subject: Ultra-thin Notebook Asus U46sv With Gt540 Graphics Card Review [print this page] Current laptop trends that? In fact, nothing more than two points, one on the performance ladder, and move closer toward desktop performance; second is a big step portability, lightweight body to do more, and will have Ultrabook (the super) concept. However, to achieve both these two is difficult, because the heat and performance issues that have always been thin contradictory relationship. But this does not prevent the designers to keep trying.
Asustek recently introduced a product called U46SV thin and light notebooks, notebook models from this you can see, it is part of ASUS U Series - to light as a selling point of the series, this product is only the thinnest 24.6mm, while its second generation in the configuration on the selected Core i3 + GT540M graphics card, performance is quite good. Perhaps this time we can tell Asus U46SV can have both fish and bear's paw.
Whole appearance: thin magnesium alloy body
ASUS U46SV machine uses a magnesium alloy case, metal case which makes the body very strong, with high compressive strength at the same time also have very strong texture. The top cover with concentric design, with brushed aluminum champagne texture, the technology of modern industrial design sense to show its head.
Since the Asus U series attributable to naturally have a thin feature. As the rear fuselage fuselage frame this high feet high, so the visual point of view from Asus U46SV body is not thin, but in fact it is the body thickness of only a $ 1 coin size in diameter (about 25mm) . Benefited from the thin screen design, the thickness of this product in the market today can be called with the thinnest 14-inch laptop for a high.
Although officials claim that this thin and light notebook is only 2kg or so, but we have received in-kind is not the case, as a 14-inch laptop machine weighs a 2.324kg, so it can not be called light-weight, even compared to the same size products is also slightly heavier. Ever since we are very curious, why would such a thin notebook so heavy?
After dismemberment teardown, we find out the reason of its excessive weight. The first is the 8-cell lithium battery cell within a few more, a single piece of the battery 6-cell battery than the normal weight a lot. The second is on the keyboard side of the figure, the surface beneath the keyboard heavy alloy frame, but also specifically in the wrist rest part of the metal was thicker, so that compressive strength increases, which also led to weight increases.
For a character to play the main light notebook, the ASUS U46SV there is a little misnomer, because it shows a thin, light but did not achieve the requirements. However, this "does not match reality," but it is some consumers like to see, because the added weight of the parts are very real feeding.
Soft cover the narrow shaft forward frame design
In fact, first saw the Asus U46SV not by the shaft when the thought of a feature of Dell's notebook "before the drift Yuet Ping." ASUS U46SV also try to do a very similar design, officially known as the shaft forward design.
Such forward of the shaft to provide the best viewing angle can be, the body does not protrude desktop. Maximum heterozygosity of the screen to open 135 , although it is not, as some business notes as 180 flat, but for the average consumer normally use and have little impact.
ASUS U46SV using a 14-inch LED-backlit widescreen, the best resolution of 1366x768, which is currently the most popular screen size. From the graph you can see this product also belongs to narrow frame design, the visual feel the screen is relatively large. Another top of the screen embedded in a 30W-pixel camera, and microphone hole, enough to meet the daily video communication applications.
Black Soft cover the entire screen Asus U46SV border, not only to prevent dust from entering, but also play a good role to protect the screen. Such soft wear resistance, reduce the external impact force than the purely plastic or metal frame materials have advantages.
ASUS Chocolate keyboard features "Express Gate"
ASUS U46SV C-face is not entirely of metal material, in addition to the wrist rest is made of metal while the rest are part of ABS plastic, but with a special metallic paint, still looked very texture, the whole people feel restrained and noble Perhaps this is the so-called low-key luxury it!
Asus Express Gate is a feature of its greatest feature is the fast, fast as we can see that the power button next to the villain flying as fast as it theoretically can achieve 8 seconds fast start. If the user boot just to check the data online, e-mails, do not have to completely start systems; or lent to others to use the laptop, but do not want them to open any file, folder, you can by Asus Express Gate to achieve.
For ordinary consumers, want to know whether a laptop asus u46sv exquisite craft, the most direct way is feeling the keyboard typing, because the workmanship excellent user experience in most notebook keyboard is very much on the effort, is also evident by visible picture. To ASUS U46SV, for example, it uses the popular chocolate keyboard keycap been to frosted, delicate finger touch. But by the body compact, narrow internal space limitations, the key process keycap is not very long.
ASUS U46SV metal touchpad is not fancy, but it can provide an excellent experience. Left and right buttons with traditional design, points out left and right buttons are not only in line with the majority of the user's habits, but also avoid the one-button type of mechanical failure. Another 5 signal lights are placed in the bottom button, the system operational status at a glance.
