Every black (dark brown) box I have seen and I have seen at list 7 or 8 have a sticker on them saying sandisk or sandforce. Of course I have only seen the UX31As and with the 32s there is no SSD anyway, is there?
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Additionally, there is the UX32VD that doesn't have an SSD but the UX32A does. To avoid confusion, '32s' isn't specific enough.
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Honestly, this would be the same thing as me saying you will get an ADATA no matter what. Since my own experiences are limited to that. I will just ignore all the other reports...I am sure you would object to that, right? -
Well, here is something positive which I am sure will cheer you up.
I just got back from my local MS store where they had two high end UX31As on display and we maxed out the brightness and rebooted both twice. GHranted we couldn't turn off the lights in the store but every indication is that both screens were perfect..not good..not a little bleed but perfect..no bleed on the bottom, no spotlights, no bleed on the sides..perfect. So does that mean yoiu have to buy a high end PC to get a good screen or have they finally figured out what their problem is and fixed it?...I may just order another DB51 from mazon to see if they fixed those too.
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You won't see any backlight bleed is due to the store is too bright. If you take the unit to a darker room (ex. like your regular bedroom), than you will notice all the bleeding.
I know this because of my own painful experience. I took my unit (i7, 256GB)back to MS store and one girl their was complaining she can not see anything wrong, which is true. After I insist, we than went to back of the store to their employee room and turned the light off, that's when all the blacklight bleed suddenly shown up so clear. -
Has anyone has deal with ASUS RMA before to replace or fix their Zenbook? How long is the process? Are they willing to replace the unit? If they do will they just exchange with a refurb unit?
Please let me know and share you experience because I might drop off mine to their RMA HQ at Milpitas, CA later today. Or anyone did exchange the unit at their Fremont HQ?
My unit has:
1. backlight bleed.
2. dead pixel at the center of the screen, very annoying.
3. Compare to my other 2 units before, the touchpad on this unit is loose, you can feel it and hear it when you softly tap the touchpad. -
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Interesting that the Microsoft Store stopped selling the new Samsung S9 13.3 inch. They ripped it off the floor and off the website. You can't even find it by doing a search on the website. When I was there they said they had two in the back but were told to take them off the floor. Wonder what that is all about.
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For units with the 128gb or 256gb ssd the sticker should be on the black interior box. The brown box just says SSD on the white label. -
If i had to guess id guess its either...
a. total random depending on who had stock when they needed them.
b. they were once all sandisk until early reviewers complaints had them switch and they are selling old stock.
one thing is probably sure, the cheaper ones will end up in the best buy models. So if they get a deal on sandisk we will see them, if they get a deal on adata, etc. -
Everyone the Santa Clara, CA microsoft store gives you both 20% + Free Xbox 360. Other stores do not, so if you can travel to there go for it! I wish I could!! I'll just wait until the end of August or early September before picking up a laptop, hopefully another deal like this comes by then! Because right now they don't even have the UX31A with i5, just i7 its useless without a dedicated graphics card, and no UX32VD!!
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I guess now I'll have to figure out how well Windows works on a Macbook Air. I need to get a new laptop for school soon, and all these issues are making me want to kill myself.[/QUOTE]
I used Windows 95% of the time on my Macbook Air, and it got annoying, which prompted me to sell it. My big gripe is no horizontal scrolling, so working in Excel sucked. Just something to keep in mind... -
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Using speedfan to monitor the fan, my fan will spin to about 3200rpm even during simple browsing for prolonged periods of time.
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Thanks for the reply. So the infamous "fan issue" that many have made reference to is specifically the instances of the fan frequently throttling to 5000+rpm?
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Also J&R on amazon, selling the UX31A for $999 + $9 shipping!, and Amazon officially sells for $1033 now! -
On my second UX31A. So far I had a fan spin up issue once. Happened a few hours after a resume. The fans would spin up 3 or 4 times over the period of 5 or so min then go back to normal for 10 or 15 min before spinning up again. I ran a BIOS update after that happened and the problem has yet to return. It's been 2 1/2 days. I still have 11 days left in my return period so we will see how things go. No random shut downs yet. May be a keeper.
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I'm having a strange issue. My auto resume seems to be really hit and miss. Sometimes when I open the lid it will auto resume and other times I have to press the power button before it will come on. Any help?
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Hey guys I just wanted to ask what kind of battery life are you guys getting?
I originally read about 5 hours, but even with brightness all the way down, the keyboard backlight turned off, and in battery saving mode, I'm still only getting around 3 hours which I think is not that great :/
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Rebooted and now it will auto resume weather its on power saving, balanced, or high performance. I've had this happen before should I return it? I have light bleed too so maybe I should just get a new one. But I don't have the fan issue so I kind of don't want to return it in case I get a fan. I know its incredibly lazy but I hate when I have to hit the power button to resume. Sorry for two posts but I wanted to add to my initial one. Thanks
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So, perhaps against my better judgment, I decided to take the plunge and buy a UX31A. Right off the bat, noticed pretty bad backlight bleed. Then, I noticed a sort of ring about 5cm in diameter, maybe almost a circle shape in the upper right quadrant, that is red and iridescent. Shows up most clearly on a black background. No idea what the story is with that.
