[Anand] ASUS UL80Vt First Look: Mobility Redefined - Overclock.net

ymetushe · 4 Weeks Ago

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One of the sore spots for Windows, and Vista in particular, has always been battery life. We have discussed this previously, but the simple fact of the matter is that Mac OS X on a MacBook is easily putting any Windows laptop to shame when it comes to mobility. There are many potential contributing factors, including better optimization of the hardware/software combination, tweaks to perhaps enable lower voltages by default on Intel CPUs, and the ability to keep the CPUs running in deeper sleep states more of the time. We will have an updated comparison with OS X in the near future, but to date everything appears to be in favor of Apple MacBook; Windows 7 improves the situation.

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We looked at the ASUS UL50Vt running on Windows 7 Home Basic and found that ASUS could deliver nearly 7 hours of battery life while surfing the Internet -- and that's using our heavy Flash-based tests. One of the more interesting aspects of the ASUS UL series is that they allow overclocking of the ULV processors -- typically 1.73GHz instead of the default 1.30GHz, though in low-power states it's also overclocked from 800MHz to 1066MHz. The overclocking is achieved by simply raising the FSB from 800MHz to 1066MHz; since the chipset and other components can all run a 1066FSB already, the only component that's truly overclocked is the CPU, and it has no difficulty running at 1.73GHz.

Will we finally start seeing laptops with good battery life that aren't Atoms and won't make you bankrupt? I hope so.

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mothergoose729 · 4 Weeks Ago

That is why I got my netbook. The battery life in windows based notebooks is just completely deplorable. 7 hours sounds much more promising, and with a core2 processor to... pretty yummy.

SyncMaster753 · 4 Weeks Ago

this might be my first laptop, ASUS is pretty new to the laptop scene but they're learning quickly and for the hardware they have in them, the price can't be beat.

Manyak · 4 Weeks Ago

That's nice how battery life is blamed on windows, when the reality is that up until this past year it was the batteries themselves that sucked, and the CCFL backlights of the LCDs that used most of the power.

happyxix · 4 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by SyncMaster753

this might be my first laptop, ASUS is pretty new to the laptop scene but they're learning quickly and for the hardware they have in them, the price can't be beat.

Asus been in the scene for a long time... Just not American retail scene until Bestbuy picked them up.

Eastrider · 4 Weeks Ago

My AMILO has 4 hours of battery, theorically.

Under Vista watching moveis, it goes down to 1,50 mins.

So, let me doubt that it will have 7 hours of battery life o_O

Drift0r · 4 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by SyncMaster753

this might be my first laptop, ASUS is pretty new to the laptop scene but they're learning quickly and for the hardware they have in them, the price can't be beat.

Wrong. I have a Asus laptop from Taiwan back from 2005 (M6VA). I think they made ones before mine too. I think it's just that America hasn't caught on yet to Asus laptops, but they're really popular in Taiwan.

tofunater · 4 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by ymetushe

Will we finally start seeing laptops with good battery life that aren't Atoms and won't make you bankrupt? I hope so.

Already been done and I own one

Samsung NC-20.

Deltido · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Eastrider

My AMILO has 4 hours of battery, theorically.

Under Vista watching moveis, it goes down to 1,50 mins.

So, let me doubt that it will have 7 hours of battery life o_O

We'll let you doubt, but tests have been done: http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3665&p=6

Eastrider · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Deltido

We'll let you doubt, but tests have been done: http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3665&p=6

It's a relatively long battery life, but far from the specs.

Normally, the battery life measurement the manufacturers do on their laptops can be compared to if a car brand measured their fuel consumption going downhill on null gear.

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