ASUS UL80Vt Notebook

Do you want a laptop that’s not heavy to carry around with you at a reasonable price? Well, ASUS UL80Vt might be just the right one for you. This light laptop comes with decent power with its 1.3 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 CPU overlocked with 1.73 GHz by default. It also features 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a 320GB hard drive. The 8-cell lithium battery will give you up to 11.5 hour life.

The UL80Vt also features switchable graphics courtesy of the NVIDIA GeForce G210M and Intel GMA 4500HD for shifting between discrete and power-saving integrated graphics, which is automatically turned-on when the laptop is not plugged to a power supply. The discrete graphics can also be manually turned on and off with the button on the upper half of the keyboard, directly opposite of the power button.

The 14-inch 16:9 screen displays brightly and vibrantly enough. The speakers do deliver, although they aren’t the greatest. Well, for $825, that’s not questionable. But still, the ASUS UL80Vt can perform, and at a reasonable price, too.

ASUS UL80Vt (Vt-A1) – The Lightweight Powerhouse

What do you get if you match Intel’s budget- and endurance-minded Ultra-Low Voltage processor with a powerful Nvidia graphics chip? You get the ASUS’ UL80Vt. The ASUS’ UL80Vt is the newest member of the UL series of ASUS. The unit is priced at $849 14-inch thin-and-light notebook strong performance at a reasonable price.

The most important feature of the UL80Vt is its incorporated integrated graphics; it even has software that tells the computer when to switch it on so that the notebook can last more than a day away from an electric plug.

The UL80Vt is all black, with an attractive brushed metal lid. Inside, the tastefully-appointed deck and screen bezel are made of glossy black plastic, while the bottom is simply matte plastic. This uniformity of color and design gives the system a sleek yet understated look, but tends to pick up fingerprints.

Basically the UL80Vt is the best of both worlds with its price and features.

Is the Asus UL30A-A1 really that Good?

With the current trend of Netbooks and full service laptops, there is little space for CULV ultra thin laptops. Most of these ultra thin laptops will sacrifice a function or two to make the unit as thin as possible. Most of these units remove the optical drive and most of them sacrifice in quality.

It’s relieving to say, therefore, that the 13-inch Asus UL30A-A1 is a thin-and-light that we’d gladly carry around in our bag for a good long time to come. The Asus UL30A-A1 has a good frame and very good new Core 2 Duo CULV processor; it even has a good battery life. So it is the closest to a complete package for a sub-$1000 laptop that doesn’t resort to an Atom processor.

The Asus UL30A-A1 comes with 1.3GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 Processor, 4GB, 1066MHz DDR3 Memory, 500GB 5,400rpm Hard drive Mobile, Intel GM45 Express Chipset, Intel GMA 4500MHD Graphics ,Windows Vista Premium Operating system.