Asus 13.3" UL30A CULV Notebook Review
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We continued our testing with SiSoftware's SANDRA 2009, the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. We ran four of the built-in subsystem tests (CPU Arithmetic, Multimedia, Memory Bandwidth, Physical Disks). All of the scores reported below were taken with the processor running at its default clock speeds of 1.3GHz with 4GB of DDR3-1066 RAM running in dual-channel mode.
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As these tests show, the UL30 basically hung steady with the reference systems in most tests. It fell behind in a few benchmarks, but that's to be expected with a machine that is tailored to run cool and quiet while saving power for those on-the-go. We know it's growing tired, but again, we're impressed with how the UL30 stacked up with the others.
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Even with a relatively weak integrated GPU (Intel's G
To test multimedia capabilities, we attempt to play back a 720p WMVHD clip, a 720p H.264 clip and a 1080p clip.
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Even with a relatively weak integrated GPU (Intel's G
