The mouse replacement is made of hard,( Acer Aspire 4520 battery ) slightly textured plastic. The surface is touch-sensitive up to its edges. The pad doesn't have any vertical or horizontal scroll bar. Scrolling is however possible via multi-finger gestures.( battery VGP-BPS9/B ) Thus, implemented scroll bars are no longer mandatory.
The 17.3 inch screen can only meet the high expectations with a viable brightness. The screen has a resolution of 1600x900 pixels (WXGA++; 16:9). If you need a very clearly arranged desktop, you can work well with this resolution. ( HP Compaq 8510w battery ) The display has a weakness with a low contrast of 163:1.

The glare type pretties up the weak contrasts optically,( Dell inspiron 6400 Battery ) though. Consequently, a visually acceptable color impression is created. The screen isn't suitable for professional picture editors since the color spectrum doesn't even cover sRGB (t).

The brightness assessment on the 17.3 inch screen shows adequate results. ( battery Vostro 1520 ) The average brightness is 228 cd/m2. Gossen's Mavo Monitor measures up to 232 cd/m2. As a result, ( Sony VGP-BPS13B/B battery ) the illumination is very even with 94 percent. Users hardly ever need a brightness beyond 150 cd/m2 indoors.

If you place the Asus N73SV in the sun,( Dell vostro 1510 battery ) you should look for a shady place to avoid reflections. Our pictures were taken in cloudy conditions and in maximum brightness. The result is quite viable since the screen isn't dimmed in battery mode. However,(Battery Sony VGP-BPS13/B ) reflections will be annoying depending on light incidence.

Lateral view, ( Battery Dell Inspiron 1525 ) sunWe can move up to 60 degrees from the frontal view horizontally. The colors start to invert beyond that. However, the brightness remains constant past that and script can be read up to 70 degrees. The negative effect starts at 15 degrees vertically. We experience the greatest restrictions when looking down or up from the sides. Thus, placing several people in front of the display isn't a good idea.( Battery Dell Inspiron 1420 ) We have depicted the viewing angles in a video.
The Intel Core i5-2410M (2x2.3 GHz) has a Turbo rate of up to 2.9 GHz. The 2011 Intel Cores can increase the clock rate beyond the defined maximum rate with "Dynamic Range @ Turbo Frequency Limits", providing that the cooling allows it and certain temperature limits are maintained.

The Nvidia Geforce GT 540M (1024 MB) is not solely responsible for 3D calculations. ( Dell 1520 battery ) The graphics chip, HD Graphics 3000, in the i5 processor is enabled and takes over graphic calculations when Nvidia Optimus disables the dedicated GPU.( Inspiron 1720 Battery ) The RAM configuration is 4GB, whereas one 4096 MB module is inserted.

System information: Asus N73SV-V1G-TY282V
What is the 2410M (2x2.3 GHz) capable of in comparison to the 2010 i5 generation?( Dell Vostro 1320 Battery ) The 2410M achieves good 4607 points in single core processing (Cinebench R10 Single 64bit).( Dell Laptop Battery ) A higher clocked 2010 460M (2x2.53 GHz, Turbo 2.8 GHz) is defeated with 3939 points (e.g. Acer Aspire 3820TG, 13.3 inch).

If you decode movies with Video Magic,( Sony VGP-BPS13A/S battery ) you'll benefit from multi-threading with a higher clock rate. The 2410M reaches 9791 points in the according test. The 2010 i5-460M (4 threads) is clearly defeated: 8060 to 8342 points (e.g. Acer Aspire 5820TG). ( Dell Vostro 1310 battery ) In contrast, the newest sister model, i5-2520M (4 threads), can only run up a marginal advantage to 10128 points (Cinebench R10 Multi 64bit).

4.7Windows 7 Experience IndexProcessorCalculations per second6.9Memory (RAM)( vostro 1400 battery ) Memory operations per second5.9GraphicsDesktop performance for Windows Aero4.7Gaming graphics3D business and gaming graphics6.6Primary hard diskDisk data transfer rate5.8 CB10 Rendering Single 32Bit 3700 points

PCMark Vantage determines 5775 points. ( Latitude D620 Battery ) That is about as much as i5-460M systems from 2010 achieve (up to 6000 points, e.g. Acer Aspire). This system performance score is only dependent to an extent on the graphics card. Thus, the fairly strong GeForce GT 540M hardly has an impact with its 7902 3DMarks06. It's sooner the rotating HDD that keeps the system on the ground. PCMark Vantage scores of 10000 up to 14000 points would be easily possible with an SSD (flash memory for the hard disk). For example, the Schenker XMG A701 with 14285 points.

As said, performance boosts can't be expected from the hard disk due to its rotating characteristic. PCMark Vantage's HDD sub score is only 3350 points. Fast 7200 rpm hard disks first achieve up to 4000 points.( Battery Acer Aspire 4710 ) SSDs play in a completely different league (20000 to 36000(!) points). For example, see the XMG A701 with an Intel 510 Series X-25M Elm Crest: 36720 points (HDD sub score). The hard disk (500 GB) from Seagate only reads with 58 MB/s in sequential read (HD Tune). Our comparison Elm Crest SSD reaches 302 MB/s in read.

The GeForce GT 540M (1024 MB DDR3) belongs to the upper GPU midrange.( Battery Acer Aspire One ) The chip based on the GF108 core (Fermi) supports both DirectX 11 and GDDR5 memories. However, ( VGP-BPS13A/S Battery ) the slower and cheaper DDR3 video memory is installed, as usual. It clocks with 900/900 MHz (core/memory), which is at the upper end of the specifications. For example, Acer uses 800 MHz (Aspire 5742G). The GPU supports Optimus and can be disabled in favor of the Intel HD 3000.