ASUS U48C U58C Seires Ultrabook

ASUS has always been on the thin notebook has a good inked in the first wave of  soon come up with the U58C to meet the new market of. With the publication of Ivy Bridge, ASUS has also come up with a second-generation Portege U58CA. Inherited a the U58C thin and port full advantage of, and at the same time increase the performance, we take a look at the U58CA enhance performance.

Port and U58C, VGA, HDMI, USB 3.0, RJ-45 standard laptop and some port no less. However, because the body slim design, port design in the back of the fuselage, may be inconvenient to use.

The interior also maintain the same design, the island has its own characteristics keyboard with fingerprint touch version, support keyboard backlight. Screen matte design looks very comfortable, but unfortunately not upgraded resolution or 1366 x 768.

The feel of the keyboard is relatively rigid, no correction, playing word or some of the unfamiliar, to take a moment to habit. Function keys in the top row of the keyboard is also combined with the software, just press the FN key, the top of the screen will appear the corresponding function icon.

Put on a new the Ivy Brdige processor U58CA with 4cell ASUS U58C Battery effectiveness of a certain degree of upgrading. Equipped with Intel Core i5-3517U processors to be regarded as the second generation of  common specifications. Windows 7 processor rated by the previous generation 6.6 to 6.8, PCMark Vantage score also upgrade from the previous generation of 7,628 points to 9,558 points.

The SSD progress is more dazzling place, speed is about four times that of the general hard disk sequential read 441.5 MB / s 371.4 MB / s sequential write and the previous generation for sequential read 184.5 MB / s , write 46.29 MB / s.

The endurance part to maintain the same good standards, wireless Internet, Bluetooth turned on the state, PowerMark balance mode 3 hours and 38 minutes. Did not want to hold an afternoon's work, not necessarily out to bring the charger.


This we will introduce a 14-inch ASUS operations U48C with ASUS U48CM Battery from Korea University. The U Series is the the ASUS notebook main cost of the product line, price is mostly control in less than 3,000 yuan, the price range is also the major notebook manufacturers cost models get together the second focus area is relatively well-off, so we can choose leeway.


New  U58C focus on performance, get our hands on models from our point of view it using Ivy Bridge platform i7 processor, comes standard with 8GB of memory, 2GB memory GT640M graphics, 1000GB high rpm hard drive, while in the data access , U58C All USB3.0 interface, audio and video entertainment, U58C Skullcandy tuned sound system from the United States, the screen resolution of 1600x900.

Before starting the test, first take a look at this U58C configuration highlights what I believe Needless to say, we all understand. Prior to evaluation this U58C notebook, has a variety of the IVB platforms product evaluation, there are several products with latest graphics cards Kepler GT 650M. GT 640M, and the evaluation of U58C is equipped the same as the code Kepler core performance is relatively good performance.


In order to maintain the cost of the machine is not a metal alloy materials, ABS plastic as the main material of the roof of its firmness grasp it is in place, pressed top cover Central moderately fingers, cover slightly slightly concave, but Open the LCD screen does not appear above the water ripples. ASUS U48C notebook cover part of the popular non-locking design to fully maintain the integrity of the notebook cover.

Although the U58CA with 4cell ASUS U58CA Battery and the previous generation compared to the appearance of no change, but just look at the performance of SSD progress, U58CA is quite advantage U58CA can bring more smooth sense of control when using the system. , U58CA This time there launched the Core i3 version, the price is relatively close to the people some of the, if you want to have this thin and light laptop, but the budget is insufficient, can also refer to the Core i3 version suggested retail price of NT $ 36,0.

The right side of the fuselage still retains a DVD burner bit, also provides notebook security keyhole, USB2.0 interface, headphone jack and microphone jacks. Notebook status indicator designed along the touchpad, contains hard work indicator, wireless card indicator, charge indicator and power light, easy for users to understand the running state of the notebook. In addition, in the front right side of the fuselage also placed a multi-card reader slot. In the evaluation ASUS U48C notebook with AMD E2-1800 processor, configured 320GB 5400 rpm mechanical hard disk, 2GB DDR3 1600MHz high-speed memory. In the graphics processor the fusion single significant 7340D and independent memory AMD Radeon 7470M dual-graphics Crossfire can be composed, in order to help users get more performance graphics processing.

Of ASUS U48C with 14.4V ASUS U48CA Battery the power button is designed in the upper right corner of the keyboard, the key remains delicate power icon shape embedded in the panel on the intermediate metal chrome bump full texture. Press the round button at the bottom will release blue light when used at night, the user can easily find the power position. Both sides of the shaft between the metal grid beneath the speaker area. The machine shaft is sunken design, the the shaft damping force control in place, so that the maximum angle of about 150 ° screen open, basically to meet the demand of user multi-angle observation.

AIDA 64 CPUID tool to see Fengyun AMD E2-1800 processor, interface package for Socket FT1, based on 40nm process technology, the number of cores two shared L2 cache of 512KB, the overall TDP is 35W. The APU platform ASUS335E4C laptop, the machine has a dual-graphics capabilities, by setting the APU integrated graphics AMD Radeon HD 7340D discrete graphics AMD Radeon HD 7470M switch between power-saving play in the free case and need can play a large number of graphics computing performance with significant independence.


ASUS U58C with ASUS U58CM Battery has always been a concern ASUS laptop products. After the release of Intel Ivy Bridge, ASUS U58C series notebook products to upgrade, this is not just the appearance of metamorphosis more striking is a more powerful hardware configuration.