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For those who have installed W7 entirely on the Sandisk SSD with the HDD as storage (such as dunces), do you feel completely satisfied with this setup? I don't use huge programs and would likely mainly install MS Office 2010 and photoshop CS5. I did purchase the 256GB Crucial M4, but I'm having second thoughts about using it if things are running well on a mere 32GB SSD and can return it to Amazon as I haven't opened it yet. I also wanted to ask if you could easily return to a stock configuration if for some reason you needed to return the laptop.
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Chichgeek, happy to help a girl here
Usually when the stickers are new, they come off easily without any trace. If not, use the stickers themselves as "magnets" for residue, you can use them to pick up any glue left, carefully.
I always remove all stickers right away, they are for the shop display, not for usage. And later they leave a mark, as the plastic might have aged differently around them. If the Zenbook's top is metal, this is less a danger. -
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Hi everyone, just signed up so that I could thank you all for the great input these past hundred pages! I've been lurking and I'm now typing this from the UX31A, which I got today from Amazon
I also wanted to add that I got ADATA as well, and I'm not seeing backlight bleeding on the screen *shrug* Maybe I haven't tested it out enough in all types of conditions, but I haven't noticed it at all. I also haven't had any problems with the fans, it's really quiet most of the time. The touchpad is bugging me a bit with it being so sensitive, but I might just use a mouse so that's okay for now.
The only thing that's being buggy is that flash and video don't seem to work properly on Google Chrome...?? I get these weird bright flashes of colors going on randomly instead of the actual video on youtube. I hear the sound fine but the video is all weird. It works totally fine on IE and Firefox though.. Does anyone know what could be causing the problem on just Chrome? -
you got the normal ux31a with the 128gb and i5 correct? I plan to get that one
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Yup! That's the one. I was thinking about the DB71, but I have no need for an i7 since I'm not running intensive programs or anything like that. It seems like so far everyone's been receiving the one with ADATA for this model at least? judging by the comments here and on amazon.. I was so scared opening up the box today, scared that I'd see a Sandisk sticker!
I'm happy with it minus the touchpad which is driving me insane. I keep zooming in and out on accident I have no issues w/ the keypad or the sharp edge digging into my wrists/arms.. but maybe that depends on each person and how big their hands are..?
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Simple question...
Where can we see what graphic card is used ?
And how to switch easly ?
I had an Alienware M11X and it was really easy... just an tray icon, right click and choose between the two.. but can't find anything on asus ux32vd
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Yeah, completely satisfied. It's more snappy than I could ever ask for, that is every action is instant or within milliseconds. I might be the only one with this setup currently, so you'll probably only get any real world input from me as of yet
If you ask me I don't think it's worth it to have such an expensive SSD in it when the integrated one can be used for the Windows 7 install. Only if the money doesn't matter much. What you'll see with a proper full size SSD is way faster 4k performance, but I regard the i100 as very sufficient. The main thing about SSDs are the low search time (like 0.1ms) compared to mechanical HDDs 16-20ms or so. And that low ms search time you'll get with the integrated Sandisk i100 SSD. Of course you'll also be able to use a store bought SSD for size-consuming apps like games and big production suites, and if the faster loadtimes in those are worth paying for it's up to you.
If you're after a snappy Windows 7 environment which I guess most of us are, then I think anyone would be satisfied with the built in Sandisk i100 SSD. I did a qucik real world test by virus scanning the system32 and syswow64 folders on this one, and on my stationary computer which has an OCZ Gen3 SandForce 500/500 SSD. This one appears to be about 50-60% of the speed of the OCZ one in numbers of objects scanned per minute. A very respectable result.
I've installed Adobe Creative Suite CS6 on the mechanical HDD, with Premiere CS6, Photoshop CS6 etc. It works very well, even premiere loads in just a few seconds.
You're not going to run out of space easily if you just follow a few simple steps. As stated earlier I had only used 15GB of the 30GB when everything was ready (including firefox, vlc, skype etc.). This was using an unmodified Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install. What you need to do is; 1. disabling the hibernation file, which will return 2-4GB of space. 2. lower the page file to 1024MB or so, which will return another 3GB or so. 3. (optional) disable the system restore and uninstall "tablet pc" files from Windows Components, which will return around 500mb-1GB more.
This only takes a few minutes to do, and it's hardly any micromanaging involved. I ran my stationary computer on a 30GB SSD for a couple years when they were new. It was no problems whatsoever.
Even after installing word processing and some other heavier programs on the SSD I still have over 12GB left.
Since people are mainly going to use the computer for simple tasks like word processing, surfing and word processing - everything will work very snappy directly from the SSD while the other HDD sleeps. And when heavier programs are launched from the mechanical HDD it's still fast, but will just a couple of seconds to spin up and load. The HDD is very silent when it's not trashing around (like it is with the preinstalled bloatware mess). -
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I think im getting a little more used to it but still wish i could just disable the zooming multitouch function! oh and fixed the Chrome/flash problem.. it was just chrome having a bad day i guess!
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Cheers Jedighost, you make some great points here.
I agree that the quickest and easiest way to convert the SSD from GPT to MBR in the Disk Management tool. Like you say, I don't either see any reason why it wouldn't work and it would get rid of the added step of Parted Magic which would be nice. Anyhow, people will be able to see if it works before installing Windows 7 since if it's not listed with a 'warning sign' in the install process Disk Management it's good to go. People can also see if it's listed as a bootable disk in the BIOS - that's the quickest way of doing it.
It's also a good point that it's safest to keep the original Windows 7 install as long as possible, but if it messes with the boot process it might still be worth to format the original C: during the Windows 7 install process after having confirmed that it will accept the integrated Sandisk i100 SSD as a target disk. Regarding the drivers, I could also arrange a list of what do download from Asus homepage since people would get the newest drivers (a big bonus by doing it like this I think) and can get only what they need, so it's no unnecessary processes in the background.
The fan operating should be able to get to work exactly as it were in the stock Windows 7 install, so you're right that I'm probably missing some important drivers. I only thought that it should be operated by the BIOS, but it's more likely that it is a conjunction between both the BIOS and the operating systems drivers.
I only have the Power4Gear driver as of yet, and will install the rest and report back. The laptop have been acting very silent, but sometimes when it's under load it will control the fans a bit clumsily, even spinning them pretty fast when the processor already is really cool. Anyhow I'll do the driver installs now
You're right, the HDD light is working for the SSD as well. It was probably because things were loaded into the RAM that I didn't see any activity of the led. I will update the other post.
I already tested the ASUS live update, but then it only reported a firmware update (to the 206 bios). I've now updated the bios, so it perhaps list the rest of the drivers now.
The guide is coming soon, latest by sunday. Hang on all
PS. Here is a 3dMark11 run with it on a clean Windows 7 install on the integrated SSD. Those reports about the 620M being unnecessary as it only give around 500 points like the Intel HD4000 are just bogus. NoricHardware got 1025 points on the preinstalled Windows 7 using the mechanical HDD, so it's a nice 10% boost!
Ivy Bridge Zenbook with FHD IPS screen UX21A UX31A UX32A UX32VD
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