May
Asus B80A (4G004E)
Business Alternative from Asus.
The Taiwanese manufacturer Asus should be a name for many who are interested in computers. Mainboards, graphic cards, EeePC and gaming notebooks are only a few fields with which the name is connected. The Asus B80A presents itself to us, untypically and therefore exotic, as a born-and-bred business notebook in a dying out 14.1″ format. Can the newbie take it up with the established competition from Lenovo, HP and Dell or has Asus overtaken themselves in this area and won’t find the link despite all effort?
Asus doesn’t offer a big variety of configuration options. Only one arrangement is available at the moment and relieves interested customers from the usual option of choice already in the forefront. Therefore it’s more important that the available version has an opulence on components, which satisfies the ambitioned corporate. And Asus has quite a bit to offer.
An LED-lit and splash-proof keyboard, fingerprint reader and webcam with face recognition and extension options via an optional docking station. Above that, our model had an Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 (2×2.0Ghz) CPU, 3 GB DDR2 RAM, 250 GB hard disk, Intel GMA 4500 MHD graphic with an HDMI-out and a matt 14.1″ WXGA display in 16:10 format. You have to pass on the basically available, but not offered in this country, faster processors, hard disks, other operating systems or a 9 cell battery. A disadvantage which the current “1-model-policy” brings about. Continue reading »