ASUS ZENBOOK UX330UA Enjoyable and Creative Ultrabook

It is not yet heard about the line ZENBOOK from ASUS, there are? If yes, then it’s time to catch up: the notebook market, these models occupy a leading position, and for good reason. First, a design that captivates at first sight. Second, high-resolution screen and its characteristics excellent. And, of course, the latest generation snug laptop ASUS ZENBOOK UX330UA review of the stuffing opportunities which go beyond the simple office and “home” tasks.

The snug laptop ASUS ZENBOOK UX330UA review – a clear confirmation of the above. This device magically combines sophisticated design and high-performance hardware components. If you have already started to indulge in dreams of buying, think again, because the price of new items is an average of $ 1,100.

DESIGN

There are some qualities of snug laptop ASUS ZENBOOK UX330UA review, which, of course, also present in our model. So, its body is made of aluminum: it looks stylish and tactilely pleasant. On the cover – easily recognizable concentric circles in the middle – a mirror of the company logo. The maximum angle of opening the laptop is 135 degrees, the lid is fastened too tightly, it is quite possible to raise one hand.

Laptop screen surrounded by a frame gray tone in the housing. On its upper face is a web-camera, on the other hand – another logo, the small size. The external keyboard seems comfortable, probably due to the large keys. The upper and lower parts of the body are secured together by means of a very durable elongated hinge.

In continuation of the inherent properties of the notebook ZENBOOK also note the low weight and small thickness. In particular, it is just about 1.2 kg and the modest dimensions: 323h222h14 mm. As you can see, ASUS ZENBOOK UX330UA you can take with you to work, on a business trip or even for a walk, because no discomfort in connection with the transportation you feel. The quality of the assembly to the unit no complaints: the details fit well, the backlash is not observed. Unless specifically put pressure on the lid, the display will distortions, and if with the strength to press on the keyboard with your fingers you will feel not strong subsidence.

DISPLAY, AUDIO, AND WEBCAM

IPS matrix indicates that the viewing angles are consistently wide, regardless of the angle, the colors do not fade, and in general, the image will not be distorted. The screen surface – matt, so you can operate the device outside or near a window with a clear conscience. By the way, the notebook is equipped with a motion sensor that automatically adjusts screen brightness depending on the environment. If necessary, you can disable this feature in the settings and control the brightness manually.

Two speakers from Harman Kardon are located on the bottom of the notebook. The sound is far from ideal: a high volume audible wheezing, also due to the specificity of location audio playback significantly muted. In general, for watching videos or listening to the muted sound card features music enough yet to improve the situation, you can use headphones and “poseurs at” in the EQ settings.

Resolution front of the webcam – 720p. This is sufficient for video calling, but not enough for high-quality pictures.

KEYBOARD AND TOUCHPAD

The island style keyboard, which means that around each button is enough space not to accidentally hook nearby. The keys are quite large, they have a square shape and light markings. Numpad is absent, but not without the backlight, to the same three-tiered. The substrate bit of flex, but only if very intensive typing.

A short course of buttons, good efficiency, and quiet press can print for a long time without feeling any discomfort. Features, as such, has no keyboard unit: for example, the key [Enter] – single-row, beneath it – a fairly large [Shift]. On the opposite side also there were no extremes we get another big [Shift], rather big [Caps Lock] and [Tab]. A switch unit is small, but he passed separately, so get on it will be easy buttons. Subjectively, the notebook power button is in the wrong place, namely in the upper right corner of the keyboard. It has a tiny size, which complicates its search and depression.

The touchpad is large, has a rough surface on which it is pleasant to drive with your finger. Manipular slightly recessed into the area, so it is easy to find even in the dark. It supports multi-touch gestures and knocks during the Depression. Physical keys not only built, which are easy to find thanks to the vertical separator.

PERFORMANCE

On board of the snug laptop ASUS ZENBOOK UX330UA review (90NB0CW1-M01930) is running Windows 10 Home system. In the role of dual-core CPU performs Intel Core i7-6500U generation skylake. Operating frequency ranges 2.5-3.1 GHz, plus everything, there is support for Hyper-Threading Hyper-Threading technology. The processor is configured for 14-nm process, it consumes less than 15 watts and has 4 MB cache on the third level.

The graphics in the laptop only built – Intel HD Graphics 520. It has 24 actuators that operate at a frequency up to 1050 MHz. The possibilities of this card at about the same level as that of the NVIDIA GeForce 820M, that is, you can try to run the game until 2015 on low settings.

The amount of memory – 8 GB of DDR3-1866 MHz standard. To store the content provided by the manufacturer nimble SSD 512 GB.

PORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS

So far, everything is fine, but let’s see how the laptop thoughtful set of interfaces. So, on the left side, you can see the port USB 3.0, card reader SD, as well as a combined audio.

