Test: Asus UL50VG-XX003V

The Fast 12-Hour Notebook
New duration record and top price-performance ratio: Asus goes with the UL50VG-XX003V successful confrontation with Acer’s timeline series.

ASUS has sent the announcement of the UL50VG-XX003V his mouth quite full taken: a 15.6-inch notebook for affordable 800 Euros, despite the battery is practicable to hold twelve hours Amenities: It has been Acer’s own widely praised for their mobility Timeline series failed. We left the Asus notebook to proof in our test center.

Power-saving dual-core and GeForce graphics
The Asus UL50VG-XX003V working platform for Intel’s ultra-light and perennial notebooks. Dans ce cas,, it consists of the dinuclear CULVER Core 2 Duo Processor SU7300 (1.3 GHz), the GS45 chipset with integrated graphics core, and together X4500M HD 4 Go de DDR3 memory. The newcomers also built-in card GeForce G 210M (512 MB of graphics memory is our own) can be switched off.

Overall, the power for office work enough, for Internet browsing and media playback. Despite the good for the Asus GeForce graphics UL50VG-XX003V but not for current graphics-intensive games – Core 2 Duo and GeForce graphics are too weak.

Good equipment: 500-GByte harddisk and DVD Burners
The equipment of the UL50VG-XX003V is practicable. It contains a 500-gigabyte hard drive, a card reader, Gigabit LAN, HDMI and VGA output, three USB ports, a webcam and a previously rare in CULVER notebooks, built-in DVD burner. There’s a modern-n WLAN with 300 Mbps and Gigabit LAN. Modem, Bluetooth, Firewire or eSATA are missing. Too bad, at least one of these features, we would have expected, despite the attractive price.

Satisfying ergonomics, slightly dark screen
The sleek, high-grade aluminum case with screen cover like the keyboard is slightly under pressure. Similar to Apple’s MacBook, the keys are individually pushed through from below, resulting in a more attractive design. They have a short pressure point, but give a better feeling than to write many other Asus notebooks of this size and price range. Plus point: Asus was able to integrate a separate number pad, without tying the recording area too much.

The touchpad is an area dotted indicated. While this looks nice, but annoying in the long run, because the finger at the small holes uncomfortable rubbing. Furthermore, the rattle is made of a piece of mouse replacement keys. You straining the UL50VG-XX003V low or play a DVD, so you hardly hear anything about him. Under load, but it sounds a loud, audible 3.0 sone.

The reflective 15.6-inch display gets an average rating of our lab: It has indeed a very high contrast ratio of 890:1, but only glows with 172.8 cd / m². While this saves energy, but it is much too little for use outdoors.

Sensational: energy for more than one working day
Given the extremely good values for the duration UL50VG-XX003V you must be in the truest sense of the word set only once – and then needs to rise more than one working any more. For, thanks to energy-efficient components and the 84-Wh battery goes) once charging for 11:41 heures (Office Trial. Under full load, the energy after all, still sufficient for 4:35 minutes.

On behalf of one 15.6-inch notebook very low height of just three centimeters, and the relatively low weight (2.4 kilograms), will help bring the UL50VG the full 100 points in the mobility championship standings.

Conclusion
Asus has promised at UL50VG-XX003V much – and kept his word. It is for his class not only relatively light and thin but keeps a battery capacity of almost half a day, even the new duration record. The workmanship was indeed a little on the track, but the attractive price and practicable facilities make things up for it.

Alternative
le 15.6 inch too large and almost silent X520 Samsung SU2700-aura Addi only costs around 640 Euros, runs well and has a nearly nine hours comparable equipment. Cependant, its lack of DVD burner.

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