Asus Unveils Zenbook ZX500 Notebook With 4K IPS Display
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N.Broekhuijsen
June 2, 2014 8:38:02 AM
Asus' new laptop will come with a four-lane M.2 SSD and a 4K IPS display.
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While clearly marketed for graphic professionals, until Adobe gets their hi-DPI support together this thing will unfortunately be close to useless.
This is coming from a Lenovo yoga 2 pro owner with the 3200x1800p screen that I end up downscaling half the time just to see the buttons on adobe software
This is coming from a Lenovo yoga 2 pro owner with the 3200x1800p screen that I end up downscaling half the time just to see the buttons on adobe software
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somebodyspecial
June 2, 2014 10:51:50 AM
laststop311
June 2, 2014 12:49:48 PM
jasonelmore
June 2, 2014 1:17:01 PM
jasonelmore
June 2, 2014 1:18:14 PM
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While clearly marketed for graphic professionals, until Adobe gets their hi-DPI support together this thing will unfortunately be close to useless. This is coming from a Lenovo yoga 2 pro owner with the 3200x1800p screen that I end up downscaling half the time just to see the buttons on adobe software
Adobe has fixed this and it will be out soon. providing your a paying Adobe Creative Cloud Customer. It was Demo'd at the Surface Pro 3 Event.
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The3monitors
June 2, 2014 1:23:46 PM
I am looking to get rid of my Toshiba 15" at a mind blowing resolution of 1780 x 970 I am happy to get another option for a 4k resolution that isnt macintrash. I just want an i7 with 16gb of mem.. The availablility to plug in an ssd that I already have. Plus at minimum 4 USB 3.0 ports. Oh I am one of those crazy graphic designers that will use that display to the max.
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amk-aka-Phantom
June 2, 2014 2:05:49 PM
That's NX500, Tom's, not ZX
This thing is pretty amazing. It has a GDDR5 version of GTX 850M, unlike G550JK and N550JK. It has SSDs (Asus is notorious by now due to REFUSING to put SSD anywhere except top G750 and ZenBook configs, which is a shame in case of laptops like N550... and most of their machines don't even have mSATA or M.2 to add your own without throwing HDD out!), it has a HUGE (96 Wh) battery (specs: http://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_...). In a way, it's everything I wanted my N550JV to have improved. However, I am disappointed that Ethernet jack has been removed, and same can be said about subwoofer jack (which is absolutely needed for proper music enjoyment). Happy that NumPad has been removed, NOT happy that arrow keys became those stupid half-height ones. Not happy that the screen became touch - that will just increase the price (to hell with touch anyhow) pointlessly AND it made the screen glossy. It better have the brightness of 350+ cd/m2 to make up for it.
In a way, this is the best balanced non-workstation laptop on the market right now. But from the other side, removal of the above-mentioned features is just annoying. It's the same case as N550, there's enough space for RJ45 and subwoofer jack. Scumbag Asus can't ever get EVERYTHING right as much as I love their N series.
This thing is pretty amazing. It has a GDDR5 version of GTX 850M, unlike G550JK and N550JK. It has SSDs (Asus is notorious by now due to REFUSING to put SSD anywhere except top G750 and ZenBook configs, which is a shame in case of laptops like N550... and most of their machines don't even have mSATA or M.2 to add your own without throwing HDD out!), it has a HUGE (96 Wh) battery (specs: http://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_...). In a way, it's everything I wanted my N550JV to have improved. However, I am disappointed that Ethernet jack has been removed, and same can be said about subwoofer jack (which is absolutely needed for proper music enjoyment). Happy that NumPad has been removed, NOT happy that arrow keys became those stupid half-height ones. Not happy that the screen became touch - that will just increase the price (to hell with touch anyhow) pointlessly AND it made the screen glossy. It better have the brightness of 350+ cd/m2 to make up for it.
In a way, this is the best balanced non-workstation laptop on the market right now. But from the other side, removal of the above-mentioned features is just annoying. It's the same case as N550, there's enough space for RJ45 and subwoofer jack. Scumbag Asus can't ever get EVERYTHING right as much as I love their N series.
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MasterMace
June 2, 2014 5:27:36 PM
w8gaming
June 2, 2014 7:46:47 PM
amk-aka-Phantom
June 3, 2014 8:32:02 AM
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I can't see the point of having a fast discrete GPU in a ultrabook form factor. How good is the heat dissipation? I suppose the machine will be throttled a lot due to heat built up when gaming?This is not an ultrabook form factor, Asus is lying. It's the same case as N550JV (slightly thicker than 15'' MBP Retina), and I play Battlefield 3 online multiplayer on mid-high settings and Mass Effect 3 multiplayer on highest (both at 1080p of course), and remember that N550JV has a worse card - GT 750M with DDR3 VRAM. Notebookcheck tests revealed CPU throttling during high load on both CPU and GPU but it doesn't actually happen during gaming. In N550JK, which has the same CPU and GTX 850M (DDR3 version, ugh) the throttling is gone since GTX 850M is a cooler-running card, it seems.
This case's cooling is not ideal - the bottom of the screen's frame is almost blocking the exhaust vents, like on the new MBPs. However, there are two fans and although the top of the case (next to the screen) gets pretty hot, it does not have any impact on gaming.
I imagine that NX500 will use exactly the same cooling and that the GDDR5 version of GTX 850M isn't running considerably hotter. Therefore I conclude that this laptop is fully capable of playing a LOT of modern games on high settings at 1080p. It's not designated for gaming, but if you just want a stylish laptop with good soudn, kickass screen, powerful CPU/SSD combos and good battery life, capable of SOME gaming, this is as perfect as it gets.
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somebodyspecial
June 3, 2014 10:48:36 AM
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ROFL@4k on a 15.6in. You won't be gaming in native on this and as vmem said, print will be so small it's pointless for pros also. I don't know who keeps coming up with ideas that are basically impossible to sell to people.It's called Windows 8.1 DPI Scaling. Works great.
You're talking windows itself. As you noted in your other post with Adobe fixing the problem, it's a per app fix and devs have to do that. Games have the same problems. I'm not saying they won't get it all perfect one day, just for now it is definitely not and I don't know anyone running win 8/8.1 that hasn't removed it
Myself included.DPI scaling doesn't fix the fact that you're pushing a massive amount of pixels either. Gaming at 4K with a single 850m? It's called a "Slide show". Works terrible.
Every game will require you to mess with settings, resolutions etc. I prefer to run NATIVE, Maxed in everything and buy gpu's/monitors to get to that point. I have this issue with my 5850 on my 1920x1200 dell for years now. I hate that. My next purchase will be 1600p (unless forced to 1440p) and when I can't run native in a game on that with maxwell (or whatever is best at 20nm with a gsync type tech, I require this feature or AMD's if it works at some point), I'll drop it over to my 24in 1200p dell. I do the same now if it can't run at 1200p I drop to my 22in 1680x1050 to play maxed out and in many games the 5850 can't even pull that off...LOL. Score
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hannibal
June 3, 2014 1:44:20 PM
BranFlake5
June 3, 2014 5:43:01 PM
The3monitors
June 22, 2014 6:45:47 PM
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