Asus N56VZ-S4242

High Performance for Money

Great performance, excellent sound & graphics

Not the greatest battery life

Performance is unbelievable. Top buy

Slightly too heavy

Fantastic screen with fine detail & clear resolution. Excellent specs (processor/memory/graphics etc) for the money. Good sound and nice keyboard.

Great screen, fast start up, design, sound quality

Very fast; very nice screen. Keyboard good. Sound good.

The touch panel buttons are stiff to click; I'm not a fan of the silver colour and the swirly effect

Does exactly as it says on the tin.

The Asus updater never completes successfully - have removed it. A small niggle - the Asus logo overrides the windows one at startup.

Fantastic Design with its ripple effect etching. Sound is amazing very clear and the external sub woofer ads that extra depth. Cooling is suffice when gaming on Black Op 2, Assassins Creed 3, DiRT 3 and Mincraft, keeps the temps around 70 degrees when...

Comes with a 1TB 5400RPM HDD witch does slow it down a little, will be upgrading to a OCZ Agility 4 SSD in the future. Build quality is almost as good as apple however my fist one came with a fault trackpad as i had read in other reviews this can...

Very good performance overall.

Battery life sacrificed for extra power and no backlit keyboard.

Great screen - really really good. V quick to resume. Got a genuinely good value in a sale for an excellent spec that beats a MacBook Pro at half the cost! . Beefy PSU. Great sound with external 'subwoofer'.

NO SYSTEM RECOVERY DISKS. NO WAY TO CREATE SYSTEM RECOVERY DISKS EITHER - THIS IS AN UTTER DEAL BREAKER AND LEADS ON TO no SSD hardrive - just a SLOW bottleneck 5400RPM old style HDD with no easy way to upgrade to an SSD as I don't have a recovery or...