Asus N53SN with Intel® Core™ i7 Processor

I finally bought a new laptop during PC Fair 2011 at KLCC Convention Centre!!! I decided to get Asus due to its reliability and excellent built quality whereby I been getting good reviews on Asus laptop products.

I got myself the Asus N53SN with the specification listed below:

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 2630QM 

Operating System: Windows® 7 Home Premium 

Chipset: Intel® HM65 Express Chipset

Memory: 8GB (This model support up to 16GB)

Display: 15.6" 16:9 HD (1366x768)/Full HD (1920x1080) LED backlit Asus Splendid Video Intelligent Technology

Graphic: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 550M with 2GB DDR3 VRAM

HDD: 640GB 5400rpm 

Optical Drive: Super-Multi DVD

Card Reader: 3 -in-1 card reader ( SD/ MS/ MMC)

Camera: 2.0 Mega Pixel web camera

Network: Integrated802.11 b/g/n

Interface: 1 x Microphone-in jack, 1 x Line-in Jack, 1 x VGA port/Mini D-sub 15-pin for external monitor, 1 x USB 3.0 port,

3 x USB 2.0 port(s), 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert, 1 x HDMI

Audio: Built-in Speakers And Microphone, Bang & Olufsen ICEpower®, SonicFocus


Also with freebies:

• Asus wired moused
• Asus plastic tumbler
• Asus Umbrella
• Asus sling bag
• Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security (Software)
• Starcraft II: Wing of Liberty (Starter Kit Game)
• Lola laptop bag (Seriously one weird laptop bag)

I also got a '3 days, 2 nights to Beijing, China'. Basically its a free accommodation, breakfast and free tour guide whereby flight to Beijing is not included. It's a very good deal as lots of stuff given and the trip to Beijing is from the so called Wheel of Fortune that I had to spin.

So~ here is all the screen shots:

Yes! I truly made a smart choice =P

The Asus N53SN laptop specification

Burnished aluminium effect with the metallic Asus logo 

Front view of the Asus N53SN and the capability to switch on and off the webcam

Left side view: LAN, Card reader, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0
Not forgetting the awesome Intel Core i7! =D 

Right view: Microphone, earphone , USB 2.0 x 2 and DVD-RW drive 

Strong and solid hinge
Also the wireless on and off switch

Asus Wired mouse
Extra heavy charger (Believe me.. its very heavy)
Mushkin 4GB RAM (Free add-on during PC Fair) 

Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security
Starcraft: Wings of Liberty Starter Kit

Asus laptop sling bag
Lola laptop bag (Looks cool from outside by bright green from inside...)

Freebies: Umbrella, tumbler and car sunscreen

Good built and durable laptop with high specification is what really makes this laptop an award winning powerhouse laptop. Yet it's not much for mobility since it weight a whooping 3kg with battery and not forgetting a near 1kg for its jumbo size charger. To some user, the USB 3.0 is optional but for me it's a must to have when I rely heavily on transferring lots of virtual hard disk and gigabyte size movies. The USB 3.0 port comes great with my Buffalo MiniStation Lite USB3.0 =)

Having the processor to have four cores/eight threads is crucial when needed to run virtual environments and I bet gamers would fully utilize this multi-core processor. Not forgetting this laptop is packed with 8GB RAM and I do love the fact it does support up to 16GB RAM. The hard disk given is a bit disappointing as the speed is 5400rpm which near future I'm sure to upgrade it.

Let me point out another thing, which is the wireless b/g/n. I'm currently using the Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual N Band Wireless Router, and it would be great to have that 300mbps speed to my advantage on this laptop for video streaming out transfer data within my network.

Overall this is one superb product with lots of freebies given when I bought it during PC Fair 2011!

Next I will cover the performance and features once I upgrade the Operating System to Windows 7 Ultimate.