It's activated now, I did it over the phone.Thanks for your help, I'm on to do a clean install following Picazsoo's guide.
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Any thoughts on how to proceed?
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EDIT: Okay, got it. If you want to install windows in UEFI follow Picazsoo's guide, but instead of step 7)-8) follow this guide: http://www.blogsolute.com/create-windows-8-usb-bootable-pendrive-uefi-boot/25988/. When you've extracted the ISO to the USB pen drive continue with Picazsoo's guide from step 9).
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At step 16, when I try to install the product key. It throws an error and said: Error: 0xC004F069 On a computer running Microsoft Windows non-core edition, run "slui.exe 0x2a 0xC004F069" to display the error text
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Note: I bought UX32LN in Thailand. i7-4500U, 500GB with 8GB SSD, Nvidia GT840M, Ram 4 GB (I add another 4GB). The price is about 1100 USD. I got the sleeves and the dongles. I will post pictures later after I'm done enjoying it.Meditech likes this. -
To all: How's the battery life on this? It has a pretty hefty 50Wh battery, so I'm curious if anyone has tried tweaking Optimus to better improve battery life.
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For those who bought the version with the Kingston SSD and switched it to a better SSD, was it worth?
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You can't really tweak optimus since it shuts the chip down to the lowest possible state when not called to be used.
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Well, there must be some kind of configuration option, like forcing it to use the HD4400 instead of the GT840m during certain times. I'm curious if the battery life can be stretched to 8 hours outside of gaming.
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You can force it to use the HD in the nvidia control panel but unless you have a program using the nvidia chip by mistake it wont make a difference.
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I depends on the type of writing you do too, depending on what was being tested 360MB/sec seems a little low.
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All SSD slows down when they are filled up, same as HDD.
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I can do around 6hrs on battery with wifi enabled. That is with about 40% brightness (perfect for indoor use), surfing web, a bit of watching youtube vids and playing mp3 with foobar player.
For 8hrs you'd have to turn off wifi and dim screen all the way down.
The UX32LA with the crappy 1366 x 768 screen can do 8hrs according to notebookcheck.net, mostly due to the screen/lower resolution I guess.Meditech likes this. -
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Maybe there is some added electronics around the Nvidia GT840M that eats power..... battery is the same in LA and LN models.Meditech likes this. -
hey guys, I too bought the ux32ln (840M) from singapore. I followed the instructions word by word and clean installed windows 8 on my laptop. Problem is that I am getting much, much worse battery. Roughly 4 hours with wifi, power saver, and brightness at step 4/11. battery care shows the power draw is about 12,000 mW. I have installed the nvidia drivers, and have set the prefrences to make it run the intel graphics to save power. I have also disabled search indexing, but alas no hope. I think i want to go back to the build that asus provided(the orignal os). I have stupidly deleated my recovery disk, so please, please someone with a UX32ln please give me a stock image by uploading it to google drive, or something. If not please give me possible sollutions realated to a fresh install to improve the battery life.
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Hi,
my laptop broke. Don't worry - it wasn't a Zenbook.
Now, I really urgently need a new laptop and want to buy a UX32LN. But sadly it isn't available anymore ANYWHERE in Germany or Austria. (Or elsewhere for that matter. Just saw it on eBay.co.uk, but that would mean I get no warranty. Which is ).
I read somewhere that Asus stopped producing them because they were not satisfied with the SSDs. Can someone confirm this?
The UX32LN has everything I want. A great matte IPS HD screen, thin, light, decent battery, powerful, a fantastic price and it also looks great. A dream machine! Would want the i7 version, but would be fine with the i5 at this point. Whatever is available. Does someone know why they don't sell it anymore?
I made a "suggest me a laptop post" that didn't get a reply, because no similar machine exists? Or does it?
Please, recommend me a laptop that is a good substitute for the UX32LN! (The LA version doesn't qualify, because the screen res is simply unacceptable.)
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My guess is that they will push the UX303LN instead, since it's basically the same computer (with higher screen res), but asus sells it for a lot more, earning a lot more per computer, since manufacturing cost is about the same (a little extra for the screen only). Good business for Asus.
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I really want a matte screen, that's why I underlined this spec in my post. Touchscreen is useless for me. I see it as a toy. Otherwise I'd probably buy a Macbook, because their screens are better (plus far longer battery times.). I really hate Apple and don't want to go down that route. I guess you might be right. The laptop was too popular and they killed it to push the higher spec. model. It seemed extremely cheap, too. So why would someone spend a few hundred euros more on something that is only slightly better. -
"Bedauerlicherweise sind die UX32LN Modelle bereits end of life.
