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Asus VX6S Lamborghini EEE PC – unboxing and preview

By Andrei Girbea , updated on April 8, 2021

We’ve heard about the Asus VX6S before at Computex in June, but till now the successor of the Asus VX6 premium mini laptop was still surrounded in mystery, as details about it were extremely scarce.

Time to lift of the cover, as I received today an EEE PC Lamborghini VX6S from my friends at Asus and got to play with it during the morning. As usual, we’re talking about a sample unit, as the final version will only be available in shops in a couple of weeks, but it’s pretty much identical to the VX6S you’ll buy in stores (with some minor spec buffs, as this unit comes with 4 GB of memory, while in store you’ll find it with only 2).

On the outside, there’s nothing new, the Lambo still gets the design elements from the Italian cars manufacturer and looks the same as before, although it’s now bright orange, while the VX6 version we tested last year only came in black and white. The pictures and the clip in this post should offer more insights on looks and exterior.

Inside though, there’s a completely new platform, boosting a new Cedar Trail D2700 CPU, 4 GBs of DDR3 RAM and dedicated AMD Radeon 6470M graphics, plus a standard 5400 rpm hard-drive.

Later update: While this laptop has grown old now and is no longer of interest, you should check out our follow-up articles on 12-inch portable laptops, as well as our guides on 10 and 11 inch mini notebooks and thin-and-light ultraportables, if you’re interested in picking up one of these compact computers these days.

Asus EEE PC VX6S Lamborghini revamps the old 12 incher with some extra power

Asus EEE PC VX6S Lamborghini revamps the old 12 incher with some extra power

As we’ve showed you before, the D line gets the most powerful Atom Cedar Trail chips and will replace processors like the D510 and the D525. While raw CPU power should not be vastly improved, the graphics embedded on the new chip should be far better, allowing HD hardware decoding and support for DirectX 10.1 and Pixel Shader 3.0 . We’re going to see the improvements offered by this new platform later this week, as I review the unit and try a couple of games and more resources hungry applications.

For now, though, you can find a  bunch of test results in the pictures below (remember though, the new Atom platform isn’t yet available in stores, so drivers are still pretty much non-existing, thus take these results with grain and salt).

Update: You probably noticed that GPU related results are lower than what we got on the Sony Vaio SB with the same AMD 6470M chip, but that one runs on a much more powerful platform which will for sure have an effect on the final score. And don’t forget about the immature drivers.

Now, if you want to compare the numbers above with what the previous generation Atom platform was capable, you can peak in our Asus VX6 review for some numbers. I’m also going to publish a more in depth analysis in the next couple of days as I run different benchmarks.

Of course, with the AMD Radeon on board, you don’t get switchable graphics anymore, as you only have one device under Display Adapters in Device Manager, which is the AMD Chip. So Asus had to cut access to that embedded Intel graphic chip in order to get the AMD graphics on board, which means you won’t be able to get the battery life you had on the VX6. It also means that there’s no way for us to test the graphic performances of the default D2700 platform either, which is kind of a pity.

All in all,  the new D2700 + AMD 6470M combo should be faster than the old D525 + ION2 one was. Our tests show indeed improvements, both in terms of raw CPU and Graphics scores.

Anyway, that’s pretty much all for today, I leave you with my unboxing video below.

And a couple of pictures.

Of course, more details on the platform and this EEE PC will follow these days, so stay tuned. Also, if you happen to have any questions or want to know any specific details on those, please let me know via a comment and I’ll try to answer. I’ll only have the Lamborghini VX6S till Monday though, so better act fast.

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Andrei Girbea, Editor-in-Chief at TLBHD.com. This project was born as part of my search for capable mini-laptops that I could easily lug around to work, and still provide the performance that I'd need on a daily basis. I'm primarily using such ultracompact devices and have been testing them since 2006.

10 Comments

  1. guest

    December 10, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    Where can we buy this amazing Asus Lamborghini VX6S?

  2. Mike

    February 17, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    No idea. I tested it back in October and it’s been a while since…

  3. Gungatunga

    March 1, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    Is there anyway to make this switchable graphics ? can asus not provide a update tp bios or software to enablw this feature ? im struggling playing my Bluray films and HD movies on this player, im disappointed…Any advice ?

  4. dero

    April 2, 2012 at 5:46 am

    im live in malaysia,i have bought this VX6S,but from the picture shown,i dont get the Lambo mouse?is it included or not?

    • Mike

      April 2, 2012 at 11:01 pm

      No, it’s not, you’ll have to buy that on the side if you want it. I won’t advise you to though, you can find better mice for the money

  5. zubaids

    June 11, 2012 at 8:46 am

    mike,can u make a video that dota 2 run in this game? i wanna take a look of the fps and settings(it lags or not).thx b4

    • Andrei Girbea

      June 11, 2012 at 2:14 pm

      Sry mate, I don’t have the laptop anymore. It shoudl run Dota 2 though, but I’m not sure how well and I know that perfect smooth gameplay is a must for such a game…

      • zubaids

        June 17, 2012 at 4:24 am

        oh,thx mike . i just test dota 2 in asus 1015b (low settings),and sometimes it lags.maybe it’s the cpu or gpu issue?

      • Andrei Girbea

        June 17, 2012 at 1:43 pm

        Probably both, but the 1015B has an AMD C60 inside and this Lambo has overall faster hardware (especially the CPU is better).

  6. zubaids

    July 19, 2012 at 2:23 am

    thx for helping me 😀
    maybe i’ll buy it next month.

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