ASUS VivoBook X202E

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Advantage:
+ Design metal
+ Type compact
+ The ability to connect well

Disadvantages:
– Use performance inadequate
– Poor battery life
– Failure to meet the standards of an ultrabook
– Unable to upgrade RAM
– The glossy screen glare, narrow viewing angle

Design

Overall machine design is simple but subtle. In the folded state, looked thin and small machine makes me think of the small netbook is often seen before. If netbooks are usually equipped with Atom or AMD low speed and energy, the chip and the computer have the same configuration as the conventional laptop. Configuring ASUS X202E not weak with the Intel Core i3 processor third generation, 4GB RAM …

With 303 x 200 x size 217 mm, weight 1.4 kg, this machine Zenbook ultrabook form equivalent ASUS but it does not fall in line ultrabook by not fully meet the standards of this series. The fact it has created a separate series named Vivobook basic criteria such as touch screen, built-in Windows 8 copyright, design luxury metal, and configured quite attractive prices paste.

Shell and the chassis is made of metal contribute to the aesthetic value and certainty, elegant.

Front cover is an aluminum plate scratched ASUS logo placed near the middle of the center. Touching surfaces always feel cool but prone to fingerprints. Slightly different points on the skin surface above the horizontal contour and tone slightly different material. The bevelled edges of the machine is light and softly rounded.

The screen is coated with a touch of glass covered the whole area, not in a little hollow as conventional machines, so will avoid dust on the inner rim. Moreover, this seamless flat surface more suitable for touch screen Windows 8 when you need to swipe from edge to open the charms bar bar (on the right), or transfer mode (left). Yet this glossy screen mirrors are vulnerable to fingerprints and dust particles present. The edges around the screen is quite large 11.6-inch size makes becomes small. In addition, resolution 1366 x 768 pixel display makes content but little sharp. When surfing the web with this machine, you should use the IE browser is available on the machine to manipulate enlarge, shrink easier with the touchscreen.

In the course of use, I found the ability to respond by touch screen is very sensitive, the ability to respond well to help the user becomes comfortable. You can use two fingers to pinch to zoom out or drag, zoom display content; scroll up and down web pages by just moving a finger.

Brightness level and the weakest the strongest light on the screen when setting the difference is not much. When used outdoors to light you to the highest level for better contrast. The phenomenon of ball-glare screen is average. In normal conditions of use, the screen of the machine at about 50 degree angle – slightly lower by conventional computers can look good at 70 degrees, along with the slightly modified color when looked at a narrow angle.

The screen is attached to the lower body by a long horizontal axis like the Zenbook series, this axis sense certainly smaller than the two sides in the axis of conventional computers. Slot heatsink located on the back edge will be folded up when rotating shaft cover, while opening up a new screen appears space to radiators. This design we’ve seen since the first generation Zenbook aircraft launched more than a year ago. Due to thin bevelled machine Friendly gradually forward, the connector is brought close to the rear of the sides of the radiator should be placed at the rear edge. Now the hot air is drawn from the top and bottom of the machine and pushed into the back instead of to the right as many other machines.

The keyboard is placed in the area down a little lower than the palm rest. This is a common type chiclet keyboard ASUS with an area large enough keys (except for the top row of function keys and 4 arrow keys) as well as a moderate distance helps to avoid being mistaken keystroke letters. Journey is not large enough to knock down comfortably for a long time but it does not affect much. The keyboard is not backlit, contributing to manufacturing cost savings. The keyboard also supports many functions in conjunction with the Fn key, but I think it does not really matter much because this machine has a touch screen, if all operations performed on the touch screen is very intuitive and simple.

Despite touchpad touchscreen but still has large areas. It lies flat against the landing with a slightly different color than the palm rest. Two left mouse button must be pressed under a single plane. Large touchpad is still very useful on this machine especially when surfing the web. If you want to disable the tab on many points it is very small, do not zoom up to manipulate the touch screen should be more appropriate to use the touchpad now. The use of the touchpad is also very comfortable because it is equipped with gesture recognition technology intelligently creates accurate, responsive and supports multitouch.

Is integrated on the ASUS X202E Sonic Master audio technology. Two small speaker slots are located at the cross-machine hips, unlike S400CA is located on the bottom. For where two speakers here to help the sound goes out directly to the ears than the sound they are struck with the then new inventory to listeners as S400CA.

The bottom of the machine is an aluminum plate is attached by a few screws. This aluminum plate surface is matte gray paint, non-slip hold on, have captured fingerprints but quickly faded. Two rows of small slit is located near the middle of the air suction effect in the radiator. The machine has been designed bottom neat, definitely the battery is inserted in the camera body so it will be difficult to replace batteries than conventional laptops. Also you will not be able to upgrade RAM because RAM any more has been fixed on the computer motherboard. Fortunately, the machine’s RAM is 4GB should be able to meet the usual office work.

The hard drive is built-in HDD 5400 rpm is normal type, not solid-state drives, or SSDs for high-speed hybrid HDD. Perhaps this is also one of the factors that helped the machine cost is reduced.

Machine edges are painted dark silver with a dark contrast in surface edges beveled lid with a little feeling into thinner machine.

