Just when you were meditative a pandas had gobbled up all a bamboo laptops, ASUS has eventually shipped some of the ultimate offerings to a UK. Unlike the US, however, the lucky tea-sipping Brits are marred with two size options: the 13-inch, 3.75-pound U33Jc and the 15-inch, 6.1-pound U53Jc. Apart from the additional inches as well as a bonus DVD burner upon a U53Jc, these dual Windows 7 machines have been roughly matching: there’s a 2.26GHz Core i5-430M CPU, 1,366 x 768 LED-backlit LCD, NVIDIA GeForce 310M with Optimus record, 4GB DDR3 RAM, as well as a single USB 3.0 pier along with dual 2.0 ports. The prices? £849 ($1,292) as well as £899 ($1,368), respectively. Before you whip out your credit card, yet, be certain to keep an eye out for the stirring examination. ASUS U33Jc as well as U53Jc Bamboo Series laptops labeled for UK expenditure

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ASUS Bamboo Series Notebooks: Inspired by Nature. Designed for Style.

ASUS have currently voiced a UK launch of a U33/U53 Bamboo cover array.

Green vital is an preferred. An aspiration. Above all, the preference. As partial of ASUS’ continued creation in a area of environmental sustainability, a brand-new U33/U53 Bamboo Series is made regulating environmentally-friendly bamboo. Delightfully slim as well as light, and in vogue interjection to the union of brushed aluminium, the Bamboo notebook boasts the smoky-brown bamboo extraneous suggestive of contemporary engineer furniture, bearing healthy patterns that have been singular to each cover as well as on condition that individuality in a green-inspired product.

Combining this stunning bamboo exterior, complicated technologies as well as eco-friendly credentials, the U33/U53 bamboo cover operation is as most for a immature consumer as it is for a performance-demanding style icons.

Super Hybrid Engine as well as NVIDIA Optimus make use of smart monitoring to keep appetite levels fit as well as revoke CO2 emissions, whilst USB 3.0 delivers the fastest transfer speeds. With new Intel® Core™ i5 processor a U33/U53 notebooks broach higher opening with up to 10 hours battery holdup.

The notebooks will be accessible from the operation of retailers as well as e-tailers together with Micro Anvika, Selfridges, PCWorld.co.uk, Ebuyer.com as well as Amazon.co.uk during the cost of £849 as well as £899 inc VAT SRP.

To watch a promotional video of a Bamboo Series gratefully revisit: http://www.youtube.com/asus

Key Features:

* Stylish bamboo exterior as well as wrapping

* 13.3″ (U33) or 15.6″ (U53) HD Color-Shine LED backlit 1366 x 768

* Intel® Core™ i5-430M processor (3MB cache, 2.26GHz)

* Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

* NVIDIA Optimus auto-switching graphics

* ASUS Super Hybrid Engine

* USB 3.0

* Seamless chiclet set of keys

* 2.0M Web camera with on/off slider

* 2 year tellurian pickup and return warranty

Bamboo materials broach an eco-friendly nonetheless in vogue innovation:

The U33/U53 Bamboo notebooks deliver a high-quality peace of style, practicality and environmentally-friendliness – making it the undiluted no-compromise computing resolution for image-conscious users who want to look great while personification their part in saving a planet.

The cover extraneous is encased in the natural smoky bamboo element – shortening normal cosmetic use by around 15% as well as exuding organic interest through both coming as well as hold. Even a outdoor wrapping is stylishly green; a wrapped gift box done from 100% recyclable bamboo materials provides the thoughtful finishing hold.

Bamboo is maybe a undiluted renewable source of timber element. Compared with normal timber sources, it has the most faster re-growth duration (reaching majority in 4 years), doesn’t need re-planting as well as has aloft levels of CO2 fullness – creation it preferred to harvest but deleterious a surroundings. What’s some-more – in reserve from the ultra-green properties, bamboo is incredibly hardwearing; so a U33/U53 cover is some-more than beautiful as well as immature, it’s additionally the highly strong as well as unsentimental choice as well.

The U33/U53 Bamboo cover additionally boasts a overwhelming seamless chiclet set of keys with fingerprint-resistant brushed aluminium surfacing to discharge those unsightly smudges.

Stay energy fit and reduce C02 emissions with Super Hybrid Engine and NVIDIA Optimus technology:

Whilst bamboo materials keep the U33/U53 cover immature upon a outside, the horde of innovative features inside keep the record appetite fit while progressing the tall level of opening when users need it most.

ASUS Super Hybrid Engine technology automatically manages energy levels to safeguard which users have high opening when they need it many (such as when examination videos or personification games) nonetheless don’t waste much-needed battery holdup when enjoying reduction power-hungry applications such as email or word-processing. The innovative record not usually boosts opening by up to 11% though can magnify battery holdup to twice which of aspirant models – giving users up to 10 hours of party in between charges.

Super Hybrid Engine also helps to revoke a CO2 emissions of both notebook models – a U53 can revoke emissions by 18.43Kg while a U33 by 22.24Kg as compared with that stipulated by a ErP standard.

Also squeezed into a efficient bamboo package is NVIDIA Optimus – a crafty record that quietly monitors that programs have been being used as well as automatically switches in between tall performance dissimilar graphics (for cinema, games as well as alternative graphic-intense programs) or low opening on-board graphics for everything else. Traditionally users would need to do this manually, rebooting applications prior to the shift took outcome – but with the U33/U53 bamboo cover, NVIDIA Optimus takes a con as well as complication out as well as creates this intelligent concept accessible to even novice computer users.

USB 3.0 cuts a watchful around with super-fast send speeds:

The U33/U53 Bamboo notebooks confederate a cutting-edge USB 3.0 technology. Over 10x faster than prior USB 2.0 standards as well as delivering super-fast send speeds to good users, USB 3.0 connectors take only 70 seconds to transfer the 25GB Blu-ray film as well as revoke iPhone charging times by 45% – so users can spend reduction time watchful around and some-more time carrying fun.

Specifications – U53Jc

Intel® Core™ i5-430M processor (3MB cache, 2.26GHz)
15.6″ HD Color-Shine LED backlit 1366 x 768
NVIDIA Optimus technology with NVIDIA GeForce 310M DDR3 1GB & Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics
4GB DDR3 1066 MHz
640GB SATA tough drive (5400 rpm)
DVD Super-Multi Combo
2.0M Webcam
1 x USB 3.0 + 2 x USB 2.0
1 x VGA port/1 x RJ45/2 x audio jack/HDMI pier
6-cell 2.2Ah/ 8-cell 2.2Ah/8-cell 2.8Ah
Dimensions: 386 x 257 x 31.6-33.09mm /2.76kg with 6-cell battery
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Specifications – U33Jc

Intel® Core™ i5-430M processor (3MB cache, 2.26GHz)
13.3″ HD Color-Shine LED backlit 1366 x 768
NVIDIA Optimus record with NVIDIA GeForce 310M DDR3 1GB & Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics
4GB DDR3 1066 MHz
500GB SATA tough drive (5400 rpm)
2.0M Webcam
1 x USB 3.0 + 2 x USB 2.0
1 x VGA port/1 x RJ45/2 x audio jacks/HDMI pier
6-cell 2.2Ah/ 8-cell 2.2Ah/8-cell 2.8Ah
Dimensions: 328 x 232 x 14-32 mm/1.7kg with 6-cell battery
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit