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ASUS ZenBook 14 Laptop: Core Ultra 7-155H, 14" FHD+ OLED Touch, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD Expired

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Best Buy via eBay has ASUS ZenBook 14 Laptop (Q425MA-U71TB) on sale for $799.99. Shipping is free.

Best Buy has ASUS ZenBook 14 Laptop (Q425MA-U71TB) on sale for $799.99. Shipping is free.

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Specs:
  • Intel Core Ultra 7 Ultra 7-155H 16-core, 22-thread (3.8GHz Base / 4.8GHz Boost) Processor
  • 14.0" FHD (1920 x 1200) OLED 16:10 aspect ratio 0.2ms 60Hz 500nits 100% DCI-P3 Touch screen Display
  • 16GB LPDDR5X RAM
  • 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive
  • Intel Arc Graphics
  • Wi-Fi 6E(802.11ax) (Dual band) 2*2 + Bluetooth 5.3
  • Backlit Chiclet Keyboard
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Ports:
    • 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
    • 2x Thunderbolt 4 (supports display / power delivery)
    • 1x HDMI 2.1 TMDS
    • 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack

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  • 14" FHD+ (1920x1200, WUXGA+) 16:10, 60Hz, 400-nits, 500-nits HDR, 100% DCI-P3, Pen Support, Glossy, Touch, OLED Display
  • Core Ultra 7-155H (6P+8E+2LP)/22T CPU (4.8 GHz Turbo, 24MB Cache)
  • Intel Arc Graphics (8 X Cores)
  • 16GB LPDDR5X Memory
  • 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD
  • Backlit Chiclet Keyboard, 1.4mm Key-travel, Precision touchpad
  • 1080p Webcam with IR function to support Windows Hello, With privacy shutter
  • Wi-Fi6E 2x2 + Bt 5.3
  • 4 Cell 75 WHr Battery
  • 2.82 lbs. / 1.28 kg
  • Ports:
    • 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
    • 2x USB-C Thunderbolt™ 4 supports display / power delivery
    • 1x HDMI 2.1 TMDS
    • 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack

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Model: ASUS - Zenbook 14 OLED 14” WUXGA Touch Laptop, Intel Core Ultra 7 - 16GB Memory - 1TB SSD - Jasper Gray - Jasper Gray

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Be aware of the ASUS warranty, recently exposed by GN: https://youtu.be/7pMrssIrKcY

It is an excellent price for the specs, but personally, I will not buy any ASUS laptops before they make any changes.
I started the post, then had to do some actual work. I went back and posted it without seeing your edit, probably because I'm juggling three computers in different rooms. I'll let this go, but I do have to say I find it funny that were both such a jerk in the pre-edit post, and also thankful about the info I posted that you asked for in the other thread.

I don't understand the content perfection you're seeking here in the SD forums. If someone's post is useful, say thanks or rep or just move on. If someone's post doesn't stroke you in just the right way, also just move on. We're a community. People are trying, for the most part (scammers and spammers trying sell/affiliate their crap are another matter), to help and get help. It's all a give and take.

Have a nice day. Thumbup
I have some ASUS products from 2021 that have "issues" but are functional and basically their warranty process was unless it's catastrophic failure they refused to do anything about it. And from what I hear is ASUS quality in the last 1-2 years has worsened…. And their warranty center is ran by, only way I can describe it, sounds like the typical scam call center you hear about in India. Yikes

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hlcc
05-14-2024 at 06:22 PM.
05-14-2024 at 06:22 PM.
Quote from superslickz :
Another Apples and oranges comparison. Without even looking up that deal, I can already promise it is an 8gb macbook vs 16gb here. I am also pretty positive that doesn't come with a 1TB storage (which you cannot upgrade on the mac). I don't really care to open up the can of worms of 8gb vs 16 gb, but you are still talking about comparing an 8 gb vs 16 gb laptop. How much is your M3 macbook air with 16gb and 1 tb storage? How much is the m3 macbook with 16gb/1tb and a touchscreen? Crickets.....
Im just providing a personal experience on the battery life, nothing else.
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05-14-2024 at 07:12 PM.
05-14-2024 at 07:12 PM.
Quote from hlcc :
I tried the 8gb, Core Ultra 5 variant of this laptop, the screen is still "blurry". Every single OLED laptop/chromebook with a 13-14" screen at around 1080P resolution that I've ever tried and used have this problem. It was especially noticeable and annoying on anything with a white background.
Was it Touch? Both our Asus OLED laptops are non-Touch, and the text looks fine.

