The UX302LA is great, especially after swapping the spinning disk for an SSD and maxing out the RAM. I had lots of issues with the graphics when I first bought

The UX302LA is great, especially after swapping the spinning disk for an SSD and maxing out the RAM. I had lots of issues with the graphics when I first bought it (April 2014), though, and had to run with a kernel patch to the 'quirks' code in the display-panel detection. Fortunately a dedicated developer put all this together with a kernel build script ([1]) so it wasn't too bad (... for an experienced Linux guy) to get Arch running. In general though I think several-year-old ThinkPads are more painless because stuff like that has made it back to mainline already. [1] https://bitbucket.org/motley/kernel_asus_ux302/src https://bitbucket.org/motley/kernel_asus_ux302/src