My review: Asus U46SV

[lastdon]

is the LCD quality? colours etc ? dull?

[bond007lr]

the LCD is a bit dull. It can be really bright when turning on the brightness at the maximum but do not really expect a big quality cause it's a TN panel... The viewing angles are OK from the left and right but it's not when viewing from the top or the bottom...

In fact, you have to really find the correct angle with the screen to get a "normal" image.

I have to make the calibration of the screen with my gretag mc beth i1 display to tell you if it gives accurate colours...

More to come

[pmm33]

Thanks for the extra information.

How hot is it on the underside? I like to relax on the couch with my laptop :0

[mystvearn]

Ok I've got mine !!

My impressions on that machine are really close to mystvearn. I will try to complete his description, do some small corrections and give you my subjective impressions
I will not post any pictures because this is the same look as him
But what I can say is :

- The look and feel is really impressive. The handrest is made of metal and not plastic. You can feel it cause, laptop switched off, it's cold when you touch it. Only the champagne part of the keyboard is made of strong plastic (magnesium ?). The keyboard is very comfortable, not noisy at all, but not backlighted.

- The heat of the machine is directly linked with the harddrive which is located on the left side of the laptop. Furthermore : my machine is equipped with a different drive than mystvearn. It is a seagate 750gb and, good news, it's a 7200 rpm drive
Anyway, even if it's a 5400rpm, this is a part of the laptop which warm the left side of it.
I think with a SSD, it won't be as warm as with a mechanical harddrive. I will install it during the week end as I receive it on saturday.

- The screen is really thin ! it's amazing ! But I am a bit worried of its rigidity... Every time I open the laptop, I am affraid of breaking it (the hinges are really tightened)

- The sound is really poor and very deported on the right side of the laptop. Weird impression...

- It's true that Asus installed a lot of crap on the laptop. But, I think all the Asus appz are necessary to take advantage of an Asus machine. Keep them but uninstall manually all others such as the Nuance pdf reader, all the crappy games and whatever you want

Again, all that I told you is to cross with mystvearn description which is what I felt as well, apart the handrest and keyboard area material.

I will post other infos regarding my "small" tweaks during the week end :
- SSD : Intel 510 - 120 gb - Sata III
- 8 gb Ram : KINGSTON DDR3 PC3-14900 - hyperx 1866 MHz
I would like in some months to put a drive caddy instead of the optical drive to have the 750 gb drive to store all my data.

I am really pleased of that laptop. It breathes quality and my overall thoughts of the product is really positive even if there are some cons, but there is no ideal machine...

You bought yours in UK? Oh better spec than mine than. Nice . Price?

BTW, what I did to remove the malware is to format all drives/software which came with the laptop, reinstall W7 Pro with the link provided in another asus forum-then install drivers. Removes all other junk which did not came on the DVD. Win-win situation.

[angelz90]

can i know if the u46sv has built-in microphone? the specs doesnt seems to mention this..

[mystvearn]

can i know if the u46sv has built-in microphone? the specs doesnt seems to mention this..

It has

[maximum360]

Having a non-backlit keyboard is a terrible design choice.

[bond007lr]

I tried furmarck with this laptop, and be careful with this software, it really stress the graphic card. I recommend not to use it cause of eventual issues with temperature.

You bought yours in UK? Oh better spec than mine than. Nice . Price?

BTW, what I did to remove the malware is to format all drives/software which came with the laptop, reinstall W7 Pro with the link provided in another asus forum-then install drivers. Removes all other junk which did not came on the DVD. Win-win situation.

I paid it 759 € on this french site cause i'm french and needed of course an azerty keyboard. It's written 799€ but as i have a discount card, I had 5% discount.

Maybe I will install a new system as you made, mystvearn, cause there are some explorer bugs and a clean install will probably resolve that.

It's a real pleasure to have installed the ssd in that laptop !!! 15 sec to boot wow

There is something that you could tell me, mystvearn... Does your machine (in iddle mode) is a bit warm on the underside at the RAM location ? or is it completely cool ?
Also, if you can just tell me the temperatures given by HWMonitor that you have on your machine, it would be really nice.

[AdreeN]

so anyone with gaming/benchmark temps?
and any word on the laptop's cooling+throttling situation?

[mystvearn]

I tried furmarck with this laptop, and be careful with this software, it really stress the graphic card. I recommend not to use it cause of eventual issues with temperature.



I paid it 759 € on this french site cause i'm french and needed of course an azerty keyboard. It's written 799€ but as i have a discount card, I had 5% discount.

Maybe I will install a new system as you made, mystvearn, cause there are some explorer bugs and a clean install will probably resolve that.

It's a real pleasure to have installed the ssd in that laptop !!! 15 sec to boot wow

There is something that you could tell me, mystvearn... Does your machine (in iddle mode) is a bit warm on the underside at the RAM location ? or is it completely cool ?
Also, if you can just tell me the temperatures given by HWMonitor that you have on your machine, it would be really nice.

Mine was less than £700.

My laptop is cool though I do not check it while idle. I already did include a HWmonitor readings. Page 4 of this thread I think.