ASUS S46CA-XH51 14.1-Inch Laptop (Black) Deals

By David Mccann -
This review is from: ASUS S46CA-XH51 14.1-Inch Laptop (Black) (Personal Computers)
With a shrinking number of ultrabooks with Windows 7 on them as shipped, this system offers a really good mix of hard-to-find features including VGA and HDMI port, an RJ45 network jack, and throw in a DVDRW drive and 1 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0 ports. The traditional hard drive with small SSD cache is a good compromise on a low-cost system. Very thin yet feels solid with aluminum casing. Really the only negatives are lack of backlit keyboard and trackpad a little tricky to get used to (left/right buttons are integrated into pad), and no recovery media and no way to make them, a poor trend for most vendors.

 By amateur wrench -
This review is from: ASUS S46CA-XH51 14.1-Inch Laptop (Black) (Personal Computers)
ASUS was recommended to me as a good brand, this seems to be the best 14" with Win 7, Amazon had the best price through another seller Technology Galaxy. However, return policy for TG is once the box is open it's yours, no exceptions, my bad for not reading the fine print. Right out of the box the cooling fan ran fast and loud, you could hear it in the next room. When typing in Word, email or in a web text box, the cursor would jump around causing you to manually set it back to the end of a sentence to continue typing. That's enough for me to return it, but as stated above, the return policy won't allow it. I spent hours with ASUS tech support via chat (tech support was good) to download a chipset to solve the cooling fan problem and some other software upgrade to stop the cursor jumping. Fan is solved, it runs quiet now, the cursor is still problematic, but we finally figured out how to disable the touchpad, the laptop is primarily used with a mouse. Another review talked about the touchpad being the deal killer too, take note. Other than that, the unit works fine (now) for word processing, web surfing, and some simple psychology testing software. If you want to buy this brand/model, go find one that you can demo before you commit. Buy direct from Amazon so you can return it if you don't like it. Beware of sellers selling through Amazon, they might not let you return it if you open the box.

By sushi "xdancer" (New York) -
This review is from: ASUS S46CA-XH51 14.1-Inch Laptop (Black) (Personal Computers)
this was by far the easiest setup of my 10? laptops -- based on reviews i read here i chose this model (with win 7) over a new vaio with win 8 (my last 5 computers have all been vaios) -- seamless, fast setup, speedy, lots of RAM -- only caveat is no numeric keypad but i only used it to type accents, so --

downloaded browsers, software, printer drivers & updated versions of this n' that -- no problem whatsoever. so far so good -- it's only tweaking & transferring files now -- from the previous laptop whose touchpad i drowned --