Asus N73 and N53 notebooks set sail for the UK

TAIWANESE PC MAKER Asus has bought its N73 and N53 notebooks to the UK.

The 15.6-inch TFT notebooks include Intel Core processors, Nvidia Geforce GT325/415M GPUs with Optimus and, this is the apparent clincher, Sonicmaster audio.

Sonicmaster was co-developed with showy hi-fi company Bang & Olufsen and presumably makes listening to music on a notebook almost as good as the real thing, or at least better that listening to music through a can at the end of a taut piece of string.

Apparently Asus 'realised' - it does not quote any research - that people spend a third of their day using multimedia devices of some description and decided to build notebooks with high quality audio using its Golden Ear development team.

Golden Ear, which sounds like a rubbish James Bond film, came up with its Sonicmaster audio standard that Asus pointed out was 'not a gimmick' before anyone had a chance to suggest that it was.

Asus has modestly said that the sound is 'superlative' and added that it used large speaker chambers, audio software and power amps to provide the sound with, as it said, 'breathtaking audio fidelity'.

It is not all about sound though, the N series notebooks offer Blu-ray drives, allow for 'excellent' DirectX 11 playback and run 'silky smooth' HD video. The backlit LEDs also come with a zero-dead pixel guarantee.

Prices start at a superlative £649 and finish at a silky smooth £999. µ