The ASUS X-Series laptop combines premium design with all-round features to deliver a superb value laptop for work and play. It's ideal for entertainment thanks to a Full HD display and SonicMaster audio technology, which work together to create an immersive gaming and movie experience.
New power Intel’s 7th generation processor, codename Kaby Lake, is designed to make your laptop faster and more efficient. It’s purposely built to support Thunderbolt 3 and face-scanning cameras used for Windows Hello. Your laptop’s overall productivity will show improvement for flawless multi-tasking and playback of 4K Ultra-HD video will occur without delay or interruption.
High quality design ASUS X series notebooks are designed to complement great performance with clean, attractive aesthetics, and the X556UA is no different. It features a tactile finish and premium feel to ensure you'll be happy taking it with you, while the chiclet keyboard makes for a comfortable typing experience and a gesture-enabled multi-touchpad ensures navigation is simple and intuitive.
Brilliant images The screen on the X556UA features a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, or Full HD, making it ideal for watching movies on. It also uses ASUS Splendid technology to ensure colours are accurate, with automatic fine-tuning helping to deliver brilliant, vibrant colours. Splendid technology also includes various modes for different scenarios, so you can easily tweak the setting to bring the most out of movies and photos or take complete control with the manual setting.
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rodman to Bitbotbang
24 Jun 1728#8
0 deals expert :confused:
Cenobite to Bitbotbang
24 Jun 1717#2
Other than not having an SSD, what's wrong with it? Can you provide a link to something better for that price? Considering getting a new laptop, so it's a genuine question
spannerzone to congrevecv
24 Jun 176#29
what? you think having 8gb ram is more of a bottleneck than fitting an SSD drive.... an SSD will be far better and noticeable performance boost than if you added another 8 or 16gb ram
stressedman
24 Jun 176#4
wow an i7-7500 is mediocre? I'm obviously out of touch!
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Bitbotbang
24 Jun 175#1
Hahaha! £479 for a mediocre laptop on 2017?? Seriously guys??? I must be in another version of this life!
Cenobite to Bitbotbang
24 Jun 1717#2
Other than not having an SSD, what's wrong with it? Can you provide a link to something better for that price? Considering getting a new laptop, so it's a genuine question
rodman to Bitbotbang
24 Jun 1728#8
0 deals expert :confused:
supermann to Bitbotbang
24 Jun 17#11
It has a 7th generation core cpu. Remind me again which generation is current at this time?
maccauk to Bitbotbang
24 Jun 173#26
knobhead
kris147 to Bitbotbang
24 Jun 17#33
TW4T
coolio887 to Bitbotbang
24 Jun 17#36
The pound is still very weak so what used to be an ok price is actually a decent one.
meherenow to Bitbotbang
25 Jun 17#39
You strike me as the kind of person who knows nothing about everything and everything about nothing...
jamgin to Bitbotbang
25 Jun 17#44
More question marks, more question marks!
thebigi
24 Jun 171#3
The laptop doesn't have a dedicated graphics card, which is a real let down with having such a decent processor.
stressedman
24 Jun 176#4
wow an i7-7500 is mediocre? I'm obviously out of touch!
LewsTherin to stressedman
25 Jun 17#49
Yup, it is mediocre as only a few years ago this would be an i5 as its only a 2 core 4t cpu.
wh431
24 Jun 173#5
Dont care abt dedicated Graphic card but lack of ssd is a no no.. Looks good otherwise.
schmoog
24 Jun 173#6
The spec is hot for the money - i7 Kaby Lake (newest soc)/8GB-DDR4-2133MHz/FHD IPS isn't that common under £500.
The build quality looks pants - there's a review on notebookcheck for a different model in the series; the casing is what you'd expect from a plastic laptop. Flex on the lid, warp on the base.
Though it is a laptop. If you want a metal chassis or flush compact glass touchscreen at this spec it'd be a lot more.
iEimis
24 Jun 172#7
Not sure about this particular model but usually easy to put an SSD in, sell the hard drive for £30-£40 on Ebay, get a 250gb SSD for £50 ish as posted on here somewhere yesterday and you have a very capable machine for a decent price. Before Capacity Police start saying that 250gb is not enough, Laptop isn't meant to be a storage device in 2017 with all the cloud services available for free.
Opening post
The ASUS X-Series laptop combines premium design with all-round features to deliver a superb value laptop for work and play. It's ideal for entertainment thanks to a Full HD display and SonicMaster audio technology, which work together to create an immersive gaming and movie experience.
New power
Intel’s 7th generation processor, codename Kaby Lake, is designed to make your laptop faster and more efficient. It’s purposely built to support Thunderbolt 3 and face-scanning cameras used for Windows Hello. Your laptop’s overall productivity will show improvement for flawless multi-tasking and playback of 4K Ultra-HD video will occur without delay or interruption.
High quality design
ASUS X series notebooks are designed to complement great performance with clean, attractive aesthetics, and the X556UA is no different. It features a tactile finish and premium feel to ensure you'll be happy taking it with you, while the chiclet keyboard makes for a comfortable typing experience and a gesture-enabled multi-touchpad ensures navigation is simple and intuitive.
Brilliant images
The screen on the X556UA features a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, or Full HD, making it ideal for watching movies on. It also uses ASUS Splendid technology to ensure colours are accurate, with automatic fine-tuning helping to deliver brilliant, vibrant colours. Splendid technology also includes various modes for different scenarios, so you can easily tweak the setting to bring the most out of movies and photos or take complete control with the manual setting.
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All comments (55)
The build quality looks pants - there's a review on notebookcheck for a different model in the series; the casing is what you'd expect from a plastic laptop. Flex on the lid, warp on the base.
Though it is a laptop. If you want a metal chassis or flush compact glass touchscreen at this spec it'd be a lot more.