Asus Zenbook Prime Ultrabook vs. The Rest: Spec Showdown - callenderrobef1979

The Asus Zenbook Prime Ultrabooks have knockout, full-HD IPS displays and other noteworthy upgrades from the Zenbooks that launched close year. But how manage these agiotage Ultrabooks plenty up against the growing competition? Here's a quick look.

Gorgeous Video display

Let's grow straight to it: The new Zenbook Prime Ultrabooks overcome displays of any Ultrabooks introduced so outlying. The Zenbook Prime 11-inch UX21A and 13-inch UX31A and UX32VD all offer optional laden HD 1080p (1920 x 1080 pixel) displays. This is a vainglorious update from the penultimate year's screen resolutions — 1366 by 768 pixels connected the 11-edge in UX21, and 1600 by 900 pixels on the 13-inch UX31. More pixels means you'll take care sharper text and images, and you won't have to scroll as often.

Most Ultrabooks today exclusively offer 1366 away 768 pel solvent displays. Resolution-wise, the Zenbook Prime's nearest Ultrabook competitors are the GB U2442 series, Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon and Samsung Serial 9 (2012 manakin), all of which throw 1600 by 900 pixel resolution on their 13.3- to 15.6-inch screens.

None of the otherwise Ultrabooks use the IPS (In-Plane Switching) technology offered on the Zenbook Efflorescence full HD displays. Screens with IPS undergo brilliant color and better viewing angles.

In his manpower-on with the Zenbook Prime UX31A, PCWorld editor Jason Ill-natured notes the laptop's surpassing expose compared to other Ultrabooks, and assures us the text International Relations and Security Network't too small on the overflowing-resoluteness screen.

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Ivy Bridge Processors

The Zenbook Prime Ultrabooks leave debut next month with third-contemporaries Intel Ivy Bridge processors. This gives the Asus Ultrabooks a leg au fait the first wave of Ultrabooks, including the Dell XPS 13 and Samsung Serial publication 9, which have yet to announce Ivy Span updates.

However, there's slim doubt that, once Ivy Bridge arrives in June for all Ultrabooks, PC makers will refresh their laptops' processors — so the Zenbooks' Ivy Span refresh isn't that important unless you're buying a inexperient laptop in the incoming calendar month. Horsepower, Sony, and Lenovo have already announced that their latest Ultrabooks testament use Ivy Bridge processors.

Art Card Options

Like-minded most Ultrabooks, the Asus Zenbook Prime laptops use integrated Intel nontextual matter: specifically, the Intel HD 4000. A few Ultrabooks, especially early ones the likes of the Acer Aspire S3, use older Intel HD 3000 graphics.

One Zenbook Flower model, the UX32VD, comes with an optional Nvidia GeForce graphics circuit board. This discrete art option might put the Zenbook Prime ahead of the rest if you're a gamer Oregon you need first-class graphics performance for some other reason. There are few other Ultrabooks with separate graphics options, including the 14-edge in Gigabyte U2442 serial and large 15-inch Genus Acer Ultra M3 (which really pushes the Ultrabook form factor with its 5-pound weight).

However, HP offers an Ultrabook alternative, the 15.6-inch HP Sleekbook, with an AMD Ternary APU that performs much better on graphics benchmarks than Intel's Ivy Bridge with integrated artwork. And the Sleekbook does complete that at nearly half the cost of the Zenbook Prime UX21A or UX31A.

Toll

The Zenbook Meridian Ultrabooks are priced at a little over $1,000–even with the full HD IPS display options, which makes the competitively priced against other Ultrabooks and the MacBook Line.

The exception is HP's sharply-priced new Sleekbook, and its stylish line of Ultrabooks. The Sleekbook starts at just $599.99, while HP's 14-column inch Envy Ultrabook starts at $749.99.

The exclusion is HP's very aggressively priced novel line of Ultrabooks and the Sleekbook, starting at $599.99 for the Sleekbook and $749.99 for the 14-column inch HP Envy Ultrabook.

Don't drive Pine Tree State wrong — the Zenbook Prime updates are great, and include a brilliant display, backlit keyboard, and improved audio, devising the Prime a transcend Ultrabook contender. That said, we expect a slew of some other Ultrabooks on the way, so get ready for a difficult decision if you're on the market for an radical-light, wafer-wasted laptop.