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Edit: I currently don't have any CD's, so I won't be able to try a fresh windows 7 installation until this weekend. -
Well, my ux31a saga finally came to an end today. I returned my 4th ux31a to best buy. They were nice, I explained the problems and they processed the return. Pretty smooth experience, better than usual for best buy, maybe their new 30 day return policy also changed the attitude a bit about returns.
It didn't take me long to get something else. I decided there still may be an asus in my future since some of their windows 8 models look promising so I wanted to go with something cheap to use for the next few months. I ended up picking up a previous gen (sandy bridge) Samsung Series 9 11.6" model. sandy bridge i3, 128gb ssd, 4gb, intel 3k graphics, usb 2/3, mini hdmi, micro sd card slot, etc. It was their last one, got it for $629 (original price $1249). Not bad at all. The screen is gorgeous, the keyboard is plenty of travel, better than any other ultra book ive tried, and its pretty much as advertised except its wifi card gets terrible reception.. ill be swapping it out for an intel centrino card.
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Hi,
I'm thinking of getting an ASUS Zenbook UX32A-DB51 listed here: Amazon.com: ASUS UX32A-DB51 13.3-Inch Full-HD LED Ultrabook: Computers & Accessories
My question is, since its a hybrid drive, can I/has anyone wiped the 24GB "cache" drive and install/boot Windows 7 off of that? Did everything go smoothly?
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FYI, if any one with a 32vd is interested in increasing there gaming FPS, the 620m overclocks nicely since its under clocked by default to lower temps. I only recommend doing this if you have repasted the GPU and CPU with IC diamond or AS5 etc.
3d mark 2011 scores have gone from P1100 to P1400, and this has given most games a good 6-7 fps more.
WEI graphics rate up to 6.4 from 6.3.
NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M video card benchmark result - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3517U CPU @ 1.90GHz,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. UX32VD score: P1413 3DMarks -
So BestBuy has the i5 version of the UX32VD in stock. Should I pull the trigger? The i7 is still nowhere to be found.
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If you want a cheaper ultrabook you can get the 2gb, 64gb ssd version of the 11.6" series 9 for 599 at tiger direct. About 1/2 of them will have the broadcom wireless card which has terrible range in that duraluminum case so you would have to swap it for an intel wireless (remove 8 screws and take off the back to swap the car). It only has a 1366x768 screen, but its 340nits, sharp as hell and consistent lighting. It only has an i3 processor too so its not as powerful. It does however have a great keyboard (like it better than any ultrabook ive tried) and screen and its only about 2.3lbs. -
how did you overclock your system, MSI Afterburner? I have the same system and mine overclocks to around 840 max boosted clock. Do you get 775+90Mhz boost for a total of 865 Mhz? Did you try going higher than that on the core? What's your max temp? Sorry I'm asking so much, I'm wondering if I should go for the thermal re-pasting. Thanks! -
Oh, and did I mention that it too has a sandisk SSD and it only gets a 5.9 score in WEI. -
This is for those of you that have the Best Buy UX31a (128GB SSD) and use it in conjunction with an external drive. How well does that set up work for you? If I go this route, I'll need to maintain my iTunes library externally and was wondering if you find that to be too much of a pain. I'm guessing you only have to connect the external drive if you are going to do anything within iTunes, otherwise it can just stay tucked away wherever one stores their external drive.
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Spotify, so great
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I would have loved to get the 1600x900 screen and if it had been 1080p I may have went for it but couldn't justify 400 this go around when I know im going to be in the market again soon. -
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Just remember that the i5 version of UX32VD is NOT FullHD and dont have IPS screen i belive, Atleast the one they sell here only has 1366x768 resolution.
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Well, my 3rd UX31a from Best Buy is going back...for good now -- no more exchanges. Backlight bleed is HORRENDOUS (I was was willing to deal with an acceptable amount, like what I have seen on some reviewer's videos, but this isn't even close to acceptable). Even worse, this new unit started to run very hot -- idle temps are 12-15C higher than the last unit I had, and this is with 0% CPU load, so obviously an issue with the CPU itself, or improper placement of the heatsink and/or not enough thermal paste. As such, the fan would run 98% of the time, and would shut off for about 5 seconds, and come back on -- very annoying. I have to say, while this laptop on the spec sheet is great, Asus didn't execute -- their quality control has much to be desired, and unfortunately ruins what could have been a great laptop.
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Could someone please answer to why my laptop won't wake when I open the lid? I'll give ya $2
Ivy Bridge Zenbook with FHD IPS screen UX21A UX31A UX32A UX32VD
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