Asus Pitches a $799 Entry-level Ultrabook

[Guest]

ChocoLoco: It's actually a known fact that Llano scales with faster memory, it's not speculation.

I have a Llano and a Sandy Bridge, the SB graphics are cack quality, and the drivers a very poor. Anybody using an Intel IGP is going to see corruption or artifacts at least occasionally, possibly even crashes, with subpar image quality all day long. AMD, on the other hand, gives you stability and image quality, with enough power to play most games.

 

[Guest]

"Of course! Intel only loses on the one graphics standard everyone uses!"

Actually, DX11 is still relatively poorly used all around. Latest technologies always take some time to get fully implemented (think 64-bit). There aer many standards around including OpenGL. 3D isn't really that well used in day to day operations. 2D performance, HD streaming, video encoding/decoding, ... plenty of uses outside of DX11.

 

[Guest]

Spanky, this is IvyBridge, not SandyBridge. I hear Voodoo had some issues too as did Matrox. Should we talk about them too? Look at the reviews again. The quality was excellent and no reported crashes. Keep up with the FUD.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]shafe88[/nom]By the time Intel does lowers their prices I'll be to late, cause people will have moved on to AMD's lower price ultrathin. Why spend a lot of money and get a fast processor and a slow gpu when you can spend less money and get a moderate speed processor and a fast gpu.[/citation]
Most consumers in the market won't know the difference. They just "know" Intel is better than AMD (if they know who AMD is at all).

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]yugfhjhj[/nom]similar level aesthetics, while paying for full version of windows and still be substantially cheaper than MacBook Air so that large no. of people will buy them...JUST HOW??[/citation]
Huh?

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]daglesj[/nom]With a pathetic cheap ass 13x7 screen I bet!I bet it would only cost Asus an extra $2 to put in a decent res screen. Why do they keep spoiling nice kit with crappy cheap screens? You spend a fortune developing a nice case etc. but then spoil it all by skimping on the main part we look at. Madness.[/citation]
...because most consumers don't know any better.

 

[nikorr]

Huh?

That was just a low life spammer : )

Eradicating them one at the time.

 

[RyQril]

price is ok, the gpu and cpu is nice, but 24GB SSD? need more

 

[daglesj]

[citation][nom]halcyon[/nom]...because most consumers don't know any better.[/citation]

As you can tell from folks discussing here just going on and on about the GPU and not what the actual game is going to be presented on. The screen is just as important especially when you actually want to do some 'work' on it.

Time to change!

 

[halcyon]

I could be very wrong about this but I have a distinct feeling that the amount of people planning to get an "UltraBook" with the intent of gaming on is negligibly infinitesimally minute. Therefore, the discussions many of you are having on GPUs is purely academic.

"Hey, I've got $1000. I think I'll get one of the Ultrabooks...so I can play Battlefield 3 and Metro". uh...yeah.

 

[Nintendork]

Seems that many intel fanboys think that the intel HD4000 is big improvemente and surpasses Llano gpu. That's a good joke.

 

[Guest]

It does not matter if INTEL has HD2000,HD3000,HD4000,or HD10,000. If Intel continues to allow Laptop OEMs to Customize Their HD graphics drivers, and Intel probably will continue to allow Laptop OEMs to write customized HD graphics drivers. Laptop owners will be at the mercy of lazy Laptop OEMs who after they customize The Intel HD graphics drivers, will almost never, if ever, update these customized Intel HD graphics drivers. Laptop owners will continue to be surprised when they go to the Intel HD graphics Update website, only to learn that Intel can not update The OEM's customized HD graphics Drivers! Even light weight computer games, that may be playable on Intel's HD4000 Ivy bridge graphics can and do require driver updates, But if the laptop OEM is lazy or cheep, do not expect any HD graphics driver updates from the Laptop's OEM! Expect to have to buy a brand new laptop, just to get updated Intel HD graphics drivers from some laptop manufactures, unless you make sure that the laptop you are buying comes with Intel generic HD graphic drivers! I realise Intel writes crappy drivers but an updated crappy driver is better than no updated drivers at all.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]MoreTruth[/nom]It does not matter if INTEL has HD2000,HD3000,HD4000,or HD10,000. If Intel continues to allow Laptop OEMs to Customize Their HD graphics drivers, and Intel probably will continue to allow Laptop OEMs to write customized HD graphics drivers. Laptop owners will be at the mercy of lazy Laptop OEMs who after they customize The Intel HD graphics drivers, will almost never, if ever, update these customized Intel HD graphics drivers. Laptop owners will continue to be surprised when they go to the Intel HD graphics Update website, only to learn that Intel can not update The OEM's customized HD graphics Drivers! Even light weight computer games, that may be playable on Intel's HD4000 Ivy bridge graphics can and do require driver updates, But if the laptop OEM is lazy or cheep, do not expect any HD graphics driver updates from the Laptop's OEM! Expect to have to buy a brand new laptop, just to get updated Intel HD graphics drivers from some laptop manufactures, unless you make sure that the laptop you are buying comes with Intel generic HD graphic drivers! I realise Intel writes crappy drivers but an updated crappy driver is better than no updated drivers at all.[/citation]
So, to me, the moral of the story is to buy a laptop with a discrete GPU if gaming or doing anything else graphics intensive. Okay...fine.