ASUS previews Turion 64 platform @ CeBIT

This report is taken from Digi Times
http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20050315PR204.html
I guessing this will hit shelves around June-July in time for the US summer!
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"CeBIT: Asustek previews Turion 64 platform
Original date: 2005/3/15
One of key players in notebook industry, Asustek introduced its future implementation of the AMD Turion 64 platform at CeBIT. The product, initially called A6000K, will come out with 15- or 15.4-inch TFT LCD display, Nvidia GeForce Go 6200 mobile graphics processor, DDR333 memory (upto 2GB), wireless LAN module supporting two (b and g) or three (a, b and g) versions of IEEE 802.11 standard, the company said.

Asustek’s A6000K will measure 35.4x28.4x3.5cm and will weight less than 3kg, according to the company. There is currently no information on pricing or when mass production will begin."





ASUS M6Ne 15.4" WSXGA 1.7 PM ATI9700 80Gb HDD 1Gb RAM

 

Late May is a better estimate.

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Looks pretty slick to me. I like the idea of a 64-bit mobile processor with Longhorn coming next year.

Any idea if these will be sold as a package from Asus or will they be whitebox models? Also, any idea on pricing (or guesstimate ie more expensive than XXX model but less than XXX model) of these. I would guess these would be aimed at a lower price point than the Intel machines, but I could be wrong.

 

I'm not totally sold on it yet... but turion has promise and I like the A6

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Justin,

I assume from your response that you don't know much about these just yet (as far as any details), which is fine.

Can you predict whether it will be sold at all in the US? Thanks...

 

oh yeah - we're looking at May delivery time...... I'm actually getting a chassis shortly... we're doing a special promo for asus and amd which (fingers crossed) will involve amd's newest spokesman....

I don't know a lot about the system because I haven't gotten a full working unit yet, but I have seen the A6 in a p4 version which is basically the same outside..

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Great, just let us know once you have specs and pricing info...

 

Incase you wanted to get a feel for the chassis.... I've got A6ne pictures.. this is the centrino version... but the turion is going to be using the same platform... so this is the basic design.

http://www.proportable.com/images/a6ne.jpg

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Not bad at all. Is that a widescreen?

 

That one is.... it looks like the bezel is smaller than the M6 only because the screen is spaced evenly between the top and the bottom... and the webcam takes up some of the space.

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Justin... did you say you didnt have a guesstimate on price?
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I don't even want to guess on this one...... I would gather it's going to be very affordable because the a64 systems are and these has less video than those do and the cpu isn't much different..... but if amd some how makes the cpu much more expensive, then it might drive prices up.. but I have to figure it won't be priced any higher than say a Z80k right now.

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It looks like the current A6XXX series has SXGA+ (1400x1050) if I am reading it correctly so hopefully that will be the case with the Turion model as well.

Didn't some of the other A series models offer AceView screens (similar to Sony's XBrite, Asus version)? How does that differ from the glare type screen being offered by Asus currently - they don't seem to refer to them as AceView anymore, if in fact they are the same.

 

the only notebook with ACE View was the L5........ this differs a lot from the current Color Shine screens.

The ACE View was the best display I'd ever seen..... I know I've said a dozen times that I put it next to my 17" sony wega crt which is one of the best monitors for graphics use... and it was better than it in every catagory.

The Color Shine is really nice too, but no ACE View. ACE view was too expensive to produce. Basically... you know the issues with reflection on the "glossy" screens? But you know how thats needed to produce better blacks? Well picture.. perfect blacks, brightness, contrast, 175+ degree viewing angle horizontally and vertically........ and zero reflection. Oh yeah.. and did I mention that ACE view was actually more efficient on battery life than a regular lcd? Yeah, it's not a dream.. it happened and it was only on one system.

It doesn't mean color shine is crap, it's just inbetween that screen and a regular lcd... But there just wasn't another screen on the planet that could come close to an Ace View.... it was only made in 15.1" and in XGA and SXGA+ ... only about 40 units of the SXGA+ came to North America... and that was it..... It makes for an awesome replacement screen in an M6.... I think it's too big to try to shove in a V6... but I did manage retrofit an M6 with the screen..... beautiful.

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