ASUS A53SV-EH71 15.6-Inch Versatile Entertainment Laptop (Black)

by Asus

• Intel Core i7 2670QM Processor 2.2GHz
• 6GB DIMM RAM
• 640GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
• 15.6-Inch Screen, Nvidia GT 540 1 GB
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Product Description

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Not Just another Pretty Face
Smart, Reliable & Efficient

Powered by an Intel^® Core^™ i7-2670QM Processor with NVIDIA^® GeForce^® GT 540M with 1GB of DDR3 VRAM Graphics for brilliant and responsive HD entertainment, the ASUS A53SV-EH71 easily handles multitasking and entertainment on its brilliant 15.6" LED-backlit HD display. HDMI ready, supersize your high-definition media to an HDTV for up to 1080p visuals and 8 channel surround sound support. Experience faster data transfer with SuperSpeed USB 3.0. ASUS Infusion Technology gives this notebook a scratch-resistant coat with eye-catching style. ASUS IceCool technology with hairline brushed aluminum helps maintain a low temperature on the keyboard and palm rest area for comfortable computing even after the longest sessions.

Key Features

• Intel^® Core^™i7-2670QM Processor with NVIDIA^® GeForce^® GT 540M with 1GB of DDR3 VRAM Graphics for brilliant and responsive HD entertainment (Learn more)
• ASUS Power4Gear optimizes system performance for increased performance and longer mobility (Learn more)
• IceCool Technology makes use of superior component engineering combined with the aluminum surface to keep the palm rest and typing surfaces cool (Learn more)
• ASUS Palm-Proof Technology prevents accidental input by intelligently distinguishing between palm and finger contact (Learn more)
• SuperSpeed USB 3.0 for quicker device charging and up to 10x faster transfers than USB 2.0¹ (Learn more)
• Altec Lansing speakers enhanced with SRS Premium Sound produce crisp, clear audio reproduction

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Reliable Multitasking Performance

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Powered by an Intel® Core™i7-2670QM Processor with NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M with 1GB of DDR3 VRAM for brilliant and responsive HD entertainment, the A53SV-EH71 handles an assortment of daily tasks with ease. Equipped with ASUS Power4Gear, select from an assortment of power profiles via the Power4Gear hotkey above the keyboard that optimizes the system for your task at hand—giving the most performance or maximizing battery life. Enjoy the convenience of faster data transfer with the notebook's SuperSpeed USB 3.0.

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Comfort and Control Included

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The A53SV-EH71 has an array of built-in features that are specialized for ease of use. It features a Wave keyboard with numeric keypad and multi-touch trackpad to effortlessly type documents or navigate through your mobile world. The A53SV-EH71 also has a spacious palm rest with ASUS Palm-Proof Technology where the trackpad intelligently distinguishes between your palm and finger to prevent errors for a worry-free typing experience. Using an exclusive dual-sided motherboard design, ASUS Ice Cool Technology places heat-producing components away from users to keep the palm rest and typing surface cool for utmost user comfort. With its sunken-hinge screen design, you will be able to enjoy wider and more ergonomic viewing angles, enabling greater clarity and comfort. Plus, the ASUS Power4Gear utility controls the fans noise level so you can relax with a virtually silent computing experience anywhere you go.

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Head-turning Style and Convenient Portability

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Compact and light, the A53SV-EH71 shows off a new streamlined design with ASUS Infusion Technology to give this notebook a scratch-resistant coat with eye-catching style. Opening this mobile wonder, you will notice a new streamlined design and texture made with ASUS Infusion Technology to retain the A53SV-EH71 looks and quality even during extensive, prolonged use. The power button also has a built in light indicator so whether you're in light or dark areas you always know where to find it.

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Relax, ASUS Has You Covered

Ranked as the #1 most reliable Windows-based PC brand in survey after survey², readers and editors alike choose ASUS as their trusted notebook and netbook. ASUS tirelessly strives to exceed expectations of quality to ensure you an unmatched peace of mind every time you start your PC.

This notebook is also backed by the industry's most comprehensive complimentary warranty.

1 Year ASUS Global Warranty³

Offers a level of coverage that would add hundreds of dollars to the price of competing laptops:

• 1 year global warranty
• 30 day Flawless Display Guarantee
• 2-way free standard shipping
• 24/7 tech support

1 Year Accidental Damage Protection (ADP)³

Whether your notebook is damaged by accidental spills, drops, electrical surges, or fire, ASUS will fix it or replace it for you during the first year after purchase.

