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    Asus UL20 vs UL30vt? o_0

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by kodlan, Aug 19, 2010.

  1. kodlan

    kodlan Notebook Consultant

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    Hi!
    I'm considering buying one of this. I need a small laptop for office, video, internet with quite a long time on the battery. But some times I need to do some stuff like Java development (Eclipse, Glassfish, Mysql and so on). So I'm not sure if UL20 will handle that without some huge slow downs. I could sacrifice GPU (in ul30vt) for the weight and size.. but not the CPU&Mem..
    What would you say?
    Thanks before hand.
     
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    hirush Notebook Evangelist

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    I would say UL30vt as a previous owner of UL30 (not vt version). The weight between ul30vt and ul20 is not much, half a pound maybe, and ul30vt equipped with a discrete video card which capable of light gaming. The battery life of ul30vt is also much better, 9~10 hours real world. In term of java coding, I do not know how heavy coding it is, but if you are doing coding for work, I would consider something i5 or i7 processor instead of SU7300 processor.
     
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  3. kodlan

    kodlan Notebook Consultant

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    hm, the battery life of ul30vt is better than ul20? Don't know why but I was think on the opposite.

    As for the i5/i7, ul30vt that I was looking at is - Intel Core i5-520UM (1.06Ghz)
    , 4Gb, 500GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce 310M, 1 gb

    It is heavy only in terms of memory I would say, 3-4gb is a min. Developed applications are not heavy enough, so if the laptop can deal with the environment used it could deal easily with all the rest.

    well I could do light gaming on the 15.6'' laptop with 8600gt when my girlfriend is not using it. But the possibility to handle something like StarCraft 2 on lowest setting would be a nice + :)
     
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    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    UL30vt has larger battery, that's why it has better battery life.
     
    jackluo923, Aug 19, 2010
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  5. kodlan

    kodlan Notebook Consultant

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    Yeap got it. :)
    Haven't noticed that as both batteries are good for me. But I haven't compared them for that =)
     
    kodlan, Aug 19, 2010
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