Testseek.com have collected 233 expert reviews of the Asus UX305FA Zenbook and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Asus UX305FA Zenbook.
March 2015
(82%)
233 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(78%)
1795 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Excellent battery life
Thin
Wellbuilt chassis
Completely quiet—there's no fan or spinning HD
Sleek all-aluminum design
Great keyboard and touchpad design
Thin profile and lightweight chassis
Flawless screen
Fanless
Quiet cooling system
Great price
Solid construction
Good mix of features for the price
Good keyboard and OK trackpad
Microsoft Signature edition is available
Good battery life
Good port selection
Decent 1080p IPS panel with a matte finish
Which is becoming rare
Superthin and superlight
Aesthetically pleasing
Screen looks good
DPI scales nicely
Excellent build quality
It's fanless
Includes a fast SSD (benchmarked at ~475MB/s read/write)
Price compared to competition
Thin and light. Aluminum construction. Fanless design
Thanks to Intel Core M processor. Full HD-resolution display. Comfortable keyboard and touchpad. All-day battery life in our tests.
Surprisingly affordable
Superthin aluminum body
Bright matte screen
Quiet
Fanless design
Extra long battery life
Low price for a stylish and classy notebook with plenty of ports despite slim design. Ample RAM and storage. Nice matte IPS display
Light
And attractive
Handsome full HD display
Comfortable keyboard and touch pad
Fanless and silent
Great specs for the price
Core m offers reasonable office performance
Thin and light
Solid and sexy
And quiet as a mouse. Twice the RAM and storage of competing models from Apple and Dell
But for less money. Gorgeous screen
Comfy keyboard
Allday battery
Bright
Contrast-rich IPS screen
Stable
High-end case
Very good input devices
Silent operation
Hardly gets warmer
Fast SSD
Maintainable
USB-to-Ethernet adapter
The editors didn't like
Keyboard is not backlit
Underwhelming battery life
Lacks keyboard backlight
So-so CPU performance
No touch or backlit keyboard option
If you're into those
Some backlight bleed around the edges of the display
Core M and the HD 5300 GPU are significantly slower than Broadwell-U or Haswell-U
Dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi instead of 802.11ac
Touchpad can be finicky
Mostly with regards to clicking
Middling performance in testing. No touch screen. Speakers are disappointing
Core M can lag in performance
Quiet speakers
No backlit keyboard
Webcam has poor white balance
No touch screen
Keyboard isn't backlit
Intel Core M is slower than Core i series
Mediocre performance
No USB-C port for charging or external display
Keys aren't backlit
My kingdom for backlit keys. Lacks the sex appeal of Dell's onlyslightlypricier XPS 13. Oddball screenhinge design can cause some slippage while you type. Weak builtin speakers are an affront to ears everywhere
Great specs for the price, Core m offers reasonable office performance
No USB-C port for charging or external display, Keys aren't backlit
If 2015 was a break-out year for many laptop makers, 2016 so far appears to be steady as she goes. Some vendors have chosen to make tiny changes to bring laptops more in line with newer technologies such as USB-C, while others aren't making any change...
Published: 2015-12-22, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
Usually we'd have filled the intervening pages with our usual array of graphs, but there are two sensible reasons why we haven't done so here. Firstly the Zenbook UX305 doesn't really match up to anything we've previously tested, and results in a vacuum a...
Abstract: The Asus ZenBook UX501 has been out for a few months now, offering Window's users a powerhouse of a laptop with the modern styling and an ultrathin design that helps it stand out in a crowd. As one of the best Windows alternatives to a MacBook Air it's po...
Bright, contrast-rich IPS screen, Stable, high-end case, Very good input devices, Silent operation, Hardly gets warmer, Fast SSD, Maintainable, USB-to-Ethernet adapter
No keyboard light
In Review Asus Zenbook UX305FA-FC004H. Test model courtesy of Notebooksbilliger.deIn the verdict to the Zenbook sibling we wrote, ". the UX305 seems to us to be a well-balanced subnotebook that has much to offer for professional users and demanding priva...
Superthin and superlight, Aesthetically pleasing, Screen looks good; DPI scales nicely, Excellent build quality, It's fanless, Includes a fast SSD (benchmarked at ~475MB/s read/write), Price compared to competition
Touchpad can be finicky, mostly with regards to clicking
When I wrote about the release of the UX305 a couple of months ago, I knew that I had to get a unit in for testing. I am sure that the reasons for that are obvious: it's sleek, thin, and portable. Well, for those reasons and others, I've come to like the...
Thin, light, and attractive, Handsome full HD display, Comfortable keyboard and touch pad, Good battery life, Fanless and silent
Mediocre performance, No backlit keyboard, No touch screen
An 0.8GHz Core M processor leaves this slim and sleek ultrabook a bit short on performance, but it's otherwise a great little laptop for its $699 price. Read More…...
The ASUS Zenbook UX305 was found to be a very well built Intel Ultrabook that is easily affordable. At first we were doubtful that the Intel Core M processor would be able to perform the tasks that we wanted to do, but we were pleased with the performance...
Published: 2015-05-26, Author: Sean , review by: gizmodo.com
Yes—unless you can afford to pay more! The Asus UX305 is a well-rounded laptop at a great $700 price, but you can get an even better one for just a little bit more money. At $800, the Dell XPS 13 is slightly better in almost every single way, with longer...
Published: 2015-04-28, Author: Andrew , review by: arstechnica.com
Solid construction, Good mix of features for the price, Good keyboard and OK trackpad, Microsoft Signature edition is available, Good battery life, Good port selection, Decent 1080p IPS panel with a matte finish, which is becoming rare, Fanless
No touch or backlit keyboard option, if you're into those, Some backlight bleed around the edges of the display, Core M and the HD 5300 GPU are significantly slower than Broadwell-U or Haswell-U, Dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi instead of 802.11ac
Published: 2015-04-27, Author: Howard , review by: networkworld.com
Abstract: Video review: At first glance, you might mistake the ASUS ZenBook UX305 as a dark-gray edition of the 13-inch MacBook Air. It shares nearly the same design cues and size, but is thinner than the Apple notebook is at its thickest point, and weighs less. It also beats many...
