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Seriously? Asus still have this problem? I remember fixing it by removing the touchpad driver on a friends asus almost two years ago. The fan was always on max

by Too 12y ago

Seriously? Asus still have this problem? I remember fixing it by removing the touchpad driver on a friends asus almost two years ago. The fan was always on max because the driver set min cpu speed to 100% at every reboot. I feel for the non tech savy people who don't know how to fix this and think this is how the computer should be. No wonder normal people prefer ipads over pcs.

busterarm 12y ago
My friend spent like $3500 on his ASUS laptop and the touchpad never even worked...and he had multiple hardware replacements. I really just want a decent portable computer with no built-in input devices and USB ports as an option. Maybe I'm crazy. We should be able to do this with UEFI now.
- Swizec 12y ago
  For $3500 why not just buy a Mac?
  - busterarm 12y ago
    He's anti-Mac and he bought it for gaming. He's got no brains, tbh.
  - dagw 12y ago
    One reason is that Apple doesn't sell laptops with decent graphics cards. Apple also maxes out at 16 GB of RAM. Another reason is that some people like larger screens and Apple has stopped offering that.
    - wtallis 12y ago
      On the other hand, all of those features tend to result in machines that stretch the definition of laptop and usually land themselves into what used to be called "luggables". Even Apple's 17" MacBook Pro was 6.6 pounds and 15.5 inches wide, and if you triple the TDP of the GPU, double the number of memory slots, and increase the battery and cooling proportionately you've got something that can only be transported with special purpose luggage.
      - frozenport 12y ago
        You sound like a wimp! I have never had a problem fitting my Asus ROG laptop in my backpack. I got raid ssds, 32 gigs of ram and a 770 GPU. I can do my work from anywhere.
        wtallis 12y ago
        Anywhere with an outlet. Looking at the current Asus ROG 17" laptops, it looks like they've got a model that's only 7.5 pounds with a battery the same size as in the MacBook Air 13". Or you can get a 10.5 pound machine that's got a battery the size of what's in current 15" MacBook Pros and was in the 17" MBPs. And most of those manage to stay less than 2" thick, but they're all at least twice as thick as a current MBP. All in all, they've got almost as much in common with an iMac as with a MacBook Pro. (Seriously: the 21.5" iMac is only 2 pounds heavier.) 10 pounds of textbooks in a backpack is regarded as a public health problem. 10 pounds of computer cannot be taken seriously as something made for use on the go. We really do need some more specific terminology to draw distinctions between the different classes of hinged computers.
  - sz4kerto 12y ago
    There's no Macbook that's good for gaming, because of the OS and the cooling. There are more and more games on Steam that run on OSX but the performance is usually abysmal (e.g. Dota2 runs around 20% fps on OSX compared to Windows). And they're just too thin to have a cooling that'd be suitable for gaming -- Asus ROG laptops are incredibly well cooled, really.
    - Audiophilip 12y ago
      >There's no Macbook that's good for gaming, because of the OS and the cooling. I'm not sure what you mean here regarding the OS. You can install Windows on any Mac since Apple transitioned to Intel processors around 2006-2007.
      - sz4kerto 12y ago
        Of course, you can install Windows on it but then you lose many of the advantages of using a Mac -- for example, trackpad precision and overall energy efficiency. So if the laptop is going to be used for gaming, then it does not make sense to buy a Mac and install Windows on it. (I've got a rMBP, and I'm using Windows on it most of the time because I don't like OSX and I can't replace the laptop at the moment, but I am very much aware of the disadvantages of this setup.)
        Audiophilip 12y ago
        All right, I get what you mean, but now we're talking about something else. Your original statement that I reacted to was: "There's no Macbook that's good for gaming, because of the OS and the cooling." Your reasoning that because of their OS MacBooks are not good for gaming is simply not true, considering that you can install Windows on them to eliminate the aforementioned graphical performance issues of OS X. If an ASUS ROG laptop was originally shipped with Linux, would you also say that it's not good for gaming because of its OS? See what I mean? >So if the laptop is going to be used for gaming, then it does not make sense to buy a Mac and install Windows on it. Are you sure? I think even if you cannot utilize the touchpad and energy efficiency to its fullest capabilities (which are not really relevant in gaming anyway), the build quality of the shell and the quality of the screen and keyboard makes it a strong contestant even among normal Windows laptops. Plus, you have OS X there (or Linux, for that matter) for non-gaming uses.
- wtallis 12y ago
  What's UEFI got to do with it?
  - busterarm 12y ago
    You aren't limited by space in BIOS and hardware interrupts and can have a GUI and working touchscreen at boot without an OS now? You can't sell a mobile computer that you can't control in BIOS because it has no input devices.
    - p1mrx 12y ago
      A touchscreen is a built-in input device.
      - busterarm 12y ago
        This is a comment that misses the forest for the trees.
        wtallis 12y ago
        What forest? You still haven't elucidated at all what it is you want to accomplish and why firmware is relevant. It seems like it might have something to do with input devices, but pre-EFI machines weren't any more limited in the range of USB HID devices they supported.
- qwerta 12y ago
  There is no way to disable it in bios? I disabled lot of stuff and my battery life increased by 30 minutes

by Too 12y ago

busterarm 12y ago

My friend spent like $3500 on his ASUS laptop and the touchpad never even worked...and he had multiple hardware replacements. I really just want a decent portable computer with no built-in input devices and USB ports as an option. Maybe I'm crazy. We should be able to do this with UEFI now.