Never mind I see you answered that already. Both ours are higher than 1080p though.
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05-14-2024 at 07:17 PM.
05-14-2024 at 07:17 PM.
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How's the battery life? I had the last gen Q540 with i9-13900 and OLED@120Hz but had a 3050 GPU and only got 2-3 hours battery life watching video.
13900 is a desktop CPU shoved into a laptop, its purely for max performance in a laptop. The Ultra 7-155H is exclusively a mobile design that is VASTLY more power efficient. Assuming you dont max out the brightness, this will easily last 8+ hours.
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05-14-2024 at 08:04 PM.
05-14-2024 at 08:04 PM.
You're right it's not fair to compare a windows laptop to a MacBook
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05-15-2024 at 05:18 AM.
05-15-2024 at 05:18 AM.
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If you care about battery life the Asus Vivobook S with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite is being announced in 6 days and plenty of other Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops are coming out. You get all the benefits/performance of a Macbook e.g. battery life due to the ARM processor.
Yes, the new Snapdragon X Elite chips (and other forthcoming ARM chips) will be an exciting new chapter for Windows, BUT...I do not look forward to the emulators that will need to be used to run current x86 software on ARM until (if/when) software gets upgraded to ARM versions and bugs are worked out.

I have to say the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon on the Mac was pretty seamless with Rosetta working pretty well. Hopefully Microsoft can do as well.
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morningstar101
05-15-2024 at 06:03 AM.
05-15-2024 at 06:03 AM.
after playing one day with the laptop. here is my impression:

Pros:
1) very premiumslick outlook. the quality is IMO on par with a mac.I just enjoy the allumimium build up.
2) the screen is outstanding. Once you get to use OLED, it is hard to go back
3) Quiet most of time for regular day to day taks.
4) The GPU cores are real. I can play video games that cannot be played on previous geneneration of CPUs. Intel Core ultra 7 nailed it

Cons:
1) laptop can be really hot under heavy load and fan noise is very noticable. To kick off, simply run cinebench 2024
2) This laptop seems doing some optimization in the background. I could not get the CPU scores as advertised on the web. Maybe 80%. I used CPU-Z and cinebench 2024. For single core, cinebech 2024, I got 82. Multi core: 495(way below that I was thinking it should be considering 22 threads). For CPU-Z, multi core I only get achieve 4700 compared to what is supposed to be 8000
3) Wifi is weak compared to my 2 year old thinkpad t14. I did a little bit tuning, it is getting better. But still 30% slower when you are 20 feet away from your rounter with walls than my t14's wifi.
4) the screen color gets some green cast that I dont like. Fortunately, I used calibrate display color feature to lower the green and some of red. Now it is a perfect color to my likeing.
5) I wish the USB-C ports be placed on the left so that I can use a mouse more freely.

Blurry text:
If you look very close, probably there is a tiny bit. but it does not bother me.
Battery life:
I am from previous generation of windows laptop. So this is way better than before. I guess this is a case by case. There are a bounch of youtube videos on this laptop. None of them complaining about the battery life. I think this is all because of the new Intel CPU.


All in all this is a keeper. Really love using it.
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superk86
05-15-2024 at 10:19 AM.
05-15-2024 at 10:19 AM.
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Im just providing a personal experience on the battery life, nothing else.

Not arguing your experience, but adding to why people may have a differing experience:

OLED screens can cause your battery life to vary wildly based on brightness and content. LCD screens offer a more stable, significantly lower power usage, especially at brighter settings. So standard benchmarks from reputable groups, such as anandtech, which did gain around 15hr, could have a different brightness setting that you're not comfortable with.

Plex also can be difficult to gauge, using the plex app could trigger Metadata crawl vs using the web app, or many other plex factors...

The macbook hardware is more efficient, absolutely. But for most people, who are consuming video content almost explicitly from web browsers (or browser based apps like Hulu, etc) at a indoor comfortable brightness setting (dim), most people should see competitive battery life.
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ky4h
05-15-2024 at 10:26 PM.
05-15-2024 at 10:26 PM.
Quote from morningstar101 :
after playing one day with the laptop. here is my impression:

Pros:
1) very premiumslick outlook. the quality is IMO on par with a mac.I just enjoy the allumimium build up.
2) the screen is outstanding. Once you get to use OLED, it is hard to go back
3) Quiet most of time for regular day to day taks.
4) The GPU cores are real. I can play video games that cannot be played on previous geneneration of CPUs. Intel Core ultra 7 nailed it

Cons:
1) laptop can be really hot under heavy load and fan noise is very noticable. To kick off, simply run cinebench 2024
2) This laptop seems doing some optimization in the background. I could not get the CPU scores as advertised on the web. Maybe 80%. I used CPU-Z and cinebench 2024. For single core, cinebech 2024, I got 82. Multi core: 495(way below that I was thinking it should be considering 22 threads). For CPU-Z, multi core I only get achieve 4700 compared to what is supposed to be 8000
3) Wifi is weak compared to my 2 year old thinkpad t14. I did a little bit tuning, it is getting better. But still 30% slower when you are 20 feet away from your rounter with walls than my t14's wifi.
4) the screen color gets some green cast that I dont like. Fortunately, I used calibrate display color feature to lower the green and some of red. Now it is a perfect color to my likeing.
5) I wish the USB-C ports be placed on the left so that I can use a mouse more freely.

