Asus Zenbook Pro UX501

The Asus ZenBook Pro UX501 is the latest expansion to the organization's premium portable PC lineup, and was dispatched in India a couple of months prior. With a road value set of INR.1,15,999, we're crawling into MacBook Pro region. Mac's putting forth is typically one of the principal decisions that springs to brain when one thinks about a premium portable PC. 

We got the UX501JW-FJ221H model for audit, which is the one that is at present being sold on the web. The ZenBook Pro guarantees an extravagant affair and top of the line execution. How about we perceive how well this deciphers in this present reality. 

Just feel it

At first look, the portable PC reminds you of Apple's outline style, yet look closer and you'll see a lot of contrasts that help the ZenBook Pro stand its ground. Asus has run with aluminum for the cover and body, which loans the tablet a premium look. The cover additionally components Asus' mark 'spun-metal' completion which is available on all ZenBook models.

Open the top and you're welcomed by a lovely 15.6-inch UHD (2160x3840) IPS screen. There's no hostile to glare treatment so reflections can be an issue even at full brilliance. The presentation likewise underpins 10-finger touch data for Windows 8 and 10. The hues are rich and there's no distinguishable ruggedness around content or symbols on account of the 282ppi pixel thickness. Seeing points are additionally great, which makes watching motion pictures in a gathering more pleasant because of a more extensive sweet spot. There's an elastic covering along the edge of showcase which closes the console territory when the top is shut.

The pivot is strong and shrouds the fumes vents so the hot air doesn't make it uncomfortable to use on your lap. All ports are put on the two sides of the tablet. You get a sum of three USB 3.0 ports, an earphones and receiver combo jack, SD card opening, HDMI 1.4, Mini DisplayPort (MiniDP) 1.1a, and the charging port. Asus has affirmed that the tablet sold in India will have a Thunderbolt port rather than MiniDP and will send with a Gigabit LAN connector. There's no entrance fold for swapping out the RAM because of the aluminum base so you'll need to unscrew the whole base to get to the segments. The two back elastic feet are bigger than the ones in the front, giving you an agreeable slope for writing.

You get a full-sized console alongside a numeric cushion. The chiclet keys are illuminated and have great dividing. They're additionally OK with better than average travel and a firm material reaction. Sound is taken care of by Bang and Olufsen speakers on the base, confronting the sides. The expansive trackpad is glass-covered so finger following is smooth. The left and right mouse catches have great material reaction and don't require much push to utilize. The palm rest territory is roomy as well however the surface tends to get smircesh and fingerprints effortlessly. The LED status pointers for force, battery and hard circle movement are set confronting the front. 

Asus has made a splendid showing with the manufacture and complete of the ZenBook Pro UX501. Right from the UHD showcase to the chamfered edges on the body, the tablet looks and feels like a premium gadget ought to. It weighs 2.2kg which is on the heavier side, so hauling it around might require some exertion. 

Determinations and programming 

The ZenBook Pro packs in a top of the line Intel Core i7-4720HQ CPU which keeps running at 2.2GHz and can turbo up to 3.6GHz. This quad-center CPU is the same one present in the HP Omen and MSI GT80 2QE Titan SLI that we inspected as of late.

There's a total of 16GB DDR3 RAM and just like the Asus A555LF, 8GB of it is soldered onboard while the rest is on a single DIMM stick. The graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. For storage, Asus has gone with a 512GB PCIe SSD from Samsung. Other specifications include an HD webcam, Wi-Fi b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0 and a 96WHr 6-cell battery.

The retail unit of the laptop should come with Windows 8.1 64-bit which is eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10. Our review unit came with Windows 10 already installed. You also get a whole bunch of Asus utilities including Live Update; Splendid utility for switching between different colour profiles; USB Charger Plus, which lets you charge USB devices when the laptop is off; WebStorage, which is Asus's own cloud storage service; and trial versions of McAfee LiveSafe security suite and Office 365. 

Execution 

General application execution and boot times are quick because of the quick SSD. Asus has set the presentation scaling to 250 percent which gives you a compelling showcase determination of somewhat under 1920x1080. Windows benefits an occupation of scaling symbols and content which are local to the new working framework, however a few applications that don't represent this are rendered at the local determination, which makes everything too little to see without squinting. EA's Origin amusement supervisor, for occasion, didn't follow Windows' scaling. We saw a little defer in the activitys when opening new windows or applications, which can be mixed up for slack however it's equitable Windows scaling up the determination. It's exceptionally unpretentious and will probably go unnoticed by most.

The palm rest territory runs extremely cool and doesn't warm up even while gaming. One thing we noted was that the base, close to the pivot, gets hot before long thus does the base segment of showcase, where the Asus logo is. The console is agreeable to use with next to no weakness inching in, even after augmented times of writing. You can likewise pick between three levels of key backdrop illumination. We don't have any objections with the trackpad either, which functions admirably and doesn't act as a burden while writing.

The showcase scaling can bring about slight glitches while changing settings in-amusement, particularly the determination. We likewise went over another impossible to miss programming glitch where a few amusements and benchmarks would neglect to recognize the Nvidia GPU and crash. We had this issue with Battlefield 4 and 3DMark Fire Strike. Indeed, even in the wake of overhauling the important drivers, the issue still held on. We're trusting this is a disconnected episode with our survey unit.