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Performance And Battery Life
Our review unit comes with the Intel Core Duo T2500 processor running at 2.0GHz and 1GB of DDR2 RAM. Though our benchmark was unable to produce accurate scores for this system, Intel claims that its latest chip is faster than an equivalent Pentium M processor. For software optimized for multithread processing, we expect an even higher performance boost for the ASUS A6J.

We tested the eight-cell battery rated at 4800ma and found it wanting. Working for 2 hours 11 minutes on the power cell, it fell far behind similar-sized notebooks which last an average of 3 hours on the older Pentium M processor. Considering that the retail unit comes with a paltry four-cell battery, the A6J is not really adequate for computing on the move. Though ASUS does not have a confirmed price for the eight-cell variant, the market rate for high-capacity cells range between S$200 (US$147.06) to S$300 (US$220.59). A cheaper alternative would be an external battery pack, which costs around S$100 (US$73.53) but adds to travel bulk.

For gamers, this notebook blasted most of its competitors out of the water with a 3DMark05 score of 2,546, losing only to the heavy Dell Inspiron 9300. On the latest and tortuous 3DMark 2006, it even managed to eke out a respectable result of 1,446.

3DMark05 (longer bars indicate longer battery life)

ASUS A6J (Core Duo processor T2500 2.0GHz; 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1600) 2546 Toshiba Qosmio G20 (Pentium M processor 760 2.0GHz; 128MB Nvidia GeForce Go 6600) 2436 Dell Inspiron 9300 (Pentium M processor 760 2.0GHz; 256MB Nvidia GeForce Go 6800) 3004

Service And Support
ASUS offers a two-year limited global warranty with all its notebooks. Should a problem occur with the unit, you can send it to any ASUS service center around the world and get it repaired using the warranty card. For users who travel overseas often, having a global warranty is important. However, the ASUS service overseas centers should be checked for accessibility. ASUS Web site provides software support and updates as well as a telephone hotline number.

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