Asus N43SL: Entertainment Notebook with Bang & Olufsen Speakers

Asus N43SL - Having a notebook with an attractive shape and design very didamba-craved by many. You can look stylish in the crowd when using the notebook. According to our monitoring, based on the notebooks that come to the table of testing, most notebooks with a charming design in class entertainment. An entertainment notebook certainly will be more complete if it is equipped with sound systems are qualified to produce a pleasant sound to hear. One of the products made by ASUS, N43Sl, go into that category because it has used an artificial speaker Bang & Olufsen.

Asus Notebook N43SL has a beautiful design with a gray color, line pattern typical of aluminum in the concluding part of its LCD Screen Size measuring 14 "(maximum resolution of 1366 × 768), and on his part handrest. The combination of gray with black color makes this notebook look luxurious, not to mention the design on the hinge that has an interesting curve. Dimensions, thickness, and weight of the Asus N43SL is not much different from other notebooks that have the same screen size 14 "notebook from Asus, so this will be a little less fun to carry everywhere.

N43SL Asus uses an INTEL CORE i7 Sandy Bridge 2630QM with 3GB of memory as its main runway kitchen. With these specifications, this notebook will be able to make the middle to upper application running smoothly. The storage capacity of the data provided is large enough, the hard disk of 640GB will be enough to save the various data and multimedia files.

Affairs graphics, Asus N43SL entrusted it to the NVIDIA GeForce GT540M equipped with NVIDIA Optimus. By utilizing these technologies, you can use on Intel graphics processors Sandy Bridge and NVIDIA interchangeably without the need to change manually and restart. The advantage of the technology NVIDIA Optimus is the battery life can be increased because of the NVIDIA graphics will only be active when an application or a game requires a graphics card.

Completeness

Port connectivity N43SL Asus notebook feels quite complete with the presence of as many as one USB3.0 port located on the right front. Unfortunately, Asus does not include a USB combo N43SL with eSATA. However, given the current eSATA hard to get, then we can understand if the port is not available. In the upper right, you can find WiFi switching to power the device manually. The practice is also easy to do upgrades because N43SL Asus is equipped with several modules cover that you can open easily if you want to upgrade SODIMM memory or hard disk.

For the keyboard, Asus N43SL use design with large keys. Actually, the keys are quite comfortable to use, but we often make mistakes because the keys are too close to each other. Our fingers a little difficult to feel the keys with each other, but this will disappear once you get used to using it for a while. Keys on the Asus N43SL feels a bit hard when we use for typing. The room is quite spacious touchpad is given so that your fingers will move freely when doing multi-touch movement. Click the left and right quite soft but a little noise when we use it.

Talking about screens, Asus is using the glossy screen N43SL that will make you a little disturbed by the shadows around it. However, you can minimize it by raising the level of brightness. Viewing angle is also quite good because the screen does not change the color degradation is excessive when viewed from the left and right. The screen will change color degradation when you see it from above.

The speakers are installed in this notebook is the production of Bang & Olufsen, a manufacturer of speakers is quite famous. The speakers are placed at the top of the keyboard. When we tried these speakers to watch and play games, we felt good performance. However, we do not feel the bass boom. This is understandable because the Bang & Olufsen does not include bass speakers in this notebook.

Performance

SysMark benchmark results in 2007 is high. You can run applications upscale quite fluently. The results obtained are not able to penetrate the number 200, remember that value for Intel Core i7 2630QM is the average value of several notebooks with similar processors.

The battery used by Asus N43SL amounted 4400mAh and can turn on this notebook up to 181 minutes or the equivalent of 3 hours 1 minute. It is not too proud because we actually expect more than that.

Performance NVIDIA GeForce graphics GT540M quite encouraging. With the results obtained, you can play a variety of 3D games well at high settings and a specific resolution. The values ​​obtained make us want to know more about the performance of NVIDIA graphics.

Transcoding process is also running fairly quickly and will be faster if you use applications that support Intel Quicksysc. You need not linger waiting for the results to be incorporated into the gadget, be it a tablet or smartphone.

We wanted to test the ability of DX11 in the graphics card included. Therefore, we began a benchmark by using the game Lost Planet and Unigine Heaven. We also weighed on NVIDIA GT540M with Tessellation feature. Featured Tessellation is a deadly weapon for the graphics card because these features will make 3D images more prominent. Featured will be draining the GPU and CPU.

When playing game Lost planet, you can still adjust the setting of this game at native resolution with DX11 futures low. In the benchmark sytetis Unigine Heaven, you can see the results are reached only 13.7 FPS in the benchmark setting normal.

In the game Left4Dead, a combination between the CPU and GPU makes this game runs very smoothly at native resolution and high settings. It makes us begin by setting 8x MSAA. It turned out that the results obtained are still very comfortable to play because the FPS rate is above 30fps. In the second Left4Dead looks like you must be willing to play this game at native relolusi on high setting. Resident Evil 5 game also can run smoothly at native resolution on high settings with 8xMSAA future life, FPS gained in the eyes because the FPS is still comfortably the lowest in the figure 37.6.

In this racing game looks like you have to give up playing in DX9 because when you force running in DX11 then the picture will not reach 30fps and will result in broken images. You can play this game in DX9 on medium native resolution. Why not on High settings? Ultra high settings and will trigger a run on DX11 graphics.

Conclusion

Design and completeness are given virtually ASUS N43SL charming and coupled with the use of Bang & Olufsen speakers who we feel qualified enough to give a pleasant sound in the hearing. Performance graphics processor and enough can make this notebook can be used to work and be a good entertainment machine for playing 3D games or view multimedia content HD1080P. Unfortunately the battery life is less reliable for use in the outdoors so we advise you to always carry a charger that has the size and weight have on average a notebook with screen size 14 ". As a notebook in class entertainment, the Asus N43SL will satisfy your eyes and ears.

Excess

Bang & Olufsen speakers are qualified.
Attractive design.

Shortage

Adapter weight.
Survival is not high.
Design of the keyboard keys are too close so often make mistakes when typing.