• Covers accidental drops, spills, power surges, and fire damage
• Target 3 business day turnaround time for repair / replacement; not including receiving and shipping time
• 1-way shipping (from ASUS to the user) at no additional cost
• 24/7 toll-free phone support

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What's in the Box

• A53SV-EH71
• AC Adapter
• 6 cell Battery Pack
• Warranty Information Card

Specifications

• Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
• Display: 15.6-inch HD display (1366 x 768) (LED)
• Processor: Intel^® Core^™i7-2670QM Processor (2.2 GHz)
• Graphics: NVIDIA^® GeForce^® GT 540M with 1GB of DDR3 VRAM Graphics
• WLAN: 802.11 b/g/n
• LAN: 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
• Memory: 6GB DDR3 SDRAM,2 x SODIMM Sockets (up to 8GB)
• Storage: 640GB 5400RPM hard drive
• Optical Drive: DL DVD±RW/CD-RW
• Camera: 0.3 megapixel
• Speakers: Altec Lansing^® Speakers
• Microphone: Microphone
• Card Reader: 5-in-1 card reader (SD, MMC, MS, MS PRO SDHC (SD2.0)
• Input / Output: 1 x Mic-in, 1 x Headphone-out, 1 x VGA port/Mini D-Sub 15-pin for external monitor, 1 x RJ-45 LAN, 2 x USB 2.0 ports, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x HDMI
• Battery: 6 cell
• Dimensions: 15.12 x 10.12 x 1.4 –inches (W x D x H)
• Weight: 5.72 lbs (with 6 cell battery)
• Color: Black

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Windows 7 Home Premium The Best Entertainment Experience On Your PC Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. You can even watch, pause, and rewind TV or record it to watch whenever and wherever you want. For the best entertainment experience, choose a PC with Windows 7. Windows 7: Your PC Simplified Improved desktop navigation features like Snap, Peek and Shake, make it easier to manage all of your open windows. Find virtually anything on your PC--from documents to songs to email--just by typing a word or two with Windows Search. Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker. Watch, pause, rewind and record TV with Windows Media Center to watch whenever and where ever you want.*

Get a Faster, Safer Web with a New PC and Internet Explorer 9 Helps protect against identity theft and malicious software with SmartScreen Filter. Movies, TV, and videos look better and run more smoothly. Create, Connect, and Share with Windows Live Windows 7 and Windows Live bring it all together for free. Get the free set of programs that make it simple to create and share amazing photos and movies, organize mail, and stay connected with your closest friends. Get free online storage with Windows Live SkyDrive. Sync files on your PCs automatically with Windows Live Mesh. Share photos during video chats with Windows Live Messenger.** Easily edit photos. Combine the best parts of multiple photos into one perfect photo with Photo Fuse. You can download Windows Live for FREE at download.live.com.

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Complete Your PC Experience with Microsoft Office 2010 Includes reduced functionality versions of Microsoft Word and Excel with advertising. (Note that PowerPoint or Outlook are not included.) Purchase Office 2010 today and get the most out of your new PC.   * Additional hardware may be required. Not available in all countries. (See windows.microsoft.com/products/windows-7/system-requirements/ for more information.) ** Requires a compatible microphone, speakers or headset, webcam, and broadband connection.

© 2011 ASUS Computer International. All Rights Reserved. ASUS is a registered trademark of ASUSTeK Computer. All specifications and terms are subject to change without notice. Please check with your supplier for exact offers on selected models. Products may not be available in all markets. Product may not be exactly as shown in photos.

¹All figures are theoretical values compared to USB 2.0 benchmarks for reference purposes. Actual speed depends on the device and system status.
²http://commercial.asus.com/promos/ASUSReliability/
³ASUS reserves the right to exclude certain SKUs; check with your retailer to confirm coverage of specific models. Valid for notebooks purchased in the US and Canada only. Certain retailers do not participate in ADP coverage. For complete details, please visit: http://completewarranty.asus.com/.

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From the Manufacturer

15.6" (1366x768) LED/i-7 2670 Quad Core (2.2GHz)/6GB DDR3 RAM/Nvidia GT 540 1GB/640GB 5400/DL DVDRW CDRW/Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) /802.11BGN/0.3M Pixel/6 Cell Battery/HDMI Port/1 USB 3.0 Port/2 USB 2.0 Ports/5-in-1 Card Reader/1YR Global Warranty/1 YR Accidental Damage Protection/30-Day Zero Bright Dot/2-Way Free Shipping/24-7 Tech Support

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

65 of 69 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars More than I had hoped for - Mac users will love this laptop. November 23, 2011

By ShadabK

Amazon Verified Purchase

Keyboard: Extremely well laid out. Spacing between the keys is right, and feels very comfortable to type. Quite like my MacBook Pro keyboard, from which I had to switch to Windows for some research work which could only be done on Windows.

