Asus UX31 Ultrabook

[brian5]

Have you tried that Wi-Fi setting change in the UX31 owner's thread?

I ordered a UX31 from Best Buy.com that was delivered to the store and is ready for pick-up right now. However, it's the model with a i5-2467M instead of an i5-2557M. Does it make that much of a difference? Debating whether I should get that BestBuy laptop today or order the real UX31 from ABT and wait some more

BestBuy still has a restocking fee right?

I recommend that people review return policies before buying any of these new laptops (ultrabooks or not). There are very few vendors with liberal return policies.

[protow]

I recommend that people review return policies before buying any of these new laptops (ultrabooks or not). There are very few vendors with liberal return policies.

Well, as long as you don't open the package, everything's A-okay with returns

I decided to cancel the Best Buy order and get the better model through ABT

[jhall006]

Let me know how that goes! I've seriously considered this option but people seem to say that it doesn't run Win7 fast enough?

For what it's worth, I love the MBA but hate OSX. So I'm currently running Win7 dedicated (not bootcamp) on my Air. It's ok, boot times are significantly slower than with OSX and can't be fixed, this is a known problem. Otherwise it's pretty zippy.
Having said that, my air is for sale and I have the UX31 arriving tomorrow from Amazon. I couldn't live with the Air keyboard layout, even after a few months there are still too many typing errors for my liking (Fn and Ctrl, lack of Delete dedicated key etc). You can't remap the Fn key either (not simply) so you're stuck with it, and I just couldn't get by that way...

However, I am very bummed that the UX31 has no Home / End key, I didn't realise that. CRAP!

[smckenna]

For what it's worth, I love the MBA but hate OSX. So I'm currently running Win7 dedicated (not bootcamp) on my Air. It's ok, boot times are significantly slower than with OSX and can't be fixed, this is a known problem. Otherwise it's pretty zippy.
Having said that, my air is for sale and I have the UX31 arriving tomorrow from Amazon. I couldn't live with the Air keyboard layout, even after a few months there are still too many typing errors for my liking (Fn and Ctrl, lack of Delete dedicated key etc). You can't remap the Fn key either (not simply) so you're stuck with it, and I just couldn't get by that way...

However, I am very bummed that the UX31 has no Home / End key, I didn't realise that. CRAP!

I know this is getting way off-topic for the UX31 followers, but why did you install Win7 dedicated? Running it with Bootcamp does a raw partition boot of the Win7, so there wouldn't be any speed advantage to wiping out the OS X partition. I've run the Win7 on a MBA under Bootcamp before, and it runs it very, very fast. They keyboard layout is a big pain, agreed.

[Ugcop]

Dang. I'm currently waiting for mine (backordered from abt.com), and your issues with the trackpad and WiFi are quite worrisome indeed. You are the second person to mention the flaky WiFi performance. I feel like cancelling my order until all this is cleared up.

If I let negatives in forums dictate what I bought I would be sitting in an empty house with nothing to drive. I don't believe there is any perfect product. You take the good with the bad. Like a wife or a corvette you learn to live with it's little oddities.

[smckenna]

If I let negatives in forums dictate what I bought I would be sitting in an empty house with nothing to drive. I don't believe there is any perfect product. You take the good with the bad. Like a wife or a corvette you learn to live with it's little oddities.

You're right. Everyone has to review the faults, and decide for themselves which ones reach the threshold of "dealbreaker" for them. For me, the bad behaving trackpad (even with the beta driver installed) was a dealbreaker. The WiFi problems would have been too, but it appears that the power settings have partially alleviated that issue, with unknown effect on battery time.
I just went ahead and found an eBay auction for a 2 month old MBA with the i7 & 256GB SSD for just over $1500 (normally $1700 + tax + shipping), so we'll see how it goes.
As an added bonus, I get the DisplayPort that will run my large Dell U2711 monitor at full native resolution of 2560x1440.

[Trey1]

Some of the previews showed the UX with a really nice slipcover which looked like leather. Is that the actual slipcover supplied, or does the pictured cover come from someplace else? I'd like to get the leather/leather-look cover.

Thanks!

[RR1RR]

Some of the previews showed the UX with a really nice slipcover which looked like leather. Is that the actual slipcover supplied, or does the pictured cover come from someplace else? I'd like to get the leather/leather-look cover.

Thanks!

The top part that closes it is leather but the rest is meshed nylon or something similar... (so nothing like those pictures!)

[protow]

Watch this hands-on to get a look at the case. Doesn't seem to be all leather Hands-on with the ASUS UX31 Zenbook - YouTube

[BigNerd]

I couldn't live with the Air keyboard layout, even after a few months there are still too many typing errors for my liking (Fn and Ctrl, lack of Delete dedicated key etc). You can't remap the Fn key either (not simply) so you're stuck with it, and I just couldn't get by that way...

However, I am very bummed that the UX31 has no Home / End key, I didn't realise that. CRAP!

That's the only reason I'm looking at the Toshiba Z. It has a dedicated vertical row for the Home/Pg/End keys and the cursor keys are dropped. I just wish they also did 900p rez.