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ASUS K42J Review
A solid student laptop with good performance, but nothing that stands out.
K42J ASUS is the latest K-series of laptops at affordable prices. This 14-inch laptop has an Intel Core i5 performance graphics with NVIDIA Optimus, and a starting price below $ 900. This is the perfect back-to-school laptop? Read on to find out.
Design and construction
K42J Notepad has a traditional design and is similar to the previous generation of ASUS K40IN. In other words, a coffee brown Compaq HP 6710b battery seems pretty boring, without much flash. The phone has a black mixture of matte, semi-gloss black plastic and shiny brown and black and brown. All corners and edges are rounded to give the laptop a more consistent look, texture and the touch pad and palm rest K42J give a nice feeling. The cover of the glossy screen has a slim design that replicates the pattern printed on the palm rest, but overall, we're talking a very clean, portable, simple.
The quality of construction K42JC-A1 is typical of most consumer notebooks look at ASUS. The total strength of the image is good, with no specific areas of plastic bending and cracking. The interior is resistant to pressure very well and the hinges of the screen provides a good balance of strength (not too hard and not too slow). The back cover of the flexible screen, under pressure, but it is also important when pressure is applied to the back of the screen there are no wrinkles or distortion evident on the screen.
The bottom of the laptop includes two access plates for the RAM and hard drive. ASUS engineers carefully, of course, I understand that most consumers buying a laptop as a consumer is not updated much (or anything) beyond the RAM and hard drive. Yes, I prefer to have greater access to internal components of the laptop, but most people buying this laptop, you probably do not care.
Screen and speakers
The K42JC-A1 has a diagonal of 14-inch LED-backlit display and a ratio of 16:9. The overall quality of the screen is the "very good" in a limited viewing angle sweet. Brightness, contrast and color are good enough. If the problem should be clear that the narrow vertical viewing angle. While horizontal viewing angles (side view) are almost perfect, the colors become more exposed when viewed from above and significantly reversed and distorted when viewed from afar. If you use the notebook to draw the exact color is needed to ensure that viewing the screen head on. The backlight is also a little irregular, with light from the bottom of the screen on our review unit.
Resolution 1366x768 screen resolution is standard for consumer Dell latitude d531 battery. The horizontal resolution is adequate, but only 768 pixels of vertical space means "a lot of movement, while browsing the Internet and enough space to display half a page in a Microsoft Word document.
The Altec Lansing speakers K42J has been at the palm rest at the edge of the laptop. Despite the Altec Lansing brand, these speakers have a sound quality. Vocal sounds distorted and muddy, and the result is weighted heavily to the high uncertainty, little or no respect. If you want excellent audio output of this laptop is really considered the external speakers or headphones. The headphone jack allows a large, static-free alternative for connecting the speakers.
Keyboard and touchpad
The full screen keyboard Chiclet-style keyboard K42J key features that are sensitive and offer a little more espacio''para avoid mistakes. The keys are large and flat and have an opaque structure, which can take time. No No noticeable decline unless significant pressure applied to the key on the table. One press are quiet with the noise of the sweetest possible "couch" in the strikes, which makes it nice for taking notes in a meeting room, classroom or office. The keyboard has dedicated multimedia keys, arrow keys, but the keys of the media when used with dual function key.
ELAN The touchpad is a mixture of good and evil. The textured surface provides excellent traction of the fingers, but the touchpad suffers from the obvious mismatch. This is a multi-touch touchpad with customizable gestures, but the answer is an improper use of the touch screen less than ideal. The lack of a dedicated roll is also boring. The touchpad buttons have a very superficial answer with a few clicks sound when buttons are pressed.
Ports and Features
The Apple macbook pro 15 inch battery is a step forward compared to previous series portable K in terms of port selection. The K42JC-A1 adds that both need a HDMI port, but still sees the addition of an ExpressCard slot for this future-ready computer portátil''poco more. An ExpressCard slot allows easy upgrade to USB 3.0 K42J ... an important feature, because USB 3.0 is starting to show more and more portable. All descriptions are from left to right image.
Performance and benchmarks
The K42JC-A1 provides a good overall performance, combining i5, 4GB RAM and 500GB hard drive faster. The discrete NVIDIA GeForce 310M also help applications that support CUDA, using the GPU for faster performance. The key is that this laptop is no longer able to manage daily activities and even the most demanding applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere.
The Intel Core 430Mprocessor i5 and i5 is one of the low level provides only a modest increase compared to the models used in the Dell Inspiron 330M Core i3 14 (1464). However, overall performance is pretty good for a 14-inch laptop in this price range.
Toshiba satellite a105 battery GeForce 310M graphics performance is perfectly possible to play FPS games online puzzle or old, but do not expect to play new games like Mass Effect 2 and Modern Warfare 2. That said, the graphics are strong enough for the play of light and CUDA compatible graphics help speed up some applications. Thanks to Optimus Nvidia, this notebook will automatically switch between integrated Intel graphics card (for long battery life) and Nvidia dedicated graphics (for better performance in games and video). You do not have to worry about an extra button to press to get the most out of your laptop.
Heat and noise
The K42J does a great job of managing the heat and noise. Fan speed auto-adjustment, in general, far below what can be heard in a quiet room, and the system stays cool to the touch everywhere except the waste heat (which must be included). The only time we have found high levels of heat was when he said that the laptop with the close game, and even then, the hot spot was just the heat escape.
In short, if you want a laptop powerful enough to not get too hot, ASUS K42JC-A1 could be a good option.
Battery
In the balance mode with screen brightness at 75%, the K42JC-A1 lasted four hours and three minutes while browsing the Internet and use a word processor. This is good enough for a laptop with a battery store, but we are seeing more Dell xps m1730 battery with this level of performance to deliver five or more hours of continuous operation, so you should call this "medium". Of course, if you use applications that stress the processor, hard drive and Nvidia graphics, then you can expect the life of the battery drops even lower.
Conclusion
K42J ASUS offers a good balance of quality construction, solid performance and a good set of features. The Intel Core i5, Optimus NVIDIA graphics technology, and a hard drive to make this one of the most beautiful in the traditional 14-inch laptop we've tested. However, the design environment, a display means and the average life of the battery can result in lower sales during the season back to school shopping.
In summary, the ASUS K42JC-A1 is a publicly owned and portable, ideal for students or the general use of the house, but there is not much that stands out that makes this phone more attractive to consumers.
Post je objavljen 10.08.2011. u 03:57 sati.