ASUS refreshes another five notebooks with Kaby Lake CPUs (most of them are affordable)

LaptopMedia.com News ASUS refreshes another five notebooks with Kaby Lake CPUs (most of them are affordable)

From: Rossen Pandev 10 November 2016 / 13:19 | 0

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ASUS has already released some models with the new Kaby Lake processors, like the ZenBook 3 – the direct competitor of Apple’s 12-inch MacBook. However, if you are looking for something more affordable and bigger, the newly updated ZenBooks and VivoBook’s are here for you.

The five notebooks to receive the Kaby Lake treatment are the ZenBook UX330 and UX310 ultrabooks, the VivoBook X556 and X456. The former (X556) is in our lab for testing but with the older Skylake Core i5-6200U on board so it will be interesting to see if the Kaby Lake generation really delivers better overall battery optimization. It’s believed to be a big jump from the previous generation due to the implemented hardware acceleration features regarding multimedia content and decoding 4K movies.

And the last one to receive the new processors is the K401, which is the only one to use the higher-end Core i7-7500U chip while the other four choices will stick with the Core i5-7200U CPU. You can read more about it in detail in our recently released article explaining the main differences between the older Core i5-6200 and i5-5200U processors. You can see the specs of all five laptops, along with their pricing, in the table below.

	ZenBook UX330	ZenBook UX310	VivoBook X556	VivoBook X456	K401
Display	13.3-inch; 1920 x 1080	13.3-inch; 1920 x 1080	15.6-inch; 1366 x 768	14-inch; 1366 x 768	14-inch; 1920 x 1080
Processor	Intel Core i5-7200U (2.5 – 3.1 GHz, 3MB cache)	Intel Core i5-7200U (2.5 – 3.1 GHz, 3MB cache)	Intel Core i5-7200U (2.5 – 3.1 GHz, 3MB cache)	Intel Core i5-7200U (2.5 – 3.1 GHz, 3MB cache)	Intel Core i7-7500U (2.7 – 3.5 GHz, 4MB cache)
RAM	8GB LPDDR3	8GB LPDDR4	8GB DDR4	8GB DDR4	8GB DDR4
Graphics	Intel HD Graphics 620	NVIDIA GeForce GT 940MX	NVIDIA GeForce GT 940MX	NVIDIA GeForce GT 940MX	NVIDIA GeForce GT 940MX
Storage	512GB M.2 SSD	1TB HDD	1TB HDD	1TB HDD	1TB HDD + 24GB SSD
Price	$1 598	$1 498	$899	$899	$1 298