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Saturday, August 29, 2009

notebook Asus K50IJ short review

Notebook Asus SX078C from the row K50IJ is a very interesting multimedial notebook with a new conception of inner layout. This innovation eliminates warming those part of notebook where you put your hands. Design is still like other models - having glare black surface.



Notebook has got CPU Intel Core2 Duo 2GHz T5870, 800MHz with only 2MB L2 cache, Graphics card is integrated Intel GMA 4500M and display is only 1366x768px

Uncommon 3GB DDR2 (older type) could be expanded only to 4GB. Suitable 320GB SATA dics with 5400rpm is the better part of this notebook. Ethernet, bluetooth, SD/MMC reader and audio i/o is not missing.

Weight is not bad at all, 2.6kg if we consider 370x256x35mm is a good value.

The construction is, as it is usual for ASUS, very solid and eventhough this is a cheap model nothing is bent and all parts fits perfect together.
Whole notebook is black and looks very ellegant.

On the right side are audio I/O connectors, video D-Sub, 2x USD, Ethernet and power. On the left side are two USD ports and optical drive. In the front is SD/MMC card reader and on the rear side is just Kenigston lock.

Keyboard is very comfortable and eventhough this is only 15,6'' notebook it has got numeric part of keyboard.

Display is vero good quality because it is LED backlighted - that is very uncommon for a notebook of this low price level. Therefore the colors are more bright and contrast is very good.

HW tests:

Windows Vista

  • Index CPU: 4,9
  • Index RAM: 4,7


Tests 3D Mark
  • 3D Mark 2001: 12 371
  • 3D Mark 03: 4 587
  • 3D Mark 05: 2 657
  • 3D Mark 06: 1 516
Cooling:

The cooling system of the laptop is excellent, there is almost no heating under the part where you put your hands and the coolers are very silent and you almost can not recognize if the cooler is running or not.

Battery:

Due to the integrated graphics card can the notebook run long on battery power. When working the notebook can run 3 hours 25 minutes on battery. When on maximum performance the battery life is 2 hours 20 minutes.

Conclusion:

Notebook Asus K50IJ very popular notebook because for a little cost offers great design and very good display. If you are looking to have a notebook for work or watching films this one is the best choice. Due to the price and therefore no dedicated GPU and older HW parts the notebook is not good for playing games anyway.

+ interesting design
+ display with LED
+ numeric keyboard
+ very good value for the price

- Bluetooth aruns over USB

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