Asus UX31 Ultrabook

OK, I purchased the DH53 with the 256GB ssd last night.

I am having the hardest time gaining access to my QNAP NAS which is attached to my network.

I connect to my network wirelessly. When I click "network" I can see the Asus laptop, my desktop and my Qnap nas. When I click the qnap nas, I see all the folders. When I try to go into the folder, I get a message which states "The specific network name is no longer available".

Has anyone else run into this problem? Any known fixes?

Thanks.

 

Disregard my last post.

This is also happening with another laptop and is not an Zenbook issue.

 

I have now also sanded down a HDMI cable it fits with vga adaptor.

So I now have

2270 x 1440 and 1920 x 1080.

 

Do you guys find the screen too high of resolution?

 

thats like saying is my car too fast.

you can always up the dpi of the interface.

 

heeey! got my rose goldtoday unfortunately it's with sandisk but thats okay i checked in several stores and they were all with sandisk. Anyway any tips on what i should do? i have been following this product for several months but now that i have it i don't really remember what to check. Oh how do i check the read write speed? thanks in advance!

 

update> is it necessary to download the drivers? since i bought the new ux31 i think these might have the latest drivers or am i mistaken? furthermore i i think the wifi is a bit jumpy. Does anyone know why i'm having difficulties playing videos in full hd on youtube even though i'm using 54mbit? Also, my laptop seems to take 30 secs to boot Sorry, but i'm not that good with computers...

 

No I think its perfect for me. I guess if you were coming from a lower resolution at first you will find the text too small, but give it time and you will adjust to it. I felt the same way, when I first got my dell 15" xps which had a 1680x1050.

 

how bad is my sandisk ssd? should i try and return it or is it acceptable?



thanks in advance

 

thats more than double the seq speed of my adata, and half the 512/4k numbers.

thats for writes, read are about the same

 

That's what every UX31 with a Sandisk SSD get.

 

to the people with adata ssd's, how long does it take to boot up your zenbook?
i'm not really sure if i should try to return mine and get the adata. My old ty laptop, which i bought for half the price of the zenbook three years ago, get's a wei of 5.3 on the hard drive and boots in like 45 secs. My sandisk gets 5.9 and boots in like 30.

edit
Could anyone be kind enough to tell me what 4kQD32 measures? the biggest difference between adata and sandisk are in the 4k comparisons. Also, i learned that 4k is more important...
Btw, does the rose gold even come with adata ssd's? I checked about 7 of them and they all had sandisk

 

I dont think from the various posts its random which SSD you get. It seems that certain CPU/touchpad and country of sale determines which version you get.

In the UK ALL ate core i7 with the sanforce.

If you disable using msconfig all non essential start up apps it should take less than 20 seconds to the login screen,

 

For adata/sandforce

4k reads are 19.92
4k writes are 48.98

 

i actually knew that the rose gold had the sandisk as i checked it but it wasn't what i wanted initially. I first entered the store asking for rose gold with adata, but when they said they didn't have one i took the original with i5 and adata. Once i came home i realized that they had given me the ux21 so i went back and they eventually said that they apparently don't even have ux31 with adata. Tired as i was i just took a rose gold and left since i was annoyed and wanted to go home. I knew that the sandisk ssd was going to be bad, but not this bad. In my opinion it sucks ..

 

you say it sucks, yet you get more than double the sequential write speed.

 

but 512k and 4k sucks compared to adata
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of course I accept the adata is faster in smaller writes. I just think everyone is so anti-sandisk when its actually much better in some scenarios.

ps, thats screenshot matches my adata almost perfectly.

 

i do admit that my expectations have bee rather high as i've waited approx four months for this laptop but my three year old laptop seems to preform as good as my ux31. Anyway i'm probably going to see if i can change it in a couple of hours. Hopefully they will accept...

 

i successfully returned the ux31

 

I have the UX31E - I7 processor with 256GB Sandisk. Bought it at the Microsoft Store before New Years - they load a somewhat different image without bloatware but keeping a lot of ASUS stuff. Had WEI of 5.6 based on low desktop performance after BIOS update to 2.09 and before the last set of ASUS updates. Have it set, when on line power, to high performance and running Instant On. Just cold booted a couple times and got no more than 12 seconds to the login screen.

