ASUS N53SV-XV1 15.6-Inch Versatile Entertainment Laptop (Silver Aluminum)

This machine may be the ideal laptop I’ve ever owned and my initially Asus. Not as a great deal bloatware as other people have claimed. Plan to upgrade as the Ram-comes with only four GB. That’s kinda funny. I’m so old that I can bear in mind when I upgraded Ram from 64MB’s to 128MB’s for about $200.00. Times have changed. For around $80 I ordered Corsair 2X4 GB. from Amazon, it was a Really Great Upgrade. Remove the two bottom rubber pads for easy Ram install, screws are underneath. Hiding the screws has driven consumers nuts for months and has been widely discussed in forums, but not by Asus. No exactly where in the manual does it mention the base pads as covering the screws. The new revision of the Sandy Bridge chipset took away the Sata plug-in, I heard it was an engineering oversight that was causing 15% of the released machines to fail (melt). Once discovered, they were recalled. The cost was initially estimated to be inside the millions. AMD’s chip manufacturing sent Intel a Valentine’s Day card last February as a sarcastic slap on the wrist for their bragging up the new Sandy Bridge- i7 chip. Intel replaced it(Sata) with the new USB 3 port. Sandy Bridge also has 4 slots for a total of 16 GB’s of ram (4X4GB). Intel is still the most effective out there for multi-tasking, with gaming getting AMD’s forte. The only issue I had was using the program restore turning off following I re-partitioned the hard drive with Easus third party utility. Had to hit F-9 on reboot to right this and install operating program in first partition once more (your given a choice of first partition, make 1 partition C drive or two partitions C=25% D=75%). Don’t get rid of the Games, as this will disable the volume hot keys. These are easily fixed as the ATK utilities are included using the accompaning disk or on the Asus websight. All given, I’m quite pleased with this machine. Keyboard has some flex, but is very easily adjusted to. I just removed the Microtrend antivirus and installed the new Norton 360 which I think is one of the very best out there. It is new protection is quicker than their older versions as it has a function to adjust the secure programs from the questionable ones thereby speeding up the scan alot. The other bloatware is up to you. For $1000, the full HD screen is nicely worth it despite the fact that it has a narrow viewing angle. Once again you will adjust to it. The several hot-keys take some acquiring utilized to but are properly worth the additional time to find out. Beautifully designed and loaded with muscle and functions, this machine excels.

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