ASUS X72D/K72DR: Three Cores, No Waiting
by Dustin Sklavos on October 25, 2010 12:01 AM ESTScreen Analysis—Not Bad
If the ASUS X72D has a strong point, it has to be the screen. While it's still a TN panel with a mediocre gamut, this isn't a clear loss and it's an improvement over the screens we're used to seeing. Some might take issue with the relatively low 1600x900 resolution, but at least this resolution offers enough vertical space to be useful (as opposed to the utterly poor 1366x768 so common on smaller notebooks.)
It's not consistently placing at the top or bottom of our charts, but the results for the X72D's screen need to be taken in perspective: brightness is still perfectly acceptable, contrast is in line with the better screens we've seen on entry notebooks, and overall color accuracy and gamut is actually pretty decent for a TN panel. Is this screen going to win any awards? No, but it's still notably better than most of the mediocre TN panels that come through here.
Viewing angles aren't bad either, and it's not as hard to find the sweet spot on the X72D as it is on the Dell Studio 17. While we'd still like to see high quality 1080p panels in notebooks, the screen on the X72D at least feels like a step in the right direction, and ASUS does this without breaking the bank.
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e36Jeff - Monday, October 25, 2010 - link
you are supposed to read that as 3 cores running at 2.1Ghz, not 6.3 Ghz(e.g. 3x2.1). Its not a literal math statement. They probably just assumed people would be able to work that one out themselves.Meaker10 - Monday, October 25, 2010 - link
Plus if he meant 3 times 2.1 he would have put 3*2.1 which is the accepted maths notation on a computer.jlazzaro - Monday, October 25, 2010 - link
I guess some things elude even the greatest super saiyans...snouter - Monday, October 25, 2010 - link
Yeah bro, you straight outran the coverage on that one. lolSimKill - Monday, October 25, 2010 - link
Yes what e36Jeff said.And for multiple processors you put the N x in front of the processor name
eg. 4x AMD Phenom II N830 would be read as 4 processors.
AstroGuardian - Monday, October 25, 2010 - link
I don't know what's the point in Asus trying to compete in notebook market. They just fall to the bottom. Why not just make better motherboards and VGA cards where they are actually good?SteelCity1981 - Monday, October 25, 2010 - link
Um...I don't see how you can compare this notbook and make an assumption towards Asus's entire line of notebooks. Asus has some really good gaming notebooks out on the market.Powerlurker - Monday, October 25, 2010 - link
Asus regularly tops reliability ratings for laptops. If you're willing to give up configurability, they have some spectacular deals out there.DMisner - Monday, October 25, 2010 - link
bah, please dont bother reviewing anything portable with an AMD cpu till bobcat is releasedmino - Monday, October 25, 2010 - link
Why ? Their current budget platform is actually usefull.On a side note, boating about SB "GPU" while bashing 5470 AND not even mentioning Ontario/Llano was pretty silly on Dustin's part ...