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Asus ZenBook UX305CA Shows What Skylake Core M Is Capable Of (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: ASUS recently revamped their ZenBook UX305 family of ultralight notebooks with Intel's 6th generation Skylake Core m series, which brings with it not only improved graphics performance but also native support for PCI Express NVMe M.2 Solid State Drives. The platform is turning out to be fairly strong for this category of notebooks and the low cost ZenBook ($699 as tested) is a good example of what a Skylake Core M is capable of in a balanced configuration. Tested here, the machine is configured with a 256GB M.2 SSD, 8GB of RAM and a 2.2GHz Core m3-6Y30 dual-core CPU. Along with a 13.3-inch 1080p FHD display and 802.11ac wireless connectivity, the ZenBook UX305 is setup nicely and it puts up solid performance numbers in both standard compute tasks and graphics. It also offers some of the best battery life numbers in an ultralight yet, lasting over 10 hours on a charge in real world connected web testing.
Did Soulskill and samzenpus get canned as part of the recent Slashdot ownership change? The last submission posted by samzenpus and the last submission posted by Soulskill that I can find both pre-date the ownership change announcement. Since then there have only been submissions posted by timothy and whipslash, as far as I can tell. The about page still lists Soulskill and samzenpus as editors, but it also still says it's owned by DHI, so maybe it has not been updated yet. If Soulskill and samzenpus were canned, will timothy be canned at some point in the near future, too?
Just finished giving three talks in three days at three different locations / venues, where I needed to connect my laptop to the overhead projector. In every case the primary connector to the projector was VGA. Fortunately my clunky, old-fashioned, outdated laptop (actually, an old netbook) has a VGA port, so hooking up was always straightforward.
What does Skylake have to offer?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
From what I see, this Zenbook is missing USB-C, but the Macbooks are being built with this feature. This may or may not matter to most people. At least to me, a lack of USB-C makes a laptop un-buyable in 2016.
First, it's not 2.2GHz (that's the maximum turbo frequency), it's rated speed is less than 1GHz (0.9GHz, according to TFA). The MacBooks use 1.1GHz and 1.2GHz Broadwell processors (turbo boost to 2.4GHz and 2.6GHz). The Skylake processors are probably both faster and lower power.
Second, it's actually a pretty nice machine (assuming that you can stand Windows): anybody complaining about the new MacBook with only a single USB C port should be pretty happy with this machine, which comes with a full complement of ports. And the price is certainly pretty good (even the high resolution model is about half the price of the new MacBook).
Third, the black finish looks really nice: I wish Apple would make nice black kit like that again.
I wonder if you can get OS X running on this somehow.
just a ghost in the machine.
I have this unit, and I get (Linux Mint 17.2) typically 5-6 hours with mixed workload. Interestingly, if I bring up full-screen Emacs and use only that (no Chrome in the background etc.) --- I get 10 hours, using the wifi for w3m and gnus, etc.