On the other hand, just reran the WEI and it plummeted to 3.4 based on a much lower processor score. Not sure what that was all about so I ran it again and it went back to the previous 5.6.

 

i see..well, you at least got the i7. That counts for something, right? I'm not sure if im going to buy the ux31 with adata. I realized as much as I want a nice design I also want a great performance. With that said I might wait for Ivy Bridge and buy the Samsung 9. Not sure though.... Unless someone else has a better suggestion

 

btw, how many processes do you have running when you're logged on after those 12 secs. Those 18 secs was prob with all the bloatware and stuff, meaning they had like 95+ processes running

 

if you are running on battery WEI will be lower as processor is restricted to 60%.

 

Thanks for your advice. I cannot test it because i cannot login (no input device driver i think)

Since some days i also have many time a bluescreen: 0x000000f4

 

you dont need the pointer to login, you can use the arrow keys.

plus plug a usb mouse otherwise.

 

As quickly as I could check (took several seconds so lets say 20 seconds after hitting the power switch) I found 91 processes running. It dropped a couple of those a few second later and seemed to stabilize at about 86 processes.

I should add that the 12 seconds surprised me as well and I have to guess something changed recently since I had timed it closer to 30 seconds when I first got the unit.

 

Same here. Waiting to for the ivy bridge and for the 2nd gen of ultrabooks. Because Lenovo, Asus and the likes have all failed on the 1st Gen. I think they rushed it.

Asus with the poor hardware and Lenovo for not including an SD card reader. Also, Lenovo 2nd Gen is also a failure. The U315? is thicker than the U300s and runs on a spinning hardrive. FAIL!

If no one can get the ultrabooks RIGHT, then I might as well jump the ship into Apple. I played with it a little at Best Buy is honestly, it's not as bad as the PC users make it out to be.

It's actually pretty easy to use, looks good, runs great and the trackpad and keyboard works fine. No need to "Get use to it" as these Ux31 user have to do....

 

Well the dual core processors from Ivy Bridge have been delayed and will be released after June. How do you feel about Samsung's 9 series with Ivy Bridge? Honestly I'm not fond up Lenovo and even if I hate to admit it, I'd rather go with an MBA than that. It's not so much that I hate Apple, but more of the fact that EVERYONE has to buy the latest Apple product. I'd rather have something unique like the UX31, which unfortunately lacked in performance, than to buy something that everyone else already have. You don't happen to know any upcoming models with IB, do you?

 

bambooragons, you are in error.

The u300e is not the second gen version. Its side by side and aimed at a lower price point that the u300s.

 

And both Mac and PC user will say that Linux suck when it absolutely doesn't. Welcome to the world of Fanboy. It all depends on what you want to do.

 

I have only farted around with Linux. I own a Mac, and a crap load of PC's. Mac is OK for sitting in Starbucks and checking your email. If you snt to do anything productive windows is the only way.

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Sorry but you sound like a troll, on several points and several levels.

1) First, you do realize that we're talking about an ultrabook working on a 17v voltage, right?

You can indeed find many 3-year-old laptops displaying more performance than an UX31 with the i7 proc, at least on a graphical level (because there weren't many SSDs around in laptops in 2009...), except that you get a fourth of the autonomy on battery, triple the size, triple the weight and triple the mW consumption.

2) As to the SanDisk SSD, it is a potent one despite not being of a well-known SSD brand (300-400 mB/s of sequential read and write is what you get in most high-performance SSDs like the recent OCZ and Intel ones. I do admit that the random ops are a bit in retreat though, but still acceptable.)

My UX31 boots Windows 7 in 10 seconds max (power on to desktop).

And, finally, buying a laptop without first checking performance reviews on the Internet before returning it opened and used is something that would personally p*** me off a lot if I was a shop owner.

 

I'm finding it hard to believe a Sandy Bridge with an SSD is being outperformed by a 3-year old notebook.

But this is the internet.

 

And if it did it would be very thick and last less than 2 hours on a battery.

Apples and oranges.

 

Precisely. There is nothing wrong in criticizing the ultrabooks of Asus, but they must be compared to similar concurrent products, and there is really only one out there, which is the MacBook Air -- in terms of size, power consumption, weight, noise and heat.

As to the brute performance of the i7 UX31 (if it is really what you seek in an ultraportable), it is of very high level in normal tasks (manipulating files, surfing graphical web pages, playing 1080p videos, photoshopping...).