Battery: I am still trying it out but from the looks of it, battery is decent. I think with normal settings for battery and brightness, and with wifi on, browser etc., it lasted for about 5 hours!

Design: I like the no nonsense design of this laptop. The aluminium around the keyboard looks, and more importantly, feels great. As ASUS advertised rightly, it doesn't heat up during normal usage due to heat from the exhaust. ASUS really seems to have some genuine work on this laptop's design unlike every other vendor copying MacBook Pro's design with the recessed keyboard large touchpad and everything.

TRACKPAD: If I have seen anything come close to MacBook Pro's trackpad (not touchpad!) then this is it. With some tweaks in multi finger settings (inside control panel) I am enjoying this trackpad so very much! It does 1, 2 and 3 finger gestures such as : Back, forward, scroll, zoom in, zoom out, rotate (pictures etc.) and a lot of others. Like swiping three fingers up brings up My Computer window, which is a pretty neat feature.

Screen: Like every windows laptop, you will have to do some screen calibration yourself, if you really care for, and more importantly, if you understand this stuff. Google it up and you will understand what it is, and why it's important. NOTE: I am not at all saying that the screen looks bad right out of the box, It was GREAT right out of the box, but being a videophile I always calibrate displays to make them look the way I want.

Bundled softwares: Like most of the windows laptops, this laptop came with ASUS's non-useful suite of softwares. Fortunately, they can be uninstalled and thrown right away. ASUS offers 2GB webstorage in the cloud if you really care to use it, I like dropbox so I didn't set it up.

Graphics performance is AWESOME! It played many many 1080p videos without a glitch.

Other things to keep in mind: The laptop is quite beautiful. I say that keeping my mac along with me. This laptop is highly useable and ASUS's attention to input devices, such as keyboard and trackpad shows in the way these things perform, they're awesome.

This laptop doesn't come with any CD or DVD and you will have to have blank DVDs ready to create recovery disks as soon as you start using this laptop, you can then use it whenever you need to re-install the US.

Conclusion: I have previously used a thinkpad and loved it for the rugged performance. Thus, I was concerned about sturdiness of this laptop. In the limited use that I have done, the construction looks sturdy. The hinges perform well. Heat vents are placed thoughtfully. Overall, this laptop performs in the every area that concerned me.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! Go for it. I am sure gamers to business users, or grad students to home users, everyone will LOVE this laptop.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Laptop! ASUS A53SV-EH71 15.6-Inch Versatile Entertainment Laptop (Black) November 30, 2011

By Baatar

Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this during black friday week. I opened it up and have loved it from the get go. Everything has worked without any problems. I'm not a programmer but I'm also not computer iliterate. I expect things to work out of the box and this has done so very well.

Multi tasking has been seemless, running Netflix while I back up the system while surfing the internet a little.

The battery has performed as expected. Windows and ASUS have preset performance levels that let you consume the battery in two hours or extend it out to five or six. I used the computer on a higher performance level for about 3 hours and it did great.

I love the touch pad that works great with a myriad of options when it comes to scrolling, zooming in and out, switching between screens and opening my computer.

I will soon be installing games that will require a higher graphics output and I'll have to update this when I see how it performs. This is my first experiance with ASUS and I've been pleased with the experiance so far.

Starcraft 2 Runs great as well as others in High settings. Still an awsome laptop.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Like a Macbook Pro ... except more powerful, $1k less expensive. (Though only a 4.5 hour battery). January 4, 2012

By A Reasonable Person

Have you ever seen the sleek, eye-popping Macbook Pro, but not wanted the software or $1,800 price tag? (Really, I don't mean to offend Mac users). I know that the company pushes the aesthetic edge, but some of us prefer a widely-used platform. (Anyway). I'm using a Macbook Pro as a benchmark, so please take the compliment.

That said.

Pros:
. A better i7 chip (than the Mac's standard i5, though you can get an i7 for $2k+)
. A screen that is roughly 40 pixels less than the Pro's (which is standard for all PCs)
. Touch gestures on the trackpad (e.g. scrolling, resizing pages, going forward or back while browsing)
. A FREE 1-year accidental damage warranty (buy with American express, and they'll extend it one extra year)
. Reliable standby mode (just set your power settings for lid closure to put it into standby)
. Completely silent, no heat
. Performance, performance, performance.

Cons:
. A heavy power brick. I have no idea why, but tilted my head when I saw it, wondering just what Asus was thinking.
. Needs monitor calibration out of the box. (Really does). But once you get it straightened out (shouldn't take more than 10 minutes), the screen is wonderful.

Here are two wonderful calibration sites:
. Search for "Imaging Resource Calibration"
. Search for "Photoscientia Calibration"

Just buy it. There's nothing that's even comparable in price, as relative to aesthetic or performance as of 12/11).