Asus Zenbook, Fujitsu Life book, and Trinity notebook

Posted by Jon Peddie on September 26th 2012 | Discuss
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All portables are not the same—by a long shot

Even though we found almost two dozen Ultrabooks, we only had two we could test in time for this issue. And we have an AMD Trinity-based laptop. We put those three units through a couple of tests, specifically the FinalWire AID64 suite and 3Dmark11. The results were surprising, and a little disappointing. 

The three machines were similar but not exactly the same.

We started out with great expectation on the graphics tested and then had to keep backing off down to 1024 x 600 resolution to get a useful FPS score.

What do we think?

Based on the above tests and the Ultra Factor, the Asus Zenbook is clearly the big winner. What’s more, the Zen­book has a backlit keyboard and IPS display.—J.P.

comparison of shipping Ultrabooks: the Asus Zenbook wins, but it’s a battle of midgets. (Source: JPR and company information )
  Processors GB Drive Resolution Screen GPU
Fujitsu Lifebook Core i5 1.7 Dual Core 4GB RAM SSD - 95 1366 x 768 13.3 HD4000 Embedded GPU
Trinity laptop A10-4600M 2.3 Quad Core 6GB RAM HDD 100 1366 x 768 14 Radeon 7000M Embedded GPU
Asus Zenbook i7-3517u 1.9 Dual Core 4GB RAM HDD 185 1920 x 1080 13.3 620M Nvidia dGPU

USING FINALwIRE’S AIDA64 and taking the total of all the tests, we got these results.

FOR GRAPHICS, we used 3Dmark11 and ran the Asus Zenbook with just the embedded core i7 HD4000 GPU and with just the discrete Nvidia GTX620 G

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