For games, sorry but you won't be able to play Skyrim. The Sandy Bridge HD 3000 won't cut it. Though, you can play some recent games like MW3 or Dirt 2 with anti-aliasing disabled, and a lot of older games on full detail.

 

Find myself agreeing completely with BigNerd, decworld and FRSinclair on this one.

The Asus UX31 is not perfect (e.g., the keyboard needs improvement imho) but, it is overall a very nice product. There are more things right than wrong with it.

Now, if I could only find the ac adapter for less than the Asus estore is asking, the world would be more perfect (w/shipping $68.99)

 

How to do that? Is there any special settings? Mine boots in about 17-20 seconds.
(have deleted all asus game and unnecessary app)

 

You would need to disable ALL optional startup applications in msconfig and some services that start in a normal installation.

Plus I think his time is not counting the bios starting, and is to the login screen and not past it.

Mine is about 14 seconds with this logic.

 

Anyways, this will all change with WIndows 8 Fast boot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj39HdtOB5U

 

unfortunately update the drivers didn't fix the problem for me. anyone here know another solution?

 

Remove then add.

But I have some USB2 devices that wont work in fresco logic usb 3/2 ports.

 

Nice find, Windows 8 looking good.

But honestly, my ASUS UX31E, out of the box, no reformat, stock drivers, 100+ processes running, including Norton 360, cold boots to a usable desktop (one click to open Waterfox) in about 22 seconds (provided no usb drives are attached, which take a few seconds longer to load).

And as you know, the UX31E series typically resume from sleep in 2 seconds.

I can hardly get myself seated before the machine is ready

That's a winning fast boot!

 

Question for anyone in the know: I've heard that the UX31E has had some wireless problems. Does anyone know if this has been address in a bios update? If not, is it possible to replace the Atheros nic with an intel or broadcom?

I'm thinking about one of these or the Samsung 9 series for traveling.
Thanks..........

 

For an objective valuation, you could download an run this app
http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/Benchmarks/FritzChessBench.zip

On my UX31 with i5, the score is about 9.5.

Careful, this is a highly intensive cpu usage app, it will jump cpu's temp easily up to 85' C

 

Nope. As for as the Series 9 goes, I like the old look better. Not sure how I feel about the new one. I have to see it in person.

I really need to get a new laptop so if nothing comes up by mid March, I might be jumping ship.

 

I think, AData only used in the first gen of UX31, new gen don't use it anymore since it has firmware bug. (Read it on anand's review)

 

So sold my Mac day b4 yesterday,and went to bestbuy to get a ultrabook, as I am changing countries lol. Here's my take:
The Toshiba looks like a bloody joke,flimsy bendy light thing with a ty resolution.
The Samsung 9 looked good but with a bad resolution and many other issues,I wasn't gonna get one anyways.
The folio13 looked pretty good,really good,but it gave me a Wei of 4.7 based on the graphics card! Dont know how that happened. Will consider it later.
Last I looked at the asus.kinda difficult to look at it last,because bb had it in the centre. but its construction was mindblowing, I had heard good things about it,but nothing could prepare me for the sheer beauty of the thing and brilliance of the high Res screen. The sound was awesome too of course. Ran Wei,gave me 7.9 on the sad(adata) ,touch pad was OK,sentelic though. But I can live with it. So I am gonna go to office depot today to buy one of these, since they have a 30 day return. But can anyone confirm that the rsl8 models at bestbuy and office depot all have the adata? I will be really pissed if I get the sandisk.
Ps-all of these get 5.8 on the gpu,right? Drags the stupid Wei down. I saw another Samsung laptop,series 7 I think,that also had 5.8 Wei,limited by the hdd. Kinda dissapointed with the similar Wei scores.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

Since you are discussing about WEI

Here mine from Singapore

CPU - 6.9
RAM - 5.9
Graphic - 5.6
Gaming Graphic - 6.3
HDD - 7.9

UX31, i7, Adata 128 ssd, sentelic touchpad

 

Never had any WiFi problem with the Qualcomm Atheros card on both Bios 206, 207 and 211.

It is a quite powerful and stable card, which can detect distant networks my Intel Centrino 5100 couldn't.

Maybe a driver issue? I know the card doesn't work in a fresh Windows install if you don't install the official drivers.