What is the most powerful fanless notebook?

Is there anything out there that beats the UX305 fanless 13.3 with the M-5Y10, hd 5300.
yoga 3 11 has M-5Y71 which appears to beat by a few pennies.

is that it for the fanless world for now?

i note microsoftstore has the UX305 on sale again for $599 if anyone is interested

 

The fastest modern processors have fans. Fanless is equal to Netbook performance. Asus I refuse to buy again. Support, warranty and horribly bad depot service is why. In the USA, Asus service is the worst of the major brands.

 

UX305 is an awesome laptop. I was hesitant but haven't looked back since I bought one. I originally wanted the Samsung Ativ Book 9 12.2" but the Asus UX305FA is half the cost and basically the same performance. The Core M is actually a lot faster than you'd think, plus it has 1080p matte lcd. Only thing it's missing is a backlit keyboard. I use mine every day now. Small, inexpensive (comparatively) and gets the job done.

And good luck with getting the Core M 5Y31 or 5Y71 to perform much faster than the 2GHz 5Y10 since most limit the TDP of the CPU anyhow. 5Y31 or 5Y71 might be able to sustain 2.2-2.4 GHz for a short while but my 5Y10 runs at 6.5W to maintain 2GHz and it's a 4.5W TDP chip.

 

Problem for me on this one is W10, then again if I purchased it the primary function would be consumption.

 

Tanware did you mean the UX305? and why the animus re W10?
Though I have seen no system UPgraded to W10 that performed BETTER than with W8.1 or even 7, I have seen a couple that were "as good" with a lot of tweaks. some unusable... immediate retreat back to the intended OS.

HTW - so it appears the presumption is right: if it must be fanless, then in the current gen the Delta between 5Y10 - 5y71 is slight.

 

Right the UX305, other than the OS version it looks like exactly what I could use rather than just a new android tablet. Since it is such new hardware then having W10 built in is not an issue for forced updates, at least so far.

My issue with W10 is the constant telemetry and privacy issues for my production machines. If it were 100% a consumption machine it would be fine but since I would do emailing and it would see, use and probably manipulate files on my LAN it is a no go.

 

And add to that the forced automatic updates which destroy workflow.

 

Yes I really hate the intrusiveness and the DAMAGE that the W10 updates cause. I have had to give instructions to non-techy users as to how to undo the inevitable updates to devices, even though the Properties /Device Installation / Settings are ticked as NO! apparently in the MS scheme some devices are less equal than others. they have had trouble from the tech preview stage with certain audio devices, for instance, and I regularly switch AMD SATA controllers back to standard MS AHCI generics which claws back a little disk perf.
hoping someone comes up with hacks to control those 'features'.

however, the privacy settings seem to 'hold' once set. if I'm wrong I need to hear.

the UX305, despite ASUS's lousy rep, is top dog in that category. I watch the aftermarket closely as it tells a lot about things as they really are, and the UX305 first of all is rarely 'summarily dumped' by its owners, and it holds its value remarkably well for a Wintel device. all that says the users like enough to put up with a few idiosyncrasies.
Wish it had viable competition...
the Yoga 13 is flawed [reverse all the above... lots of dump, low value, bad angry feedback]. the Yoga 2 11 is the better of that family. the i5 version has a strange disk setup; the i3/Pentium version is 'normal' - both are fanless and have good display panels if one likes glare-in-eye. but it is a big 11. E11-111m-p2yu is smaller/lighter 11 but is not a hybrid. Yoga 2 'feels big'

 

I am hoping spectre x2 is better. it looks good and has very good specs. With 30% off coupon I got it with m7/8GB/512GB SSD for $1000 plus tax.

 

Spectre is excellent, but it is not cheap. You get what you pay for.