Asus UL20A

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Reviews for the Asus UL20A

83% Asus UL20A
Source: PC Pro Archive.org version
Compact size, mammoth battery life and decent performance for the low price
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/03/2010
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 83% performance: 67% features: 67%

80% Asus UL20A review
Source: Techradar Archive.org version
An impressive and highly-portable laptop that offers terrific value for money. Asus is famous for kick-starting the netbook market with its EeePC branded machines, but also offers a broad variety of full-size laptops, including high-quality ultraportables. We like the Asus UL20A a lot. It is compact and boasts an excellent battery life, providing you with hours of power on-the-go while also looking very smart and delivering decent performance.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 03/11/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%

Asus UL20A review
Source: Liliputing Archive.org version
The Asus UL20A is an interesting laptop that’s a bit of a cross between a netbook and a full sized, full power notebook. While it’s not as small or light as a typical netbook, this 12.1 inch laptop has a larger screen and keyboard and it performs CPU-intensive tasks like transcoding video. And the UL20A’s not that much bigger or heavier than some netbooks. Weighing in at about 3.5 pounds, it’s just 0.3 pounds heavier than the Asus Eee PC 1000H 10 inch netbook I’ve been using for the last year.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/16/2009
Rating: performance: 70% mobility: 70%

Foreign Reviews

73% Обзор субноутбука Asus UL20A (Unlimited)
Source: Retera RU→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/20/2010
Rating: Total score: 73% performance: 31% display: 52% mobility: 72% emissions: 73%

Notebook és netbook azonos méretben
Source: Prohardver.hu HU→EN Archive.org version
User Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/15/2010
Rating: performance: 80% display: 40% mobility: 80%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Onboard (shared Memory) GPU built in the GM45, GE45 and GS45 chipset (Montevina). Because of two more shaders and a higher core clock, much faster than the old GMA X3100. Still not advisable for gamers (DirectX 10 games not playable or only with very low settings). The integrated video processor is able to help decode HD videos (AVC/VC-2/MPEG2) , e.g., for a fluent Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.

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.

SU7300: Slow clocked dual core processor with a low TDP of 10 Watt.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

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