Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A-R4003V test
With the Prime Zenbook UX31A-R4003V Asus delivers the high end successor to the excellent Zenbook UX31E. The name suffix "Prime" has a configuration wertigere back and shows that from now Zenbook not equal Zenbook. For prime versions like the Asus UX31A provides a clear definition: All Zenbook Prime need a Full HD display (1920 x 1080 pixels) have the opposite standard TN panels better quality IPS technology. Moreover, the customer can always expect an SSD as a storage and a keyboard with backlight. All this of course drives the price up. For the Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A-R4003V you have to invest around 1,400.
The wedge-shaped Zenbook Prime UX31A weighs only 1.39 kilograms, measures 21 millimeters at the thickest point and at its narrowest only 11 millimeters (each including the feet) - in the silhouette of an ax blade very similar. His three-part case (bottom panel, body and display lid) Asus milled from an aluminum block. This not only looks fascinating look pretty, but feels very solid and stable.
Compared to old-UX31A R4003V with Sandy Bridge CPU stand in all performance benchmarks significant performance gains in favor of UX31A with Ivy Bridge CPU. In our test work, the Core i7-3517U (1.9 GHz, Turbo Boost up to 3.0 GHz) with integrated HD Graphics 4000, 4GB of RAM and a 256-gigabyte SSD from ADATA. The special HD 4000 graphics are compared to the HD 3000 in the older part UX31E 25 percent faster. As with its predecessor, it can also be with the Prime Zenbook UX31A work very quickly - a huge achievement and the SSD, which provides a permanent system for turbo-charging and beautiful short storage times. Thus, the power for everything except games ranging from easy and very sophisticated photo and video editing is the powerful as the Asus eee pc 1005ha battery .
Asus equips the UX31A-R4003V with few, high-speed interfaces: USB 3.0 twice (once with Sleep-and-Charge function), Micro-HDMI 1.4, Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi-n. VGA and LAN's via included adapters. It also includes a SD card reader, an audio port and a webcam (720p). Is a UMTS module, and a third USB port is missing for perfection.
Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) is preinstalled though, Microsoft has UX31A but already certified for the Windows-8-upgrade program. You can upgrade for 14.99 euros on Windows 8 Pro, as it becomes available in October 2012 (Offer valid until 31.01.2013).
In order for sound, fits Asus took the audio professionals from Bang & Olufsen into the boat. For such a thin notebook provides the ICE power sound system all the work and produced a remarkable sound. As with almost all laptops are missing but clearly the amount of bass, treble, and especially important for speech and voice sounding middle portions but surprisingly clear and are very present. No comparison to the squawking, distorted and noisy Klangbrei that comes from most other notebooks.
Using a keyboard shortcut or a widget select one from four power saving modes. Available High-Performance, Entertainment, Quiet Office, and Asus al32-1005 Battery Saving. Depending on the mode of the 50.6-watt-hour battery is claimed, more or less. Except that the display brightness changes, but we could not detect any major changes.
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