Issue WIth N550JV

Hey guys, I recently purchased a N550JV- DB72T for myself. Its been amazing except for one big kink: the wifi. My router is on the first floor of my house. When I'm sitting in the living room near the router, the internet works fine. However, when I go to my bedroom on the second floor. The internet strength plummets drastically. It's inconsistent, and the internet becomes unusable at some points. I tried using another laptop, a cheap Toshiba, in the room, and the internet works fine. Does this sound like I may have gotten a defective wifi card in my laptop, or does the asus just need me to be closer to have working wifi. A big thing that worries me is that when I go back to college, the wifi will be really weak, but I don't think that should be an issue because wifi is broadcast with a much stronger signal over campus. I really like this laptop, and I don't want to have to return it. What do you guys think? Defective wifi card or is the Asus just more dependant on being close to the router?

 

I've had a couple of disconnects from my router with this computer mainly mine shows up limited connection which won't let me on the internet. I have had the same issues with a number of my other computers, tablets, and phones. I'm assuming my problem is the router and some interference that drops signal intermittently at different times on different devices. I hope. Were you able to find the utility program to make your own restore disc? I've looked everywhere and in the instructions and I can't find the restore utility to make the discs and I hate to wait on hold contacting asus. Thanks for your info.

 

While you guys are here I can't really help with the problem but a couple questions. Where did you guys get your asus and how has your gaming been on it at native resolution?

 

Hi. I got mine from Adorama because no sales tax and free shipping. I had them pricematch microcenter 999.00 price. They had a pretty cheap 3 year warranty from Mack they were selling for 125.00 which included accidental protection. I don't know how well that will turn out and I hope I never have to find out. Here is the link from where I purchased. Asus 15.6" Touch Screen Notebook Computer, Silver N550JV-DB72T

I haven't really tried out any graphic intensive games as I've been checking out the touchscreen with casual games. Once that wears off I will try some non-touch screen which will need dedicated graphics card. Hopefully, someone will have that info.

 

I play Hitman Absolution right now (medium sets, never went for more). Works well, but the laptop get's hot. But like I've said before, this is not a gaming machine. If you look for one, from Asus only the G series are worth buying. And from what I've seen so far, these are in a class of their own when it comes to noise and heat. So for full gaming get a G, for light gaming the N will do. I play for hours, no problem at all, game won't hang or anything like that.

 

Yup.. gt 750m at 1080p is not for reactively heavy/gpu intensive games or high setting.. it is not meant for that technically. Minimum gtx 765m for 1080p

 

...or, I guess, you could adjust the detail settings a bit.

If it's technically allowed, I mean. ..In the post Origin and UPray era.

 

I know it isn't designed for max settings 1080p but does the keyboard heat up uncomfortably?

 

Seems reviews point out that the back of the laptop, where the radiator is, becomes very hot when on load. While the rest of the laptop is better. That's pretty much the same as the n500... which makes sense.

Honestly, I wouldn't recommend buying it if you know you're going to game on it many hours at a time. Or, I wouldn't be confident with either this or the n500 sitting on the floor, with a gamepad one way and an hdmi to the tv -- and just letting the heatsink work. I'd expect some sort of problem with the components and the cooling goop fairly quickly then.

For everything else.. seems like a neat rig. But then again, if you're not gaming on it, there are laptops out there with larger lithium polymer packs, touch-screens that you don't feel like you have to wipe every time you touch them, and with massively less power-hungry components..

I'm not a huge fan of Asus' strategy with the n500 "I want to be a Mac" series, though. But it's a lot like the Macbook pro. Looks and feels expensive. But really isn't, and can't be used carelessly. While gaming performance and cooling is sub-par, and there are (much) better typewriters on the market.

 

Nope, it's extremly nice even in the ASD region.

 

Not so much. You do get a good mix of things. Aluminium, IPS (could be better, but still it's IPS), Bang&Olufsen, mine has very high built quality, decent gaming performance at mid settings (this has a mid GPU anyway), decent battery, even the pad works well, the charger does not get very hot. What's missing is a standard SSD and that's about it. Average laptop for average stuff, it's perfect.

 

What do you mean by could be better ? colors are bad ? sharpness is bad ?
You are not the first who I see writing this, but always talking about the touch screen version of the N550JV. I want to see some review about the IPS from the none touch screen version, so it could be nice to compare.
Anyway if it's due to bad colors, I guess a calibrating of the screen will do the trick. I'am considering buying the non touch screen version probably in the next few weeks, so I'll be glad to provide a professional ICC profil to everybody here.

 

Still... if you're buying something like this for gaming, you can get a better graphics card and better cooling off just about any of the clevo shells, for example.. I'm just saying it's not necessary any more to say: well, it's a laptop so it's going to heat up the plates until it fumes no matter what, etc.

Other asus models managed to fix that problem a while ago as well. So there's no reason why they shouldn't employ that solution on this model, other than the entire "but the market doesn't expect it to be better without lowering the performance, because the MacBook Pro doubles as a sandwich toaster, and it is divine and perfect" thing.

 

The asus laptop is an entertainment laptop. It's supposed to have more power than an ultrabook with a 1080p screen and enough gaming capability to play anything out there on low-mid settings, I know it's not a hardcore play anything with anything laptop.

 

Color space is a bit too narrow and colors are a bit off. If you do photo editing, can be a problem.

 

I also have a Clevo. I agree, this is not a gaming machine. Still it performs very well. I play games on it, the overall heating is not that bad and a lot better than most laptops in it's class that will heat up like crazy everywhere. Here are now like 40°C and still it performs very well under gaming or heavy loads (like video work, encoding stuff that runs the CPU full for hours). Most laptops would clock down, some even as low as 800Hz. I know this first hand experience.

The Macs also get extremly hot, I've seen like 100°C CPU.

 

So, do you mean that it cannot be solved evenly with a proper calibration ?

 

Color space no. Color representation will be better, not perfect. Both "problems" matter more for anyone doing photo editing. But my guess is that anyone doing this for a living would use a very good external IPS monitor.