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    What's with all the Letters?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by camsimple, Sep 30, 2006.

  1. camsimple

    camsimple Notebook Evangelist

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    I was wondering what are the main differences between the different letter series that Asus puts out. For example what makes a Z series a Z series, compared to a A series and so forth. I tried to search for any answers but came up with nothing. Here are all the series that I could find.

    W, Z, F, A, S, V

    *Also what do the ending letters represent as well? such as the W3J,
     
    camsimple, Sep 30, 2006
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  2. Darrick

    Darrick Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    It's in the NewbieFaq Sticky at the top of the page:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=25849

    Look at section 2f and below..

    Summary..
    The A, F, V and W series are Ensemble units

    The Z are Built On Asus models, S are Verified By Intel models...

    Ending letters I believe represents CPU generation + integrated or dedicated graphics....eg the J in A8J and W3J represent Yonah + dedicated graphics , then if anything else, like A8Jm, A8Ja = type of dedicated graphics, ie nvidia, ATI
     
    Darrick, Sep 30, 2006
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  3. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Those are the 'current' ones, when Merom comes around , they'll chanhge a bit, usually just the suffix.
     
    coriolis, Sep 30, 2006
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