Ivy Bridge Zenbook with FHD IPS screen UX21A UX31A UX32A UX32VD

[augerpro]

Intel sinks all that R&D money into lower power consumption and Asus turns around and puts a 35wH battery in it. Where is my All Day Computing?

Was hoping to replace my HP DM1, but it looks like the search goes on. All I want is decent battery life, a screen that is viewable outside in the sun, and SSD. In 11.5". Anyone have any suggestions?

[Petrov]

Are there any 13 inch (or smaller) laptops with IB CPU and a 640M or 650M, apart from the Sager/Clevo 11.6'?

Petrov.

[CompUG]

Are there any 13 inch (or smaller) laptops with IB CPU and a 640M or 650M, apart from the Sager/Clevo 11.6'?

Petrov.

No, go with the Sager/Clevo I doubt anyone is releasing an IB with a 640 beside Sager/Clevo since they specialize in gaming laptops. I think this Asus is the closet you're going get with IB, 13inch and GPU.

Any idea how long the battery life will be?

[volati1e]

This is from Anandtech,I don't quite understand this, doesn't the new one come with a discrete graphic card, so it wouldn't be affected.

Just because something has a discrete card doesn't automatically mean it can run any of the modern games in high detail at 1920x1080 resolution. The 620M is definitely not going to run Far Cry 3 and other high system requirement games at 1080p smoothly.

Even though its 620M shouldn't there be a difference because the Zenbook prime is full HD?

I was leaning towards the series 7, but this look just as good, discrete graphic card, HDD, Full HD, light and thin. Its basically on par with the series 7.

Full HD and the 620M have nothing to do with each other. Full HD refers to the resolution of the screen. It doesn't mean that the video card will be more powerful and it definitely doesn't mean the 620M will be more powerful than the 640M just because the screen supports a higher resolution. If anything, while playing at the native 1080p resolution, it will be much worse because the larger the resolution, the more powerful a card has to be to push the graphics at that resolution.

I wanted the 11" 1080p too but since it has no SD card... probably go for the 13".

If the SD card slot is a dealbreaker for you, you should consider getting a SD to USB adapter and just plug it in when you need to read SD cards.

As for me, I wanted the 11" as well but trying to read the small text from 1080p on that screen would kill me, plus the 11" will have worse battery life than the 13". If 1600x900 was an option on the 11" I'd probably get it.

[quickrabbit5]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but where have you guys read that the UX32VD has a removable hard drive?

[XX55XX]

Does anyone know if you fit an mSATA SSD into a UX32VD? I really want one. Especially since it has discrete graphics!

[birdbird]

This is going to be my laptop for University.

I really hope Asus fixed the problem with the Zenbook not being able to wake up after sleep (after an extended period of time).

This is what I wanted in the original Zenbook, and now it's here. I really hope they offer an i5 + 256gb SSD 13.3". Don't need an i7 for my purposes and don't need discrete graphics either cuz I don't game.

Wonder what they'll add for the 3rd gen ...

[BigNerd]

If the SD card slot is a dealbreaker for you, you should consider getting a SD to USB adapter and just plug it in when you need to read SD cards.

As for me, I wanted the 11" as well but trying to read the small text from 1080p on that screen would kill me, plus the 11" will have worse battery life than the 13". If 1600x900 was an option on the 11" I'd probably get it.

Now that I think about it... the battery life is probably more important than the SD card.

I don't mind the 11" 1080p res... I prefer high-res small screens... so I guess we'll see what the price difference is (discounted, not MSRP) between the 11" and the 13" is as I've only read about pricing on the 13" models.

[birdbird]

Now that I think about it... the battery life is probably more important than the SD card.

I don't mind the 11" 1080p res... I prefer high-res small screens... so I guess we'll see what the price difference is (discounted, not MSRP) between the 11" and the 13" is as I've only read about pricing on the 13" models.

Where do you go to find (decent) discounts on the Zenbook?

[CompUG]

I don't game and if I do I would play D3. I mainly browse, use MS Suite, stream movies and listen to music as well as use Fruity Loops. Do you think 6GB of RAM is sufficient for multitasking? and 620M for D3, or do we have to wait until its actually released.