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For such a compact machine, the Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 has a good selection of I/O ports. Three USB 3.0 ports occupy the left and right side panels (one on the left, two on the right), there's a SD-based multimedia card reader, audio ports, and a full-sized HDMI port. Together, this selection of ports is excellent, particularly the full sized HDMI port that lets you hook the system up to a HDTV without an adapter. This is a system for a power user that needs connectivity. The Zenbook Prime comes with 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, so you can use a 5GHz router to cut through the congested 2.4GHz bands. Apartment dwellers or city folk will enjoy the extra choices in the 5GHz bands. Full-sized Ethernet isn't on the system chassis, but the system comes with an USB with battery such as Acer BTP90BM battery , Acer BTP-90BM battery , Acer BTP-AMJ1 battery , Acer BTP-APJ1 battery , Acer BTP-AQJ1 battery , Acer BTP-ARJ1 battery , Acer BTP-AS3620 battery , Acer BTP-ASJ1 battery , Acer BTP-B2J1 battery , Acer LC.BTP01.003 battery , Acer LCBTP03003 battery , Acer MS2111 battery , Acer MS2180 battery adapter for wired Ethernet plus a dongle for the mini VGA port. Bang & Olufsen speakers were both loud and clear playing back web audio and music.
As stated above, photographers will enjoy this system, since it comes with a 500GB hard drive for storage. That's plenty of space for RAW photo images and videos. The Zenbook Prime also comes with a 24GB mSATA SSD to help it get its Intel ultrabook certification. The 24GB SSD is invisible to the user, it only makes its presence known during some repetitive tasks and when you wake the system from sleep. It wakes up faster than a hard drive-only system, but it feels slower than an SSD-only system when you boot from power off. If the SSD were a bit bigger, we think the systems day-to-day performance would improve. As it is, you'll occasionally notice that the system is a smidge slower on day-to-day tasks than a purely SSD-based ultrabook. At the very least you'll wait a couple seconds more for the system to reboot or for apps to launch. The 500GB drive is relatively free of bloatware, only a short 30-day trial subscription to McAfee Internet Security mars the pre-loaded software. There are a bunch of shortcuts to Asus utilities on the desktop, and while they are on the whole useful, you'll want to drop the shortcuts in the trash in order to regain a clean startup screen.
The Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 lags more purely SSD-based systems on day-to-day tasks. For example, the Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 gains an OK 2,523 points on the PCMark 7 test, but its SSD-only based brother the Zenbook Prime UX31A-R5102F is an order of magnitude faster with a 4,315 PCMark 7 score. The Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 also felt more sluggish when it needed to read data or launch programs from the hard drive. The system's Core i7-5317UM processor and Nvidia GeForce GT 620M graphics were able to level the playing field somewhat.