Blurry text:
If you look very close, probably there is a tiny bit. but it does not bother me.
Battery life:
I am from previous generation of windows laptop. So this is way better than before. I guess this is a case by case. There are a bounch of youtube videos on this laptop. None of them complaining about the battery life. I think this is all because of the new Intel CPU.


All in all this is a keeper. Really love using it.
I picked up an open box for the item but I realized that it runs super slow - CPU is stuck at 0.26ghz and even with tweaking the profile to performance mode, it only goes up to 0.34ghz. Tried updating the BIOS to the latest version but it didn't make any difference. Not sure if anyone has such issues before with this laptop (or with any other laptops) but at this point I'm thinking that I need to take it back to Best Buy and probably suck it up with buying a new one, as who knows what someone else has done to the laptop before returning it...
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I picked up an open box for the item but I realized that it runs super slow - CPU is stuck at 0.26ghz and even with tweaking the profile to performance mode, it only goes up to 0.34ghz. Tried updating the BIOS to the latest version but it didn't make any difference. Not sure if anyone has such issues before with this laptop (or with any other laptops) but at this point I'm thinking that I need to take it back to Best Buy and probably suck it up with buying a new one, as who knows what someone else has done to the laptop before returning it...
You picked up a lemon. If you checked the best buy's review. One guy had this issue. You probably happen to pick up his return. Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)
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05-16-2024 at 07:00 AM.
05-16-2024 at 07:00 AM.
Quote from ky4h :
I picked up an open box for the item but I realized that it runs super slow - CPU is stuck at 0.26ghz and even with tweaking the profile to performance mode, it only goes up to 0.34ghz. Tried updating the BIOS to the latest version but it didn't make any difference. Not sure if anyone has such issues before with this laptop (or with any other laptops) but at this point I'm thinking that I need to take it back to Best Buy and probably suck it up with buying a new one, as who knows what someone else has done to the laptop before returning it...

In 2020 I bought two UM425IA zenbooks, one for me and one for my wife.
Hers ran very slow.

It had a defective heat pipe, and the CPU would thermally throttle.

If you want to keep yours, I would get your favorite hardware monitor software and validate thermal readings.

If it's running high, then you may have a similar issue.

Otherwise, it could be a electronic fault on the motherboard (bad capacitor or something on the voltage rail) that is preventing the clock multiplier from functioning
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05-16-2024 at 09:46 AM.
05-16-2024 at 09:46 AM.
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You picked up a lemon. If you checked the best buy's review. One guy had this issue. You probably happen to pick up his return. Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)
Thanks, I guess I did pick up his return...
I'm resetting it back to default (which is, unfortunately, taking forever) and then bring it back to Best Buy, while sucking it up and paying the extra $120+ to get a new one... hopefully the new one is not a lemon! ^_^
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If you can wait till coming Monday (May 20th), there will be announcements regarding ARM based windows laptops (Snapdragon Elite X equipped) and this time, the hype is real - so we may actually see a proper era of ARM based windows laptops
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05-19-2024 at 09:58 AM.
05-19-2024 at 09:58 AM.
core ultra 5 acer swift go 14 from amazon for 700 seems like a better deal. worse CPU but higher res OLED screen and dual SSD slots. iGPU still has 6 ARC cores vs 8 on the core ultra 7
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05-19-2024 at 10:01 AM.
05-19-2024 at 10:01 AM.
Quote from morningstar101 :
after playing one day with the laptop. here is my impression:

Pros:
1) very premiumslick outlook. the quality is IMO on par with a mac.I just enjoy the allumimium build up.
2) the screen is outstanding. Once you get to use OLED, it is hard to go back
3) Quiet most of time for regular day to day taks.
4) The GPU cores are real. I can play video games that cannot be played on previous geneneration of CPUs. Intel Core ultra 7 nailed it

Cons:
1) laptop can be really hot under heavy load and fan noise is very noticable. To kick off, simply run cinebench 2024
2) This laptop seems doing some optimization in the background. I could not get the CPU scores as advertised on the web. Maybe 80%. I used CPU-Z and cinebench 2024. For single core, cinebech 2024, I got 82. Multi core: 495(way below that I was thinking it should be considering 22 threads). For CPU-Z, multi core I only get achieve 4700 compared to what is supposed to be 8000
3) Wifi is weak compared to my 2 year old thinkpad t14. I did a little bit tuning, it is getting better. But still 30% slower when you are 20 feet away from your rounter with walls than my t14's wifi.
4) the screen color gets some green cast that I dont like. Fortunately, I used calibrate display color feature to lower the green and some of red. Now it is a perfect color to my likeing.
5) I wish the USB-C ports be placed on the left so that I can use a mouse more freely.

Blurry text:
If you look very close, probably there is a tiny bit. but it does not bother me.
Battery life:
I am from previous generation of windows laptop. So this is way better than before. I guess this is a case by case. There are a bounch of youtube videos on this laptop. None of them complaining about the battery life. I think this is all because of the new Intel CPU.


All in all this is a keeper. Really love using it.
yea my old zenbook pro 15 also had bad wifi range because of the aluminum build. my old crappy plastic laptop had way more wifi range
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