Asus Zenbook UX31E-RY009V (Silver)

This is my first experience with an Ultrabook and I must say I am pleasantly surprised. It is a light device that feels very sturdy and, after some getweak, works fine. Design The design of the Asus Zenbook is just shamelessly copied from the Apple MacBook Air. It is almost an accepted, with here and there a few exceptions. So there are some differences in the back of the laptop, but for the rest it is almost the same. The main difference is that the Air Air running OS X and W7 Zenbook. And that says it all. Display The Zenbook has a screen resolution of 1600x900, and it shows. It is an unwise sharp image and looks very good. The clarity is amazing, especially in a fairly dark room, does the screen at its brightest very simply to your eyes. This brightness is quite practical for when you want to use.'m Out keyboard and trackpad Using the Zenbook is getting used to me. The keyboard is not the same as the keyboard of my previous laptop (Dell Inspiron), so I'm sometimes in between the pieces of the ram chiclet keyboard. Furthermore, the on / off button right of the keyboard, on the very spot where the delete key on the keyboard of my Inspiron Sat. I have sometimes been mistaken in me, and I could boot the laptop. Again But you learn very quickly and happily start-ie very quickly. The trackpad is another story. He is very large and very sensitive. Especially if you're not a multi-touch trackpad is accustomed to getting used. I controlled my Inspiron always the trackpad with two fingers on a touch-sensitive area and the left button. If you do that, you make the Zenbook accidentally multi-touch input, so you will zoom in, rotate suddenly or something. It's worth it just to dig into the driver because there are a few things in that strange work . So the trackpad, just like on most new Macs, a large button. This one does not have to pass through a tap, a click but you can just push the trackpad. Only the guys from Asus have not turned off the tap function, which sometimes makes it a really messing with accidental clicks. Moreover, you can also click with two fingers, giving a right. I tried to apply for a means-click this to cause would be on the Internet, very convenient, but that's me not succeeded. Some multi-touch features are not quite fantastic run (such as zoom, rotate), so that I even expelled. I used it anyway and never will probably not be missed. scrolling with two fingers on the trackpad works, especially after you have inertial scrolling off, be okay. Maybe not better than a Mac, but since I have no experience with it, this is new to me, and it works fine for me. Achievements I bought this Zenbook to have very fast and mobile is a thin, small laptop it . Smooth-ie is certain, because the SSD everything goes fast. I've mostly only rotated Word and that works pretty smoothly. The heavier programs, Photoshop and Fireworks, starting within no time and work fine on the Zenbook. Zenbook vs. Air The main reason why people waarchijnlijk the Zenbook will buy instead of the Air is that there are a few differences in it that The key can be: - Designed for Windows. Windows on a Mac in my experience just three times nothing. It is just not:. Maybe useful for Mac'er that anything on Windows needs, but not for someone that Windows uses as the primary OS . - Better keyboard layout That backslash key on the left shift key and disabled enter key on the Air are For me, a big no-go. For the world, I would like to work on a keyboard with that layout. - No OS X. I used Windows and no, I do not try OS X. (No not really) Conclusion It is an attractive, slim and fast laptop that is perfect for someone who will like a MacBook Air, but do not want to be saddled down with OS X. It costs about as much as a preference, though you get slightly more for your money. (What is really weird is that the sticker with the Windows license key is on the charger. Okay, that such a sticker is ugly and that he's not sitting on the bottom of the laptop is to understand . But why they have chosen the charger is a mystery to me.)