Review by Gheorghe Chistol for ASUS K52JK-A1 15.6-Inch Versatile Entertainment Laptop (Dark Brown)
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I have been using it for a few days now. I love Windows 7 (coming from XP) and the laptop overall. It’s very quick with Matlab, Word, and whatnot. I will try to keep it free of crappy software and I hope it lasts a long time.

Construction is plastic, but is solid. There is some keyboard flex in the S,D,E key neighborhood. The arrow keys are a bit small and weirdly positioned, the right shift is smaller than the left shift. There is a number keypad, which is nice, but I don’t use it. The screen is pretty and glossy (could be good or bad thing, depending on what you do). The webcam works well, but it’s only VGA. Speakers are decent, given that it’s a laptop, but my definition of decent may differ from yours.

One of the cheapest laptops out there with Core i5 and 1Gb of dedicated video memory + 4Gb RAM + 500Gb drive. It’s not compact, but it’s not bulky either. Beats the hell out of my old Toshiba Satellite A15 that I had in college. Laptops have come a long way in the past few years.

I hope this helps.

Review by James J. Persinko for ASUS K52JK-A1 15.6-Inch Versatile Entertainment Laptop (Dark Brown)
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15.6 inch screen, and the size/weight of the laptop is perfect for me – not too large.

Screen is sharp, details, color, and contrast are excellent – even if using outdoors.

The I5 is really fast – cranks up and down depending on the workload.

The laptop is really very quiet, which surprised me. Some heat produced, but I can work comfortably with it sitting on my lap.

The case, including the navigation pad is slightly patterned – looks nice, has a good solid feel, minimal fingerprints.

The keyboard has a lot of flex, which bothered meet initially. But I’ve looked at some other ASUS laptops in the store, they all seem to have a fair amount of flex – maybe it’s made that way in case you’re banging hard on the keys. The chiclet keys themselves have a good feel and are well spaced – full numeric keyboard on the side is a plus.

Battery usage can be adjusted – I would say 2 1/2 hours battery time in the performance mode.

Included utilities may or may not be useful, not too much other included software – get rid of the Trend AV package, Norton 360 works well.

Overall – very happy with the purchase.