Asus K73E-BBR7 17.3" Laptop (i3-2350M Processor, 4GB Memory, 500GB Hard Drive, 17.3" LED, UMA graph

Well my expectations were low with this budget laptop from Asus. I have recently bought a high performance quad core laptop from HP (HP Pavilion dv7-6b32us) and was very disappointed as how poorly bios was designed. So my thought was Asus is a much smaller company so they would be probably won't be any better than a bigger company like HP. And I am glad to report that I was so Wrong. Asus' BIOS is perfect which uses standard ACPI tables and let you choose IDE mode in the bios which can make it a breeze to install older OS (Win 200, XP, BSD etc).

Also performance and display was nice. Sound was louder than usually tiny laptop sound. I was presently surprised to find out that one of the memory slot was vacant which would definitely make it easier to upgrade ram (it had only 1 stick of 4GB DDR3 ram). Also they have not advertised it but this laptop had another bay to install a second hard drive and you do not need to buy another cable to add additional hard drive since this laptop use standard SATA connectors. Although a hard drive caddy was not included for second hard drive but I am delighted to find out the Asus has given end user option to add second hard drive. Use of industry standards in BIOS and hard drive connector is a huge plus for me.

I did not notice any issue with the touch pad that some users has experienced with older Asus laptops. I was also able to find the Win-XP drivers for all the devices since Asus uses industry standard compnents from well known manufacturesres like Atheros, Realtek, Intel and Broadcom.

Laptop's build quality is not the best but I think it is adequate for a budget laptop. I have to say that I am going to replace another laptop for may parents later this year, and yes it would going to be an Asus.

ASUS A73E-AS31 17.3-Inch Laptop (Mocha)

Just purchased have used for about a week, really nice computer with Windows 7 Home, Password Sign-in face recognition, wifi/blue tooth, LED screen, built in camera. MS Office Basic. 42.0 USB ports, SDHC card reader, full size chicklet style keyboard with touch pad, mini HDMI output, DVD drive. Connect easily to any network thru wifi, easily updated on window update, plus Asus update site for it's own software, You will love using the full size keyboard, the 17" screen, and the fast response time when surfing the internet, plenty of storage on it 500 GB HD for all your files and software. The only thing I notice the most is the weight of 7lbs, but then again it is 17" LED display vs a 13" 0r 15" display, a good replacement computer for a full size computer setup. It definitely not one of the newer ultra thin notepads, but for those wanting a computer for years to come it should serve them nicely. Asus gives you a lot for the money in features and tech a well thought out notebook computer for those thinking about buying an Apple notebook, but at less than half the price.

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