Testseek.co.uk have collected 195 expert reviews of the Asus UX31A Zenbook Prime and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Asus UX31A Zenbook Prime .
October 2012
(84%)
195 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(75%)
16 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Excellent screen
Thin and light
Good performance
Decent connectivity
Great screen
Top-notch build quality and design
Astonishing looks
Awesome IPS display
Improved trackpad and backlit chiclet keyboard
Solid performances
Decent battery life
Runs cool and quiet
Good overall performance from the CPU
RAM and SSD
5 1/2hour battery life
Low heat
Good air ventilation
Large multitouch touchpad
Extremely thin and light (1.3 kg)
Matte IPS display with good contrast
Utterly gorgeous
Plenty of processing power
The editors didn't like
Poor battery life
Could do with more RAM
No larger SSD option
Tinny speakers
So very expensive
Trackpad
Bloatware
Uncomfortable wrist rest
Still not the best trackpad
Average speakers
Can get hot when pushed
Limited connectivity means you have to use adapters (for VGA
Ethernet
Etc.)
Low gaming performance
Mediocre webcam
Some battery life has been sacrificed to keep the dimensions down.
High-quality and robust aluminium unibody, Comfortable keyboard with backlight, Good IPS display (viewing angles), High program performance thanks to the fast SSD, Very quiet during office use, Good sound, Nice battery life
Brightness throttling while running on battery, Reduced contrast and brightness, No Displayport, No Gigabit LAN, Max. 4 GB of RAM
At the beginning, we posed the question whether the Zenbook Prime UX31A with touchscreen is better than the previously-tested and praise-worthy non-touch model. At the end of our test, we give the test model a rating of 87% (Good), which is slightly lower...
Published: 2012-12-07, Author: Alex , review by: networkworld.com
Abstract: Have you picked up your laptop lately? If it's getting long in the tooth, it's probably as heavy as it is slow. Fortunately there's no better time to look for a more portable and modern machine than during the holidays. Even if you can't find a year-end d...
Slim and light, Spectacular, high resolution display, Solid construction, Pleasing aesthetics
Pack in software somewhat lackluster, Speakers are underwhelming, Webcam needs improvement
The Zenbook Prime UX31A is a very solid machine. The fit and finish are top notch, the included software has only minimal annoyances, and the performance is extremely solid. The 1080p IPS display provides fantastic color and contrast, even in environm...
Over the past few pages, we've seen that the Zenbook Prime's display really does live up to the hype. We've seen that this sexy little ultrabook is just as fast, if not faster, than its Sandy Bridge-powered predecessor. (Its graphics performance is certa...
The ASUS Zenbook Prime UX31A is a great laptop in theory. It offers excellent day-to-day performance (gaming excluded), a wonderful display and respectable battery life. It fixes some problems that have continued to plague PC laptops, such as their inabil...
Abstract: After having reviewed and handled nearly a dozen Ultrabooks during the past year, the flaws with the platform have become glaringly obvious. The requirements for Ultrabooks are that they need to be very thin, they need to use an Intel ULV CPU, they ...
Published: 2012-08-25, Author: Andrew , review by: arstechnica.com
1920x1080 matte IPS display with excellent color and viewing angles, Solid construction, Great keyboard with a trackpad that has largely made up for the previous Zenbook's sins, Good performance thanks to Ivy Bridge and the included SATA 3.0 SSD
Speaker isn't very loud and sounds pretty tinny, Bloatware, of course, Our review unit had some issues with uneven lighting around the edge of the screen
The Zenbook Prime is an attractive, well-built Ultrabook with a really great screen and pretty good "everything else." The sheer number of terrible 1366x768 displays on the market makes the screen difficult to overemphasize—in a world where a $200 tablet ...
robust, high quality aluminum unibody case, pleasant keyboard with back light, excellent display, blazing application performance thanks to a fast SSD, very quiet during every day use, good sound, good battery runtime
no DisplayPort connector, no Gigabit LAN, max. 4GB RAM, different SSDs installed
The Asus Zenbook Prime UX31AThe last generation UX31E was a well-designed laptop which had very few faults that included the glossy display and low contrast. We are extremely happy with the successor. The UX31A improves on all the gripes we had with the d...
