Asus S46CM

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Design

Asus S46CM completely different with the ultrabook I’ve ever known. With 14-inch screen and 2 kg mass, certainly if not introduced before all of them mistakenly thought this was a notebook. Thickness 21 mm – strictly limited by the thickness of Intel set for the ultrabook (ultra slim), but still a lot thicker than the previous generation ultrabook. So in S46CM you will see the emergence of DVD drive – which the previous ultrabook not by machine too thin.

In terms of design Asus S46CM has many similarities with the K and N line notebook Asus recently, especially the hood, radiator slot and keyboard area. Even if placed S46CM beside K46CM then could not discern: they are the same things from the size, chassis, keyboards, drives to the configuration. The only difference is K46CM runs HDDs, S46CM using hybrid HDD and SSD hard drives. This is also the reason why K46 unqualified ultrabook.

I appreciate the design of S46CM. It gives the user a feeling of luxury emanating from the machine. This feeling comes from the material aluminum, sleek, less fingerprints and easy to clean. Then, each line on 2 sides, the slot radiator, the edge of the road until the point of folding board between the screen and the body machine will not have any details breaking the layout.

Keyboard and touchpad

Asus continues to use a standard keyboard design their recent show S46CM. The numeric keypad is omitted completely can not please some people, in return chicklet-style keys with full size design isolate feels very comfortable typing, although slightly shorter journey keys. Asus did the right thing. I myself also said that putting up the laptop keyboard size under 17 inches is pretty bad. The keys are large print clear, not stylized, consistent with user objects, especially those that emphasize use instead of fancy frills.

Meanwhile, the S46CM’s touchpad makes me happy than the keyboard. Smooth surface, good sensitivity used feels very “buzz.” Along with that, a number of multi-point operation also brought a lot of convenience to the users such as two finger tap to open the shortcut menu, three fingers upward strokes to switch between windows… Ultimately the keyboard and touchpad will surely satisfy even the discerning user.

Screen and speakers

The screen can be seen as a weakness of S46CM. The ultrabook is equipped with a mirror screen, reflect light strongly affects the content is displayed and very easy to dust and fingerprints. TN panels unattractive colors, shades of gold possessed should express lifeless image, especially the image and natural surroundings. Viewing angle of the screen is also relatively narrow, just change the perspective a little compared to the front direction is gradually changing color switch to black immediately.

The quality of the screen display is also not very good. For normal tasks such as writing, listening to music, surfing … you will not encounter any problems, but when playing games or watching movies will sense the image lacks sharpness even playing 720p.

Asus S46CM speakers designed mounted on the underside, so that the sound muffled by the body, helping to reduce glare. SonicMaster audio technology for the sound round, without distortion. Moderate treble is not harsh, but the bass back slightly sunken, somewhat blurring the rhythm of the song. Compared with the average laptop, Asus S46CM speaker sustainable level. Of course we can not expect the laptop speakers can be equal to desktops.

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Temperature

In the course of normal work and watch movies, the ultrabook not encounter any problems in temperature. Heat is a machine surfaces (particularly the keyboard and screen section) very little, little fingers feel the heat and the hands are not sweating.

Even if impoverished by the heavy game, S46CM still relatively quiet and cool. This is my temperature measured on the surface of the keyboard when playing games constantly. Accordingly temperatures fluctuate Armrests 35-37 ° C, 4 arrow keys area is 33 degrees C. The temperature increase as keys to move to the left side machines, reaching the highest in the region with the WASD 40 degrees C (CPU or GPU is probably due to be placed in this position). Meanwhile airflow out of the slot radiator is very hot: 57 degrees Celsius, indicating radiator worked fairly efficient.

Battery life

Contrary to my initial concerns, the battery life of S46CM can assess the stable. The laptop is equipped with a 4-cell battery capacity of 44 250 mWh.

First, S46CM placed in Battery Saving mode, the screen brightness level 9 (a total of 11 levels), volume 70%. This is the setup I felt appropriate to use, brightness, and volume moderate. Results after 3 hours 23 minutes listening to music, surfing the web, yahoo chat, text editor at the same time, the machine off.

Conclude

Depending on the needs and perspectives, each person will draw the different assessments. From my perspective, Asus S46CM many advantages but also many disadvantages.

If assessed in terms of ultrabook, S46CM exist too many unreasonable, most notably bulky 14-inch size and mass to 2 kg. Increasing size hardware and 2 GB graphics card makes the laptop battery life is also greatly reduced, especially when the machine is equipped with only 4-cell battery. Realistic graphics processing capabilities are not what businessmen – the object of ultrabook – need to.