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ASUS A52F-XT22 15.6" Core i5 Blu-Ray Notebook Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2011-09-21
today I have an assist notebook to unbox this is a blu-ray notebook PC which is actually pretty good for the price point that we're looking at here actually let's see what a suit has to us whoa okay usually when I pull on this it pulls like the whole notebook out but no not today all right let's see what a soos has to say for themselves this is the a 52 F xt-22 it's a 15.6 inch HD notebook with a last generation Core i5 484 gigs around 500 gigs hard drive a blu-ray drive Windows Windows Home Premium Wow Windows 7 home premium man that was difficult and what else do we have - so it's got the astute accidental damage warranty so remember a Seuss's warranty is second - is top-notch basically what they're able to do is they actually offer accidental damage warranty by default on some of their notebooks cues including this one so that means apparently water electrical fire or even if the screen gets busted up according to the little pictures on the side of the box all right so let's have a look at the accessories that are included and not a whole lot in terms of accessories we've got the battery baby up okay battery looks a little something like that shiny alright next we have the power adapter which is kind of standard pretty small that's good and then we have a power cord which goes with the power adapter all right having a look at the notebook itself it seems like pretty standard fare for a 15.6 inch notebook alright so the overall thickness is just a bit like that so I'll just hold up the iPhone 4 for comparison someone actually questioned my iPhone 4 sides comparison to something like blah blah we know you have an iPhone 4 get over it yeah that's really not the point the point is just in terms of size how it compares to something that everyone knows that's the point so there's the iPhone 4 Harrison against the notebook itself you can see at the top of it actually has kind of a nice finish on it with little sort of lines and a shiny Asus logo on the back okay the bottom is pretty pretty normal I'd say there's nothing exceptional about the bottom of the notebook you've got a nice big access panel so if you do have to let's go ahead and for the battery in so if you do have to upgrade your RAM or hard drive or anything like that you have full access to it it is not blocked off in any way by warranty void if removed stickers so that's really nice if you want to make little upgrades there so let's have a look at the outside of the notebook before we open it up so here this looks like vents or speakers or something I don't know some see some of these top holes that go all the way through and some of them don't so I'm not gonna not going to question it at a certain level alright let's move around to the other side where we have our blu-ray drive a USB port we have an SDHC reader we've got Gigabit Ethernet and then our power in moving to the back of the notebook it's got a long battery at the back so there's no ports on the back to speak up on the other side we have the Kensington lock we have a heat pipe heat sink cooler you can see the heat pipe in there carrying the heat away from the CPU we have VGA out which I still do like to see it's handy for older projectors and whatnot HDMI out to more USB 2.0 mic and headphones so it doesn't have USB 3 but this is more of a value positioned notebook so I'll let that slide alright so go ahead and very very glossy finish overall to the unit here so you can see that glossy battery matches the finish on the notebook itself and then there's a blocky screen with a blocky border so I decided to turn it on because my battery has died on my camera so I press the button over here and then it turns on let's have a look at the overall layout so we have a multi-touch pad here ooh apparently it has facial recognition logon so that's kind of cool here let's have a look at the features that it's talking about right over here so smart power management their power for gear now software's been up for a long time works great facial recognition log on and poem proof technology so it's to prevent you from gently moving the mouse around while you are typing see with your palm like like this doop doop doop do like that okay I'll have a look at the keyboard layout overall very very sensible layout see we have full-length shift key full-length backspace key full length enter full length shift nice big control that's an interesting design choice right there our arrow keys are arranged correctly so that is to say like a desktop keyboard and it does have a full number pad very handy thumbs up to soos for getting the keyboard it's pretty much bang on right with this one so function keys up here you can put it to sleep you can turn on or off your wireless brightness up down turn the screen off switch to external turn off the touchpad mute volume down volume up while your standard fare the only thing I'd say might be missing would be media control keys but that should be okay shouldn't be the end of the world one way or the other oh no there they are aha function and arrows is your media control so there's lots of good function keys so when you up okay yes the click thing here oh it has plastic over it so it's probably shiny once we yet can get that come on once we get there we go moves shiny see very shiny okay ah so yeah you've got a few different options for languages so you know Portuguese French English what else I don't know some other ones that I don't recognize there we go so oh actually this is supposed to be English yeah okay this is actually for one of camera man's relatives so he's helping me get things right well I set it up here and I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the AAAS 52f from masseuse don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos cameraman is giving me a hard time because I forgot to talk about the Altec Lansing speakers I also forgot to mention the webcam which has convenient check this out shortcut keys for taking a picture very neat okay you
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