Quote (Ice98 @ Nov 5 2015 10:44pm)
I have a Zenbook Prime and love it, I also have one that I bought when the Zenbook was available for under $1k with a dedicated graphics (base specs were i7 3517, 4gb ram, 2x 128gb SSDs, 620m/HD4500 switchable graphics, backlit keyboard, 1080p IPS LED screen, upgraded it to 10gb of RAM (only one slot accessible) and have loved this thing)
It is very light, thin, if you turn the background brightness down and don't use it for games you can get 4-6+ hours of solid battery life, you can go all day if you use the sleep and rapid restore functions
It isn't the most powerful graphics, but it has been enough to play L4d2, Killing floor, Warhammer 40k2, Terra, DDO, EQ2, Neverwinter, Bioshock 1/2/infinite, New Vegas, etc, I run it with 2 128gb slim USB 3.0 flash drives full of games and an external 500gb USB 3.0 drive, also full of games
Get the zenbook, the I5 is a bit more powerful than the M but you are going to get better battery life with the M, and the zenbook is quite a bit cheaper (at least, when I look at the site the pricing is $870 vs $999
or wait until black fri/cyber Monday, its only 3 weeks
I can use the education store and get the xps for 899 instead. But ya im leaning to the zenbook.
Quote (TSL @ Nov 5 2015 08:43pm)
First one has on board graphics?
Second link won't work for me.
Both of the ones im considering now or integrated
One is intel 5500(xps)
The other is intel 515(zenbook)
Gonna find a store where i can go and type on them live and that kinda thing but leaning to the zenbook