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
Decent piece of kit but not a massive step up from the current model, at least as far as look and feel are concerned. Being the first out of the stalls with the Core M means that Asus could gather some momentum before rivals appear on the market....
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Published: 2015-07-29, Author: Patrick , review by: futurefive.co.nz
Abstract: The mid-range notebook PC is usually more about compromise and price than spec or quality. Engineering a notebook to a specific price point isn't an easy task and some concessions to spec and build are inevitable.I was, however, pleasantly surprised by As...
Asus is pitching the UX305 as a Windows competitor to the admittedly more powerful MacBook Air. And it's done a good job. The Asus machine is cheaper, slimmer, lighter, more stylish and has more in the way of ports. Even if you set those qualities at noug...
Incredibly thin and light, Core M and an SSD work well together, Silent operation, Impressive battery life
Lafité is available for £150 less, No Ethernet port, Only 80GB SSD storage after Windows is installed
Taken on its own, the Asus UX305 is a superb Ultrabook. It offers fantastic build quality, with the 1.2kg weight and 12mm thickness being the clear standout aspects of the design. It is simply a gorgeous laptop. The UX305 is not just about appearances, th...
Thin and lightweight, great keyboard, lots of ports, cheap for an ultrabook
Uninspiring performance, small SSD, ugly anti-glare coating
Well-built, affordable and boasting a long battery life, the ZenBook UX305 has a lot to offer casual users. However, limited processing power and a general lack of enterprise-friendly features cause it to fall just short of its potential...
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Published: 2015-06-05, Author: Mike , review by: pocket-lint.com
Metal build quality, super-slim design (more so than a MacBook Air), decent screen for a balanced price point, ample performance for the price
No backlit keyboard, no touchscreen, fiddly to open, lacks power of pricier models (as expected), no MS Office
The Asus Zenbook UX305 is certainly in the running for king of the mid-range laptops. Of course there are more powerful and feature-heavy laptops out there, but at this £649 price point, with its Full HD 13.3-inch screen, metal build, full size keyb...
Published: 2015-05-11, Author: Nick , review by: reviewed.com
Abstract: For a lot of people, when they hear the term “ultrabook” they think of Asus's ZenBook line. When the ZenBook UX301 launched it joined the ranks of Windows alternatives to compete with Apple's MacBook Air . Although Asus recently released a true successor ...