The right side has a USB 3.1 port and USB 3.0, Micro-HDMI video output and a jack for charging the device.

As for wireless communication, in this regard, it is all pretty predictable: Wi-Fi 802.11 ac and Bluetooth 4.1.

BATTERY

The snug laptop ASUS ZENBOOK UX330UA review uses a lithium-polymer battery capacity of 57 Wh. With such a battery for the autonomy of the laptop does not have to blush: 20 hours in idle mode (minimum brightness), 7 hours of web surfing and about 6-6.5 hours of video playback. “Heavy” tasks, such as games, will put the laptop in about 1-1.5 hours. Of course, if you choose a configuration with less “voracious» Full HD-screen TV, independent figures will increase by about a third.

In the notebook has no problems with the heating body, in any case, it does not exceed 43 degrees Celsius. You can keep your device on your lap or in your hands and feel a pleasant coolness.

CONCLUSION

Well, it is expected snug laptop ASUS ZENBOOK UX330UA review did not disappoint. The notebook looks very stylish: its body is made of aluminum, and the cover is decorated with concentric circles. Permits 13.3-inch screen – 3200h1800 pixels, it has high levels of brightness and contrast, excellent color rendition. Do not let us down and filling, presented productive skylake chip generation, and integrated graphics. Interfaces, standalone performance – all at an altitude!

In total, approximately $ 1,100, you get a sturdy and stylish device with excellent technical characteristics. You might be confused by the price tag, but such value – within the normal range for ZENBOOK segment.

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Review 4K Monitor ASUS PA328Q

Model of the 4K Monitor ASUS PA328Q, strictly speaking, can not be called a novelty (in the sale she went more than a year ago), but in our editorial office was able to get just now. Well, better late than never – the more so as the 32-inch models with high-quality 4K-display is still frankly a little.

DESIGN 4K MONITOR ASUS PA328Q

4K Monitor ASUS PA328Q refers to the professional series ProArt, and its overall design is not very different from the other models in this line: strict appearance, practicality and minimum limit “design refinements.” The black matte plastic, thin frame on the edges of the screen and “weighty” stand with all the necessary degrees of freedom, the only “tribute” design – a thin red stripe on the bottom; In general, this monitor will look equally appropriate and on the desktop, and in the home environment.

Stand – familiar from recent models of the ASUS, large and solid, her monitor is not stable, due to the large mass of the turn, it is possible only if you work hard. The display is attached to the leg tightly but slightly undermine it if you want you can still – so that when too vigorous pressing the display control button is still rocking.

We monitor has a VESA-compatible mount (100×100), so if you want it, you can hang on the wall. All sockets on the main rear wall oriented downwards and do not interfere with its operation to such an embodiment. From here you can find the video inputs as much as 3 port HDMI 2.0 (one of which is compatible with MHL), DisplayPort 1.2 and Mini DisplayPort 1.2. Also here there is a mini-jack for headphones and the USB-hub (4-port USB 3.0 brought to the sidebar for easy access).

MENU 4K MONITOR ASUS PA328Q

To control monitor, the standard for ASUS combination of hardware buttons and four-way joystick located on the back of the display in the lower right corner (in front of them on the front frame are applied, respectively, and the cross point).

Pressing any button or joystick opens the quick menu where you can call the main menu, select a different video input and cause QuickFit menu (with predetermined dimensions of different sheets of paper or a calibration grid). Also here there is two programmable item (default call assigned to them, and the brightness reduction menu blue light illumination, however, basically the user can assign them a menu or other feature).

From the main menu, the first item is the traditional monitor the Splendid ASUS section, in which you can select one of the preset video modes (among the usual items sRGB, Scenery, etc. can be found and new “Dark Room Mode” and two templates for custom settings). “Filter blue light” reduces the proportion of blue in the backlight of the monitor, which should have a positive impact on comfort during prolonged reading from the screen; parameter has 4 different degrees of “suppression” of the blue. In the menu “Color” are brightness, contrast, gamma (choose one of three options – 1.8, 2.2, 2.4), color temperature (instead of the usual “hot / cold” here indicate specific values in degrees), and thin to 6 settings primary colors individually. In the “Image” you can adjust the degree of overdrive (here it is called TraceFree), choose the image format, use image enhancement technology VividPixel and turn on the backlight compensation unevenness. The “Sound” menu, you can adjust the volume of the integrated speakers in “Setting the PIP / PBP» – turn on the “picture in picture” or “image next to the picture,” and adjust the settings of his work, “Input Selection” allows you to manually switch between all five video inputs and in the “system setup”, you can change the parameters of the menu, including the eco-mode, turn off the illumination of the power indicator, select the menu language, reset all settings to their factory defaults, etc. And the last item “shortcut”, allows you to assign the last two points of the quick menu, other functions.

