Overall appearance: concise and tough
▲ Overall appearance of ASUS A56C
The top cover and keyboard surface of ASUS A56C are made of metal, especially the top cover, which is a whole metal plate. Cold gray surface, metal wire drawing process, more durable, wear-resistant, clean without leaving fingerprints. The design style of ASUS A56C is simple, and the integration of the machine is very good after the top cover is closed, just like the advertising language of ASUS, which is rock solid.
▲ ASUS A56C adopts 15.6-inch large screen.
The ASUS A56C uses a 15.6-inch mirror display, 1366? 768 resolution, the brightness of mirror display screen is high, but it is greatly influenced by sunlight, so it is not suitable for use in strong light. Asus A56C adopts a countersunk shaft, which saves the manufacturing cost and has a small resistance when opening, but it affects the opening and closing angle of the fuselage, and its maximum opening can reach 150? .
The body size and weight are comparable to ultrabooks.
The body thickness of ASUS A56C is less than 2 1mm, which is rare in 15 inch notebooks. Moreover, the slim body is not produced at the expense of the tray-type optical drive, lithium battery and VGA interface that are common in traditional notebooks. It is not easy to make a notebook slim, and every time the thickness of 1mm is reduced, it may require huge investment. In order to reduce the cost, many thin and light notebooks give up the configuration that affects the thickness of the fuselage, such as optical drive and VGA interface. At the same time, the new lithium polymer battery can be molded into any shape, which also replaces the traditional lithium battery, but its cost is higher.
▲ ASUS A56C body size and weight
The body weight of ASUS A56C is also very light in a 15 inch notebook. Its bare metal weight is only 2.3Kg, and its travel weight is 2.7Kg. Because of its large area of metal material, it is very good.
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Simple keyboard design, no shortcuts, no backlight.
▲ Surface design of ASUS A56C keyboard
ASUS A56C adopts an isolated chocolate keyboard, which has the advantages of large key distance, convenient cleaning and good rebound, but short key stroke and average overall feel. ASUS A56C keyboard surface is not equipped with independent shortcut keys and keyboard backlight, so it may be a little inconvenient to use at night. Like the general 15.6-inch notebook, it is also equipped with a keyboard area. For the integrity of the keyboard, it puts? Right direction? The user may not be used to putting the keys together with the numeric keys of the keypad.
The integrated touchpad is prone to misoperation.
▲ ASUS A56C touchpad design
Asus A56C is equipped with an integrated touchpad, which is beautiful and increases the space of the touchpad. There is a vertical line in the middle to distinguish the areas that replace the left and right buttons of the mouse. But its disadvantage is that sometimes it is not very sensitive or too sensitive, and the cursor will shift when clicking on the touchpad, which is easy to cause misoperation.
The interface is complete and closely arranged.
The interface of ASUS A56C is relatively complete, with 1 USB 3.0, network port, HDMI and VGA interfaces on the left side of the fuselage. The interfaces are densely arranged, and the VGA plug is generally large, which is not suitable for being closely arranged with USB or HDMI interfaces, and there will be conflicts when using.
▲ ASUS A56C interface design
There are two USB 2.0 interfaces and earphone interfaces on the right side of the fuselage, and the two USB interfaces are also densely arranged. I can't insert two universal USB flash drives into the socket at the same time, but I can insert two USB data cables at the same time.
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Configure the mainstream office entertainment omnipotence
Asus A56C
Parameter name parameter description
processor
Intel Core i5 33 17UM
chip set
HM76
internal storage
4 GB DDR3- 1600
display card
Intel HD4000+NV GT635M discrete graphics card
hard disc
750GB
class monitor
15.6 inch (resolution 1366? 768)
wireless card
Intel Centrino Wireless -N 2230
Wired network adapter
atheros ar 8 162/8 166/8 168
Notebook size
380 ? 266 ? 2 1 mm /2.3 1 kg
Media price
4999 yuan
Asustek A56C is relatively mainstream in configuration, equipped with i5-33 17UM processor of IVB platform, dual graphics card combination of Intel HD4000 core graphics card and +NV GT635M discrete graphics card, 4GB memory and 750GB mechanical hard disk. This configuration is stress-free for the office, and if it is coupled with a solid-state hard disk, it will definitely become a sharp weapon for the office. GT635M discrete graphics card belongs to the middle and lower graphics card level, but it is no problem to deal with online games. Even the general large-scale 3D stand-alone game can easily pass the customs with medium picture quality, and it is an out-and-out office entertainment generalist.
