Multitouch gestures, such as scrolling and pinch to zoom, are also supported. However, there is a clear indicator separating right from left and the 'click anywhere' philosophy feels natural after a just a short period of use. The trackpad is large, although devoid of any separate physical buttons. Around the shiny metallic power button, and its sound control neighbour, is a dotted circle design that tips its cap firmly in the direction of the Asus Transformer Prime and the company's Zenbook Ultrabook range. The brushed metallic aluminium alloy lid, complete with a luminous Asus logo, opens to reveal a spacious black-keyed isolated keyboard, complete with a trimmed down number pad, sitting on a silver panel. That's because, as well as being an absolute behemoth in terms of performance and power, the N56V is a lovely looking machine that eludes to the slickness held within. It had absolutely no issue running a high-definition video, streaming audio from the web, having multiple editing programs open and functioning, and all the while having a graphics hungry game running in the background.Īs mentioned, the Asus N56V that we got our paws on was an early model, although we hope that the manufacturer doesn't tinker with the design and build too much. We tried - and failed - to make the N56V stutter to a halt. This allows each core to handle two tasks at a time. It's a quad-core monster running at 2.6GHz (or up to 3.4GHz using Intel's built-in Turbo Boost 2.0 technology), with eight threads in total.
The actual chip on board the Asus pre-production model is the i7-3720QM. Although far from the best score we've ever recorded for our intense battery stress test - at just over three hours - this represents a life expectancy of over four hours in a real world scenario which, for a machine that borders on being a 'desktop replacement', is more than adequate. it took 15 hours, but I had a clean HDD afterwards.It also means a better battery life. So, I decided to flash the HDD using Darik's boot and nuke.
I have tried to reinstall windows then, but I was still gettint the GTP error. after some work through GRUB I was able to run linux. In the end, I have found out that new bios was compatible with Linux, it just messed up the partitioning.
I was thinking of wipping the whole HDD, and then hoping that I can do a clean install of Windows without the hassle. What do I do to install Win7 back on this machine? If not, can I safely flash BIOS back to 206? Is there a way of turning off the secure boot? i can't find it in the bios. Is there a way to keep the current BIOS version and be dual-booting Ubuntu alongside Win7? I do not have any important files in Ubuntu distro. but I have no idea what driver are they talking about, and it's not on the Win7 install disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.here's a pic: I get an error saying Windows cannot be installed to this disk. After formatting C drive, I realised that I cannot install Win7 on it. I have formatted the C drive, and the recovery partition(we all need the extra space, don't we?).Īnd that's when I have realised that something is wrong. Next, I decided to do a clean Win7 installation. (I had no idea that "Disable CSM when SecureBoot is enable" had something to do with UEFI, thus making Ubuntu unloadable, but I have found it out only after failing to Re-Install Win7) Then I decided to flash the BIOS from 206 to 214( LINK ). But after extensive searching and help from friends I have managed to do it. just decided that it's the time to make a switch).
So first thing I decided to do, was to install Ubuntu for dual booting(normaly, I am not a Linux user.
I have bought N56VM, which was full of bloatware, of course.