Review Asus U36SD-RX114V

A product with a simple and elegant design with good keyboard quality for the typing of office people.

Machine body

Asus U36SD-RX114V has a jet-black exterior that feels strong, elegant, weighing about 1.67 kg, 19 mm thick, 322 mm wide, 232 mm long. When you touch the case, you will find that this laptop is very sturdy because the upper part is made of aluminum alloy and the whole body covers a very good nano-coating of non-slip.

You can open the Asus U36SD-RX114V screen to 145 degrees to see the interior is chiclet keyboard, touchpad and screen are also covered in black with accents of Asus and silver white mouse button.

The upper face.

Underneath.

Configuration

- CPU: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 2410M.

- Mainboard: Intel HM65.

- RAM: 4GB (can be upgraded to 8GB).

- VGA: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M - 1024 MB, Core: 740 MHz, Memory: 800 MHz.

- SSD: Intel SSD 320 Series 160GB SSDSA2CW160G3.

- Soundcard: Realtek ALC269.

- Networking: Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (10/100 / 1000MBit), Atheros AR9002WB-1NG Wireless Network Adapter (bgn), 3.0 + HS Bluetooth.

- OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit.

- WebCam: 0.3MP.

- Price: 1,200 euros, 24 months warranty.

The web of communication

The communication ports of Asus U36SD-RX114V are quite complete including familiar connections such as VGA, USB 2.0, HDMI, LAN, memory card reader slot and fashionable USB 3.0 (capable of charging the device with 5V power supply) arranged on both sides of the body.

Front: speaker.

Left: kensington, source, VGA, 2 USB 2.0 key.

Rear: battery.

Right: audio input hole, memory card slot, USB 3.0, HDMI, LAN.

Keyboard and TouchPad

Chiclet keyboard of this product must be said to be excellent by moderate width, large keys, very real feeling of pressing buttons, not too hard nor too soft, users can feel clearly when the key has been Press through reasonable travel time. Certainly those who have to edit documents on laptops will love this keyboard.

Large touchPad (diagonal length of about 9.4 inches), good sensitivity, support for multi touch (multi-touch). Everything works great on the touch surface, you can easily perform operations such as scrolling, zooming, selection . However, the silver mouse buttons are quite bad, they have short journeys and a loud sound when clicked.

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Screen

It must be said that the 13.3-inch (16: 9) wide-screen mirror of Asus U36SD-RX114V is very bad: pale colors, low brightness, low contrast, narrow and extreme viewing angles when used outdoors. Perhaps Asus should not use this type of old TFT technology LCD monitor because it makes its laptops lose serious points in the eyes of users.

Viewing angles are very narrow.

Performance

The power comes from a fairly high-end hardware configuration: the 2.3 GHz Intel turbo i5 2410M (turbo boosts 2.9GHz), 4GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M make Asus U36SD-RX114V run all applications that often use text room, surf the web, listen to music, watch movies, play games (with graphics not too terrible) . smoothly.

Score by 7 points Win.

Results when running some of the famous benchmark software: 64-bit Cinebench R10: 4635 points (single) 9508 (multi), Cinebench R11 64 bit: 2.25 points and 15.49 fps, PCMark Vantage: 9431 points , PCMark 7: 2861 points, 3D Mark Vantage: 2351 points, 3D Mark 11: 569 points.

In addition, SSD solid-state hard drives make data loading and software become quite fast and stable. The fastest read and write speed reaches 156 MB / s, the lowest is 76.9MB / s and the average is 141.3 MB / s.

Speaker

The sound from the front speakers of the U36SD-RX114V is very jarring because of the high volume of the highs while the weak mid and bass are almost nonexistent. I recommend that you do not turn the volume up because it will sound horrible. It's best to shop for a headset if you want to listen to music on this laptop.

Noise level

Under normal conditions, Asus U36SD-RX114V is quite quiet with a noise level of about 29.6 dB, while playing games or running applications that require graphics, the device still doesn't sound too loud, only when catching this laptop. Running as far as you can see, it's crazy with noise up to 50 dB.

Temperature

Temperature when full load (room temperature 20 degrees C).

U36SD-RX114V is quite cool when running light tasks such as surfing the web, listening to music, watching movies, handling office applications. Of course, when running full load, it is a different story, there are areas up to 48 degrees Celsius, but the armrest is always below 35 degrees Celsius, so it is not uncomfortable for users.

Battery life

The battery life of Asus U36SD-RX114V is very good, can maintain more than 9 hours in light running state with the lowest screen brightness. You can also freely surf the web via Wifi for 7 hours and 45 minutes, if you play games or run heavy applications with the highest screen brightness, you need to pay more attention because then the battery can only withstand more than 2 hours.

summary

Asus U36SD-RX114V is really a good product for office workers who often work indoors (avoid the disadvantage of poor screen when using outdoors) with elegant appearance, good performance, good keyboard.

Avoid using the Asus U36SD-RX114V outdoors.

* Advantages:

- The case is firm and elegant.

- Good performance: fast and stable.

- The keyboard is great.

- Long battery life.

* Defect:

- The screen is very bad: dark and almost impossible to use outdoors.

- Very bad speaker.