ASUS U36SD-A1 13.3-Inch Thin and Light Laptop (Black)

Asus U36SD-A1 is 13.3" (1366 *768) LED laptop with i5 -2410M Dual Core (2.3GHz)/4GB DDR3 RAM/Nvidia GT 520 1G/640G 5400/Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit)/802.11BGN/0.3M Pixel/Bluetooth/ 8 Cell Battery/1 USB 3.0/2 USB 2.0/5-in-1 card reader/2YR Global Warranty/1YR Accidental Damage Warranty/30-Day Zero Bright Dot/2-Way FREE shipping/24-7 tech support.

This the review of Asus U36SD-A1 from Sandeep, Asus U36sd-A1, is one of the best laptops I have ever seen or felt. This piece of awesomeness is fast, sturdy and thinner than any other laptop in this category (excluding samsung which is overly priced). The solid metallic feel is great and fun to carry it around in one hand.

I decided to buy this after researching for over 2 weeks. Only competitor to this laptop worth trying is Toshiba Portege R830 series. But it has negative remarks for the cooling system they brag about but not sure how genuine the remarks are.
I have had a Toshiba before which lasted for 5 years without a glitch but it's time to try something new.

Asus, being the first in most reliable laptops (second being Toshiba), there's no chance I could avoid trying Asus this time. I bought this piece from gentechpc, configured to 6GB RAM. It has a nice little button at the top left corner which allows you to change performance modes (high performance, battery saving, entertainment mode, quiet office mode) which is a cool feature.

Optimus technology changes the graphic card access between nvidia and in house intel graphic cards, saving power. I have only heard about this feature but believe me it's really great seeing it practically.

One full charge gave me 7hrs of battery life with battery saving mode and 4hrs of battery with high performance mode. I tested Video editing (mpeg encoding) for speed, heat and noise. Encoding was fast, but it got little hotter and noise negligible. Playing 1080p videos for an hour may make it hot but compared to other laptops (macbook pro, toshiba portege which my friends own), it's less.

Chiclet Keyboard feel is great and all keys are easily accessible. You know, ctrl, end, home keys in some laptops are annoying.
Browsing is fun, can't get better than this. It has a usb3 which I never tested for video cos I think there's no receiver yet in the market. 4.8Gb/s transfer rate would definitely be good to see.

Only cons are speakers, price and optical drive but if you are willing to spend 30 bucks for external dvd/cd drive, then you are good to go. I personally go with latest tech and I think optical drive is obsolete but for blu-ray burners. I think price is reasonable compared to its competitors (vaio, toshiba{if configured}, lenovo/thinkpad) with similar form factor.
To maintain this form factor I can imagine the placement of low powered speakers. But, the inbuilt 5.1 soundblaster card makes your headset or external speaker experience great.

All-in-all you gotta experience it! I would definitely recommend this laptop to Tech enthusiasts cos there's much to explore.

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