Certainly never seen a butterfly with beautiful wings flying to and fro it not? Well, the strength, beauty and thinness of butterfly wings that is inspired in the design laptop Asus U20A with these series.
Therefore, despite the widescreen 12.1 "Asus U20A designed not as thick and heavy laptops in its class. The thinnest part of the laptop is 2.75 cm, while more than 2.9 cm thick. the weight of the laptop next 6 cell battery, it was only 1.834 kg. in fact, this laptop comes with an optical drive, aka DVD player RW. Li-Ion battery of its own weight of 298 grams.
a cause of light and thin U20A is the use of Intel processors CULV (consumer ultra low voltage), the Intel SU2700 processor combined with the Intel GS45 chipset, X4500 graphics MHD and a Wi-Fi link 5100 Wi-Fi. thin and light laptops with long battery life, more affordable going up the ladder of popularity . more days, more and more portable of this type available on the market, such as Acer and MSI Slim Timeline X.
But if Asus U20A was able to beat its rivals? Let us examine one by one institution of this thin notebook.
physical
We start from the outside view. Like most laptops, Asus U20A plastic body. All the shiny black body. In the middle of the glossy cover that Asus logo.
As usual, ice coverage was pretty inviting fingerprint impressions rather that we must often wipe. The same thing happened with the palm rest panel and LCD frame.
Minimal Screw
Let this laptop for a while. Basically, we will see the two compartments. Close hinges are smaller, and is a place of memory. DDR memory compartment is only locked with a screw, easy to open if we want to improve memory.
The other compartment is where the hard drive. This compartment is also screw minimum, guarded by only two screws. The lack of respect is easier for us to upgrade their own hard drive.
screen
When the lid is open, we will see the LED backlit LCD display of selected layer. Size 12.1 "with a resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels standards. LCD screen is framed by a glossy black panel with U20A cover. There was little effect of the reflection from the glossy frame.
Display LED backlit screen was bright, crisp, clear and precise. at any level of 50 percent, the display is very bright in the search. level adjustable LCD light itself, or from sensors that will adjust the light level in the room where the notebook.
Cam
in the middle of the LCD screen, as usual, installed a 2-megapixel webcam. Enable by double-clicking the menu icon LifeFrame. This camera can set the frequency. When first turned on, you will be presented box contains the location and the recommended frequency of Asus. the quality of the webcam was good, almost without pause. Images looked clear and bright.
images recorded results can be saved as BMP, JPG or GIF. A number of options that can be done by saving the image. Among other images can be added emotion, frames, accessories, date. resolution images can be selected between 160 × 120, 176 × 144, 320 × 240, 640 × 480 and 1280 × 1024.
sequential shooting (continuous shooting) will be done. The options are 3, 5, 12 or 15 frames per second. If the room where the object is felt less light, do not forget to activate the flash. Moda bidiknya can choose Night Scene, Portrait, Slow Shutter and Custom.
recorder
The voice is also available in LifeFrame applications. What is interesting is the offer of game here two images can be placed in a frame, with a choice. Vs .., pair, and facial symmetry?. The effect is very interesting. Symmetry face if elected, she will present a white vertical lines on the webcam to the screen. Put your face in the line, and see the effect. If you are down on the right side of your face will attend the "fat" and on the left side of the current version of the "thin".
Clean the back
the back of the laptop is clean. No nothing except under the Li-Ion batteries. So when I first had to charge the rechargeable batteries, we got confused. We could not find a hole to plug, DC plug-in on the back of it. On the other side, we did not find the hole. Asked asked, was the DC-in jack hidden in a rounded right hinge -. A smart way to make the notebook is clean hole
State of the back of the net from the hole with two opposite sides of a solid port. Look at the right side. Besides DC hole-in to the hinge, each have a single USB port, LAN port, an ExpressCard slot and a DVD-RW drive.
We passed on the left. Well, it really settled side various ports. There are two USB 2.0 ports through a separate vent air, a VGA port, an HDMI port and SD card reader. Appearing in the first two taken :. Microphone and headphone
Meanwhile at the front, two Altec Lansing speakers willing to let the sound. Unfortunately, in our opinion, the sound quality of the big players named is less clear. Its low-less stable.
Keyboard and Touchpad
panel keyboard U20A is impressive. The buttons have a light sensor and could burn brightly in the dark. To activate the light sensor, press Fn-A. The light level can be controlled by pressing Fn-F3 / F4 / F5.
These buttons are large enough for another comfortably to wear. No need too hit hard on each button.
who also grabbed the attention of the touchpad. Not because the right buttons left and width in a single button that turns off uncomfortable chrome removed for a bit inside. But since it also be illuminated touchpad with a pattern of dots follow the direction of movement of our fingers.