Swizec 12y ago
For $3500 why not just buy a Mac?
- busterarm 12y ago
  He's anti-Mac and he bought it for gaming. He's got no brains, tbh.
- dagw 12y ago
  One reason is that Apple doesn't sell laptops with decent graphics cards. Apple also maxes out at 16 GB of RAM. Another reason is that some people like larger screens and Apple has stopped offering that.
  - wtallis 12y ago
    On the other hand, all of those features tend to result in machines that stretch the definition of laptop and usually land themselves into what used to be called "luggables". Even Apple's 17" MacBook Pro was 6.6 pounds and 15.5 inches wide, and if you triple the TDP of the GPU, double the number of memory slots, and increase the battery and cooling proportionately you've got something that can only be transported with special purpose luggage.
    - frozenport 12y ago
      You sound like a wimp! I have never had a problem fitting my Asus ROG laptop in my backpack. I got raid ssds, 32 gigs of ram and a 770 GPU. I can do my work from anywhere.
      - wtallis 12y ago
        Anywhere with an outlet. Looking at the current Asus ROG 17" laptops, it looks like they've got a model that's only 7.5 pounds with a battery the same size as in the MacBook Air 13". Or you can get a 10.5 pound machine that's got a battery the size of what's in current 15" MacBook Pros and was in the 17" MBPs. And most of those manage to stay less than 2" thick, but they're all at least twice as thick as a current MBP. All in all, they've got almost as much in common with an iMac as with a MacBook Pro. (Seriously: the 21.5" iMac is only 2 pounds heavier.) 10 pounds of textbooks in a backpack is regarded as a public health problem. 10 pounds of computer cannot be taken seriously as something made for use on the go. We really do need some more specific terminology to draw distinctions between the different classes of hinged computers.
- sz4kerto 12y ago
  There's no Macbook that's good for gaming, because of the OS and the cooling. There are more and more games on Steam that run on OSX but the performance is usually abysmal (e.g. Dota2 runs around 20% fps on OSX compared to Windows). And they're just too thin to have a cooling that'd be suitable for gaming -- Asus ROG laptops are incredibly well cooled, really.
  - Audiophilip 12y ago
    >There's no Macbook that's good for gaming, because of the OS and the cooling. I'm not sure what you mean here regarding the OS. You can install Windows on any Mac since Apple transitioned to Intel processors around 2006-2007.
    - sz4kerto 12y ago
      Of course, you can install Windows on it but then you lose many of the advantages of using a Mac -- for example, trackpad precision and overall energy efficiency. So if the laptop is going to be used for gaming, then it does not make sense to buy a Mac and install Windows on it. (I've got a rMBP, and I'm using Windows on it most of the time because I don't like OSX and I can't replace the laptop at the moment, but I am very much aware of the disadvantages of this setup.)
      - Audiophilip 12y ago
        All right, I get what you mean, but now we're talking about something else. Your original statement that I reacted to was: "There's no Macbook that's good for gaming, because of the OS and the cooling." Your reasoning that because of their OS MacBooks are not good for gaming is simply not true, considering that you can install Windows on them to eliminate the aforementioned graphical performance issues of OS X. If an ASUS ROG laptop was originally shipped with Linux, would you also say that it's not good for gaming because of its OS? See what I mean? >So if the laptop is going to be used for gaming, then it does not make sense to buy a Mac and install Windows on it. Are you sure? I think even if you cannot utilize the touchpad and energy efficiency to its fullest capabilities (which are not really relevant in gaming anyway), the build quality of the shell and the quality of the screen and keyboard makes it a strong contestant even among normal Windows laptops. Plus, you have OS X there (or Linux, for that matter) for non-gaming uses.
wtallis 12y ago
What's UEFI got to do with it?
- busterarm 12y ago
  You aren't limited by space in BIOS and hardware interrupts and can have a GUI and working touchscreen at boot without an OS now? You can't sell a mobile computer that you can't control in BIOS because it has no input devices.
  - p1mrx 12y ago
    A touchscreen is a built-in input device.
    - busterarm 12y ago
      This is a comment that misses the forest for the trees.
      - wtallis 12y ago
        What forest? You still haven't elucidated at all what it is you want to accomplish and why firmware is relevant. It seems like it might have something to do with input devices, but pre-EFI machines weren't any more limited in the range of USB HID devices they supported.
qwerta 12y ago
There is no way to disable it in bios? I disabled lot of stuff and my battery life increased by 30 minutes