Asus Makes 12-Hour Battery Life Claim on New Performance Laptop
Asus Makes 12-Hour Battery Life Claim on New Performance Laptop
Posted 01/12/2010 at 7:10am
| by Paul Lilly
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High-end laptops are lucky to squeeze 3 hours of run time out of a single charge, and if you're looking for ultra long battery life, your best bet is a netbook. Or is it?
Asus had on display at CES a performance-oriented laptop the company hopes will redefine the high-end genre. The UL80JT, as it's currently called, can switch back and forth between a high-end Nvidia GeForce 310 and Intel's lowly GMA graphics. Combined with a Core i7 CPU capable of re-clocking itself on a second-by-second basis and other micromanagement tricks, Asus claims users can expect up to 12 hours of run time.
Even cooler, the whole process is transparent to the user, meaning you don't have to fiddle with power settings. The laptop decides for itself when to clock the dual-core Core i7 chip up or down and when to switch between graphic chips, and while we're skeptical we'd actually see 12 hours of run time, we would expect the UL80JT to run a lot longer than a typical high end notebook.
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roninnder
January 12, 2010 at 9:12am
ASUS, you learned to name your motherboards. I now challenge you to put one pronounceable word into the naming scheme of each of your laptops.
1337-n00b
January 12, 2010 at 7:31pm
Aww, and *I* just got an Asus G50V, and it gets 3 hours max too. And that's with its beautiful glossy (and glare-y D:) widescreen turned to the setting of Coal Mine Dark and the CPU choked to max out at 60% usage...
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it's pronounced ELEET NEWBEE.
and it means talks like a n00b, knows like a 1337.
As opposed to a 1amma, who thinks like n00b, talks like 1337; better a 1337-n00b than a 1amma.
nekollx
January 12, 2010 at 10:50am
maybe the next one will be named Klatu Verta Nicto
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