Stylish Laptop Power

I have the ASUS N751JX (8GB, GTX950, 1TB HDD version) now 4 weeks, and I like excellent. Which does not mean that there would be no criticisms - but one must consider the offer and the price as a whole.

First, look for: lid and keyboard area from sturdy aluminum, of course with brilliant ASUS logo and some decoration elements give a solid impression. Also, the keys come individually by the area in between without slots. Even the touchpad is not as rickety as on previous models. As you notice the same that this is about the best rooms on the market.
However, all this is reflected on weight again: to be uninviting taken with 3,5kg safe anywhere.
The white keyboard illumination is chic and also useful, of course, be regulated, and is apparently reactivated by the camera. The (Stereo) Micro is extremely sensitive.
The Accu stops in economy mode - only Winamp and the USB Audio Interface, mostly from image - just over 5 hours. With intensive use of the course will use less gas. The loading from 0 to 100 will take about 3.5 hours.

But for me the performance was crucial, as well as reliability. It has never let me down ASUS. The laptop is designed for music production with Ableton and various MIDI controllers, etc. So, a lot of CPU power, lots of RAM, fast HDDs.
Therefore, I have the money I've saved on fruit shelf, invested the same time in a few upgrades: 16GB DDR3 CL9 SO-DIMMs and 2 Samsung 1TB 850 Evo SSD drives - a total of nearly 900. And now the part comes off like Schmidt's cat! Booting from Win8 will take about 3 seconds ...

Sure, a few couple of things still have room for improvement. The highly praised sound from Bang & Olufsen, for example, although it is clear and nice loud for a laptop, but without bass. The supplied subwoofer you can safely dispose of the same, he does not make ordinary bass but schrebbelt only rum. Quite different if you connect a good stereo system, the sound is great. A right audio in jack, there is not, incidentally, just a Micro input to a 4-pin headset connector is required. In my audio in and out runs anyway on a professional USB audio interface, so no problem.
When scares the i7 processor properly can before cooling air outlet equal even roast a few marshmallows. The GTX 950 GPU, regardless of load playing 80-90 ° C. But can the appliance apparently. Sixteen Do not obstruct the cooling - it is also stressed this in the User's Guide. Is pleasant, the fans are running nice and quiet, even at full load. For small load you can hear nothing.
The display is in my opinion a good average. Certainly not Apple display, but it does not reflect and has good contrast and colors. The backlight is not very evenly, especially when you scale down the brightness. In very black picture you can see that.

However ... You can work just fine with the ASUS N751JX - once you get used to because Win8. 7 would have liked, but I do not know if you get it the appropriate driver. Incidentally, it was not Win8 DVD case. A system image can not be done, Gates does not know why. In a system crash can be annoying. However, I have the original HDD yet, so I'm protected.

So, price / performance ratio was already. You will always find something to complain about, if you will. And - even the ASUS built at Foxconn, like the expensive windfalls. :)