ASUS is known for its powerful gaming laptops and those solid beasts are widely known and ASUS motherboards are also the eye candy of enthusiasts.
ASUS Zenbook UX32VD is also a good product from this great brand and we are expecting some solid performance from this ASUS Zenbook UX32VD and lets see how it performs in our tests.Laptop shopping is always about making compromises, trading computing power for battery life or reducing size and weight at the cost of extra features. For ultrabooks or other ultrathin laptops, this is especially true, and nearly every slim 13-inch laptop we've reviewed has had one or more cut corners and missing features that remind you of the inevitable trade-offs required. Zenbook UX31 already possesses a pleasing shape and color, Asus understandably saw no need for far-reaching aesthetic changes. Looking at the details, one can find minor modifications to the shape of the base. With the UX32, Asus will offer a lower cost alternative to the unibody case of the UX31. Using a conventional clamshell construction, the UX32 combines an aluminum base plate with a plastic-aluminum composite frame. In haptics and visuals, the UX32 equals the UX31 unibody model in every respect but this similarity ends at stability.
Aside from the slight case modifications, we also find a refreshed selection of interfaces on the new Asus Zenbook UX32VD. Asus integrated 3 USB 3.0 ports, an SD card reader, a full size HDMI connector, and a mini-VGA port into the UX32VD. Included are matching adapters – a mini-VGA to standard VGA adapter and a USB-to-RJ45 LAN adapter. An audio combination port similar to one found on many smart phones is also included on the right side. By comparison, the UX32 beats the existing UX31 and the new Zenbook Prime UX31A by one USB 3.0 port and the standard HDMI port. The positioning of connectors is very similar across all Zenbooks as they are located along the rear halves of both sides.
n another change from the previous generation of Zenbook laptops, the display is now an IPS screen in full HD, with a 1,920x1,080-pixel native resolution. That will be a major selling point to some, but it's also a polarizing choice. Most 13-inch laptops, including some very expensive ones, have 1,366x768 screens. That's fine for $800 or so, but once you get past $1,000, I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect a 1,600x900 display. In fact, to my eyes, that's the sweet spot for a high-end 13-inch laptop.
The 1,920x1,080 display here can make text very small and hard to read at times. Still, it depends on what you want to do with it. For playing 1080p video content or cranking video games up to their highest laptop resolution, it's an important feature, and one some shoppers actively seek. Note that the relatively low-end GPU may not be the best at pushing more-recent games at that full 1,920x1,080 resolution. The screen itself looked decent, and was not excessively glossy, but there was some light bleed visible at the very bottom edge from the backlights during dark scenes of movies and games.Audio through a speaker grille at the very top of the keyboard tray was predictably thin, despite the Bang & Olufsen ICE Power branding. Audio volume controls are mapped to alternate F-key functions, so you'll need to hit, for example, Fn+F10 to mute the sound.
ASUS UX32 makes a noble effort to deliver a premium keyboard experience but it falls a bit short ... quite literally. While this Chiclet-style keyboard has full-sized keys with a wonderfully smooth yet grippy surface, the bad new is the keys themselves lack tactile feedback (the difference you feel between a pressed versus an unpressed key). Of course, the shallow depth of each key press is the result of the UX32 being so thin. On the brighter side, the thin chassis also helps keep the keyboard surface firm so the UX32 doesn't suffer from keyboard flex under heavy typing pressure.The oversized touchpad has a smooth surface. This is a multitouch clickpad; press down anywhere to produce a click. As with many ASUS-branded notebooks we've reviewed, the touchpad on the UX32 was pretty bad out of the box. Sensitivity was lacking, some of the multitouch gestures wouldn't work and sometimes even the left and right mouse clicks didn't register. Over all as person who is reading reviews will be pleased to see the details but
lets stop theory and do some practical !
- 1080p display.
- Nvidia 620m GPU.
- Solid body.
- Thin .
- light weight.
- An SSD would be better.
- Dongles could be lost and damaged. during travel.
- Expensive.
