Component manufacturer ASUS has together with the company Airgo started to manufacture a laptop called ASUS A6T that looks to be the first of its kind as it brings support for the 802.11n standard for wireless networks. The fact that the standard hasn’t actually been 100% finished yet doesn’t seem to bother neither ASUS nor Airgo. The 802.11n standard will according to ASUS and Airgo be able to offer up to 240Mbps, theoretically. The real transfer speeds with Airgo’s True MIMO Gen3 circuit will according to the company’s own tests be up to 120Mbps via the TCP/IP protocol. Which is still quite impressive as it actually outperforms the 100Mbps Ethernet, which is the most common network standard of today.
That these speeds are still a bit hyped seems pretty clear from the early tests we’ve seen with the 802.11n standard. Except from a very fast Wi-Fi technology ASUS will throw in AMD’s latest mobile processor, Turion 64 X2 which will be AMD’s first dual-core processor for the mobile market.
“The adoption of True MIMO Gen3 technology by ASUS signals that Airgo’s technology is being adopted by the PC OEM market at a time when True MIMO market share is increasing rapidly in the consumer and SOHO retail market. Built around AMD’s Turion 64 X2 mobile technology multi-core processor and Airgo’s Gen3 True MIMO chipsets, the ASUS A6T, is one of the only wireless laptop solutions capable of providing users faster-than-Ethernet networking speeds, clearly surpassing the performance of Centrino-based solutions.”