We can see that ASUS U46SV wrist rest and low board is not part of the integration, wrist rest is independent of coverage on it, which is said before, the heavy metal wrist rest. Wrist rest part of a fine pattern, palm put up a great sense of friction.
Interface design and reasonable feature padded bottom
4-in-one card reader Asus U46SV the design front, the frequent use of memory cards for data exchange is very convenient for users. Also still hidden beneath the front two sound modules, sound good.
Turn right side of the fuselage design of the RJ45, HDMI, USB2.0, and in the left side of the fuselage is equipped with a VGA, USB3.0/2.0, the number and type of machine interfaces more complete enough for daily use, particularly into the greatly enhanced after a USB3.0 interface for future peripheral support.
ASUS U46SV USB 2.0 interface with charging design, equipped with USB Charger + function with charge faster and more efficient characteristics that can be on the road for the USB mobile charging, without an adapter adapter. Moreover, even when power is removed, turned off, sleep mode, in any place and at any time, for the mobile device. It also supports mobile devices fast charge mode for smart phones, MP3 players and other USB devices charged.
Hold the right mouse for most users, the ASUS U46SV interface design is very reasonable, it will drive the design in the right front position, to avoid the impact of a large number of peripherals connected to the mouse operation. ASUS U46SV thin, but it does not abandon the drive. Although the drive has very low usage, but if you really need to be a little time and no trouble.
I believe that many notebook users are very familiar with this soft pad, ASUS U46SV bottom of the fuselage, there are many raised floor mats, one of the most characteristic is that the battery module of this long feet, because the battery module to the machine body is propped up, so have such a mat, remove the battery if the module, the whole place can be very smooth, and body look slimmer.
6 hours long life thermal testing
Send this ASUS U46SV measured with a 74Wh 8-cell lithium-ion batteries, such a high battery life for notebooks provide strong support. Results from the test run, the endurance performance 369 minutes (about 6 hours) is to force performance, one should know that it is equipped with a mid-alone significantly GT540M laptop, can do such a long life are not easy If the switch to the set of significant energy-saving mode, that can get a longer life.
ASUS U46SV help heat the whole metal, it has relatively large ventilation openings, but also to design a battery holder to the bottom of the fuselage larger space, increase air circulation. This series of thermal design is to have a better cooling effect. 2 hours after running Asus U46SV keyboard surface cooling is good, the location of the outlet is only 35 degrees, but more asus u47sv confusing is the touchpad makes the temperature close to 40 degrees Celsius, of course, this position is for a reason fever .
By disassemble the reason is that we find here is not only hot big hard drive, there is a separate southbridge cooling aluminum block, and the thermal module design more compact, so the heat will make the aggregate result in a high temperature near the touchpad.
ASUS U46SV selected second-generation mainstream Core i3-2310M processor, the processor based on 32nm process technology, clocked at 2.1GHz, with 3Mb cache, power dissipation is 35W, supports Hyper-Threading technology, this processor entry-level notebook is currently the best partner. The NVIDIA GeForce GT540M is located in the side of the game graphics, it has 96 stream processors, 1G memory.
CineBench use of film and television industry, software development, Cinema 4D special effects engine, you can test the CPU and graphics performance. Test consists of two, respectively, for the processor and graphics performance. The first test simply use the CPU rendering a high-precision 3D scene images on a single processor, single thread runs only once, if the system has more than one processor core or multi-threading, then the first time use only one thread, the first the second run all the processor cores and threads.
3DMark06 mainly use the latest generation of game technology to measure level of DirectX 9 3D hardware, is the most common measure of graphics performance to run sub-software, with a strong reference value, you can see the positioning at the end of the NVIDIA GeForce GT540M performance is good in 1024x768 resolution exceeded 9000 points.
Machine performance testing
PCMark Vantage can measure all types of PC's overall performance. From multimedia home entertainment system to the notebook, from professional workstations to high-end gaming platform, whether in the hands of professionals, or belonging to the ordinary user, in can be a thorough understanding of the PCMark Vantage, which maximize performance.
SYSMark family of software is in the real, appropriate applications and simulate real users on the computer to come to the computer's operating performance data. To SYSMark series represented BAPCo hardware performance assessment tools already received worldwide IT professional managers and editors and reporters, PC OEM asus ul80 battery manufacturers, analysts and other professional employees of the widely recognized. It can use the scientific method will be widely attributed to the findings can be applied as a model, and the idea of combining a variety of test software to evaluate a system's performance.
Summary
In fact, can not be characterized as to the ASUS U46SV light of this, the sword easy road because it has a thin body, but do not have a very light character, be regarded as an alternative in the U series. But this notebook solid work, Durable magnesium alloy body, body imaginative design details, the game also has the same powerful performance and excellent battery life, it should be called is a very thin round this.
