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Asus Zenbook Laptop: Work and play wherever you go with this lightweight laptop, which features a generous 512GB solid state drive that offers room for your important documents, photos and music. NVIDIA GT 940M graphics with dedicated video memory ensure a crisp, realistic picture on the 13.3" QHD+ touch screen.
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Great Little Powerhouse
on July 28, 2016
Posted by: KellyM
I do a lot of photo editing with RAW files and I needed a powerhouse of a computer that would still be a powerhouse of a computer a few years from now as technology changes. I also needed a crisp screen and wanted a smaller size (my older laptop, also an ASUS, weighs about 6lbs and has a 15" screen.)
This laptop is fantastic! The SSD is lightning fast, the screen is gorgeous (I didn't need a touch screen but I wanted the QuadHD- I'm one of those people who can tell the difference at a glance between FullHD and QuadHD). My friend who doesn't have the best eyesight and thought the 13.3" screen would be too small is even envying it right now. Windows10 took some getting used to, but I like it now that I'm adapted. It's very easy to use, it's just very different if you're used to Windows 7.
The keyboard is nice. (I'm accustomed to ASUS keyboards, and this one isn't much different from my old one. The keyboard was definitely a factor I considered when I chose this computer over a Dell with similar specs.)
There are a couple things that I've read in other reviews that people have trouble with which I think are simply due to the user not being familiar with the computer. The first is the track pad- I thought it didn't work properly (wouldn't scroll) and I was looking all over the internet for a solution to make my brand new track pad work properly. What I discovered (by accident) is that the trackpad is set to scroll BACKWARDS, as if you were scrolling the touch screen itself. That means that down is up and up is down. It's not hard to get used to, but if you're not used to it, it's hard to figure out. I love the trackpad functionality (zoom, scroll, grab/drag) but it does take some getting used to and I often use an external mouse as well, depending on what I'm doing.
The other is the backlit keyboard. You can turn it off! fn+f3/f4 adusts the backlight, all the way down is off. I've seen other reviewers say that they can't turn it off and it wastes battery, which is untrue, but the only way to turn it off is by using ASUS' awesome shortcut keys (fn+ f keys. There's also one to turn the screen off, f7, so if you hit that one and your screen goes black, you didn't break it!)
I can't speak to battery life, unfortunately, because I'm one of those people who uses the laptop plugged in 90% of the time, so battery life isn't really important to me. From what I've read on other reviews and observed in the short time I've run it on battery, if battery life is your chief concern you might want to look at other models which have fewer power draining features. I'm sure also that the power consumption of this model can be optimized, but since it's not my chief concern I haven't done it.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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