Accordingly, this laptop can actually be used perfectly in total darkness, including in aircraft. For all glowing - key, display and touchpad - by himself. Unfortunately U20A touchpad is too sensitive, especially if used for a long time.
Features Wireless
For wireless connections in the U20A Asus Wi-Fi Intel 802.11 / draft-n and Bluetooth v2.1. Just do not look for the Wi-Fi switch on the body of this laptop.
In this notebook, Asus has added shortcut keys style to control various things. So to enable or disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, we need to press the Fn-F2 key.
Two Power button
Maybe you will be confused to see there are two power buttons - each panel on the upper left and right of the keyboard. Both activate the computer.
The difference is, the power button on the left is a shortcut button, to turn into laptops without an operating system or access the hard drive. Emphasis will activate special modes ASUS Express Gate. Express Gate adaah essentially a mini operating system. This mode is very useful for those who are always mobile, and often need the Internet or view files quickly.
Within eight seconds after the power button is pressed, the laptop can be used.
We can listen to music or watching movies from the CD / DVD or USB flash drive, call via Skype, and talk (chat) with IM, including online gambling games via Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi).
We are also free to view pictures or images on the USB flash drive or digital camera connected to a laptop via a USB picture manager. Read PDF files that bloody in the USB flash drive can be by clicking on the file twice.
We can not hold or grab something to / from disk. OS Asus Express Gate Splashtop-based system, there is no access to the portable hard drive, including the operating system activates. Therefore quick access.
To exit from ExpressGate, just turn off the computer using the power button that appears in the lower right corner of the screen. Or choose to go to the OS, which will allow the laptop as if you press the power button to the right. Under normal conditions, we can access anything on the hard drive. It took 1 minute 32 seconds before the laptop bersistem Windows Vista Ultimate can be used.
Bundle Software software
Asus U20A membundelkan enough in her. For software, Adobe Reader 9 is paired and MS Office (trial version), Cyberlink DVD Suite, Lightscribe Direct Disc Labeling and Picasa 3.
In addition, it is Asus Multiframe and LifeFrame to activate the webcam . Another bonus is the antivirus Norton Internet Security free for three months.
Included in the Asus SmartLogon Manager Utility, AI Recovery Burner, Splendid Utility, Asus and FancyStart. Splendid utility control the screen with six options: Normal, Gamma, Vivid, Theater, sweet, and My Profile. In My profile, you can define their own color temperature, RGB sync, colorfulness, and save it on a hotkey.
SmartLogon Manager very interesting because it allows us to connect using the faces. Webcams will be automatically switched here and ask us to enter the password of pictures and press Capture to create a face of the gallery. level logon can be selected from the highest (high) to lose (low).
Meanwhile FancyStart used to change the startup screen. Here we can adjust its options, background images, frames and modes that will be displayed.
Battery
Our test unit came standard with 3GB DDR2 RAM, 2.5 "HDD 320GB and battery 4400mAh Li-Ion 10.8V Batteries weighing 298 grams was able to support portable - in our experiments. - a maximum of 4 hours 12 minutes this is when we activate this feature batteries Power4Gear Entertainment
in other contexts, namely to save battery. , laptops can be used for 3 hours 24 minutes. while the high-performance setting, the life time 3 hours 49 minutes.
parameters for using Power4Gear battery (high performance, Entertainment, Quiet Office, battery Saving) is diaturkan Asus, but we can also change or add your own. Power4Gear Entertainment example, will turn off the display within 5 minutes if the laptop uses battery power, or 15 minutes when using the mains voltage. Computers will also be included in the standby mode after 15 minutes. While in high performance, nothing is off when the laptop using battery power or grid.
Mouse Free
In the packaging, in addition to batteries and charger, Asus includes a mini optical mouse. This optical mouse connected via USB cable to scan through the body of the mouse. But in our view, the mouse is less comfortable to wear due to lack of precision.
One thing about the adapter. Our test unit equipped with an Asus Charger with two flat feet. Therefore, when the power will recharge the batteries, use the converter -. A bit annoying
***
Asus U20A is compelling because it can be used even in total darkness. Unfortunately, after about 1 hour of use, the bottom of the unit was quite warm, recommended to always use a mat or a portable lap desk.
A rating, the unit we tested was quite different units on the market. Also our mengemaskan unit testing and 320GB of hard drive 2MP Webcam, while circulating in the market and the hard drive of 500GB provides 1.3MP Webcam with 6-cell battery is claimed to work 8 hours, and the added bonus under the form of bags. But both are sold without an operating system
PLUS :. The light sensor on the keyboard, screen and touchpad; rich software bundle; international interest; bright display; Express Gate; RAM and hard disk made easy level
MINUS :. A little heat; feet flat adapter
source: laptopny
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