Asus ZenBook Pro UX501VW Notebook Review

[Percy01]

Edit: As it turned out, the G501VW FHD has PWM, too.

[Jose Carlos]

Hello I have a couple of questions:

1. The keyboard, it's confortable? I have a 17 inch laptop so I don't have any problem using a key pad, but never tried with a 15 inch laptop
2. Is there a model with no touchscreen but with the same specifications?


Thanks for the answers

[Pedro]

Hello to everyone!!
I am looking for a good laptop (I am a littler bit confuse if I should choose mac or pc) with good battery life around 6 hours of light use is enought.
Of course, I would like 8GiB or so, a good chasis metallic is nice, processor medium and graphic middle range too, if is possible 15 or 17" screen.

Well, I am searching for a normal laptop but is so difficult to find. I am living in Canary Islands, here there are a Asus (they put 2.5x battery life) an Lenovo, above all, for every where.
Mac is good but, I don't know if I go to dissapont it later. I love Linux Ubuntu, Windows is fine for play and office is very usefull.
I use to use PhpStorm, Servers, Corel o Ink, Gimp o Photoshop, and office applications, web browser, etc.

My fee is 700 - 1000€ max (mac cost more but...)

oh!! I saw Acer aspire V nitro 17.3" and looks good, but I am not sure...
What is the best choose?

[oleg]

Hi,
I have problem when I try to play civilization it's not working in fullscreen. Do you know how to fix problem ??
And in 4K some icons of programs not in resolution they pretty much blurred.

[edit1754]

Asus is also sticking to the RGBW pixel grid to provide more accurate colors at the cost of some contrast

That isn't what the RG/BW grid does at all. The RG/BW grid is a cheap trick to produce a less-sharp display that can still be advertised as a particular resolution based on the outdated technicality of defining resolution by contrasting line pairs instead of individual fully-colorable pixels. A normal display puts all three primaries (RGB) in each pixel, whereas this display chops that up into alternating "pixels" each containing either red and green, or blue and white. No square contains all three primaries at once, and in many cases that added white component dilutes color rather than making it better.

The ASUS UX501VW-DS71T should not be given the advertising privelege of 3840x2160 because it's not 3840x2160. It's not some sort of lesser-4K-but-still-4K type deal, it's literally not 4K because it's not a grid of 3840x2160 individual fully-colorable squares. Doesn't mean it's a bad display, but it's not 3840x2160.

It's awesome that you guys have begun to include the subpixel arrangements in these reviews. I think that's really important. But I think it's also important to properly describe what these displays are, and what they aren't. Deceptive pentile display advertising is a significant issue in the laptop market today, and laptop manufacturers / sellers need to be called out on it when it happens.