Asus, the Taiwanese consumer electronics giant, has recently launched two laptops in India, the A540 and the R558 both of which come with the new USB Type-C port and are priced at Rs. 20,990 and Rs. 43,990 respectively. They are equipped with Sound Master and Bang & Olufsen ICE power audio technology.
Both the laptops runs DOS OS and sports a VGA webcam, a 1TB 5400RPM HDD and SD card reader support.
Talking about the Tech-spec of the ASUS R558, it measures in at 382x256x25.5mm, weighs 2.1 kg and comes with a 15.6-inch full-HD (1920x1080 pixels) anti-glare display. Asus R558 is an upgraded version of its R88UF premium notebook.
The laptop additionally is powered by a 2.3GHz Intel Core i5-6200U (2 cores, 4 threads, 2.8GHz Turbo frequency, 3MB SmartCache ) coupled with 4GB of DDR4 RAM which is expandable up to to 8GB, Intel HD Graphics 520, and 2GB of DDR3 Nvidia GeForce 930MX (N16S-GMR). The laptop comes with a 2-cell Li-ion battery pack.
In terms of connectivity, the laptop includes a headphone and microphone combo jack, Ethernet port, VGA port, a HDMI 1.4 port, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, and a DVD-RW drive. The Asus R558 is available in just Black and Brown color variants.
On the other hand, the Asus A540 measures in at 381x252x27.2, and carries a weight of 2 kg with battery and features a 15.6-inch display with a much lower resolution of 1366x768 pixels. Under the hood, the laptop gets powered by a 1.7GHz Intel Core i3-4005U (2 cores, 4 threads, 3MB SmartCache) processor with Intel HD Graphics 4400 coupled with 4GB of DDR3 RAM which is upgradable up to 8GB and packs a 3-cell Li-ion battery pack.
The laptop offers nearly the same connectivity options as its sibling as it too includes a headphone and microphone combo jack, Ethernet port, VGA port, a HDMI 1.4 port, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, and a DVD-RW drive and is available in Black and Silver colour variants.
One must recall that the company recently unveiled a number of other laptops too that includes names of the ZenBook 3, Transformer 3 Pro, and Transformer 3 - at its Zenvolution Event in May this year. They all come preloaded with Windows 10 OS unlike the above mentioned laptops. Not just laptops the company also unveiled ZenFone 3, ZenFone 3 Deluxe, and ZenFone 3 Ultra smartphone series varying in different sizes and specifications at the same event.
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