Pros: -Fast and Quiet

-Looks gorgeous and small form factor is appealing

-Touchscreen is terrific*** (see con below)

Cons: -***While the touchscreen itself is great, the screen wobbles alot, due to smaller/weaker hinges, this makes using the touchscreen a bit counter intuitive due to the significant movement

-Asus has a habit of applying multiple stickers with ridiculous amount of adhesive backing so when you peel them off--alot of sticky residue is left behind and requires rubbing alcohol or similar to remove it

Other Thoughts: I would absolutely recommend this item to anyone wanting a powerful, quiet, computer. The minor cons stated aren't bad, per se, but annoying enough, at this price point, to deduct an egg.

Pros: Small, very light weight
very little heat output
long battery life
great CPU, good enough graphics

Cons: none major (linux support for GPU isn't there yet)

Dual-booting requries forethought!

Other Thoughts: I teach Computer Science courses and I cycle to campus. I usually present by using live demos. I also wanted something that could support light gaming while I travel, and that I could dual-boot.

This lap-top has been perfect. It's much smaller and lighter, so it's way less of a hassle to cycle with and walk around campus. It has a much better battery (6+ hours under normal use) which makes it much less irritating to present with. The SSD is also extremely fast, which is nice, and it has enough horse-power to run Visual Studio fluidly.

I dual-booted it. Hardware support under Linux - both Fedora 23 and Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 - has been excellent, with one single exception. The system uses a hybrid GPU lay-out, with both an integrated GPU on the CPU die and an discrete GPU. That set-up did not work correctly with either OS. On Fedora, the system recognized the discrete GPU and used it with a GL3 profile, but it locked the display resolution at 800x600; I couldn't figure out how to change it. Ubuntu Gnome 15.10, if glxinfo is any indication, does not correctly recognize the discrete GPU. However, it has not limited the display resolution: the display works at full resolution, and it still has GL3 acceleration (through the on-die GPU). Perhaps more annoyingly, with Ubuntu's older kernel, power management cannot turn of the discrete GPU, which impacts battery life - I get about 3 hours under Ubuntu, as opposed to 6+ on Windows.
I went through this with my last lap-top, which also used a hybrid set-up. It took about a year before the whole thing was correctly supported, I'm assuming that the next round of releases will support this set-up correctly.

UI scaling is still a little dodgy, both in Windows and with Gnome. Gnome apps work great, but non-Gnome apps don't scale correctly - which means they're tiny. (I also had to prevent some Java class-files that were part of the Accessability system from loading, because they were crashing Java Swing applications.) Windows UI scaling works a little better - and the scale is adjustable, unlike Gnome's, which is locked at 2x. However, apps that do custom painting can still break - steam looks horrible, and the MechWarrior on-line GUI breaks if UI scaling is on.

Finally, if you're going to dual-boot, know that Windows 10 license work differently. They don't have product keys, they're locked to a key associated with your UEFI loader. Before you re-install, in Windows, you need to create installation media so you can restore from that. I stupidly didn't think the re-installation process through and wound up buying a new copy of Windows 10, herp-derp.

Pros: - Great hardware for the price! Skylake i7, discrete graphics card, 12 GBs of RAM AND 512 GB SSD!

Cons: - The yellows of the screen were brownish-green. I updated the drivers, which helped a bit, but did not solve the problem. This appears to be an issue the the panel ASUS has chosen, not a software issue.

Other Thoughts: I need an accurate panel for photo editing and web design, so I returned it. If ASUS offered a different screen, this would be an amazing laptop.

Pros: I like the speed ! opens fast to desktop!

YOU can play 4k videos smoothly, with explorer and firefox browsers,I had problems via chrome but who cares,firefox is better IMO.

you can play games like diablo 3,torchlight..etc.

ssd size is very good to stock hd movies,some games..

the frame is rock solid aluminium! nice looking too!

lightweight,portability...if your on the go this is what you need I guess.

screen looks amazing (i got spyder4express calibration device) with this my colors are insanely great.

Cons: 3 things.

the hinges are a bit on the bad side...very shaky.

battery life is somehow ot that good but its understandable with a qhd+ screen(choose your side,fhd better battery life or amazing clarity and lower battery life)

what can I say ...touch pad clicks are loud? thats not even a con !

