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Asus U6V is encapsulated in the bamboo. Do something for him?

Asus is now selling a small and light laptop, where they have avoided using traditional materials such as plastic and metal as far as possible. If this gives some major environmental benefit, we are uncertain, but U6V Bamboo is undoubtedly a personal computer that stands out from the crowd.

U6V is based on Intel's Centrino Rino 2-platform and equipped with 12.1-inch screen, a powerful tokjerneprosessor, 3 gigabytes of memory and a Hard Disk of 250 gigabytes. The machine also comes with two batteries of different sizes.

The minimum gives PC weighing 1.6-kilograms, while the high-capacity battery increases the weight to 2 kg.

To be so small and light pc we are a bit surprised that Asus has not opted to put in an integrated graphics, but instead used grafikkbrikke Nvidia Geforce 9300M.

This has clear advantages in terms of 3D performance and it is not often we see such a small machine with this graphics solution.

You can not expect to play the latest games with high-quality settings, but Asus U6V do it better than most personal computer is the same size. Such a dedicated GPU also provides better playback of high-resolution video.

The screen surface is glossy, but not by those with the most reflections. As LED backlight is used. The resolution is 1280x800, which is the standard for 12.1-inch.

Well equipped

Of contacts and connections have the machine mostly we want: three USB ports, eSATA connector, Expresscard/54-kortplass for additional cards and both VGA and HDMI for external display.

It also has Bluetooth and the fastest standard for both wired and wireless networks. The possibilities are many compared with other computers in the same segment, even if it lacks Firewire and an integrated 3G module.

The machine comes with Windows Vista Business, but can also be downgraded to Windows XP Pro.

If you choose to keep Vista, you can most probably upgrade to Windows 7 for a reasonable price when the operating system will, perhaps already in autumn.

Good battery life

We are pleased that Asus provides two batteries, but it could have been better with a battery that size and capacity terms, had been an intermediate state of the two provided.

Using high-capacity battery, we had over six hours running time, measured with Test Mobile Mark 2007. This is a very good result. Will you cut the weight of the machine as much as possible gives the smallest battery an operation in about a half hour, which is lousy. Check all the results here.

Actually, we can say that the system away from being an ultra pc if you use the large battery, so that it competes with systems with 13.3-inch screen, for example, the Dell Latitude E4300 and Fujitsu Siemens Life Book S6420.

With a price of 15 000 million is small Asus U6V anything but cheap, but it has also an equipment level that we normally find on much larger and heavier PCs.

If it provides some great environmental benefit that it is dressed in bamboo rather than plastic, we are not so sure, but Asus will have that they dry to think differently.

Conclusion

Performance-wise, Asus U6V delivers a very good result, and it will be suitable for very heavy use. Although this is not a pure-play PC is able to take relatively new game just to keep the resolution and visual quality at a slightly lower level.

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