THE PAPER 4K MONITOR ASUS PA328Q

The 4K Monitor ASUS PA328Q uses a 10-bit (8 bits + FRC) AHVA-matrix production AU Optronics (M320Q001) with a 32-inch, 16: 9 and a resolution of 3840h2160 pixel (dot density, in this case, is 138 PPI). This is not the first model based on AHVA-panel (Advanced Hyper-Viewing Angle, not to be confused with the * VA – Vertical Alignment), and we have already more than once to make sure that all their characteristics (including even the form of pixels), this technology is fully similar to IPS, that allows manufacturers of monitors IPS-call them models.

This model uses a semi-matte coating so that the crystal effect is virtually absent here – it can be seen on screen macro shots, where the ripples on the pixels are almost invisible.

Response time at the ASUS PA328Q started at 6 ms (GtG) – the normal rate for IPS-matrix, however, the dynamics can be observed lubricate. To reduce them, you can use overdrive (TraceFree option in the monitor settings). He has several degrees of “acceleration”, but the difference between them is actually small, and only a maximum overdrive can be seen that lubricate moving objects actually become smaller. Given that the overdrive artifacts in the form of blue trails behind moving objects appear only when TraceFree = 100 (and even then, they notice very difficult), we would recommend it to use the maximum acceleration, if you need more precise dynamic picture.

As with most other IPS-monitors, this model is strong enough Glow-effect – when viewed from above on a black background appears gray-green or brown “plaque” (depending on the viewing angle). In a typical arrangement of the monitor it is weak, mainly in the form of a light gray glow in the dark areas of the image in the lower edges of the screen.

The uniformity of illumination average, in a dark room on a black background becomes a spot in the lower right corner, and less pronounced – along the top edge of the screen.

The viewing angles are very high, even compared to other IPS-models – with the deviation towards the slightly reduced brightness and contrast, but the color distortion is not observed even at maximum deflection.

As with all the latest models of the ASUS, here for the brightness control is not used PWM, respectively, lights flicker is not observed in the entire brightness range – it should evaluate people with a sensitive eye because this decision is less load on the eye during prolonged work at the computer.

The minimum value of brightness at 4K Monitor ASUS PA328Q was 45 cd / m² – a rather low figure, with such brightness you can comfortably operate the monitor, even in the very low ambient light. The maximum brightness (average of measurement results in 35 points on the screen) was 273 cd / m², which is more than enough for use indoors with fluorescent lighting. Static contrast medium, and it is typical for IPS-matrix – 770: 1. In normal mode, the difference between the brightest portion (center) and the least bright (lower left corner) is quite significant – nearly 70 cd / m². If this is critical to the user, he can activate the illumination nonuniformity compensation option (located in the “Picture” menu). After that bypasses the brightness, contrast, saturation and other parameters, and the brightness is set at the level of 190 cd / m ², with the difference between the least and the most striking areas are significantly lower (although still a little more than you expect from this regime) – 27 cd / m².

ASUS PA328Q is factory calibrated sRGB mode, as evidenced by the report the attached to the monitor. Immediately we can say that the results of the tests prove it: gamma curve is almost flat and is very close to the standard of 2.2, color temperature and almost perfectly corresponds to 6500K, color accuracy is completely within the norm – the average deviation of less than one, maximum – less than three. So that users are going to work with color, in principle, can be done without prior calibration – unless, of course, they do not need to even higher color accuracy, or do not want installed by default brightness level of 160 cd / m² (in the sRGB mode, traditionally block all image adjustment). We note here that unlike other monitors, in this case, the color gamut corresponds fairly accurately sRGB space (99.7%), without trying to capture the “extra”.

Curve range in brightness scale, the graph of color temperature, color gamut and color accuracy, sRGB mode (factory calibration):

In the other modes, the coverage is slightly more than that seen for example in “Standard” – the other parameters it is very close to the sRGB (except for lower color accuracy as factory calibration is not performed for him), plus it available manual adjustment of the image.

PROS: EXCELLENT IMAGE QUALITY; ACCURATE COLOR; FACTORY CALIBRATION; ALMOST A 100% SRGB COVERAGE; NO BACKLIGHT FLICKERING
CONS: HIGH COST; THE ABSENCE OF AN EXTENDED COLOR GAMUT

CONCLUSION 4K MONITOR ASUS PA328Q

Due to high AHVA-matrix and calibration sRGB mode, the monitor shows an excellent image quality and accurate color “out of the box”, without a special need for self-calibration. The 32-inch 4K Monitor ASUS PA328Q makes the workspace really spacious, with a pixel resolution allows us to restrict the minimum zoom interface (or, in the case of acute, to opt out of it). If we talk about the shortcomings, it may be noted that all the same I would like to get even and support Adobe RGB space at such cost of the monitor; however, for designers and photographers, non-prepress, only sRGB support any significant disadvantage still is not.

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