I know this is a lenovo board but I've found an Asus ux330ua

Ignore lenovo shills its just china trying to take over american botnet empire.
That laptop looks decent though I think you can get xps 13 for cheaper at same/better specs.

>>56677285

Cheapest XPS 13 I can find is $1500 with a fifth gen i5 senpai, are they cheaper in USA or something?

i personally love asus and hate lenovo, so...

>>56677350
>$1200 AUD
>AUD
Right sorry I didnt see this at first. My condolences.

>>56677350
>ux330ua
Where is this machine being sold for that price. I too am interested on dumping dollarydoo's on it.

>>56677278
>Asus ux330ua for $1200 AUD
where from, my dude?

>>56677633
>>$1200 AUD
= ~US$900.

>>56677278
We still don't have an answer OP. Where is this device being sold at?

Nevermind. Found it bro's

https://www.saveonit.com.au/products/productdetails/65134368

>>56678475
The website, however, has no Australian ABN.

Seems dodgy. Might give it a pass.

I bought my QHD XPS 13 on ebay for about 900$, and I'd consider it better (better performance, better screen, smallers bezels, not fanless though)

Got an ASUS K550JX-DM013D for 600$ and then sold my old laptop for 350$ so it ended up costing me next to nothing
>FullHD display
>12GB RAM
>GTX 950M
>Intel Core i7-4720HQ
>2 year warranty

Best purchase I've made in a while. Just need to replace the 1TB HDD with an SSD and I'm set

Why Not buy the new Xiaomi 13 Notebook ?

asus has the most confusing naming scheme

>>56677278
I owned ux303. It was a great machine for a year. Recently the hinge has started falling apart.

I should also note that I take particularly good care of my machines, so this isn't just the result of neglect.

>>56677350
Holy fuck, they are literally a third of that price in burgerworld

>>56678678
Importing them is still expensive
Commy price is $750
Burger price is over $1.2k

ASUS likes to put 256GB as their SSD size. But in reality it is two 128GB SSDs in RAID0. A very unreliable and dangerous set up to have if it contains critical data.

>>56681555
This is what Dell does too. Why would it be unreliable?

>>56681564
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_0
>Since RAID 0 provides no fault tolerance or redundancy, the failure of one drive will cause the entire array to fail; as a result of having data striped across all disks, the failure will result in total data loss.

>>56681598
Literally exactly the same thing happens if 1 256gb ssd fails though. And 128gb ssds are less likely to fail/have longer lifespan.

>>56681611
No, larger drives are less likely to fail and twice the drives means twice the chance of failure.

>>56681647
>larger drives are less likely to fail
source on that?

>twice the drives means twice the chance of failure
you can always just disable RAID0 then you have 2 128gb ssds and you can even RAID1 them to ensure your files safety.

>>56681705
>source on that?
You're the one that made the (wrong) initial claim, let's see some sources.
>you can always just disable RAID0 then you have 2 128gb ssds and you can even RAID1 them to ensure your files safety
Well no shit but we're talking specifcally about having the drives in RAID0

>>56681750
the ux303LA is advertised as 256GB but is two 128GB in RAID0. i imagine it's the same for the UA.

>>56681611
not true. a 256GB drive failure allows some data recovery, two 128GB drives failing in RAID0 gives no chance of data recovery.

>>56681819
No fucking shit, we already established that. >>56681555

>>56681750
>let's see some sources
its anandtech but its the only thing i could find
seems two 128gb drives can handle about as much writes as one 256gb drive so it doesnt really matter
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8239/update-on-samsung-850-pro-endurance-vnand-die-size

>we're talking specifcally about having the drives in RAID0
nah were talking about disadvantages of having 2 128gb ssds instead of 1 256gb one

>>56681885
>nah were talking about disadvantages of having 2 128gb ssds instead of 1 256gb one
Yes, two 128GB drives IN RAID ZERO instead of 1 256GB drive. Quit moving goalposts, you fucking mong.

>>56681962
You can enable or disable raid0 its as easy as ticking a box

>>56681977
Jesus Christ you are beyond retarded. Go eat a dick you fucking moron.

>>56681885
RAID0 is the problem, because small IO issues can cause catastrophic drive failure. But if it was a single 256GB SSD then that wouldn't hhappen.

>>56682680
So disable it. Its not like youre going to need to store a one 130GB file

>>56682705
Or i will always reccommend people don't get asus.