Asus M6000 Notebook Review

By Ian Bell June 27, 2004

Quote from the review at Digit-Life:

“Though diverse, ASUS Centrino notebook series have featured integrated graphics until recently. In private talks company representatives conveyed that discrete graphics would make models heavier and negatively affect consumer qualities. Nevertheless the market demands were answered and ASUS released its rather representative M6800N/Ne series. According to ASUS Global, it includes 14.1″, 15.1″ (4:3) and 15.4″ (16:10) models with the identical bodies. These notebook utilize ATI Mobility? Radeon? 9600 (M6000N) / 9700 (M6000Ne) graphics. We had time to test ASUS M6B00N wide-format model and (ta-dam!) M6B00Ne that features just announced 2GHz Intel Pentium M 755, the most powerful in the series that also includes 1.8GHz Intel Pentium M745 and 1.7GHz Intel Pentium M 735.”

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