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Review Summary
2013-03-27T21:00:00
The good: Overall, hardware wise, I'm loving my UX51VZ-DH7 with a few exceptions. It seems speedy enough and has instant on with a sleep mode that lasts for days. The bad: Internally soldered battery cannot be removed. Proprietary SSDs cannot be swapped out. New Windoz8 Metro UI SUCKS! Fixed by installing classic start menu. When using a mouse in addition to the touchpad, I've not found a straightforward way to (via mouse) NOT double left click to select (norm mouse behavior is one left click to select). There was not an easily found way to NOT RAID 0 the two SSDs to double the available storage space.
Blue R.
The Asus Zenbook Prime UX51VZ-DH71 15.6" Notebook Computer measures just 3 mm front and 9 mm back. It uses precision-crafted aluminum throughout its monoshell build, ensuring light durability. The cover features finely etched concentric circles that embody the infinite nature of Zen thinking and the entire design has been optimized to offer a holistic approach towards combining beauty with speed and balancing work with play. To maintain this look and feel, Asus has developed a lineup of Zenbook Prime accessories that are just as attractive and sophisticated.
Asus engineering has been able to accomplish the feat of bestowing Zenbook Prime with uncompromising technical excellence despite its ultra-suave and compact form. Up to 3rd generation Intel Core i7 processors (Ivy Bridge platform) are at the heart, while SATA 6 Gb/s SSD storage outpaces normal hard drives by up to four times.
Similarly, USB 3.0 ensures data moves up to ten times faster than USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 4.0 offers the latest version of the wireless connectivity standard. Dual band 2.4 GHz/5 GHz Wi-Fi derived from top-end Asus router technology ensures the fastest networking and to keep all of this cool, a proprietary V-shaped air channel drives heat away before it can cause instability.