Hands-on review of the ASUS N53J multimedia laptop with a Intel Core i5 processor inside. Asus N53 Series audio by Bang & Olufsen ICEpower. Creative Commons Music: LIKA by kutu
Hands-on review of the ASUS N53J multimedia laptop with a Intel Core i5 processor inside. Asus N53 Series audio by Bang & Olufsen ICEpower. Creative Commons Music: LIKA by kutu
July 24th, 2011 on 3:19 am
@BrightMint yea the Graphics Card is nVidia GeForce GT540M, 1 GB DDR5 VRAM, but i will try to get HP or Compaq AMD processor , i’m not looking forward to play games on it , i just want pretty fast laptop for media download & convert and and browsing same time , however thank you for all replay , good luck with your laptop :)
July 24th, 2011 on 5:58 pm
@GhostHawk76 Ah then you actually have one of the older revisions. ASUS made a lot of different versions of the N53.
August 6th, 2011 on 4:04 pm
a old core i5
August 6th, 2011 on 4:05 pm
intel = obsolet electronics
August 6th, 2011 on 4:10 pm
I get AMD Notebook, without AMD CPUs i would buy a IBM Power CPU.
August 8th, 2011 on 12:49 am
@StevensiTX Yeah, it’s an older (last year) review model. But, most retail versions have the newest 2nd gen i5 on the market. Which is what I recommend.
August 8th, 2011 on 12:52 am
@StevensiTX Performance shows otherwise.
August 8th, 2011 on 1:09 am
@StevensiTX AMD processors are alright maybe if your on a budget depends what your after. As far as performance Intel’s new 2nd gen lineup is pretty hard to beat when it comes to performance and there mobile versions are well suited for laptops. (GPU is integrated on the chip) I did not know IBM still sells Power CPUs.
August 8th, 2011 on 9:04 am
@BrightMint
>Performance shows otherwise.
No, e.g. the IGP performance is lame.
August 8th, 2011 on 9:15 am
@BrightMint
Bulldozer is much better than intel fastest Chip and Bulldozer will continue does not cost much more tha Phenom 2. AMD APU A8 beat intel totaly, intel have done anything anyway again the AMD looks slower in the Media benchmarks but games and some renderer SW works fairly.
August 9th, 2011 on 4:23 pm
@StevensiTX It’s kind of a red herring since modern games with multi-threading (pretty much all of them) will have the Intel on top because it makes use of multi-threading. Instead of just adding more cores it actually uses them efficiently. Same goes for Intel’s use of cache memory. On paper Bulldozer appears fast but the real world results don’t show. Also, Bulldozer is kind of late to the party and haven’t even released a new version yet.
August 12th, 2011 on 7:42 pm
correct me if im wrong, but arn’t the second generation intels done by sandy bridge? i hear a lot of problems with sandy bridge?
August 12th, 2011 on 10:38 pm
@seri267 That was a SATA related problem with the P67 and H67 motherboard chipset, which has since been fixed months ago. It was not the processors Intel just explained things in a confusing way.
August 16th, 2011 on 12:56 pm
What was the movie he was watching?
August 17th, 2011 on 1:40 am
@YamiPoyo The movie is Sucker Punch.
August 17th, 2011 on 2:26 am
@BrightMint Ty good job.
August 27th, 2011 on 10:53 pm
ty
September 27th, 2011 on 9:36 pm
When my notebook goes into screensaver, it seldom has a flickers on the screen (usually on the near top) with colors of spectrum. Any1 have this problems.
October 27th, 2011 on 3:51 pm
Thank you for showing the quality of the webcam/microphone, I’ve been trying to find a video of that everywhere. Very helpful.
Can you “double tap” the touchpad to click? Or do you have to use the plastic button?
October 27th, 2011 on 4:29 pm
@SubliminalTwin It’s single tap, to normal click you don’t have to use the buttons. The software lets you program the gestures to let you do diffrent things with them if you want. It does not have touch-pad zones, or single side scroll. However it does have things like two finger scroll and a list of multi-touch gestures instead.
November 29th, 2011 on 4:27 pm
Very enjoyable review. Good video quality, you know what you’re talking about, good audio quality. Pure joy. Keep it up!
November 29th, 2011 on 4:35 pm
Btw how would you comment on the overall build quality – what’s the impression? Noticeable details?
Also, what’s the absolute max battery life that you normally get in non-idle mode?
November 30th, 2011 on 2:35 am
@raimoa1 Overall build quality is solid, they used better quality parts and plastics then what you would find on most laptops except for the noted mouse-pad button and feel of the keyboard which could use improvement. It’s only a 6-cell 4400mAh battery, it can push up to 4hrs if your using it moderately with Wi-Fi on. Typical results are between 2-3hrs when using the high-performance CPU and GPU more heavily.
December 10th, 2011 on 8:27 pm
cam you force the laptop to use the nvidia chip everytime?
December 12th, 2011 on 1:26 am
@FrYLocK41 NVIDIA Optimus is completely automatic. (No more having to reboot just to change the graphics like the old days). You can switch between integrated graphics and dedicated manually as well. Usually it’s just fine though sometimes from what I have seen the NVIDIA drivers are spotty. (It reverts to integrated and even with special profiles some applications don’t use the discrete video card all of the time.)