Asus K53SC Review and Price

It's not the most comfortable notebook to use though, and some parts of its design are questionable, but with a Core i5-2410M under the hood, as well as 6GB of RAM, GeForce 520MX discrete graphics and a 640GB hard drive, you get plenty of value for your money. You should consider this laptop if you're a student or home user who just wants something simple for everyday Web and office tasks, or even tougher media creation or file converting tasks. 40,000.

 It's a solid 15.6in notebook with good specs that can be purchased for under Rs.  There's nothing that immediately stands out about the ASUS K53SCC.

 You could always plug in an external keyboard and mouse, especially if you want to use the notebook as a desktop replacement — it has three USB ports, one of them which is also USB 3.0-capable. For those of you who are non-picky users that care more about getting good specs for a good price, it's definitely a model to consider. While it has some shortcomings, the K53SCC is meant to be a budget notebook, so its build quality was never going to be great.

 It can make it hard to use comfortably when the notebook is plugged in to the mains as you have to sit in such a way that the cable doesn't become too much of a nuisance. It sits between the air vent and the Gigabit Ethernet port and the cord definitely gets in the way. We're not fans of the position of the power port, which is located in the middle of the left side of the unit, rather than near the rear of the notebook. The hinges hold the screen in place at your desired angle and there is no latch to fiddle with when opening it.

 The palm rest is smooth and the lid has a texture that feels good. That said, it doesn't feel badly made.  The build quality of the K53SCC feels plastic-y, there is no doubt about that.

 The laptop remains reasonably cool after long periods of usage, but this assumes that you use it in such a way that the vents get adequate airflow. That said, anything over three hours for a 15in laptop with a Core i5 CPU is decent, and you could get more out of it, too, depending on your usage. We were expecting closer to 3hr 20min so it fell a little short. In our rundown test, in which we disable power management, enable Wi-Fi,maximise screen brightness and loop an Xvid-encoded video, the K53SCC lasted only 3hr 8min.

 Battery life wasn't great. But for basic Web browsing and document creation it will suffice. The native resolution of the screen is 1366x768, which is standard, and the screen itself is like most others in its class — it's glossy, a little harsh when it comes to colour reproduction and contrast, and its vertical viewing angles are narrow. Graphics-intensive games won't run smoothly, especially if they are recent titles, but older titles should work okay as long as the graphics details are not set too high.

 It won't fare too well when used for gaming, but it depends on the types of games you play. The graphics performance of the ASUS was noticeably slower than the Acer though — it recorded 4546 in 3DMark06 while the Acer recorded 5323. These times are identical to the Acer Aspire 5750G, which uses the same CPU and is also designed to be a value proposition. It recorded times that were bang-on the money in our tests: 44sec in Blender 3D rendering, 52sec in iTunes MP3 encoding and 52min in the DVD-to-Xvid conversion.  Performance felt a little sluggish at times during everyday use, but if you're upgrading from a previous generation notebook or PC, then you'll definitely find it to be a step up.