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Review on Renewed ASUS ZenBook UX333FA-DH51 Laptop: Windows 10, Intel Core i5, 13.3" LCD, 256 GB Storage, 8 GB RAM, Dark Royal Blue by Wiktor Popiel ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Impressions from the purchase are good, buy.

This laptop made me switch from Macs to Windows: for half the price of a similar MacBook, you get comparable performance, weight and ease of use. Thus there are normal ports. Yes, it's still not a Mac: the touchpad is still not as responsive, many applications look sloppy. BUT these shortcomings are no longer as significant as they were literally three years ago. Before us is a new generation of PCs, which is almost no worse in terms of ergonomics than top-end Apple products, and even surpasses it in key points: price, weight, power, equipment. I lowered the rating for the following reason: the touchpad still sometimes freezes, moreover, an area appears on it in arbitrary places in which the cursor "goes off course" and makes an arc. It doesn't interfere with work, it's just annoying compared to the Mac. Also, several times I could not get out of sleep, I had to restart the power supply. Diagnostics pointed to the watchdog driver, the reason can be both in the OS kernel and in the hardware, so this is not really a laptop problem. Again, the MacBook has never allowed itself to do this. But in general, there was no desire to return to Apple, it is quite comfortable to work.

Pros
  • Lightweight, with an excellent screen, comfortable backlit keyboard. Optimal hardware for office needs: combination of the eighth generation i5 with 8 GB of memory and a 256 SSD Availability of normal USB ports and HDMI A very small and easy charge - they often forget about it when buying and get a PSU brick with a huge plug as a load to a light laptop. Honest price.
Cons
  • As already noted - the top cover that collects fingerprints. Apparently, to facilitate the design, they replaced aluminum with glass with glued foil. For some, this may be a drawback - for instant awakening (you won’t have time to open the lid), the laptop doesn’t really “sleep”, that is, its energy consumption is higher than users of the same MacBooks expect. For daily use, this is not a problem, even convenient. But if you leave the laptop in this state for three days, it will be discharged. problems with SSD - once or twice a day it can freeze for 10-20 seconds, after which it continues to work normally. Also, sometimes it does not exit the sleep state (but here you need to carefully monitor what was running on the laptop, problems are created by crooked drivers). In general, the manufacturer solved most of the problems with driver ates, but SSD glitches are unpleasant.