I had this laptop when it was first came out. Back then besides macbook air, there were’t much ultra books out there. This little thing caught my eyes. VERY GOOD build quality and the case is well made too. Laptop runs fast with the SSD and overall UI is good. Only complain? HD 3000 is a little weak and this laptop can play light game only.(For example, dont even bother play starcraft 2 on it, it wont run.)
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Amazon Likes It
So Does New Egg
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…me, too.
AND NO Windows 8!!!
Let’s read (and watch) this review over at cnet
Very good reviews (4.5 out of 5.0) over at bhphotovideo.com
Got the wife one of these last November. Very nice machine. Excellent build quality. Screen is highly visible from wide angles. Runs Win 7, office apps, Internet stuff, photo editor with acceptable performance.
You can’t make any upgrades to the hardware, and its so easily portable you might want to stash it when its not in use–some miscreant broke in and stole ours last month 
edit: mods, I got it for her, not from her! It is true that she is very nice though.
Boo. I just bought a Sony Vaio. Wish they had run this deal a week ago.
PFFFT i7 Dual? Waste!
Just gonna leave these passmarks here Take them with a grain of salt as they are not exclusive to laptop processors
I have the 11 inch version of this. It is a very nice laptop. If the specs aren’t enough for you but you like the size/shape, check out the http://zenbook.asus.com/zenbook/?c=prime_ux32
That is the update to the model here on Woot.
Well, I’m in the market for a laptop, but no discrete graphics or num-pad, no deal. Also a backlit keyboard, Bluetooth, and Blu-Ray would be pretty awesome. See what y’all can do, Woot!
Eh the 3rd gen i5 of the same ultrabook seems to have been the better deal.(wasn’t on woot but was on groupon and other deal sites)
Was a refurb i5 zenbook for around $600.
I’ve had this laptop for over a year and still love it. It looks great, is crazy fast, and the sound quality is astounding for an ultrabook. Now for the negatives: the display is high resolution but viewing angles are pretty bad, and the keyboard is shallow and takes some getting used to. I’m still amazed at how fast it is compared to my gaming desktop simply because of the SSD. The battery should last you at least 4 hours of heavy work and up to 7 or 8 hours if you’re not taxing it too much.
I must admit, I don’t want to get rid of this laptop for a long time, it’s the best looking laptop I’ve ever used and feels very well made. I love the accessories it comes with too.
I bought this exact laptop over the summer for $1000 and I love it!
$699.99 refurb tonight
Product page, now listing windows 8
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_ZENBOOK_UX31E/
support page
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_ZENBOOK_UX31E/#support_Knowledge
The manual is here, just can’t link directly to it
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_ZENBOOK_UX31E/#support_Download_30
Comparison video (on caffeine) to the Macbook Air
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PFFFT i7 Dual? Waste!
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It’s a 2557M with the multiplier knocked up 2 notches and 33% more L3 cache (vPro and VT-d is kind of superfluous on a dual laptop). The performance boost, while modest, doesn’t factor a ton into the cost and this is still a great deal if the SSD holds up.
edit: unbeknownst to me, they actually threw the virtualization features on the top tier mobile i5s. fancy that.
Hmm I have to decide if I can live with just 2 USBs since it does have bluetooth. Especially since it requires USB for ethernet (no ethernet port)…
It does seem like a pretty good deal though I do also worry about the only 4GB of RAM. I have 4GB of RAM on my current laptop, a Thinkpad , and I have to do a lot of active memory management to keep it under 80%utilization (I find beyond that, apps will often lock up, etc)
It’s nice but I just don’t think 256 GB of storage is enough these days. And how do you install stuff off an optical disc? I guess you use your LAN to access a DVD drive on a different computer. That would probably work. Probably a good computer for really light duty and limited applications that don’t use much storage. I like my 5 TB of storage, 12 GB of RAM, Zotac graphics card, and 27 inch display. I’m more comfortable sitting at my desk doing my work than I am at Starbucks anyway.
Eh, I’m always hesitant to buy refurb laptops. You never know what was wrong before. If it was simply an open box? Great. But if something shorted previously? Factories doing the refurbs only replace what was most apparently damaged.