U56E Freezing Lagging & Reliabilty

Hi.
Newbe on this excellent forum. I have a Asus U56E for 1 year now. On occassion it suddenly starts freezing and lagging and high CPU while simply just web surfing. I reformatted the laptop twice during this past year when I experience this problem. The problem still occurs on rare occassion. I discovered by accident that when I open the empty DVD drive drawer the freezing and lagging immediately stops and everything is back to normal. I changed my DVD settings to eject DVD after burn completes. So far no more problems. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I contacted Asus and they were not much help over the phone or email. They just told me to send it in for repair.

Lately I have been reading alot of negative articles about Asus reliability, build, quality, and service to be terrible. I thought at one time Asus was regarded as one of the best. Any thoughts or comments?

 

Sure. It's called "Windows". Worst virus and malware package ever created. What happens is that there's an exclusive process (most likely in the file-explorer) waiting to complete, that depends on when the dvd drive spins down. It's something you can change in the driver settings, to allow the dvd-drive to not spin down so soon, which is how most manufacturers "fix" it.

Hm.. when was that? No, "best" depends on the use and how many strange things you're prepared to ignore, right? Personally, I can't spend any amount of time with a Mac without starting to feel like I'm in grade-school, being instructed on how to hold a pencil, and to mind the punctuation, etc. All the edges are padded, and if you follow the rules you're rewarded with smiles. Then I'm forced to sing a song and be happy, and so on. But I know a lot of people who love that sort of thing, and really have no problem with any of it.

Conversely, a lot of people will never appreciate things that Asus does do right. With having very few pieces of software that cannot be installed separately outside their program package. I.e., providing a small stand-alone program to get the hardware buttons working, instead of making it part of a suite of programs they're trying to push, etc. Which is a shame, because if the usual legion of grade-schoolers didn't complain so much, there'd be less of the "everything should be in one utterly oblique software package that forces you into the payment portal, where all works perfectly and everyone is a happy paying customer" solutions out there..