Asus ZenBook UX310UA is a premium and stylish 13.3-inch Ultrabook that doesn’t break the bank. With a starting price of just £550, this mid-range laptop comes with high-end features. These include a beautiful, thin and light metal-coated body, Intel Skylake processors, solid-state storage, a USB Type-C port and a backlit keyboard.
With a retail price of £799.99, my review model is the top-spec UX310UA Featuring a i7-6500U dual-core processor, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, 500GB secondary hard drive and a QHD+ resolution display. Considering the Dell XPS 13 costs £100 more for the base i5 Full HD model, I’m really impressed with what you get for your money.
If you’re on a tighter budget, the entry-level ASUS UX310UA sports an i3-6100U processor, 4GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD and a Full HD display.
ASUS ZENBOOK UX310UA FB485T PERFORMANCE
- Ultra light at just 1.45KG & incredibly slim at just 18.33mm.
- Excellent Full HD screen for brilliant viewing experience.
- Wide viewing angles and vivid colours.
- No compromising on sound quality, Sonic Master speakers offer great listening experience.
If I have one complaint, it’s that the chunky bezels detract from the high-end aesthetic of the laptop. Next to a Dell XPS 13 and its “infinity-edge” bezels, the UX310UA looks a little dated. It’s a minor gripe but something I’d like to see addressed on future models. Asus ZenBook UX310UA 1
As for ports, the ASUS UX310UA offers a peculiar combination of old and new. There are three USB ports, but only one of them is the faster USB 3.0 type. It’s odd to see two USB 2.0 ports on a 2016 laptop – although it isn’t much of an issue if you just use these to plug in mice, keyboards or other peripherals.
The good news is the ASUS UX310UA does offer one of the latest reversible USB 3.1 (Type-C) ports, which is a nice piece of future-proofing. Elsewhere there’s a full-size HDMI port, headphone and microphone combo port, card reader and DC power port. It’s hard to think of anything that’s missing here.Asus ZenBook UX310UA.
ASUS ZENBOOK UX310UA DESIGN
You have the choice of Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) or 3,200 x 1,800-pixel display, depending on which model of the ASUS ZENBOOK UX310UA FB485T you go for.
My review model sports the higher-resolution QHD+ panel, which looks terrific – but I’m not convinced that anyone needs it on a 13.3-inch laptop. You’ll definitely need to make use of Windows scaling (which actually works well in Windows 10) to make the text and icons comfortably usable.
While I appreciate the sharpness (276ppi), unless you put the screen right up to your eye it isn’t something you’ll ever notice. I also believe it has a significant impact on battery life, but we’ll talk more about that later.
What I do like is the IPS panel, which is bright and offers wide viewing angles. Whether you’re watching a Netflix movie, YouTube video or just browsing the web, the display is nice to look at. Asus’ quoted 500:1 contrast ratio is lower than average, and means blacks are less inky and whites are a tad duller than you might expect given the type of panel used. For the price, though, the screen is adequate.
On the plus side, the solid 375cd/m2 maximum brightness combined with the matte panel makes it easy to use the ASUS UX310UA when you’re out and about. I found the display remained readable even in direct sunlight (hard to find during the Autumn in the UK).
The full-sized chiclet-style keyboard on the ASUS UX310UA is above average. While the keys do feel a little spongier than I‘d like, they offer a good amount of travel; I was comfortable typing on the keyboard within seconds of using it for the first time. It’s fully backlit, too – a feature the ASUS UX303 lacked – which not only adds to the laptop’s premium aesthetic but makes it easier to use in the dark.
There’s a hint of flex in the keyboard if you press firmly toward the back-middle of the keyboard, but it isn’t something you’ll notice with normal use.
The big, glass trackpad feels great. The smooth surface has two built-in buttons integrated into the bottom of the trackpad. I found it slightly less responsive than I’d like out of the box, but increasing the cursor sensitivity by a notch in Windows easily resolved the issue.
On my top-spec review model, editing a 1080p video in Adobe Premiere Pro and touching up photos in Adobe Lightroom was smooth and showed no sign of slowdown or stutter. Render times will be longer than with proper quad-core processors, but you’ll be paying a lot more for that performance. Gaming is a mixed bag – make no mistake that Ultrabooks, including the UX310UA, aren’t meant for anything more than light gaming.
OTHER FROM ASUS ZENBOOK UX310UA FB485T
Battery life ASUS ZENBOOK UX310UA FB485T is decidedly average on the ASUS ZENBOOK UX310UA. After watching a two-hour Netflix movie, with power-saving mode enabled and brightness set to 50%, the ASUS ZENBOOK UX310UA was left with just 55% battery. So you’d be lucky to get more than four hours of video playback.
With general use I found I got about six hours of battery from the ASUS ZENBOOK UX310UA, which is actually spot on with Asus’ quoted battery life from the three-cell 48Wh battery. You should be able to get through a full working day if you lower the brightness a touch, but it certainly isn’t a match for the XPS 13 or MacBook Pro.
However, this is my experience with the QHD+ resolution model of the ASUS ZENBOOK U310UA. I haven’t tested the Full HD version, but I’d expect battery life to be better.
The ASUS UX310UA speakers have been designed in collaboration with Harmon Kardon and use Asus’ own SonicMaster technology.
In reality, the speakers are decent – but nothing to write home about. For the odd YouTube video they’re definitely good enough, but for anything else the lack of bass will be apparent (par for the course with Ultrabooks). However, since the speakers are positioned on the bottom of the laptop facing downwards, they’ll resonate off a hard surface and improve the bass. Still, a good pair of headphones is definitely your best bet.
ASUS ZENBOOK UX310UA DRIVERS WINDOWS 10
Download Asus UX310UA Drivers – BIOS | Windows BIOS Flash UtilityDownload EMI and Safety – FCC Declaration of Conformity Windows 10KB
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Download Touchpad -Asus Smart Gesture (Touchpad Driver) Windows 10
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