Laptop Asus UL30A-A1 Review

Asus UL30A-A1 is a good choice in the part of popular laptops with beautifully designed, full-featured, long time for battery.

Like the HP Pavilion dv2, Asus UL30A-A1 is less than 800 USD models in ultraportable laptop with full features. UL30A-A1 screen 13 inch close to 1.7 kg weight, high mobility, beautiful design and good battery run time of the sale price of only about 800 billion (in Singapore)
Asus UL30A-A1 with good design
Trend designed glossy chassis makes many people feel uncomfortable by disadvantages stored fingerprints are lost aesthetic. Thus, Asus have used computer case made from aluminum metal grinding higher level than just smooth plastic but beautiful, because dust and fingerprints on the surface.

UL30A-A1 uses 13.3-inch LED screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, ratio 16:9. Screen but does not cause glare mirror ball, has good horizontal viewing angle, about 70 degrees to either side but limited when looking along the screen.

 UL30A-A1 uses LED screen, better viewing angles horizontally
UL30A-A1 uses LED screen, better viewing angles horizontally.

Speaker system but have large volume but when turned up music very easily distorted. However, disappointing than the 0.3-megapixel webcam capture very poor while the other latop though still generally less expensive 1.3-megapixel webcam is up.

Discarded optical drive is characteristic of super-mobile computer market segment. UL30A-A1 lacks optical drive is quite full but necessary connections with both VGA and HDMI outputs, a USB port on the left side, right side is a slot for SD / MMC, the audio jack Micro Headphone, 2 USB ports and slots sources

L30A-A1 compact design discarded by optical driveL30A-A1 compact design discarded by optical drive

Chiclet keyboard cover large and comfortable. Black keys with white letters painted on the frame highlights include silver and shell machine. Sensitive keys, but the redesigned keyboard of Asus as users find it difficult to make new acquaintances. Shift to only half the size of the left Shift key while the space between the keys back to quite large.

If the keyboard is less than the surface of the frame including the Left is higher than the touchpad, along with the plane and put your hands up to Monitoring Spacebar key is easy to type wrong. But the surface still more popular painting again very easy to use with instant mouse buttons below.

UL30A-A1 running processor power saving Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 CULV using DDR3 4 GB of RAM. According to Computershopper, computer points to reach 2112 Test Benchmark PCMark Vantage (performance assessment system), 800 points lower than the average score of the series ultraportable price of approximately $ 2,000, but HP Pavilion dv2 higher than 749 USD 500 point.

Speed processing of multimedia files is a bit slower than high-level models. 11 test converted music files. Mp3 to .aac using iTunes software was conducted Computershopper lost 7 minutes 30 seconds slower than two minutes, but fairly average speed of the Fujitsu LifeBook P8020 cost $ 2,500.

While the time required to perform tests to convert video formats Windows Media Encoder (WME) 10 minutes 14 seconds, longer than the average one minute, and up to 11 minutes faster than HP Pavilion dv2. If during the test run more WME antivirus software BitDefender full-scan mode, the video file conversion time will need additional 2 minutes while the HP Pavilion dv2 need to add six minutes to complete test

With 3DMark06 assess the strength of computer graphics, UL30A-A1 is 836 points in its native resolution 1366 x 768 pixels and 762 points lower at 1024 x 768 pixels. Separate experiment, Asus UL30A-A1 was not used with HP Pavilion dv2 ATI discrete graphics card more powerful. The ability to coordinate between integrated graphics and CPU Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics processor SU7300 in 2736 reached the Cinebench 10 test, on par with the performance of Apple MacBook Air (2728 points) running an Intel Core 2 Duo 1,6 GHz.

Not featured in performance by UL30A-A1 Asus ultraportable models are limited in processing speed but has good battery run duration. UL30A-A1 has time time to review videos online via Wi-Fi in the 5 hours 34 minutes, better than the average duration of 3 hours 14 minutes, also higher than results 5 hours 3 minutes of the HP EliteBook 2530 Super Stock prices in 2600 dollars. When running applications if the softer advertising, 8-cell battery can help UL30A-A1 continuous operation in 12 hours. Battery 8 cell total weight is only 1.7 kg. Technology applications "Cool ice" UL30A-A1 good heat sink and cooling systems even when used long while the AC adapter is not in contrast, rather hot when long charging.

Similar to many new models of Asus, UL30A-A1 also integrated Express Gate tool helps users do not need to boot into Windows but quick access to common applications like Web, Skype, Music Player, Online Gaming, Photo Manager and Chat. Express Gate boot time takes only 10 seconds after turn on machine.

In general, designing machines and make sure to compact aluminum high-need to improve the layout of the keyboard, touch-pad for users to use more convenient. However, battery run time of good, average performance, with reasonable price to help UL30A-A1 Asus became an option in the brightest ultra mobile computer segment next to popular models has been popular as Acer Timeline AS3810T or X340 MSI X-Slim


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