Powered by the latest 6th Generation Intel Core i 5 processor & sporting a dedicated graphics processor, the ASUS X Series is a great purchase as an all-round laptop, perfect for doing homework through to even playing games & more!
Processor & Memory
The Intel i 5 6200U processor runs at 2.3 G Hz & will boost up to 2.8 G Hz in turbo mode, it is a quad core model with 4 threads which provide much more power than their dual core family. This is powerful enough for some media creation or playing games & will excel at general day to day use. There are 8gb of DDR4 RAM, which means things such as multi-tasking will be a breeze, 8gb of RAM memory also means graphics creation can be handled easily
Graphics & Display
The 15.6" LED Display runs at 1366 x 768 resolution with 200 nits of brightness, it is powered by a dedicated NVidia Ge Force 920MX chip, which has 2GB of dedicated memory, this will play some independent games & some AAA title games a lower resolution, it will cope easily with a bit of photo editing & won't have a single problem with multimedia & office based work.
Hard Disk Capacity & Ports
With 1TB of storage capacity, this is plenty to be storing family photographs, music & even movies. 1TB could hold Approx. 500 hours of movies, 17, 000 hours of music or Approx. 310, 000 photographs.
There are 3 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports on the X556UV, 1 x USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 port & 1 x USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 port are for standard USB (Universal Serial Bus) devices, 1 x USB (Universal Serial Bus) type C connector can allow transfer speeds of up to 5 Gbps for superfast moving of files. There is a shared 3.5mm combination jack which does both headphones & microphone. You will also find an HDMI connection, an older 15pin VGA port connector & an RJ45 LAN connection.