Die Nachfolgereihe die UX303LN wird voraussichtlich ab Ende Juli/Anfang August im Handel verfügbar sein. "
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I just saw your post on Notebookcheck, haha. Oh well, that sucks. A real nightmare.
How can a laptop have a life circle of only 3 months. They were released in March and by the end of June all of them were sold out. F**k.
btw: If you live near the border or have friends in the Czech Republic you could possibly get it there. The czech keyboard is identical to an UK one aside from some different secondary buttons. They sell them with weird specs, though. So watch out. I even saw i3 versions.
There is one that might be interesting for some i7 with a 500+8 GB Hybrid HDD and 6 GB RAM.
Most shops sell the laptop for 25999 CZK (or lower) and Asus offers a 2500 CZK cashback. That makes 856.506 Euro. Extremely cheap!
... you can not get the cashback if you do not have a bank account there I guess, but you can order it to Germany through some special parcel delivery companies that are by the border and redirect the parcel to German post.
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Guess I might order one in Czech then. I can live with the funny keyboard, because I know where the letters are anyway. The Asus warranty is international.
Sadly they all only have the SSHDs - are they very noticeably slower just with regular use? Booting and starting Apps. Or just when transferring files?
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I don't want the 303, because I like the matte screen.
I saw that refurb 2 days ago, but it wasn't available yesterday anymore. Nice to see it is back. Hmm.
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Hey, I was asked to expand regarding the laptop charger; here are two photos of the adapter: AC Adapter - Imgur
Tbh I'm not sure what the other guy meant, but what I'm talking about is the power brick not being separate, but molded into the AC power plug. Potentially somebody could walk into the cord, thereby breaking the power brick. I think a separate power brick would be better. However, I have had no problems with it yet, and it is not at all a reason not to get the laptop. As for the charger socket being tight...the AC power plug was tight initially, but after having plugged it in a few times it has loosened a bit and is now perfect. Obviously I can't say anything about whether or not it will get even more loose...I hope notThe laptop socket seems fine to me.
All in all so far I'm very happy with the laptop, only problems are: one key is slightly skewed, flexing when you push on the bottom (e.g. if the laptop is closed and you grab it around the back, you can feel it flexing on the bottom middle part), and battery life is not that good (with wifi on it says 6 hours, I haven't run it down yet though so can't confirm it). I looove the screen, really nice compared to my old laptop. -
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Hello everybody.
I bought this laptop and I immediately took the SSD out and through the help of a free tool called "Macrimum Reflect" I cloned the original 128 GB SSD to a new 256 GB SSD. This left some spare space on the bigger disk of course.
I inserted the new SSD in my laptop and it boots fine. BUT if I press F9 doing BIOS post, then the computer will fail loading the recovery partition and Windows as well.
I guess my question is; has anybody successfully cloned the original drive to another harddrive?
I wrote the local ASUS support about this, who just replied "We don't support hardware changes". - not the support ASUS is worldwide known for, I must say I was quite dissapointed.. -
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Seems to be correct from my observations of around 6hr battery time with wifi on.
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Please, just reinstall the system again and make sure you successfully install all necessary drivers. I have hard time believing that fresh reinstall would be the pure reason for your inadequate battery life (I mean I understand that the problems started after the reinstall but I think it must be due to some driver issues and such). Just look at this forum - at least 3 other people did the clean install and nobody else but you is complaining about their power consumption. I think that you would have saved yourself a lot of time by doing that instead of trying to get the system recovery image here. I Hope everything eventually works out. -
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Hey,
I finally have the machine into my hand. Totally satisfied yet so far ! (for those wondering, i have a Swiss QWERTZ, i7, SSD 258g, ordered on digitec for 1300 SW franc, so around 1000euro. Got delivered only in Swiss, but with all the adaptators, international warrant, and a computer case)
Now i have a question : i didnt do a clean install (and doesnt want to try, looks risky, whatever the specialists says aha), so, which programs can i uninstall ? Here's the list
imgur: the simple image sharer
imgur: the simple image sharer
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Wildtangent, apart from that, nothing looks particularly bad.
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New models starting to arrive with the updated CPU's here in Scandinavia. (i5-4210U and i7-7510U). So doesn't look like they have stopped making the UX32LN for the scandinavian market at least.
Even one version with 500Gb hybrid drive instead of SSD showed up. ( ASUS UX32LN-R4076H | På lager | Billig ) -
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Hope it's a lot cheaper as loosing an ssd is a big hit on performance.
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For the people who own this laptop, has anyone ever gamed for extended periods? E.g. 2-3hrs?
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ASUS Zenbook UX32LN (Nvidia GT 840M)
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