Asus W5F reviewed! (Core Duo)

So, the dam finally burst. The first review of Intel's new mobile champion has emerged.

While not spoiling the read for you, it gives you higher performance while maintaining the same level of battery life compared to the Asus W5A (Sonoma).

Read the review here.

I'm quite happy I waited for Yonah, as it will surely help me with my video-editing and encoding

 

this link is already on the hardware page so many of us have read it.

also a disclaimr this is NOT a w5f review, just a yonah review, the w5f you would buy would not use the same memory as previous generations and may not have intergrated, they used a w5f cloned as an old sonima except yonah to compair, not a review.

 

Ah ok, I was only looking for it in the Asus forum - my bad.

 

its cool just point out

 

Well the Napa platform takes 533 and 677 mhz ddr2..... so there is a chance they would use the same memory... infact I can barely see a reason Asus would put the 677 in the W5.... sort of like how they put the 400mhz ddr2 in the V6 when it first came out... But that review was supposed to show just the cpu and the chipset, while keeping the hard drive and ram identical.

..... I think a better use of this new platform would be to promote better life at the same performance rather than better performance at the same life because people using a W5 would probably looking at it that way since the system already had a ton of performance.. especially for a 12".

 

What would be the price differential between DDR2-533 and DDR2-667. Though if its used in centrino notebooks price of RAM will fall. Look where 533MHZ models cost. They are available at $50 per Gig.

 

Well right now ddr2 677 isn't out.... and I'll tell you right now that it's going to be a lot more money and the benefit probably won't be there right away....Corsair is running at $100-110 for 1gb sticks of 533..... 677 should be 130-140.

... We've got a TON of 533mhz sticks that we got a great deal on and if we don't sell out of them with on current builds.... we're going to be able to off a cheaper solution for the new models.... having the option between 533 and 677.