On the other hand, the unit has Bluetooth and gigabit ethernet, and one of the three USB ports is the new, sublimely fast USB 3.0. You won’t be able to connect to the 5GHz networks that are rapidly gaining popularity. One other minor issue is that the built-in Atheros AR9285 Wi-Fi adapter is single-band, 2.4GHz-only. One button was defective on our unit and occasionally required a good whack before it would respond.
This causes visual and tactile confusion at times. There’s also no separation of the main alphabetical keys from the said cursor keys or the numeric keypad. Sadly, the keyboard annoys you with odd layout choices: The placement of the cursor keys shortens the length of the right shift key, and several oft-used editing keys such as Delete are stuck in nonstandard locations. The keyboard and touchpad are indeed roomy, and have a nice if somewhat soft feel. However, besides accommodating the large screen, it also allows for a spacious keyboard deck. The other, less-glamorous main components include 4GB of DDR3-1066 memory, a 750GB, 7200-rpm hard drive (slower, 5400-rpm drives with less capacity are available in some models), and an 8X DVD burner.Īt 15.6 inches by 10.6 inches by 1.6 inches thick and 6.4 pounds, the slate-gray N53SV is on the large side for an all-purpose laptop, bordering on the desktop replacement category. With more strenuous games, of course, you can expect lower frame rates. A game like Unreal Tournament 3 tops 100 frames per second in all the resolutions supported by the 15.6-inch, 1366 by 769 display. However, you can save some money at the expense of performance by ordering it with an i5-2410M or i3-2310M.Īll configurations ship with an Nvidia GT-540M GPU, which makes for good gaming. Our test configuration, which sells for $1219, sports the high-end 2.0GHz Core i7-2630M processor that pushed the unit to an excellent WorldBench score of 126. Such is the latest N53SV model, as well, only more so thanks to its new state-of-the-art second-generation Intel Core CPU. Asus’s good-looking N53-series laptops have proved to be some of the faster all-purpose notebooks on the market.
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