Versatility in Asus' laptops is impressive. While one laptop might be a life-style statement with ultra-rich features, the other might just offer sheer power. The Asus F83SE belongs to the latter group, and its plain looks and great performance will lure mainly business personnel and professionals. The two most striking points of this laptop are its hardware configuration and portability. Though it's a 14-inch laptop, its performance is comparable to that of a mainstream desktop Pc. Also, not only office and high-end applications will run smoothly on it, but even the multimedia experience will be good. Although, this laptop's compelling performance makes it a powerful office laptop, the discrete graphics and the presence of an HDMI port leads us to think of it as a good blend for multimedia and office applications. Other features include 3 USB and a VGA port, a multi-card reader, audio jacks and a DVD writer. The 500 GB hard drive should suffice for digital multimedia content, as well as office applications and documents. Considering this is an office laptop and has good storage capacity, the absence of an eSATA port is a downside.

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This laptop is built around the SiS 671Dx+968 chipset and is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 CPU. There's 4 GB RAM and the graphics is courtesy an ATI Radeon HD 4570. Connectivity is offered via Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi N. Finally the laptop is pre-loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium and it bundles with it an optical USB mouse and an LCD cleaning cloth. The overall design is impressive and will appeal to professionals and to people who aren't fond of fancy and overly trendy looks.