This finish doesn’t show finger prints like the glossy finish on many of the laptops on the market today. On the outside the notebook has a textured plastic surface with a tasteful chrome ASUS logo on the display case. The ASUS K53E notebook has a very refined and clean finish to it. This notebook will cost around $899 and should offer a pretty good price to performance ratio. The notebook that we were sent for testing is the specifically the ASUS K53E-B1 notebook that is powered by a 2nd Generation Intel Core i5-2520M ‘Sandy Bridge’ Processor. Intel Core i3-2310M ( $634.90) and Intel Core i5-2410M ( $749.99) in the majority of these notebooks. With the smaller and thinner notebook design you have to use more energyĮfficient processors, so ASUS is using dual-core processors like the As you can see this whole laptop nearly costs the same as just the processor that was in the last one we reviewed.
#ASUS K53E DRIVERS SPECS PLUS#
The ASUS K53E is a general purpose 15.6-inch entertainment notebook with prices that start at $634.90 plus shipping. Today, we have a notebook from ASUS that is aimed more at the mainstream market called the K53E. This processor alone will has a suggested retail price of $568, so it definitely isn’t for everyone.
Inside that beast was the Intel Core i7-2820QM, which was is the second fastest mobile quad-core processor that Intel offers at 2.30GHz. Our first encounter with an Intel Sandy Bridge laptop was a massive 17-inch Packard Bell model that was designed for raw power and wasn’t not to be that portable.