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ASUS U36SD-DH51 13.3-Inch Thin and Light Laptop Customer Reviews
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I purchased this laptop after reading thousands of reviews. I wanted something light (<2kg) with long battery life (>7h), small and powerful (>intel i5). I was considering other options like Acer S3, asus UX31, sony vaio SB/SA series and Toshiba Portege R835.S3- I am not a fan of Acer and it came with the SDD which I found too small.UX31- It is really good and nice but it has less connectors and was too expensive. Not sure if it can be upgraded.Vaio- I was about to buy it, but it was thicker and heavier and the battery was not so good. It had the option of the docking station though.R835- I read it had issues with fan noises and with excessive heating. But it was lighter than U36sd and had a cd-rom drive.Finally I decided to go for the Asus u36SD + an hybrid SSD/HDD Seagate Momentus XT .This machine as it stands is very good. It is light, long battery (8:30h in saving bat mode, but if you use video media it is near 4:30h), and powerful. The only downside is the HDD that comes originally, it is a 5600rpm and for my taste it is too slow. I wanted a faster HDD, but SDD are too small in storage size or too expensive. So, I went for an hybrid SSD/HDD (Seagate momentus).Changing the HDD is not difficult if you are a bit skilled and there are many tutorial videos on youtube that show you how to do it. You have to open the computer because the hatch under the laptop only gives access to the RAM memory. But, as I say, it is not difficult and the change is really worth. The speed increase is very noticeable from the very first moment.The laptop is very quite, no issues with fan noises or excess of heat. The keyboard is chiclet style and very comfortable. Also the mouse is multitouch and works very good.Clearly the down side of the computer is the screen. It is not the best screen in the world. It is shiny LCD but it is not the worse either (toshiba is worse). If you compare it with a MacBook Air... it is just a quite bad screen. If you are gonna use the laptop mainly outdoors, just buy a Mac Air or UX31 which also has a really good screen. However, for normal use indoors and seldom times outdoors it is ok. Actually, I don't think that working with a 13" screen is nice, so I just plug it to a desktop screen and it works great for me. But, as I said, if I need to use inside it is good and and enough. In addition, ASUS provides an utility that makes colors more vivid and a better contrast.Just a note, I use it inside and have the brightness at 50-60%.Note: it has a 2 year worldwide warranty not 1 year as it is stated in the specifications.It comes with 4gb of RAM in one slot. I bought and extra 4gb last week, and the difference in normal use performance almost did not change. However, to handle heavy tasks it is now better. But a regular user does not need the 8gb. 4 is enough.All in all, I am delighted with the laptop and I do recommend it specially if you combine with a 7200rpm HDD or an hybrid one, even an SSD.I give it 4 stars because I consider that 5 stars is perfection and this item is still improvable, i.e. screen and HDD. For all the rest it is perfect.
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- 2.4 GHz Intel
- 4 GB DIMM
- 640GB 5400rpm Hard Drive
- 13.3-Inch Screen, Nvidia GT 520 1GB
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
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