I decided for my new laptop to be an ASUS based on some of my friends recommendations. Not this one in particular but they all had old ASUS laptops which lasted them for years without experiencing any problem at all.I chose this model because I need a lot of hard drive space for my work, and I have always hated to use an external hardrive. For this reason, I am very happy with it. Not only that, but it performs very good in general, specially because it has a good processor and lots of RAM.
There are two things that I'm unsatisfied with, one of them very important. The battery life is extremely short. Even with the screen brightness lowered to almost the minimum, the battery is out in just over 1 hour. On top of that, sometimes it indicates that the battery is not present even though its there and fully charge. Whenever this happens, I am forced to shut down the computer, remove the battery and then plug it in again. This has caused me lots of problems. It could be that this one is defect, but I cannot make an exchange because I live in Europe and bought it in one of my trips to USA.
The second problem is that sometimes, when I turn it on, the fan starts to work and it never stops until I shut it down and turn it back on. I am aware that this could be a software problem, because the day that I received it, the first thing that I did was remove Windows 8 (which is terrible), and installed Ubuntu instead. So it may be that this is causing the fan to go mad sometimes, but because of that experience with the battery, I doubt that is the case.
I hope this helps someone with the desition. When I got it, there were no reviews. I am sure that the next laptop I will buy is not going to be an ASUS
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