Asus has released great laptop to fight in mainstream category by introducing Asus U46E-BAL5. Asus U46E-BAL5 specs that may draw your interest are: a powerfull Sandy Brigde Intel Core i5-2410M processor paired with 8 GB DDR3 RAM and build with nice design on 14-inch widescreen. Not only that, Asus U46E-BAL5 equipped with cutting edge features like fast file transfer supported by USB 3.0 port, great wireless connection with WiMAX and WiDi 2.0, and a 74WH battery that can run up to more than 7-hours. Asus U46E-BAL5 price on the market starts from $749.99. It may released to replace its predecessor, Asus U41JF-A1 (price start from $850.00), but minus graphical chip, since Asus U46E-BAL5 only rely on Intel HD Graphics 3000 integrated graphical chip.

Asus U46E-BAL5 processor relies on a 2.3GHz Intel Core i5-2410M processor that is based on Sandy Brigde platform. Those Asus U46E-BAL5 processor is paired with 8GB DDR3 memory. Its memory size are commonly find in high performance laptop, not usually find in mainstream category. On PCMark 7 testing it scores at 2215. Handbrake video encoding test scores for 1:53,while Cinebench R11.5 test scores for 2.6. But Asus U46E-BAL5 only equipped with  Intel HD Graphics 3000 integrated graphical chip. So, hard 3D games like Crysis (DirectX 10) and Lost Planet 2 will be hard to play.

Nicely, Asus U46E-BAL5 use a great 8 cell 74WH battery. It can run for 7 hours 19 minutes based on MobileMark 2007 battery testing. Those 7 hours battery life, are still a long enough for your daily using. Asus U46E-BAL5 has 14-inch widescreen with maximum resolution at 1,366-by-768,  it's commonly found in most mainstream category. Asus U46E-BAL5 design may draw interest of many of us. It use aluminum cover beautifully designed with a tree-ring pattern. Considering its size, it weighs only for 4.9 pounds, which is same with its predecessor, Asus U41JF-A1.

At the storage media, Asus U46E-BAL5 relies on 750GB (5,400rpm) HDD, those storege are spacious enough to keeps your digital files. While for optical drive, it equipped with DVD+R Dual Layer. Ports giveb are: a USB 3.0 port (that transfer files speed is 10 times faster than USB 2.0), 2 x USB 2.0 port, a multimedia card reader, HDMI port, and VGA port. Asus U46E-BAL5 has great wireless connection features: Wireless Display 2.0 (WiDi 2.0) and WiMAX (or 4G wireless). It also has Wi-Fi 802.11n built-in which commonly found in other laptop. Above the screen, you can find a 1.3-megapixel webcam.