Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a big, powerful machine that's met every challenge I've thrown at it. The monitor is excellent. The keyboard is full size and works very well. The backlighting is a little hard to get used to but it offers three brightness levels. Battery life isn't bad for so much power 4-6 hours. Boot up is lightning fast and file transfer is quick. The 500GB SSD is adequate for my needs. I'm so glad to be back with ASUS again. This is a pretty serious laptop capable of fairly high end gaming if desired. The fast i7 and GTX 960 are enough to run ARMA3 at decent settings. . ASUS quality. I'm back to stay.

This laptop might look attractive on paper, but you are being deceived on one of its biggest selling points. This laptop advertises a screen resolution of 4K UHD 3840x2160, but that isn't a complete truth. It's using what's called the RG/BW Pentile matrix, a cheap trick to achieve the ability to advertise as 3840x2160, without actually achieving the full detail of the resolution itself. A web search will tell you more about this, but that basically means even though the screen makes your computer render this resolution, your screen can't display all of that detail, because it's missing half of its pixels. Lots of reviews talk about how nice the display is. Does it look nice? Sure. But here's some context: Most people buying new laptops today will be coming from the previous generations of laptops that almost all had very low quality 1366x768 TN displays. From those displays, yes, this is a huge upgrade, but so are all of the normal 1080p IPS displays you can get in just about any laptop half this price, many of which already score higher on color and contrast than this. Real 4K UHD 3840x2160 resolution is a huge upgrade from THIS display, and it is a disrespect to laptops that do truly achieve 4K (Dell XPS 15, Lenovo Yoga 710, Lenovo Y700, etc), that this one gets to advertise right along side them. It's not close to the tier of real 4K displays, and it's not even as good as the Macbook Pro Retina displays, or the 3K 2880x1620 displays available in some laptops, such as the ASUS UX51vz (an older version of this), Gigabyte P35x, and Lenovo Thinkpad T560. You might compare this laptop to an alternative and think "Well, the display's not as good, but this one has an i7, 16GB of RAM, and a bigger SSD! The other laptop for this price doesn't have those, and if I want those in the other laptop I have to spend more. This one must be the better deal, right?" First, evaluate what you really need. Most CPUs that come with most of today's laptops are more than enough for what most people do. Same with RAM, but the RAM as well as the SSD are easy to upgrade after-market, whereas you're pretty much stuck with this display: a difference you'll likely notice a lot more in the end. If you want what this laptop is supposed to be, get the Dell XPS 15 or Lenovo Y700 UHD. Both offer the same GPU, but have honest true 3840x2160 displays. The Dell XPS 15 and Lenovo Y700 UHD are truly worthy choices at this price point, whereas the ASUS UX501 thrives on deceptive advertising. Don't buy it without fully knowing what it is and what it isn't, and always do your research when buying laptops that advertise super-high-resolution displays, because some of them aren't what they say they are.

Researched ASUS, DELL, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung - Machines at work have been DELL and HP, machines at home have been DELL (desktop) and ASUS laptops. ASUS machine purchased in 2008 suddenly died in 2011, replaced with ASUS Ultrabook, 128GB SSD, 4GB ram, still have and use that machine today but outgrew SSD & needed more capability. Closely compared HP Spectre X360 and ASUS Zenbook Pro. Actually returned Zenbook Pro due to connectivity issues at first use (BEST BUY IS GREAT) for HP Spectre. One day later exchanged HP Spectre for the same Zenbook initially purchased because the Geek Squad guys resolved all connectivity issues. The HP Spectre is a very good machine, it was a very tough decision as both machines offer great battery longevity, really good performance, good sound quality, and excellent display sharpness and color-contrast range. The Zenbook Pro offers a slight edge due to the dedicated video card and other items but X360 display is very slightly better. There is something about ASUS machines, especially when you are running multiple applications simultaneously with analytical software, switching back and forth between application, that gives ASUS the edge.

This laptop is the top of the line in speed and connectivity. The processor can't be matched. I'm so pleased with this purchase.

Enjoying my new laptop. Only drawback has been that the graphics card keeps disabling and recovering, which stops everything for a few seconds each time. Thinking about taking it in to be checked for this problem. But otherwise it is an awesome computer.

I want to live this computer I really do but I can't because I can't use it unless I'm at my house in a dim lit room. The screen is SOOOOO glossy that all you can see is yourself. It's really bad, I have to return it. I use for editing photos and I wanted a laptop so that I wouldn't be stuck to one spot but this is not versatile with the very reflective screen. Bad call Asus.