I FELL in love again and again. I did every time my finger’s skin touch the new AsusPro Advanced BU201 Ultrabook. That is, if love means burying the review unit between the sands of a beach in Pagudpud before taking a dip. That is, if love is taking the unit along when playing tag for the sole reason it kills me to be separated from what I regard as my girlfriend one minute.
Choosing a notebook is like choosing a lover. I don’t mean like choosing whom to confide your secrets to, but rather that the personal computer can withstand my being uber emotional level and obsessiveness, especially on a bad hair day at work for no apparent reason.
The business-grade laptop can withstand the average stress of consumer usage above industry standards. That means I can go drama queen and pounce on your hardy military-grade UD carbon fiber-reinforced, metal-mounted, impact sensor-protected personal shock absorber. The AsusPro Advanced BU201 Ultrabook will just take it—just take it, beatings and all—absolutely without worrying about the unit forgetting what we have been through together. I can only blame its shock-proof internal hard drive, which comes with a G-sensor hardware. Breaking up with the AsusPro Advanced BU201 is also hard to do. Cry a river and it still functions. I mashed its keyboard however I wanted it and the unit still worked. I “made love” to it 180 degrees on the hinge. I tried to drop the unit, but it held on to me like a love handle.
When typing away on the BU201, I could not get enough fiddling with its responsive SensePoint pointstick keyboard centerpiece. It is near fingers and functions just, as well as its precision trackpad. The AsusPro Advanced BU201 is a plaything. The idea is to totally divest it with all unnecessary appendages and make a laptop just a laptop: powerful albeit portable.
Bigger than the sum of its parts, the 1.3-kilogram, 16-millimeter dark matte full-high definition dapper laptop runs on a Core i7 vPro processor as default, but also customizable. Fingerprint scanning makes for a secure access and smart cards can be used for log ins and for secure online transactions.