Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #569 in Personal Computers
- Color: Silver Aluminum
- Brand: Asus
- Model: UX32VD-DH71
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .71" h x
8.78" w x
12.80" l,
3.20 pounds
- CPU: Core i7-3517U 1.9 GHz
- Memory: 4GB SODIMM
- Hard Disk: 500GB
- Processors: 2
- Display size: 13.3
Features
- Intel i7-3517U (1.90 GHz x 4 Threads) | 4 MB L3 Cache | Turbo Boost up to 3.00 GHz (x 4 threads) | 17 Watt
- 4 GB SDRAM
- 500GB 5400RPM (W/ 24GB SSD reserved for Instant On)
- 13.3-Inch Screen
- Windows 8
ASUS UX32VD-DH71 13.3-Inch Laptop ( Silver Aluminum )
Product Description
Silver Aluminum/13.3-Inch IPS FHD (1920*1080)/Intel Core i7-3517U (1.9GHz) Ivy Bridge with Turbo (3.0GHz)/4GB DDR3/Nvidia GT 620M 1G/500GB 5400RPM + 24GB SSD/No Optical Drive/Windows 8/802.11AGN/HD Camera/Bluetooth 4.0/48WHrs, 2S3P, 6520 mAh, 6-cell Li-ion Polymer Battery Pack with up to 7 hours life/Illuminated Chiclet Style/1YR International/1YR Accidental Damage/30-Day Zero Bright Dot/2-way FREE shipping/24-7 tech support
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
By Gadget Dude
This is a great ultrabook if you are willing to upgrade it w/ a SSD (Samsung 830) and some RAM (8GB Mushkin). After that it's the most powerful gaming laptop will you need (for now). I installed Windows 7 on the new SSD and Windows 8 on the built-in 24GB SDD to dual-boot. It's very light and it's one of the very fun ultrabooks that can be upgraded. The pros:- i7 ivy bridge processor- Upgradeable memory (2GB + 8GB)- Upgradeable hard drive (SSD). Use the old 500GB with an enclosure for some portable storage- Upgradeable wireless card (maybe later to the 802.11ac standard)- Discrete graphics card Nvidia 620M- 3x USB 3.0 ports- Normal sized HDMI port- 1920x1080p resolution- Built-in 24GB SSD- Decent sound
18 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
By g
I am a spec-oriented person. I was drawn to this model on what I consider to be a rational evaluation of the specs. The screen specs and 3rd generation i7 at my 11 bones cost had me pull the trigger six weeks ago.First of all here and on BB there are suggestions for user upgrades. I seriously suggest you wait until using the machine for six months. Three weeks in mine suffered some serious failures ending in a catastrophic failure of the display panel which would have left me holding a thousand buck brick if I had done any upgrading. Asus support is bad enough. If I had opened the case I'd have been right in the center of Dante's inferno instead of simply one or two rings in. Don't upgrade until five or six months of burn in -- there is a good chance you will need your warranty.That brings the first thing you will notice after a few days of ownership: even though the specs look good, performance is significantly sub par. That is precisely why there are so many discussions about upgrading. It has an i7 but performs like an i5. It has a screen on paper that looks good but the panels must have been bought off the back of the truck.Yes, 1080 IPS. Sounds great right? Wrong. You are better off with 768 given the light bleed and failure rate which I learned later on this. I am not finickly about a little light bleed but I promise you have never seen as much light bleed as this. I have hundred buck box 36" store TV's with less light bleed.Even minor things are glaring and show bad engineering choices. I wanted an back-lit keyboard. The backlighting on this keyboard is so bright at minimum setting, that if you are using it in dark situations where you need it you will be lighting up the room and making the screen experience terrible.What is up with the track-pad? Was that bought by the same corporate buyer who got the garbage display panels? I can image dozen a pallets of these being bought in some back ally! "30% off" because 30% of the pad a dead zone. Yes I have applied the Asus patches on the trackpad and along with other users see no improvement.The implementation of the hdd cache boggles. It literally does nothing. It is as if the machine was engineered and built, and someone raised their hand at a final meeting and said "we can't put on the ultra-book logo without a cache" to the dumfounded looks of the rest of team. That must have been a meeting that looked like NASA trying to figure out how to scrub the CO2 from Apollo 13 -- "how much duct tape is on board?" Solution? Solder some flash onto the MB, call it a hybrid, and shrug at the fact that it decreases performance from a standard HDD! They may as well scotch tape 24g of flash unconnected to the outside of the case and call it hybrid.Processor: my precious i7, performs as implemented like an i5Backlight keyboard: Sounds good, implementation worse than no backlightBattery life: Average on paper, real life worst in its classDisplay Panel: great on paper, poor in realityCasing: looks good until you touch it and see it is paper thinWifi: dual band reads nice on paper, implementation (antenna placement?) poorHDD: 500GB with cache good on paper, not good in realityTouchpad: What the heck Asus!?!?User upgradeable": You read about this so much precisely because it is a DOG out of the box relative to what the specs should deliver. I suspect like me people get it and say: "what is wrong here, let me bump it up." Ask yourself why are their youtubes on replacing wifi cards that are dual band out of the box? Why are people dropping four hundred bones on 500gb ssds when that shoudl only only be a minor real world improvement over a proper cache hybrid? Why are people downgrading to windows 7 (Answer: to try and get around the fact that win8 and proper drivers were an afterthought this model.)Sorry to be so negative on this unit. But I have never in my 20 years of ownership of dozens of laptops seen a better example of good on paper, terrible in reality -- especially at the premium slot.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Gregory Dain Schneck
I've used it everyday for 2 weeks and it's great. Yes, there is slight backlight bleed, but i am an AV professional and have exacting, high standards and it's not even bad enough to bother me. You only see it on completely solid black with the room lights out. I'm loving it and am a stickler for the best in PC gear. Keyboard back light is perfect with 3 settings. Sound is fine considering the chassis limitations
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