We Need a Better PC

Re:We Need a Better PC by scrollaway on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:24AM (#11115530)

I own a UX305LA and have owned two previous models in the UX line. Glad to see it mentioned, I like them all very much.

The battery is proprietary but easily replaced. My main issue with my previous UX31 was with the SSD. It died within a year and was no longer readable. It was a piece of proprietary SanDisk crap. Googling around about it yields various complaints about it (http://www.pcper.com/news/Mobile/Be-careful-which-ASUS-Zenbo...).

Battery life: I run Arch Linux with LXQt and get about 6 hours on a full charge. It's not great but IIRC I was getting better on Windows so it might be a software issue.

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Re:We Need a Better PC by ekianjo on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:27AM (#11115542)

> It was a piece of proprietary SanDisk crap.

you mean it was not a standard SSD ?

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Re:We Need a Better PC by scrollaway on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:37AM (#11115587)

It wasn't, no. The UX is too thin for 2.5in SSDs. I had to find a special adapter to attempt reading it when it died.

This is what it looks like:

http://www.pcper.com/files/news/2012-03-12/SSDR_Sandisk-SSD....

FWIU they went with a different brand on their newer models, might be better.

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Re:We Need a Better PC by khedoros on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:44AM (#11115611)

That looks like an M.2 PCIe connection. Is it something less standard than that?

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