John Lewis slashed the price from 649 to 499.95 today
Asus ZenBook UX305 Ultrabooks, Intel Core M, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD
Silver (not white) or black
''2 years John Lewis Warranty''
£499 in PC world or currys but everyone knows the Customer care difference and extra 1 year warranty is worth with extra 95 pence
Very good price for this Laptop at John Lewis
Not to say but £100 extra trade in discount will make it £399.95
Top comments
Korben_Dallas
6 Nov 1541#14
This might be the most stupid comment I've ever read on this website. Congrats!
Agharta
6 Nov 1524#18
It's hard to tell sometimes if people are being serious or just using forums as a testing ground for working on material for absurdist comedy characters.
The warranty only covers hardware faults which are not user created Mr comedy character. Do you have a new tour planned? Maybe you could play in every branch of John Lewis!
BigsyBiggins
6 Nov 153#36
These threads are so funny.
This is a great laptop by the way (runs linux nicely as well) it is completely stateless machine with over twice the raw processing power as an atom X7. It makes me laugh people are slating the cpu, the core-m is quite a feat of technology.
redted
6 Nov 153#3
you are kidding right, this chip isn't even as good as a 2nd gen i5 (2410M) to be precise, and we are up to gen 6/7 already
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Uridium
6 Nov 15#1
I nearly bought one of these instead of my Macbook pro as it seems a good couple of hundred quid cheaper than comparative ultrabooks from Dell/Lenovo/HP...the Core M CPU put me off though. At this price its a great buy though.
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hcc27 to Uridium
6 Nov 15#30
Well the new Macbook seems to get along fine with a Core M. You're comparing apples to oranges as the Mac Pro range is aimed at an entirely different target market.
OrribleHarry to Uridium
6 Nov 15#63
You should have done, Windows 10 beats OSX hands down.
Stealth_Fox
6 Nov 151#2
This has been plagued with wifi problems (I almost bought one but got a Surface 3 instead after reading comment after comment after comment by end users who were having problems), which are down to the INTEL drivers for the wifi card but are being treated as a hardware issue by ASUS, eg they're replacing the machines which doesn't solve the software issue.
liamm123 to Stealth_Fox
6 Nov 151#4
I've not had a single wifi issue with mine. Display drivers are a bit wonky though (as per reviews) with the occasional crash. Takes about 5s to restart the driver though so it's not catastrophically bad.
gerardarmstrong5 to Stealth_Fox
7 Nov 15#79
Same situation! Was thinking about it there but really want the SP3. How are you finding it?
redted
6 Nov 153#3
you are kidding right, this chip isn't even as good as a 2nd gen i5 (2410M) to be precise, and we are up to gen 6/7 already
TidyWorks to redted
6 Nov 152#7
Because you could totally put an i5/i7 in that chassis
fishmaster to redted
6 Nov 152#8
Incorrect information. There's no 7th gen chips, most laptops are still on i5 5th gen, and since they're U series they perform no better than i5-2410M in many instances. Compare an i5-5200U (5th) gen to an i5-2410M (2nd gen) for example.
Berhwale to redted
6 Nov 15#71
Depends what you mean by 'good', the 2nd gen i5 you mention draws almost 10x the power than the Core M (28.44W vs 3.66W typical) - So you'd only get 3 hours life out of the battery instead of 12. The Core M is designed to facilitate thin and light laptop designs with sufficient grunt for general use without the need to use a cooling fan or carry a PSU around all day.
jiggerouzo
6 Nov 151#5
Bought it yesterday with the PC world price match. Lovely little computer and really nippy for how I tend to use computers. Obviously not the highest spec but would people buy a mini computer like this to play new release cutting edge games and edit 3d video?
J400uk
6 Nov 15#6
Very tempted by this, does it have a backlit keyboard?
SilenceOfTheBirds to J400uk
6 Nov 15#10
Yep
liamm123 to J400uk
6 Nov 15#15
It doesn't nope
Elevation
6 Nov 151#9
That's a great reason to waste my time going all the way over to the 1 branch of John Lewis in the County that's much further away and harder to park at than the several PC Worlds closer to me. If you need a 2 year warranty for a laptop you shouldn't be allowed near a computer without adult supervision.
SilenceOfTheBirds
6 Nov 15#11
No one's forcing you to go, 2 year warranties are very useful.
fishmaster
6 Nov 15#12
A. The CPU isn't soldered to the motherboard. The CPU in this laptop uses socket BGA1234. (The RAM is soldered to the mainboard in this unit)
B. The BIOS supports other CPUs
C. The laptop allows higher thermal properties of upgraded CPUs
D: You really know what you're doing when upgrading a CPU
E. You really wouldn't buy this laptop to upgrade the CPU if it was possible.
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Asus ZenBook UX305 Ultrabooks, Intel Core M, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD
Silver (not white) or black
''2 years John Lewis Warranty''
£499 in PC world or currys but everyone knows the Customer care difference and extra 1 year warranty is worth with extra 95 pence
Very good price for this Laptop at John Lewis
Not to say but £100 extra trade in discount will make it £399.95
Top comments
The warranty only covers hardware faults which are not user created Mr comedy character. Do you have a new tour planned? Maybe you could play in every branch of John Lewis!
This is a great laptop by the way (runs linux nicely as well) it is completely stateless machine with over twice the raw processing power as an atom X7. It makes me laugh people are slating the cpu, the core-m is quite a feat of technology.
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B. The BIOS supports other CPUs
C. The laptop allows higher thermal properties of upgraded CPUs
D: You really know what you're doing when upgrading a CPU
E. You really wouldn't buy this laptop to upgrade the CPU if it was possible.