Thoughts on the Asus Zenbook lineup? Thinking of picking up

Have my UX305 running arch, pretty good battery life (9 hours most of the time), 1080p is great and so is the screen. The only thing I hate is the coating, it feels cheap and it gets easily stained despite being aluminum.

Other than that, great ultrabook.

>>58286694
I have an UX303 but it has NVIDIA Optimus, so I didn't put Linux on it. It's a really nice laptop. The warranty is excellent too.

>>58286694
UX303LB here (Broadwell). The one without Optimus. Runs MacOS perfectly, and also runs Linux quite well.

There's unfortunately a problem with a bug in Intel's ACPI implementation which means the backlight combination (fn + F5 for example) does not work in Linux. It will never be fixed because Intel has frozen development on the mainline driver so you'd need manually fix it and compile a fixed version. Or just set the keyboard shortcuts to other keys.

Other than that, no problem. Great laptops. Though the UX305 has Intel Core M processors which might be weak depending on what you'll use it for.

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>>58286954
>Though the UX305 has Intel Core M processors which might be weak depending on what you'll use it for.

the one I'm looking at has an i5, they have those as an option since skylake I think

>>58287011
I guess you're from the US. They offer only CoreM or i5-Y(they're the same thing) here in the EU. The only one with a U processor is the UX310...

>>58287116
I'm from EU, and no, it's an UX305UA with an i5-6200U

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>>58287407
What country? They only offer this turd here...

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>>58287496
the model tested in notebookcheck review also comes with a -U processor so I'm pretty sure germany has those aswell

i like it. haven't bothered to install Linux on it because of muh ASP.NET. it takes its time when installing stuff but everything else is smooth as fuck.

i find it strange how there are so few IPS + SSD fanless laptops around. there's the Dell XPS 13 but that costs twice as much as the Asus.

>>58287496
there's a vivobook dunno why they have different naming they have identical case, battery size and internal wtf asus? i3 i5 and i7 available.

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>>58286694
You should never throw an OS, kid