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Asus F3Jc

26 May, 2007, 4:43 pm IST | Gaurav Seth | Notebooks

The machine is powered by Nvidia’s Go 7300 dedicated graphics card with 128 MB of video memory. The card features a DVI-out along with the conventional VGA out. On the gaming front the card is nothing exceptional with a measly score of 679 on 3DMark 06. There is no way you can play the current generation games using this card. Its more apt for smoothly running Aero on Windows Vista. And that brings us on the Operating System. The F3Jc comes bundled with DOS, in other words, nothing. Most of us love this option as it saves the cost of an operating system that can be easily obtained, illegally. Though most of the times its under the pretext of giving the consumer the choice of their operating system. Whatever the case, we only advocate the use of legal software.

Touchpad with Scroll & Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Slider

The F3Jc is equipped with a 1.6 GHz Intel Core Duo processor with 2MB of L2 cache and 1GB of DDR2 memory running at 667 MHz. One single stick of 1GB RAM is used leaving behind an empty slot for future upgrade. The board used is based on Intel’s 945 chipset. Overall the system performance is good and we obtained a PCMark score of 3259. The F3Jc comes with 15.4-inch glossy wide-screen LCD. The color reproduction is good if not best with not the smoothest of gradient transitions. The gloss screen makes colors look more vibrant and is good for watching movies. The in-built speakers are above average. We found the Altec-Lansing in-built speakers on HP and Compaq laptops to be louder.

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Tags: Asus , Core Duo , Intel , Nvidia

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