Asus P52F Laptop Review


After much research , i decided to go for Asus P52F Commercial Business Laptop,
here is my review on it,





Specifications

Processor & Cache Memory Intel® Core™ i5 Processor (2.66G, 3M)480M with Turbo Boost up to 2.93/2.66 GHz;
Operating SystemDos
Main Memory 2 GB DDR3 1066 MHz
Display 15.6" HD (1366x768)
Hard Drive 500GB,5400rpm
Optical Drive8xSuper Multi DL DVD RW
Video Camera0.3 Mega Pixel web camera
Fax/Modem/LAN/WLAN WLAN 802.11 b/g/n+BT 2.0
Battery Pack & Life 6 cell Battery
Warranty & e-support1-year limited global hardware warranty
*different by country 		  









Laptop Demo from Asus







                            


  


My review of Asus P52F :



  • Windows 7 gave a rating of 3.8 on 2GB Ram



  • Has good Software support







  • Battery seems to be good from my experience




After Installing UBUNTU 11.04 found that every thing was working fine , did'nt yet check with webcam , but video , audio , keypad , working smoothly.               

 
In ubuntu , cpufreq-info shows the following :


     





if you carefully see the information the cpu was actually  running at 1.2 GHZ at low load , so that it was optimized for battery life (hurray ) but UBUNTU did not detect the Turbo Boost supported by the processor that can clock it up to 2.9 GHZ, anyways i will find out how to install that later ,


The video and audio performance are good and enough for me, as i only intend to use it for programming and occasionally for videos.
Windows 7 Compatibility

   NO ISSUES , LAPTOP WELL SUPPORTED FOR WINDOWS 7 with all drivers provided by manufacturer

DeviceCompatibilityComments
Processor Testedok
Screen Testedok
HDD Testedok
Optical Drive Testedok
Graphics Testedok
Sound TestedHeadphone Jack doesn't work (Kubuntu 10.10)
EthernetTestedok
Wireless Testedok
BluetoothNot Tested
ModemNot Tested
USB Testedok
Card ReaderTestedok
Webcam Tested upside down
Touchpad Tested ok, including multitouch


(courtesy : Linux Laptop wiki)

Conclusion

Overall given the price, build quality and performance , ASUS P52F is a very good Laptop and i would recommend to others.

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