Other Thoughts: I recommend it to enthusiast and people who just like to mess around with a lot of things running at the same time!

if your not a screen calibration master...get a device to do it for you...your monitor will love you .

I was sceptical about going with this or a macbook...I definitly think that macs are awesome too...but you pay too much for the name and not for what you got hardware wise.

kindly from a french guy who tries hard to write a review for you english folks..

thank you and enjoy this gem.

Pros: Pros:
- Metal body but one where you can access the internals if necessary
- Most powerful specs you can get for the size (discrete graphics card, i7 processor, 12gb RAM in a 13.3" thin notebook)
- Great screen (people are complaining but I'm not seeing it)
- Great value

Cons: Cons:
- 1 year warranty that you can't extent
- While this is the best out there for the size range, you can't smoothly run 4k video off of YouTube. It stutters every time.
- The discrete graphics card is fine for older games but forget running most new games at a decent resolution.
- Because this is tiny, you're looking at a non-removable 3 cell battery, which is fine but not remarkable. Compare that to my Lenovo x230 which has a 9 cell battery that seems to last forever, and if that wasn't enough I could always just swap it out and put in another one. Unfortunately, that is becoming rarer and rarer.

Other Thoughts: Basically, in my book this is really 4.5 stars because of the cons, but there isn't anything clearly better than this either. You can look at the Surface book which has similar specs but costs roughly twice as much. Otherwise, you could move up to 14" gaming notebooks (Razer/Aorus) which are great systems but also costs around twice as much (or even more). I'm hoping that in the next few generations the processor/graphics cards get to a point where you can really use the screen resolution to view video content (and maybe even game?) at native resolution.

Pros: - Performances are great (running 2 VMs (win 2008 server), visual studio, browsers, music (groove), etc. and it's not lagging at all).
- Touchscreen works great.
- It's Asus, great product each time I buy from them.
- Light and easy to transport.
- Gaming graphics are great. (SC2)

Cons: - When playing games (I'm not playing a lot, but for StarCraft 2 so far), laptop has been really hot and went to sleep by itself once. (May be because lid is closed and it's not on a "vent stand"... I'll update if required.)
- I was a little surprised when I saw the box at the bottom of my front door house.. (I've missed the delivery and they simply left it outside of my house..)

Other Thoughts: - What a great laptop for the price!

Pros: - Very fast processor
- 512 GB SSD
- Nice overall design

Cons: - Due to the high DPI (3200x1800 on 13.3"), many applications (even some parts of windows 10) appear blurry due to the zoom. I've been looking for a fix but still have not found one.

Other Thoughts: - Great hardware. Very reasonable price (when buying with a discount)

Pros: This is a great laptop. Asus does a lot right with this. small, quiet, cool, powerful.

Make sure you sign up for all the warranties you can get. The 1 year Asus drop/spill/whatever especially!

Cons: The only flaw is the design of the hinges. The hinges are themselves quite strong and durable - all metal. Unfortunately where they attach to the display housing, it is plastic. Under normal use, this plastic will crack and break. Get all warranties and hope it breaks within the period and you can get it repaired.

The only other wart is the touchpad. It feels odd and clumsy. I t might just be that I'm not used to using it, I've never really given it much of a chance, to be fair. I use the touchscreen and if I need a mouse I plug in a wireless one.

Other Thoughts: I really liked the laptop, until it broke. I have epoxied the hinge to the plastic and now open it like it is a priceless artifact. The actual computing components are quite good.

Pros: I was looking for a muscle laptop to run multiple VM, it has a nice look, and all the features to do what I need and was looking for.
Still light enough to carry everywhere.

Cons: I can't find any after only a few months of use.

Other Thoughts: I recommend this product to those hesitating between a macbook or traditional Intel box.
In fact a colleague of mine his now ordering the same, convinced of the overall profile of this box.

Pros: Fast CPU, capacity of the SSD 512 GB, Screen Resolution 1800

Cons: difficulties to read 4K video, lag in native resolution, video card should be 960.

Other Thoughts: Great price from Newegg Canada at 1399 $, Apple Same product cost 2400$ . Out Apple
Work perfectly with Windows 10