Asus C90S Laptop Barebones review
Posted by Julio Franco on 16 May 2008 - 08:37 · 5 comments & 2968 views
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#1 Posted by RAID 0 on 16 May 2008 - 10:03
- It's about time someone made a laptop that was *easily* upgradeable. I might buy one, if/when they update the chipset.
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#2 Posted by Airlink on 16 May 2008 - 14:07
- Would be nice if it supported quad-cores. Otherwise, it's not a bad design.
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#3 Posted by tsupersonic on 16 May 2008 - 16:10
- WTF?! Comparing a C2D6600 to C2D8400? Yeah, that's a fair comparison
Unlike conventional laptop computers, the C90S is an upgradeable laptop, meaning that the user is free to replace many of its core components including the processor and the graphics card. Possibly even more interesting than this is Asus' choice of platform, not quite the standard for a mobile system.
The Asus C90S is powered by Core 2 desktop processors rather than the 'Merom' mobile variety. That includes support for the 800MHz FSB Allendale models, as well as the 1066MHz FSB Conroe processors. It is possible, then, to configure the C90S with a Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor operating at 2.93GHz if you'd choose to do so, which certainly makes the C90S a very unique laptop, or should we say mobile desktop replacement.