Asus 15.6" 4K Ultra-HD Intel i7 Touch Ultrabook Price: $849.99 Shipping Options:: $5 Standard Shipping Estimates: Ships in 3-5 business days. (Wednesday, Aug 24 to Monday, Aug 29) + transit Condition: Factory Reconditioned
I feel cheapened … This morning I had both Woot and Amazon ads trying to dump this same laptop for the same price. We all know Woot is Amazon’s dumping ground, but does it have to be so obvious? The Woot of the Day was supposed to be kind of exclusive.
It is hard to beat the performance for the cost, and this laptop doesnt have to worry about obsolescence anytime soon…however touch screens are useless on non convertiblesand cause unnecessary battery drain. The Achilles heel here.
ANYWAYS, if you can afford it and dont need an ultra portable notebook, this would be a GREAT buy.
PS. three to four hours to answer your original question.
For gaming would be more happy with 4GB of VRAM for better future-proofing. This would be ok for playing league, dota, CS at max settings or latest COD at medium.
I just bought this on Amazon last week. It should arrive tomorrow.
The Amazon deal was $50 more, but I had a ton of points and gift card balance, so I paid about $600. There are two reviews so far that say this came with win 8.1 and not 10. I’ll see and complain to Amazon -if needed.
I was looking for a ultrabook, 16g(or capable) with a fairly new quad core i7. I figured this was the best deal for the price. The offset to keyboard touchpad is my only functional concern.
I’m writing this on my Asus Zenbook Prime w/ 3rd gen i7 processor. 128GB SSD. 13" IPS screen w/ 1080x1920 resolution. No video card. No touch screen. I wooted it in December 2013 for around $650. I can easily say that this is my favorite laptop of all that I’ve owned. It’s very thin and looks good. Still runs all programs and Windows 8 very fast. Battery life is still solid (has gone from 8ish hours per charge to 6ish now, depending on screen brightness and load).
There is one flaw however, which is the touch pad. On all Zenbook models that I can recall, they are VERY sensitive – to the point where sometimes it’s erratic. You can avoid this by pairing with a bluetooth mouse (if you’re using the touchpad instead of the screen.)