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Overview
Whether you're a future fashioner wearing down the
accompanying Fallingwater or a developing official endeavoring to cut the
accompanying Citizen Kane, here and there you just require more PC than what
the ordinary standard compact PC conveys to the table. In any case, that
doesn't mean you need to spend in excess of $2,000 to get one. Asus'
ZenBook Pro UX501VW offers an Intel Core i7 CPU, 16gygabyte of RAM, 512
gygabyte SSD and Nvidia 960M discrete representation, for just $1499, more than
$500 not precisely an equivalent MacBook
Pro or Dell XPS 15. It even has a high-res UHD touch screen, which makes
this a flawless machine for modifying photos or recordings. The ZenBook Pro is
so awesome it feels like there should be a catch or riddle concealed underneath
its extreme aluminum unibody diagram, however adjacent to a few minor nitpicks,
Asus' 15-inch blended media machine is for all intents and purposes impeccable.
Diagram
On the 15-inch ZenBook Pro, Asus
takes an essential, stately approach to
manage arrangement. The machine incorporates an all-aluminum undercarriage
topped by the association's imprint concentric ring complete on the metallic dull
spread, with inconspicuous, cleaned edges on the sides. When you pry open the
top, there are more concentric rings set near the back of the console, and an
ample, brushed metal deck where you can rest your palms.
Asus ZenBook Pro UX501VW Size
Weight : 5 pounds
Measurements : 15.1 x 10.0 x 0.80 inches
While the ZenBook Pro's top and palm rest have to some
degree more flex than you get from other aluminum-bodied systems, like the
15-inch MacBook
Pro, it's inadequate to realize concern, and for the most part the UX501VW
feels altogether solid.
Console and Touchpad
With a travel division of 2.1 millimeters, the ZenBook Pro's
console incorporates a long stroke, which, when joined with the console's 62
grams of required actuation power, makes for a happy with composing information. Regardless, on the off chance that you're used to sheets with
short key go, as am I, it can take a brief timeframe to fit in with pushing
down the separation with the objective keys ought to enlist. I hit 76 words for
every minute on 10fastfingers.com's composition test, which is was on the moderate
side of my regular 75-80 wpm range, however not annoyingly so.
The one trade off Asus makes on the console is a half-gauge
Right Shift key therefore for a plan of full-size jolt keys. While this can
make composing a little slower at in the first place, it's a repentance that
really favorable circumstances video experts, who consistently use those keys
to investigate to different housings of while adjusting.
The ZenBook Pro' s sufficient, 4 x 2.75-inch touchpad
highlights a smooth, silver-matte finish that blends in with the metal deck.
Clearly, the touchpad responded quickly and definitely to both clicking and
multitouch movements, for instance, two-finger looking over and press to-zoom.
Display
With its 15.6-inch 3840 x 2160 UHD touch screen, the ZenBook
Pro's showcase is ideal for photo and video editors who aren't wedded to Apple.
Adjacent to a to a great degree simple blue tint, both recordings and pictures
had a striking likeness on the ZenBook Pro's showcase as they did on my
professionally adjusted NEC desktop screen. I essentially wish the covering
were less polished, as I contributed too much vitality looking back at myself.
When I saw the Warcraft film trailer at 4K, I esteemed the
supersharp purpose of enthusiasm on the general population's swords, which made
them appear as if they may cut specifically through the screen. Regardless, I
saw that the cool Blizzard logo toward the begin of the fasten had a faintly
more significant blue tone than I saw on various presentations.
Asus ZenBook master UX501VW Display: Test Results
Benchmark Score How it Compares
Brightness 289
nits Strong
Shading Gamut (sRGB) 111
percent Very Srrong
Shading Accuracy (Delta e) 4.37 Below Average
At 289 nits of sparkle, the ZenBook Pro's screen
was about as splendid as the presentation on Dell's
XPS 15 (285 nits), barely dimmer than the one on Apple's 2015 Mac
Book Pro (303 nits) and a better than average game plan behind the screen
on Samsung's Ativ Book 9 Pro (405 nits).
The ZenBook Pro's screen can reproduce 110 percent of the
sRGB shading range. Anything above 100 percent is unprecedented, and the Asus
bested the MacBook
Pro by an impressive sum (86 percent). In any case, this present scratch
cushion's board passed up a major opportunity to the super-rich showcases on
the XPS 15 (191 percent) and the Ativ Book 9 Pro (130 percent), regardless of
the way that its shades looked all the more predictable with life.
Shading exactness in like manner waited to some degree
behind practically identical systems, as the ZenBook Pro earned a Delta-E
rating of 4.37. (Numbers more like zero are better.) Dell's XPS 15 (0.7) and
Apple's MacBook Pro (2.1) both scored better, while Samsung's Ativ Book 9 Pro
was a sensible piece away, at 9.5.