Asus X202E designed almost full of conventional connectors. The left side with power charging jack, LAN port, HDMI port, 1 USB 3.0 with charging mobile batteries, 1 USB 2.0 port and a Kensington lock. Location here keychains different when placed near the middle instead of at the bottom edge to the left or right as usual. Thus, if needed, it will not keychains nice and neat as usual. But this is not very important because the machine which is the choice of those who move a lot, so that will hardly ever use a Kensington lock hook.

The right side has a VGA output, USB 2.0 ports, combo audio jack and memory card reader. There is no optical disc reader.

Previous next few thin and empty outside the LED status indicator operation.

Rear edge and is hinged.

Function

Built machine VivoBook ASUS utilities allow quick setup system adjustments, the power-saving mode, entertainment mode …

Machine pre-installed applications Freshpaint with appropriate actions on the touch screen.

Audio Wizard resonance technology with SonicMaster big speaker system brings exciting entertainment features. You can actively select the appropriate mode for watching movies, listening to music, playing games, recording …

When customers buy ASUS X202E donated ASUS WebStorage account with 32 GB of storage free for 3 years. With this cloud account, the data is stored and shared quickly.

VivoBook X202E equipped with the necessary connections including a high-speed USB 3.0 ports and can charge the phone in a shutdown state.

Power management software is built to help better manage machine usage time.

Performance

Test conditions: We turn off Windows Update, disable Windows Firewall, turn off the volume, turn off the internet connection, turn off the power saving mode (if available), set the machine in High Performance mode to ensure your computer running at highest performance, move the hard drive status and monitor interrupts vacation to Never to not affect the test. In all performance tests, your laptop is plugged in uninterruptible power sources, except test battery will be fully charged then pulled sources to conduct the test. What tests have own terms, we will specify in the test conditions.

Asus X202E configuration: Intel Core i3 3217U 1.8GHz chip (3rd generation Ivy Bridge), 4GB RAM; 500 GB 5400 rpm HDD, …

Boot time of 15 seconds, a time-out 16 seconds faster nearly twice as long for the same configuration machine but install Win 7 or lower.

Program evaluation Cinebench 11.5 CPU processing capability and test OpenGL graphics in real time for results 1.78 points and 8:50 frames / sec.

Program ATTO results faster disk access with read and write speeds of 102 and 105 respectively MB / sec. This is speed rather than the usual average HDD 5400 rpm drive speed read / write is 90/80 MB / s. I actually used was not very happy because the phenomenon slightly slower machines.

Leisure Game

With the integrated graphics chip, the game gently with a touch screen like on a tablet like Angry Birds, Temple Run, Subway Surfers, Fruit Ninja … are handled smoothly.

The machine is not suitable for playing games that require higher configuration as Fifa 13, Need for Speed, DotA …

Noise level

In the state of sleep (sleep), the machine was very quiet, almost no cooling fan emit cries, noise is measured at about 30 dB. When running at high capacity machine will not exceed 38.8 dB. Approximately 30 dB threshold is considered silent, 40 dB and 50 dB noise is very loud.

Temperature

For a computer that has a thickness of the heat dissipation will be limited, the temperature is a factor to be interested. In normal conditions of use, room temperature about 26 degrees C, I see places like the keyboard, palm rest, the hot phenomenon is negligible. Internal temperature measured by the software at this time hovers at about 54 degrees C.

When running intensive tasks over a period of 1 hour, the temperature rose to a processor 84 degrees C, this is an acceptable level of heat by the machine also common to nearly 90 degrees. Regions slot above the keyboard heat was getting quite hot but with common office tasks you will rarely have to use the machine for intensive tasks such long periods.

Speakers and webcam

Assessment touchscreen laptop Asus SonicMaster speakers Vivobook X202ECong technology for sound quality was quite good. Measuring approximately 20 m2 room can hear clearly. Adjust the sound at the highest level phenomenon almost no distortion. However due to the thin body, small vocal bass is not as expected.

Webcam HD resolution for images is quite enough for the chat session or video conference.

Battery life: The machine uses two-cell lithium polymer battery is considered to have better capacity Lithium-ion batteries. According to the manufacturer’s specifications, the 5136 mAh battery capacity, low power consumption.

Use the Battery Eater Classic test to screen the highest brightness setting, Wifi open, the power saving mode off => results are within 2 hours 8 minutes.

Continuous run a HD movie is about 3 hours 5 minutes.

Battery life makes me frustrated because normally only used in more than 3.5 hours, slightly less for a machine with mobile trends, lose 5 hours minimum standards of ultrabook and not marginally better than with conventional laptop.

Charging time is relatively long as needed 5 minutes to 3 hours to fully charge.

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VivoBook ASUS X202E
Processor: Intel® Core ™ i3 3217U 1.8GHz
RAM: 4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz
Storage Drive: 320GB SATA 5400rpm
Optical drive: No
Display: 11.6-inch, 1366×768 px
Graphics Card: HD 4000
Sound Card: ASUS SonicMaster
Ports:
1 audio jack COMBO
1 VGA port / Mini D-sub 15-pin for connection to an external monitor
1 USB 3.0
2 USB 2.0 ports
1 RJ45 LAN jack for LAN connection
1 HDMI
Webcam: HD
Battery: 5136 mAh Polymer Cells 38 2 W / hour
Dimensions: 30.3 x 20.0 x 2:17 cm
Weight: 1:40 kg (with battery 2 cell)