As well as at the dearer colleague, the UX31A ultrabook, the notebook of ASUS X550C has pleasant design of a cover with effect of a gradient and the ASUS logo at center. Nevertheless, unlike UX31A, at our animal the cover is made of plastic, but not of aluminum. Plastic opaque, a little rough, a cover doesn't slide in hands. Thus material is picked up so that it wasn't visible slovenly fingerprints, than models with glossy surfaces unlike ASUS X550C, reviews of which design through the positive suffer.
The notebook has the size of 14,9 x 9,8 x 0,97 inches and 2 kg weigh. It turns out that it is a little more easier in comparison with notebooks of other vendors from similar price category trying to compete with ASUS X550C. Characteristics the notebook has the following.
Screen
The fifteen-inch ASUS X550CA screen with permission 1366 x 786 pixels will leave nobody indifferent. Quality of the picture good, but not excellent. When viewing the image from a mash of flowers if to look narrowly, some colors are displayed worse than others, though isn't strong.
The viewing angle of the screen makes only 60 degrees in both sides. Already you will surprise nobody with it though when you the last time watched film on a laptop at an angle in 165 degrees? Here that and it. X550CA has no touch screen. Also you shouldn't have expected another for pathetic fourteen thousand. Thus in a set there is Windows 8. Of course, now popularly to put this OS even on microwaves, but here it is absolutely useless. Where "seven" would look better. The built-in control bar image quality offers three modes on a choice: "Normal", "Movie theater" (adds yellowness) and "Lighting" (adds white shades). There is also a manual adjustment by means of which it is possible to play with the slider, having set up balance of color.
Sound
The sound at X550CA is excellent. Speakers give powerful and saturated sounding. In ASUS made the decision not to save on a sound and built in a number the byuzhetnykh of laptops quite to themselves the high-quality speakers having a broad range of sounding and quite imposing basses. The sound turned out very qualitative without any extraneous noises. In a set also there is a possibility of a naystroyka of sounding. In total there are five modes: "Standard", "Music", "Cinema", "Striming" and "Speech".
Keypad and touchpad
We will consider the X550C ASUS input equipment. The keypad turned out full-size thanks to the not smallest sizes of the notebook. Engineers of Asus declare that the notebook has the special keypad. Depth of the course of keys, their size and resistance when clicking are picked up so that to avoid stray keystrokes in case of the high-speed printing.
Field tests showed average rate of the printing in 80 words a minute with percent of errors, equal to one. Thus for some reason there were problems with a gap when it seems that you clicked it, and actually not. ASUS X550CA complete set with the large touchpad is quite justified in view of absence of the touch screen and existence of Windows 8 onboard. The ASUS X550CA touchpad has support of a multitaching, to do svaypa on it conveniently and comfortably.
Heating and cooling
ASUS uses the IceCool technology which really works. After a fifteen-minute striming of video HD of quality ASUS X550CA notebook hardly reached a threshold in 30 degrees. The keypad heated up also that less. Thus the declared upper limit of safe temperature makes 35,6. Webcam
We will look at the camera ASUS X550C. Its characteristics leave much to be desired. The notebook has the built-in webcam in 9 megapixels, however the image all the same turns out disgusting. Heap of artifacts and distortion of flowers. It isn't possible to sort fine details generally. In other words, the webcam at a laptop is no good.
Ports
If you are going to use X550CA as the main working machine, most likely, you will face shortage of USB ports. The notebook has only two USB interfaces: 2.0 and 3.0, thus nearby in the left part of a notebook. In the same place connectors HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, slots under a microphone and earphones. On the right left the DVD driver. The combined card reader is located on the frontal side.
Dual-core processor of Intel Core I3 with a frequency of 1.8 GHz and 4 gigabytes of a random access memory don't allow to call ASUS X550C a powerful game notebook, but its capacities quite are enough for comfortable operation in classical working applications and in not really exacting games. However, a lot of things depend on an operating system. In Windows 8 eleven at the same time open pages in a web browser "Chromium" noticeably load a notebook though, apparently, that anything special in it isn't present. The subway interface in case of such congestion opens with a time delay in couple of seconds though after that works smoothly and without complaints.
In spite of the fact that in basis the notebook goes with quite slow hard drive of 500 Gb, "eight" is loaded in only 12 seconds that much quicker, than at analog from Lenovo which boots the whole 23 seconds. Copying of the movie of 4,97 Gb in size goes with a speed about one and a half times higher, than at analogs from other vendors that can't but please users and engineers of ASUS.
Image
From the video card Intel HD Graphics 4000 you shouldn't wait much. Yes, it is possible to play some toys, but forget about twisting of settings of a graphics on a maximum. Will brake noticeably. In same "Vovka" the notebook gives out only 24 fps, though a graphics there not the premium. For comparing of Lenovo gives stable 27 fps with which it is much more pleasant to play, and here Hp too doesn't lift fps value higher than 24
Accumulator
With operating Wi-FI the operating time of a notebook is restricted 4 for hours provided that you simply are online. If to watch movies, to listen to music, to work in applications or to play, the operating time of a notebook is significantly reduced.
Asus x550c: price
Too important question.
ASUS X550CA notebook in a standard complete set has the following characteristics: a dual-core processor of Intel core I3 with clock rate of 1.8 GHz; 4 Gb RAM; HHD 500 GB; Intel HD Graphics 4000.
The price of this miracle makes 449 dollars.
If you want to catch more powerful machine, perhaps, you should get accustomed to X550CA-DB51: a dual-core processor of Intel Core i5-3337U with clock rate 2.7; 8GB RAM; HDD 750GB. All this costs 570 dollars.
It is very attractive externally. A sound and the price of ASUS X550C (the responses reasoned) also at the level. Pathetic 500 dollars will be nearly at everyone. However the screen viewing angle, a slow hard drive, the weak accumulator and not really powerful iron lubricate the iridescent picture. For the same price HP Pavilion g6t can buy more powerful notebooks of competitive brands, for example, with the faultless bright screen, more continuous operating time and more powerful iron. However, if you need a working notebook with a magnificent sound and appearance on which you won't play the last games of the Total War series, this model will suit you as well as possible.
Responses of buyers
Concerning productivity buyers express opinion that this technique meets expectations. "Eight" works perfectly. There is an opportunity to proapgreydit a notebook to 16 Gb of a RAM. It will turn out very powerfully. It is possible to use as a portable videoplayer. Users remain are very happy. However there are also some claims to technique. The little strange touchpad. Periodically doesn't recognize gestures or recognizes incorrectly. There are small complaints concerning the screen: something isn't enough - whether brightness, whether definition. Perhaps, matter in permission? Not the best picture. There are no USB ports yet. Only two ports are a little.
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