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amazon Asus Zenbook UX51Vz reviews
Design
Users who have seen Asus Zenbook Prime UX31 / UX31A, you will find design Zenbook UX51Vz-DH71 quite familiar with aluminum features of the product line Zenbook. But compared to the previous version, the machine has a slightly thicker design due to shoulder additional discrete graphics cards.
The lid on the machine is designed with multiple radial circular pattern scratched with Asus logo in the middle of. Especially when there is light reflected on the hood, so the user will see the circular scratches will create a multi-dimensional light effects around the Asus logo.
On the bottom is still light-colored brushed metal layers than the lid and two heat slots allows operation cooler. The rubber feet are used to help not scratched the surface when touching the table to use.
When you open the machine holds, inner frame still use metal crust so light scratches but than superficially makes a highlight for the black keys.
On either side of the Asus machine is quite fully integrated connectors.
On the left edge of the machine include a VGA mini D-sub port, mini-DisplayPort, USB 3.0, card reader MMC / SDHC and headphone jack / microphone.
Meanwhile the right edge includes an Ethernet port, HDMI and 2 USB 3.0 ports.
Although there are machines designed thicker than the previous version Zenbook line but Zenbook UX51Vz-DH71 still not large enough to accommodate an optical drive.
381 x 254 x 25.14~30.48 mm size and weighing 2.08 kg, Zenbook UX51Vz thicker and heavier than the version Zenbook Prime 13-inch (16.76 mm thick, weighing 1.36 kg), as well as Apple MacBook Pro 15 inch Retina display screen (18.03 mm thick, weighing 2.02 kg). Even Razer Blade and thinner (22.35 mm) but heavier (3 kg), but Razer Blade has 17-inch size.
However Zenbook UX51Vz still compact and lightweight enough to move into the backpack and without many difficulties.
Keyboard and Touchpad
Also designed island-style keyboard similar to the Zenbook Prime, the Zenbook’s keyboard UX51Vz-DH71 is also more integrated backlighting, allowing users to easily work in low-light conditions. Zenbook Prime UX31A like the keys of the machine is designed with hard black plastic with pretty big size, office users will also appreciate Asus added full number pad on the right.
Pretty good input manipulation, the bounce of the keys fit, moderately spaced keys so short journey so key when typing faster and more accurate.
Touchpad design of the machine is not much different than the previous Zenbook. The surface roughness of optimism operation of highly sensitive touchpad and instant feedback. The cursor moves precisely according to each movement of the fingers. The multi-touch actions such as page scrolling with two fingers, pinch-to-zoom, two-finger scrolling and swiping from the edge of the outermost side left / right of the touchpad in Windows 8 work continuously without degrees late. The two mouse keys left / right are always integrated into the touchpad, are separated by a line quite simple and sensitive operation.
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Screen and webcam
Toward entertainment needs so Zenbook UX51Vz-DH71 is designed with screen sizes up to 15.6-inch large LED backlighting using energy-saving, panel ISP helps good display images with colors made with fairly wide viewing angle. The screen also impressed with Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels), thereby displaying the image quite sharp and detailed. This makes the machine becomes more prominent than other ultrabook models on the market. Especially users can change the display settings and colors through gadget comes Asus Splendid.
With brightness measured 277 lux, the display of a brighter than average brightness (234 lux) of the type 15-inch laptop, the MacBook Pro competitor (223 lux) and Blade (256 lux) also have lower brightness.
2 megapixel webcam will make the user’s quite disappointing. Although colorful photos with a maximum resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels but much noise ratio. This result is quite similar to the video was filmed with a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.
Sound
Maybe many users think small speakers of the design near the hinge will not actually bring the audio experience possible, but the reality speaker of the machine is supported by technology ICEpower Bang & Olufsen, so sound emanating from the speakers correctly, large enough to fill a small room.
Also Asus also includes integrated Waves MaxxAudio software to enhance the audio quality, allowing users to change the sound settings according to the needs of bass or treble. Another feature is MaxxLeveler capable of automatically adjust the speakers to provide the highest audio fidelity at maximum volume.
Battery life
Real test when continuous surfing over Wi-Fi connection and screen brightness set at 40%. Battery life of the tool is checked by Test Laptop Battery can last up to 5 hours 56 minutes. This time is longer than average battery life of the notebook type usual (5:39) and Razer Blade (3:50). With similar tests, the Dell XPS 15 can lasts for 5 hours 7 minutes. In contrast, the Zenbook Prime – without a discrete GPU – lasted 6:28. MacBook Pro 15 inch Retina, with the best battery life-in-class of 08:02.
Conclusion
With the power of quad-core processor Core i7, SSD speed with Nvidia discrete graphics, powerful, all encapsulated, Asus Zenbook UX51Vz-DH71 with a slim design and high mobility. Maybe with many users want experience on Windows 8 with touch screen size of 15 inches, but the screen is still very impressed with the high resolution Full HD with perspective wide.
This Ultrabook can work continuously about 6 hours per charge and integrated speakers offer good sound.
Asus Zenbook so UX51Vz-DH71 will be a good replacement for the MacBook Pro and a ultrabook 15 inch best high-end of today.