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    Does Asus update their Ensemble notebooks?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by tay, May 2, 2005.

  1. tay

    tay Notebook Consultant

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    ie, in 3 months, will the w3v have moved up to a 2.13mhz processor? or at least 2.0?
     
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    probably to a 2.0...... every three months prices drop on cpus, so instead of lowering the price on something like the W3, they leave the price the same and jusdt start using the next higher cpu.

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    I agree... if ASUS will update anything on their ensemble notebooks, it's usually just a CPU update...
    I think it'll most likely go to 2.0 GHz... although it depends on the market at the given time. We'll see

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    Hopefully they will update the HDD to SATA, so the connectors will be available. This may be the most effective upgrade anyway, since (to my understanding) a HD and DVD drive on the same IDE channel can create a bottleneck, which using SATA instead should solve.
     
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    Although I don't see that on the notebooks...... it's never going to hurt going to sATA..... When sATA drives are available to them in better quantities, that'll be something they switch to as well... thats just a matter of time.

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