ASUS S56CM

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The ASUS S56CM is a 15" Ultrabook with a wide range of options to choose from. With its thickness of only 21mm and 2.3kg weight this is a light 15.6" laptop. It runs on Intel's Ivy Bridge platform sporting a 1.8GHz Core i3 in its cheapest configuration and a Core i7 with 1.9-3GHz clockrate at the end of the price-spectrum. There is a sibling model of this laptop at 14" which lacks the NVIDIA GeForce GT635M graphics card.

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Latest News	Track product
Tweaktown - Asus S56 Review	26/11/12
Laptopmag - ASUS S56CA Review	23/11/12
Notebookcheck - ASUS S56M Review	12/11/12
ASUS S56CM Manufacturer Site	22/08/12

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