Sound
At first look, the ZenBook Pro appears just as it's
disguising its
speakers behind the round case on its deck, however honestly, solid starts
from a course of action of Bang and Olufsens arranged on backwards sides of the
versatile PC's base. Right when listening to Ratatat's "Neckbrace," I
delighted in the structure's sensible highs and its era of the crying guitars,
regardless of the way that I found its low-end pound lacking as I missed the
headbanging bass I was really scanning for.
Heat
Discrete representations routinely make it troublesome for a
structure to keep its glow authentically stifled. In any case, the ZenBook Pro
didn't encounter the evil impacts of this issue. After we spilled a video for
15 minutes, the most sizzling spot on the structure (the underside, amidst the
two focus fans) measured just 91 degrees Fahrenheit, safely underneath our
95-degree comfort limit.
The space between the G and H keys was significantly cooler,
at 88 degrees, and the touchpad didn't select much above room temperature, at
80 degrees.
Ports and Webcam
Despite three standard USB 3.0 ports, the ZenBook Pro now
incorporates a superfast USB-C relationship with support for Thunderbolt 3.
That suggests the port can be used to interface an external
showcase, or for making blasting speedy data trades at up to 40 Gbps. You
moreover get a combo beneficiary/headphone jack, HDMI 2.0 and a SD card
peruser.
The HD webcam is less astounding, in any case. The
photograph I snapped in our adequately splendid office turned out too much
dull, grainy and fragile for me to really esteem it.
Execution
The ZenBook Pro leaves the case arranged to handle most of
your productivity and intelligent media needs, highlighting an Intel Core
i7-6700HQ CPU, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. That is something to be grateful
for, in light of the fact that right now, this is the primary config you can
buy.
Asus ZenBook Pro UX501VW (Core i7/16GB/512GB): Performance
Tests
Benchmark Score How it Compares
Geekbench 3 11,472 Below Average
Spreadsheet Macro Test 3:41 Strong
Document Transfer Test 462.66 MBps Strong
In normal use, the ZenBook Pro flies through assignments,
for instance, sorting through spreadsheets or essentially running a gathering
of system tabs. Without a doubt, even with 15 tabs open in Edge, the UX501VW
encountered no trouble spilling diverse 1080p recordings from YouTube.
When we ran Geekbench 3 to gage general system execution,
the ZenBook Pro scored 11,472. That is fairly behind numbers from the $2,130
Dell XPS 15 (13,502), $1,599 Samsung Ativ Book 9 Pro (12,334) and $2,500 Apple
MacBook Pro (14,423), regardless of those systems including the same, or more
settled variations of the ZenBook Pro's Core i7 CPU.
The UX501VW's PCIe 512GB SSD was completely fast, enlisting
a conversion standard of 462.66 MBps, which was basically speedier than
showings by the Ativ Book 9 Pro's 256GB SSD (133.9 MBps) and the Dell XPS 15's
512GB SSD (254 MBps), yet not precisely as snappy as the perfect open door for
the MacBook Pro's 512 in number state drive (636 MBps).
All in all, on our productivity test, the ZenBook Pro
planned 20,000 names and addresses in OpenOffice in just 3 minutes and 41
seconds. Dell's XPS 15 and Samsung's Ativ Book 9 Pro were both in the same
degree, at 3:36 each, while the MacBook Pro was fairly more lethargic, with a
time of 4:14.
Representation
Counting a Nvidia 960M GPU with 2GB of vRAM, the ZenBook Pro
expectedly kept pace with the representation power of the Dell XPS 15 (which
highlights the same Nvidia 960M GPU) and surpassed the Samsung Ativ Book 9 Pro
(which highlights a more settled and less solid Nvidia 950M GPU).
On 3DMark's Fire Strike representation test, the ZenBook Pro
scored 4,308, versus 3,949 for the XPS 15 and 3,236 for the Ativ Book 9 Pro.
The ZenBook Pro similarly held a slight edge in gaming, as it pushed 38 fps in
Rainbow Six Siege at 1920 x 1080 and high settings. The XPS 15 trailed to some
degree behind, at 32 fps, and the Ativ Book 9 Pro raised the back, at an
unplayable 8 fps under the same settings.
Battery Life
Credit to Asus for tending to one of just a modest bunch few
issues we had with a year back's ZenBook Pro. The UX501VW continued going a
solid 8 hours on the Laptop Mag Battery Test (endless Web surfing over Wi-Fi) versus
the hopeless 4:25 we got from this present machine's precursor.
That is more than 2 hours longer than the regular standard
tablet (5:37), and it beats Dell's XPS 15 (6:36) and Samsung ATIV Book 9 Pro (5:31).
Simply the MacBook Pro (9:08) continued going longer in this class of scratch
cushion.
Laptop Battery Life
Asus ZenBook Pro UX501VW 8:00
Class Average 5:37
Setups
At this moment, both Asus and pariah retailers offer only
the single $1,500 model, which has an In
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