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Article: Asus F5RL.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
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- Personal Computer World
- Article date:
- August 7, 2008
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Byline: Emil Larsen
Asus F5RL
Price [pounds sterling]479 Contact Asus http://uk.asus.com
Asus submitted its F5R laptop to our [pounds sterling]499 group test 11 months ago, and since then very little has changed. It's the same chassis with a similar price, but a slower processor and graphics. It has gained an extra gigabyte of Ram and a slightly larger hard disk (now 200GB), but it raises a serious issue: many laptops on sale today are barely better value for money then they were a year ago.
The chassis of the F5RL is one of the most robust on test, with attractive silver furnishings and a decent strip of shortcut keys. It sticks to ...