Asus N55SF Owners Lounge

[Katana Paul]

Hi @streather
I think this laptop is fine - with the exception of the keyboard (see many previous comments). If you're not planning on writing your first novel on it, it should be ok ;-) Interestingly, Asus deny any knowledge of customer's disatisfaction with the keyboard (I kindly suggested the get their head outta their butts and read a forum or two :-P )
Make sure you avoid the lower res (1366x768) screen - the HD+ 1600x900 on mine is super and I would think the full HD 1920x1080 would be a corker too. Mine was advertised as having the Superbright screen and I half expected it to turn up with a shiny mirror up front, but it didn't! A nice matte effect :-)
I bought the i5 version due to having it offered at the right price and it has coped with the many layers of Photoshop editing I have thrown at it with ease, plays full HD video content without a splutter. I haven't had opportunity to throw Quake, Unreal Tournament or MotoGP2010 at it yet so I can't comment on its game playing (too busy with the new Xbox).
Bloatware is easily removed as per the guide elsewhere on this forum which makes a nice change.

[streather]

Originally Posted by Katana Paul

Hi @streather
I think this laptop is fine - with the exception of the keyboard (see many previous comments). If you're not planning on writing your first novel on it, it should be ok ;-) Interestingly, Asus deny any knowledge of customer's disatisfaction with the keyboard (I kindly suggested the get their head outta their butts and read a forum or two :-P )
Make sure you avoid the lower res (1366x768) screen - the HD+ 1600x900 on mine is super and I would think the full HD 1920x1080 would be a corker too. Mine was advertised as having the Superbright screen and I half expected it to turn up with a shiny mirror up front, but it didn't! A nice matte effect :-)
I bought the i5 version due to having it offered at the right price and it has coped with the many layers of Photoshop editing I have thrown at it with ease, plays full HD video content without a splutter. I haven't had opportunity to throw Quake, Unreal Tournament or MotoGP2010 at it yet so I can't comment on its game playing (too busy with the new Xbox).
Bloatware is easily removed as per the guide elsewhere on this forum which makes a nice change.

I've noticed that there is a LOT of dissatisfaction with the keyboard I guess I'll need to find out if pc world or currys have one in stock so i can see how bad it is in person, the 2 or 3 places I've seen where I'd be tempted to buy it from all seem to be stocking the 1600x900 matt screen so that's definitely a bonus.

Gaming wise from the stuff ive found on youtube it seems to handle bf3 pretty well i was hoping someone on here would be more knowledgeable about performance figures etc though

[Katana Paul]

Originally Posted by streather

Gaming wise from the stuff ive found on youtube it seems to handle bf3 pretty well i was hoping someone on here would be more knowledgeable about performance figures etc though

Sure there's plenty here who can express the performance in terms of ones and zeros for you. Me, not so much

Some nutty benchmarks here if they help, but they don't mean Jack to me

Review Asus N55SF-S1124V Notebook - Notebookcheck.net Reviews

[danielbb]

Strange i have no probs with keyboard at all, i like it. The touchpad however takes some getting used too, no tangible reference points.

[yknyong1]

Owners please tell me what are the wifi cards your N55SFs shipped with?

I saw the i7-2670QM model with a 1080p matte and wonder what kind of wifi card it would have.

Thanks.

[ezsolt]

Hi,

does anybody knows how the GT 555M looks like in it. I mean the card shape.
I'm willing to buy an N55SF if I can swap the vcard to a GTX560 or GTX570.
I saw a GTX560 on ebay for 220USD.

[p0l0us]

Originally Posted by ezsolt

Hi,

does anybody knows how the GT 555M looks like in it. I mean the card shape.
I'm willing to buy an N55SF if I can swap the vcard to a GTX560 or GTX570.
I saw a GTX560 on ebay for 220USD.

Is card soldered or on MXM port ? I guess, it is soldered...

[p0l0us]

Anyone found a keyboard replacement ? thanks

[MrRidsect]

im still confuse want take n55sf i5 or not

can some convincing me.. please

or ill go to hp dv6-19tx

different n55sf is full hd and design. hp good processor and graphic

[Avocet]

Hello,

This is my first posting here as I am curious how experiences are with overheating of the N55SF. I currently own a Asus N61JQ and it performs well enough, but the cores overheat really quickly, both during heavy calculations as with games. If I get lucky I can play a game like the Witcher 2 for 30 minutes.

I now plan to buy a Asus N55SF-S1366V, but if the N55SF has the same overheating problems as the N61JQ there would be little point to get it.

Thanks in advance!