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I'm never ever going to buy another ZenBook again. I got one for my girlfriend and another one for my dad, around the same time one of my dev friends also deci
by b212 8y ago
I'm never ever going to buy another ZenBook again.
I got one for my girlfriend and another one for my dad, around the same time one of my dev friends also decided to move to ZenBook from rMBP.
Compared to Macbooks it looks, feels and works cheap (the trackpad, d'oh), but that's not the major issue as almost everything is that way excepting Surafaces/XPSes.
But the real issue here is this: hinges. They're horrible. They break every 2 to 9 months. Their quality is also very easy to test - just open any ZenBook in shop and wobble it. Macbook's screen is as solid as rock, won't move an ich, while ZenBooks one - well, it wobbles. Almost unusable on the bus for example, your screen will shake as hell on even smallest bump or corner. And then the hinges will break and Asus will replace them for you. And the new ones will last a year, if you're lucky. Then it happens again and again and all of sudden you're out of warranty and at this point, after replacing hinges for a few times, you're told that they'd gladly replace them for you - and it costs only around $400, while you paid for your ZenBoook $1000, two years ago. %#$# them.
And I wasn't unlucky, this is considered normal for Asus:
http://www.breadcrumbsguide.com/asus-zenbook-review/ http://www.breadcrumbsguide.com/asus-zenbook-review/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAP-NwyE4H4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAP-NwyE4H4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ju1aCd4iOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ju1aCd4iOo
etc.
Terrible, terrible build quality and no respect for consumers, don't even go near them.
- utbabya 8y agoI moved to macbook when my ASUS laptop's hinges broke about 4 years ago because it's ~50% of the cost to fix it. The macbook's capacitor died earlier this year (funny enough it doesn't complete kill it, just makes it run extremely slow, without EE background it gave me a hard time to figure this out), I went to back to PC because it cost ~80% of the cost to fix it, and, touchbar. But you're right, it's been so many years and ASUS still haven't figured out hinges that don't break? Don't think they deserve the benefit of the doubt.
- christophilus 8y agoWhat do you mean by really slow? My old MacBook is also running slowly, and I hadn't thought of the capacitor as being a possible culprit.
- utbabya 8y agoExactly, there're many reasons for it to run slow. If yours is still usable it's unlikely, mine takes minutes to boot up, and it shuts itself down. It's been a while and I got rid of it but IIRC it still provided power but was under watt, you can confirm by comparing the normal level for you model. BTW once you've confirmed you can pretty much dump it, won't be easy to find fix other than getting a replacement motherboard, which is pretty much everything.
- Pxtl 8y agoYeah, Asus has a knack for making apparently-great devices for a fantastic price but then giving them one critical problem that makes the device worthless. Remember the first Nexus 7 with its dying nand memory?
- cozzyd 8y agoHmm the hinges on my zenbook ux305 have seemed solid. Can't speak to other models. Have had it for almost two years.
- slantyyz 8y agoSame for my zenbook ux501. I find the build quality to be not far away from a 2011 15" MBP.