Redpill me on the ASUS Zenbooks

Redpill me on the ASUS Zenbooks.
Is there ANY laptop that even slightly compete with it in its weight category of ~1.1kg ?

Ugly garbage with terrible reviews. I can't even remember the last time an Asus ultrabook got a decent review. Buy a Surface, ain't nobody got time for this trash. I mean come on.. are you so physically weak you can't get a slightly heavier and much better ultrabook.

Carbon X1

>Redpill me on the ASUS Zenbooks
>shit-tier quality control
>throttles like crazy under even light loads
>mediocre to acceptable screen quality (depends on the model)
>mediocre keyboard quality
>total-abomination tier trackpad
>bloatware unless it's a (((signature))) edition
On the up-side, at least it's not a macbook which has all of the above problems and costs several hundred dollars more.

Can I install GNU/Linux on a Surface?

Don't want to carry a 2kg abomination though.
Need something very light that I can use in the train/bus and there isn't really any competition in this weight category, ASUS seems to be king here.

Yes, don't know why you'd want to though. You're gonna lose all your pen functionality

You know you're talking about the surface pro, right? It weighs exactly the same as the zenbook, at 1.1kg with the keyboard attached.

If you really want a laptop, I'd highly discourage you from getting something ASUS branded. They're always far from perfect and have tons of bloatware near impossible to take off

Try looking at different laptops such as the lg gram 14 inch(0.97kg), the Dell XPS 13 (1.22kg), the HP spectre x360 (1.26kg and), the Razer Blade stealth (1.33kg), or a ThinkPad or some other surface devices. If it's about price, try going with LG

lets note rz6

the QC is bad, otherwise it's a good laptop

you might get a dented laptop with coil whine from hell out of the box, or you might get a decent computer

i own a ux430ua

>far from ugly, how it looks is one of the best features. slick as fuck, light, comfy to hold
>light as fuck
>touchpad is decent, it's not as good as the macbook but it's usable
>bloatware isn't an issue, i installed ubuntu on mine and everything worked without issues straight away, except the sound which I had to tinker with a little
>doesn't really get hot, reviews online said the fan will drive you crazy because its always on but i really didnt notice that
>QC is bad. got mine with a few dents, and the top lid didn't really align with the body when it closed ~a few mms, purely cosmetic though. got it with a coil whine aswell

whether to buy it or not depends on location. i live in a country where a thinkpad x270 8/256 costs 2,000$, and LG/samsung don't sell their laptops here. Asus does, and for a reasonable price, so its what i got

i'm exchanging mine because the coil whine bothers me, if i get a new one without it i'll keep it if not i'll probably return it. though im pretty OCD about minor flaws, the coil whine isn't all that bad really

if you can live with most likely some flaws out of the box which don't seem to affect the performance itself, go for it. if youre autistic and you know that shit being not perfect will bother you, don't

this

The Lenovo Ideapad 320S-13ILBR is is really good on paper with a good price.

>comes with Windows
>redpill me

good luck using the touchscreen with Linux

My UX303UB is pretty damn comfy.
12GB RAM, 1080p matte screen, switched it out myself, I didn't want the touch garbage.
The i7 and 940m handle Adobe stuff well, and even more modern games at native resolution, low to medium settings at above 30fps.

>not just using a MacBook
1. better experience
2. better looks
2.5 better materials/build
3. lighter

Lenovo IdeaPad 320S-13IKB is where it's at.

I can get the following specs for just 860€:
>1080p matte
> i7-8550U QuadCore with Intel UHD 620 Grafiphics
>8gb ddr4 2400mhz
>256GB NVMe-SSD
>1.2kg
>windows 10

Girlfriend got me a UX430UQ to replace my X60, it's more or less a macbook with Windows and non-shitty port selection.

You could probably do a lot better for what it costs though. As said, just get a surface if the lack of Type-C doesn't activate your almonds.

Thanks for the replies so far, you convinced me to stay away from an ASUS laptop.

So far these 2 look the best to me , ; the Surface ones are a bit too expensive and are too powerful for what I intend to use them for.

you choose to stay away from chinese shit, and turn into other chinese shit? i'd stay away from anything lenovo that isn't thinkpad. they put malwares on their hardware aswell, and build quality isnt the best

Then what instead? It's mostly asian shit

like others have mentioned in this thread, LG/dell/thinkpad

not wanting to buy asus because you can't be bothered with chink quality is all well and good, but going for lenovo instead doesn't make sense

Who cares about weight on a laptop?
Form factor is what matters when it comes to portability

I do, got some 2.2kg old one and it's too heavy, bulky and all to use properly in a bus+train

But the Carbon X1 is a Thinkpad or not?

I used to work with these. They might seem decent, but the quality is absolutely shit. The UX430 stuff seems fine, but the UX305 was absolutely horrible. Bluescreens daily. Crooked frame, only one rubber pad would touch the table, so it would slide around as you used it. Touchpad gets stuck under the palmrest.

I don't have a zenbook but I have an Asus laptop that looks exactly like a zenbook but is slightly thicker but weighs nearly the same and it works just fine. Can't complain at all.

>touchscreen on a laptop
The least used feature by laptop owners.
>he wants to jump on what's been proving itself a fad

Have one, it's great.

Different user. Carbon x1 is a ThinkPad, my dad owns one, and it's pretty light and has build quality. It's just my honest opinion, but I don't like the design of ThinkPad laptop mouse buttons, although it's praised here. You could go with a Dell XPS 13 if you're not too worried about price because they're not way too expensive.

I'd wait for the Ryzen mobile APU's, there will for sure be some good lightweight laptops featuring them.

>total-abomination tier trackpad
so much this, im not even kidding