| While the Zenbook looks great and has great hardware specs, I can't rightfully recommend it to anyone. A list of complaints: -Loud fan. With all of its (considerable) horsepower, it can get quite hot. Even when simply booting up or writing a document in Word, the fan is on almost constantly and very audible. -Keyboard quality. The coating on the keyboard has already started peeling off after 1.5 years of mild use. -Big and heavy power brick that gets extremely hot. -Random buggy hardware issues. The webcam stopped working after updating Windows, and I haven't been able to get it working since. The trackpad is HORRIBLE and buggy. Maybe it's because Apple's trackpad has spoiled me, but going from apple's trackpad to Asus' was probably the single most frustrating thing. It's terribly inaccurate, doesn't understand multi-gestures, and worst of all, there's this weird cursor jitter when you touch the trackpad without being electrically grounded. I'm serious. If I want to accurately place my cursor over something, I have to be touching the laptop's aluminum chassis or else the cursor starts spasming. The overall build quality just cannot be compared to Apple's. Even the mini Sub Woofer my Zenbook came with started working intermittently and I discovered that the port it connected to came loose for no apparent reason. The same thing happened to one of the USB ports. Oh, and this was all after going throught he trouble of RMA'ing the first one for harddrive failure. For a higher end, premium priced laptop I really expected better. |