CPU performance test
▲ ASUS A56C CPU performance comparison table
Asustek A56C is equipped with dual-core and four-thread i5-33 17UM processor, with 22nm technology and main frequency of1.7hz. According to CINEBENCH's score, its performance has surpassed that of the previous generation low-power i7 processor, which can well meet the needs of daily users.
Office ability test
▲ measurement results of ▲SYSmark software
▲ ASUS A56C office capacity comparison table
SYSMark is a hardware performance evaluation tool, which focuses on the evaluation of commercial computing performance and production performance of computers. The score of ASUS A56C in this test is 1.75, which is excellent. If you add SSD, I believe the score will be higher. Even so, with its current ability, whether it is dealing with general office documents or running professional software such as Photoshop, After Effects and 3ds Max, there is no problem.
Game performance test
▲ Performance comparison table of ASUS A56C graphics card
Asus A56C is equipped with NVIDIA GeForce GT635M discrete graphics card, and the GPU score of running 3DMark VANTAGE in entry mode is 19838, and the graphics card belongs to the lower-middle level, but it is no problem to run the mainstream 3D games with medium quality. We tested the game with Dust 3, Call of Duty 8 and Elder Scrolls 5, and the results are as follows.
▲2 times anti-aliasing, medium-quality Run Dust 3.
Running Dust 3 with twice anti-aliasing and medium image quality has an average frame number of 49.6, and there are many smooth horizontal lines above 30, which runs smoothly and without pressure.
▲4 times anti-aliasing, extremely high quality Run Dust 3.
The difficulty is upgraded, and the image quality is adjusted to be 4 times as high as anti-aliasing and dust-running 3. The average number of frames is 20.32, which does not reach the smooth horizontal line, and there will be obvious jamming phenomenon in the game.
▲ Run 2 times anti-aliasing and high quality Call of Duty 8.
Let's take a look at its performance in running a first-person design game. When Call of Duty 8 runs with 2 times anti-aliasing, its frame diagram exceeds 35 frames, so the game can run smoothly and users can enjoy the exciting game atmosphere.
▲ Run 4 times anti-aliasing and medium-quality "The Elder Scrolls 5".
Finally, it is tested with the role-playing game "The Elder Scrolls 5" which requires high graphics cards. When running a game with 4 times anti-aliasing and medium image quality, the frame diagram is generally between 25 and 30 frames, and the game can basically run smoothly, which may be slightly less smooth when there is a grand scene.
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The fuselage has small calorific value and good heat dissipation.
In the test of fuselage calorific value, we used the system stability test in AIDA64 at room temperature of 25℃, and made a copy test on ASUS A56C for 30 minutes, without checking the GPU items, and then took photos of its keyboard surface and fuselage bottom surface with infrared thermal imager.
▲ ASUS A56C fuselage fever map
As can be seen from the heat map of the fuselage, the heat value of the ASUS A56C is average, and the highest temperature of the keyboard is only 37.7℃, which is not much higher than the human body temperature. Moreover, the high temperature area is mainly concentrated in the middle area of the keyboard, which is rarely touched when using the keyboard at ordinary times, so there is no need to worry about the phenomenon of hand fever after long-term use. The highest temperature at the bottom of the fuselage is 46.4℃, which is not very high in a notebook. As long as the user usually puts it on the bed, legs and other places for a short time, heat dissipation is not a problem.
Battery life exceeds the average horizontal line.
▲ measured results of ▲Mobilemark
▲ ASUS A56C battery life comparison table
Although ASUS A56C has a slim body like an ultrabook, its battery still uses a traditional lithium battery, but it is slim, with a capacity of 15V/44Wh. Although the capacity is not large, it has achieved a good result of 260 minutes (about 4.3 hours) in the actual measurement of Mobilemark software, which exceeds the average horizontal line of similar notebooks. There is no problem for users to deal with emergency power outages, temporary meetings and short-term outdoor use.
Evaluation summary
▲ Summary of ASUS A56C evaluation data
Asus A56C is simple and atmospheric in appearance, tough and strong, and its body is less than 2 1mm, which is rare in 15 inch notebooks. It is no exaggeration to say that it looks like an ultrabook. In terms of configuration, with Core i5 processor, NV GT635 discrete graphics card, 4GB memory and 750GB hard disk, it has become an expert in both office and entertainment. Simply put, it is an ultrabook with SSD. Such an ultra-thin large-screen notebook with excellent appearance and good performance is currently quoted at 4999, and the price of less than 5K makes it very competitive in the market. Interested friends can pay more attention.