from Asus - the A7S – a large desktop replacement entertainment machine. A large, powerful brute of a machine that is more beast than beauty. The new Santa Rosa CPU is fast but we’ll only really get excited about the Santa Rosa once we see Turbo Memory equipped machines.
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Leistung gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/09/2007
performance: 80%

Foreign Reviews

75% Asus A7S-7S056C
Source: Connect - 12/07
Comparison, , Short, Date: 11/29/2007
Rating: Total score: 75% performance: 90% features: 82% mobility: 69% ergonomy: 59%

87% Notebooks für alle
Source: PC Games Hardware - 10/07
Comparison, , Length Unknown, Date: 09/05/2007
Rating: Total score: 87% price: 70% performance: 40%

Asus A7S
Source: c't DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 07/20/2007
Rating: performance: 80% features: 90% display: 70% mobility: 40% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 70%

DX-Notebooks
Source: PC Games Hardware DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 07/01/2007
Rating: performance: 60% display: 80%

PC-Ersatz mit neuer Technik von Intel und Nvidia
Source: Netzwelt DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/23/2007
Rating: price: 80% performance: 70% features: 90%

90% Multimedia-Glotze mit "Santa Rosa"-Chipsatz
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/16/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 50% features: 90% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90%

Vier ASUS laptops getest
Source: Hardware.info NL→EN Archive.org version
Comparison, online available, Long, Date: 09/20/2007
Rating: mobility: 40%

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.

Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.

» 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:

The Core 2 Duo T7500 is a Merom based Core 2 Duo with 4MB Level 2 Cache. It is positioned in the middle class (in 2009) and performs on par with a modern P7550 or Turion II Ultra M640/M660.