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Asus N56VM

Asus N56VM

Verdict

Great build quality, good performance and refined design push Asus' gorgeous N56VM to the top of the Ivy Bridge heap

Review Date: 23 Aug 2012

Price when reviewed: £666

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Overall Rating
5 stars out of 6

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Asus N56VM

Asus N56VM
Details
Part Code Inspiron 15R Special Edition N56VM-S3113V
Review Date 24 Aug 2012 23 Aug 2012
Price ex VAT £716 £666
Price inc VAT £859 £799
Overall rating 5 stars out of 6 5 stars out of 6
Features & Design 4 stars out of 6 5 stars out of 6
Value for Money 5 stars out of 6 5 stars out of 6
Performance 5 stars out of 6 5 stars out of 6
Warranty
Warranty 1yr on-site 2 yr return to base
Physical specifications
Dimensions 378 x 252 x 35mm (WDH) 380 x 255 x 28mm (WDH)
Weight 2.900kg 2.750kg
Travelling weight 3.4kg 3.5kg
Processor and memory
Processor Intel Core i7-3612QM Intel Core i7-3610QM
Motherboard chipset Intel HM77 Intel HM76
RAM capacity 8.00GB 8.00GB
Memory type DDR3 DDR3
SODIMM sockets free 0
SODIMM sockets total 2
Screen and video
Screen size 15.6in 15.6in
Resolution screen horizontal 1,920 1,920
Resolution screen vertical 1,080 1,080
Resolution 1920 x 1080 1920 x 1080
Graphics chipset AMD Radeon HD 7730M Nvidia GeForce GT 630M
Graphics card RAM 2.00GB
VGA (D-SUB) outputs 1 1
HDMI outputs 1 1
S-Video outputs 0
DVI-I outputs 0
DVI-D outputs 0
DisplayPort outputs 0
Drives
Capacity 1.00TB 750GB
Hard disk usable capacity 931GB 698GB
Spindle speed 5,400RPM 7,200RPM
Internal disk interface SATA 6Gbit/s
Optical disc technology Blu-ray reader/DVD writer combo Blu-ray reader
Battery capacity 4,200mAh 5,200mAh
Replacement battery price inc VAT £0 £0
Networking
Wired adapter speed 1,000Mbits/sec 1,000Mbits/sec
802.11a support yes yes
802.11b support yes yes
802.11g support yes yes
802.11 draft-n support yes yes
Integrated 3G adapter no no
Bluetooth support yes
Other Features
Wireless hardware on/off switch no no
Wireless key-combination switch yes yes
Modem no
ExpressCard34 slots 0
ExpressCard54 slots 0
PC Card slots 0
FireWire ports 0
PS/2 mouse port no
9-pin serial ports 0
Parallel ports 0
Optical S/PDIF audio output ports 0 1
Electrical S/PDIF audio ports 0
3.5mm audio jacks 2 2
SD card reader yes yes
Memory Stick reader yes yes
MMC (multimedia card) reader yes yes
Smart Media reader no no
Compact Flash reader no no
xD-card reader no no
Pointing device type Touchpad Touchpad
Hardware volume control? no no
Integrated microphone? yes yes
Integrated webcam? yes yes
Camera megapixel rating 1.3mp 1.3mp
TPM no no
Fingerprint reader no no
Smartcard reader no no
Carry case no no
Operating system and software
Operating system Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
OS family Windows 7 Windows 7
Recovery method Recovery partition Burn own recovery discs
Battery and performance tests
Battery life, light use 5hr 27min 5hr 24min
3D performance (crysis) low settings 22fps 18fps
3D performance setting High High
Overall Real World Benchmark score 0.91 0.95
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