This is an attractive laptop, although the shiny blue lid shows fingerprints. Excellent screen for pics and movies and fast processor for working, and lots of memory to handle many windows open at once.

Back in early 2015 Dell launched the XPS 13 version that stunned many, including myself ( I bought one and still use it today ), with its compact footprint and minuscule bezel around the screen.

The Asus ZenBook series of laptops are some great mobile machines to carry for your productivity needs. In this post, we will take a look at the Asus ZenBook UX430UN which comes with some great hardware and is a good looking machine that will work without hanging or leaving you stuck in times of...

I purchased this because I wanted to upgrade the Asus UX303UB I purchased a few years ago mainly to get the quad core i7 8550 processor. I've had Asus computers in the past and have never had a problem. This one does not disappoint. It's fast, with a boot time of 3.5 seconds.

The ZenBook UX430UA is one of many thin and light ultraportable Asus laptops. It follows in the footsteps of previous greats, including the UX310UA and UX303UA that delivered a similar combination of performance and portability.

Supremely portable; Great keyboard and trackpad; Anti-glare screen is great for productivity; Decent performance

Not the best value; Lid picks up fingerprints and smudges; Disappointing battery life

The Asus ZenBook UX430U is everything most people are looking for in an ultraportable, right down to the affordable price. There's a lot to like here, especially the trifecta of a high-quality display, optimal webcam placement, and thin bezels.

Excellent value; Thin and light; Full HD display; Comfortable keyboard

No touch screen; Frequent fan noise

ASUS Zenbook is a premium ultraportable laptops offering a good mix performance and price with great specs. The ASUS Zenbook UX430UN is the latest model in this series and it comes with 8th gen Intel i7 and i5 processors along with dedicated graphics card with a choice of 512GB or 256GB SSD.

The positives don't outweigh the longer list of negatives on the UX430. The few standout features are the crisp matte display and thin design, but nearly everything else is average at best or unremarkable.

crisp IPS matte display; good contrast levels, accessible internals; upgradeable M.2 SSD, Great core specifications for the price, attractive and slim design, respectable battery life, full-size SD card reader, decent speakers

display backlight could be brighter; poor outdoor visibility, Discrete MX150 tends to throttle below base clock rate, pulse-width modulation on nearly all brightness levels, Inserted SD card protrudes by over half its length, no touchscreen, glossy, or 4K UHD options, soft keyboard keys with shallow...

Asus continues to make smaller and more powerful ultrabooks, that compete with the likes of Apple and Dell on every other aspect, except pricing. As more people demand for more a more powerful computer that's…

Lightweight and very portable; Crisp, anti-glare display; Useful fingerprint sensor

Absurd fingerprint sensor placement; Lid picks up smudges and fingerprints

of ultrabooks in the PC market, with companies endlessly cranking out slim Windows 10 machines, making it difficult to keep track of the latest models and choose a laptop that's right for you.

Solid ultraportable design; sharp and accurate display; and an impressive keyboard

No Thunderbolt 3; Kaby Lake R rather than Coffee Lake CPUs; middling battery life