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24.06.04, 02:00
Najnowsza notebook ASUS Asus Z9000 side by side z Asus M6800N
Summary:
Asus says its Z9000 notebook is tailor-made for the road warrior, with an
integrated ATi 9100 IGP graphics chipset and a Pentium-M 1.7 GHz CPU. But do
its power and battery life live up to Asus' mobile pretenses?
Linux Compatibility
We used the newly released Suse 9.1 Personal Edition in ISO format, which can
be downloaded from LinuxIso.com. Yes you heard that right; SuSe finally
released a free installable ISO. Since the Asus Z9000 does not have any
special partitions containing recovery tools or OS images, it was easy to
install Linux. We defragged the C: drive and then used Partition Magic 7.0 to
resize the sole 80GB. Another partition of 10GB was made for Linux.
The Suse CD started with no problems. Suse detected the Pentium-M at 1.7 GHz
and the 896 MB of RAM. Installation took about 20 minutes.
The initial desktop screen comes up with no problems. When we heard the new
SuSe chimes, we knew the sound card had been detected. Hot-swap USB detection
was fantastic, as we connected a USB mouse to each one of the four ports.
Mouse detection was instant.
Firing up the Internet browser, we went to our favorite website
www.groklaw.net. Since the site came up, we can assume that the Ethernet
works and the laptop received a DHCP IP address. Everything was not all good,
however, as the Wi-Fi module was not detected by Suse.
Conclusion
With a three-hour battery life and decent processor performance; the Asus
Z9000 is a good choice for the business road warrior. The ATi 9100 IGP
graphics solution is not the ideal solution for playing modern shoot-em up
games but is okay for less graphically intensive game play. The well placed
USB and FireWire ports provide enough connectivity for most people. The Z9000
also has good Linux hardware compatibility - the only thing not detected by
Suse 9.1 was the Wi-Fi module. The Z9000 is an all-around good performer for
the business user.
www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20040623/index.html
