ASUS N550J 15.6" Full HD Laptop with Quad-Core Intel i7 Processor

Myrwen Krett: Estuve durante un tiempo buscando armar una computadora de escritorio (más pantalla) con las componentes que a mi se me antojaran la gana. Quiero aclarar que esa hubiese sido la primera vez que armaría una pc. Lo primero que me detenía era el hecho de que no encontraba entre proveedores y tiendas locales alguien que vendiese fuentes de poder certificadas. Lo siguiente que me detuvo fue que buscando en internet encontraba la mitad de mis componentes a mejor precio.

Decidido en buscar en esta ocasión una computadora ya prefabricada, me crucé con este modelo, que cumple con la mayoría de las cosas que buscaba en la pc armada:
- Pantalla Full HD con una reproducción fiel de colores: OBLIGATORIO para diseño, y otros trabajos profesionales. Lo genial es que además es touch, y programas como illustrator y photoshop aceptan gestos, para cuando ando de flojo con el mouse. La cereza en el pastel es que hubiesen hecho la máquina para poder rotar el teclado y usarla como tablet, pero para eso tienes que gastarte unos miles más y aún así tener otras carencias que esta laptop no tiene.
- Teclado iluminado: útil en la noche o en lugares oscuros, en el día se confunde...

Mexico on Sep 22, 2015

Reinaldo R: After a year of use I really don`t like this laptop, I had a very nice Sony Vaio i7 that got old and wanted to buy the same but newer, unfortunately Sony is not making that model anymore.

This one I had to send it back for warranty because the screen had problems, now the space bar is not working properly and the mic never worked at all, over all very disappointed.

Canada on Aug 25, 2015

Menderes C.: Almost the perfect computer, I've bought this laptop to use as a "gaming" laptop and I'm still using it today! This laptop is great for gaming as I can play Games like Battlefield 4 (60fps High settings), League of Legends (144 fps on ultra), Fallout 3 (64fps ultra) no problems.. The Laptop is not the most powerful laptop as it's not really meant to be. It looks professional and the design is gorgeous. Touchscreen is useless due to the size of the computer but the screen is 1080p which is great for movies and gaming. Sound quality is great but the mini subwoofer is absolutely trash. This laptop does get dirty often though (due to the colour and material), so you got to wipe it down a lot. The build quality is fantastic; love the metallic feel. This laptop offers plenty of power when plugged in, and it stays surprisingly cool under load. There is a couple things that really ticked me off though, one thing was the power4gear crap on the laptop; This allows you to "save battery life" in exchange for power.... UNINSTALL THIS JUNK as it will render your desktop slow and unresponsive. One other thing is the disk space, windows 8.1 is killing my disk space so upgrade it to windows 10...

Canada on Aug 08, 2015

Fabio: Before finally buying this laptop, I actually spent quite some time doing research of this and other models from several brands. Ultimately, I decided on this one because of two main reasons:
- It has an amazing price-value ratio that was further increased when I grabbed it for only $880. That's why I bought it even though I knew the new model (N550JX) would be available soon (it was released a week later).
- It has an Nvidia GTX 850m dedicated graphics card. Even though the 860m was my ideal choice, I couldn't find a laptop with it that made the right compromises and didn't have the tacky design companies insist on putting on their gaming machines. In comparison, this laptop has a serious, discrete and beautiful design.

There were things I liked from the start, others not so much. I bought this laptop despite of mainly these two things:
- I wanted to avoid a touchscreen if possible. I'm not a fan of the glossy finish and the extra weight. I would've preferred it if the cost of including a touchscreen could've been aimed at other things, like a better GPU or HDD.
- The HDD is an odd choice. It is too slow. I think less space but more speed would've been better....

United States on May 10, 2015

Sven: After reading many, many reviews of this laptop and looking hours for alternatives, I finally decided to buy it. I do not regret it, however you should be aware of a few things:

- Really great offer, you wont find any better build quality and hardware for this price. You would have to pay at least 4-500 USD more.

- Build quality is fancy and great.

- Display is very good. It is not outstanding though, but a really good display. Some people complained about "blurry" not clear fonts. This is true, but it is not caused by the display but by the windows scaling feature. Just turn it off and you will have clear, precise fonts.

- As many people stated before me, you really should consider changing the hdd to an SSD. It makes a huge difference in speed, boot up time, etc. You could just order the model that costs 300 USD more and comes equiped with an SDD and 8 GB more RAM, but I really recommend you to buy the RAM and SSD seperatedly and change it yourself, as it is cheaper. It is really easy and done within 5-10 minutes. I still had an SSD from my previous laptop I am using now, but I bought the following things to upgrade the Laptop:
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United States on Oct 08, 2014