I own this laptop for 5 months now and I DO NOT recommend it.
Pros:
- Beautiful colors and great color accuracy
- Great keyboard
- Tent mode
Cons:
- Terrible performance (when you want to multitask, it freezes a lot. Adobe programs and 8-10 tabs in and it is lagging)
- Poor batter life (around 3-4 hours with half brightness and saving mode)
- Awful backlight bleeding, especially at the bottom right corner where the heat is coming out of the laptop.
- It gets really hot under load, you have to use a cooler under it.
- Awful coil whine. But really load. I have to use a headphone if I work in quite place, because it drives me crazy.
- Terrible touchpad. I could install windows precision driver with help from Reddit. It is better than with the official driver, but still unresponsive most of the time, zooming in and out randomly.
- Coming back from sleep mode usually slow or laggy. But I read this is common with laptops with 4k touchscreens
- The screen is like a mirror if you want to use it in a bright place. If you have a window behind you, you can't see sht. The colors are beautiful, but you need a proper lightning to see them.
- Finally, it has scaling problems with Windows, not sure if it is asus related or the win10 is so bad. Blurry, pixelated stuffs are very common.
Anyway I sent back to ASUS but they refused to do anything about the issues, they told me, there are "features" of the laptop, not issues. The coil whine doesn't reach the 20db, so it is fine they say. Like wtf..