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Asus ZenBook UX305CA Shows What Skylake Core M Is Capable Of (hothardware.com)

Posted by timothy on from the up-with-which-I-will-not-put dept.

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.

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  1. Re:I prefer the real thing versus a 2nd rate wanna by sunderland56 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The 13" 256GB macbook pro is $1499. This one is $699. So, you could literally buy two of these for the price of one macbook. If you know of a comparable macbook for less than $750, please post.

    I agree about Windows, but if I bought either this one or the macbook, as soon as I got home I'd format the disk and install Debian; so the stock OS doesn't matter.

  2. Any VGA? by sk999 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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 Fortunately my clunky, old-fashioned, outdated laptop (actually, an old netbook) has a VGA port, so hooking up was always straightforward.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...

  3. Let's be fair by tyme · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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    just a ghost in the machine.