Asus N43SL: Special Edition Jay Chou

Asus N43SL:  Special edition Notebook is very interesting to observe. Unit special edition notebooks are usually available in very limited amount. Obviously, the people around you would be interested to see the product you are carrying a special edition. Some time ago, ASUS released a special edition notebook. ASUS notebooks have the name of Jay Chou N43SL Special Edition.


Who exactly is Jay Chou? Jay Chou is a figure of a multi talented artist from Taiwan. Jay Chou has a profession as a movie player, singer, songwriter, musician, and director. In his career as a musician, Jay Chou has won many awards, from the World Music Award 4 times, 42nd Golden House Award, and many more. Achievement is exactly what encourages ASUS to create a special edition notebook is Jay Chou.

On the Asus notebook series N43SL this special edition, you'll find a variety of initials, motifs, and signatures of Jay Chou. Starting from the LCD screen cover dihiasai with Chinese porcelain motifs and Baroque-inspired design. In this section you will find handrest and signature sheet music from the "Secret". The letter "J" (prefix the name of Jay Chou) is in part also designed a special keyboard to use the Unique Baroque-style motif. As a rabid fan of Jay Chou, unfortunately it seems to miss this notebook.

Asus N43SL melted with a glossy black color and comes with two color options patern, the first red (this product is present in our test table) and the second is gold in color patern. Dimensions, thickness, and weight of the Asus N43SL is not much different from other notebooks with screen sizes 14 ", so that the notebook from Asus is a little less fun to take everywhere. Asus N43SL Special Edition Jay Chou entered the entertainment notebook class. Therefore, this notebook ASUS arming with sound systems that qualified. This notebook uses artificial Bang & Olufsen speakers that can produce a booming sound. So no one else if this notebook can be designated as a machine for your entertainment.

For the kitchen runway, Asus N43SL using 2nd generation Sandy Bridge processors with DDR3 memory 4GB. The storage capacity of the given data is also quite large, you can store various data and multimedia files on the hard disk of 640GB. For other specifications, you can look at our exposure below.

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

Talking about the display, Asus N43SL using a glossy screen 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 of excessive degradation when viewed from the left and right. The screen will change color degradation when you see it from above.

Port connectivity N43SL Asus notebook feels quite complete in the presence of as many as one USB3.0 port located on the right front. Unfortunately, Asus does not include USB combo N43SL with eSATA. However, given the current eSATA hard to get, then we can understand if the port is not available. At the top right, you can find WiFi switching for powering the device manually. The practice is also easy to do upgrades because Asus N43SL cover comes with several modules 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. Keys are actually 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 to one another, but this will disappear once you get used to using it for a while. Keys on the Asus N43SL feels a little loud when we used to 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.

The speakers are installed in this notebook is the result of production of Bang & Olufsen, which is quite well-known speaker manufacturer. The speakers are placed at the top of the keyboard. When we tried these speakers to watch and play games, we feel the performance is good. However, we did not feel the bass boom. This may be because the Bang & Olufsen does not include bass speakers in this notebook.

Battery Life Rating

Browsing 5 Tab: This online test using the FireFox browser and refresh a website alternately with a predetermined time (example: A website refresh of 30 seconds, 40 seconds refresh the website B). We use a variety of websites, ranging from mild to use flash in considerable amounts.

720 Movie 1080 Movie WMV and MOV: We simulate to obtain the value of battery life when a notebook is used for watching movies in various resolutions and the results we get using the log-time applications.

Power 5200mAh battery for this notebook powerful enough to run for 4 hours less to play 720P movie and can last for 3 hours to do the browsing activity with 5 tabs using wifi.

Conclusion

Design special editions and completeness of the given Asus N43SL arguably captivating. Coupled with the use of Bang & Olufsen speakers that we feel quite qualified to give sound delicious in the hearing. Performance graphics processor and enough to make this notebook can be used to work and be a good entertainment machine for playing 3D games or view multimedia content HD1080P. As a notebook in class entertainment, Asus N43SL will satisfy your eyes and ears.

Excess

Bang & Olufsen speakers are qualified.
Attractive design.

Shortage

Design of the keyboard keys are too close so often make mistakes when typing.