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1/4/10 at 11:09am
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One of the first Core i5 notebooks offers jaw-dropping speed and Blu-ray playback in a comfortably portable package.

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It blows away most other notebooks in every category when it comes to performance, and yet it weighs only five pounds. That’s the power of Intel’s Core i5 processor, the new chip inside the ASUS K42F (starting at $999). This CPU literally provides a turbo boost for mainstream laptops, along with technology that makes this quad-core machine ideal for serious multitasking. And with Intel’s new Graphics Media Accelerator HD inside, this 14-inch machine can easily handle Blu-ray playback and many mainstream games.
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The 2.53-GHz Intel Core i5 CPU, along with 4GB of RAM, allowed the K42F to perform extremely well on our benchmarks. Like the Core i7 processor, the Core i5 CPU can overclock on the fly, up to 3.06 GHz. Moreover, hyperthreading technology allows computing tasks to be evenly distributed over the processor’s four cores.
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