!!!Warning, may offend Windows users!!! Okay, so I am a student at College, final semester, month left. Pell Grant came in and figured best to also have a new laptop. Am a royal sucker for Asus! I absolutely love their equipment and stand by it!!! I wanted a nice laptop for a reasonable price! Asus fits that bill! Anyway of course you know what OS was on there! Windows 8, for those not guessing to well!!!! Am sorry, I need a laptop that can get things done just as my desktop does and quite well will add! Sure I am in the IT field and have to deal with Windows on a daily basis, but when it comes to my own equipment is a different story! Anyway before I put someone to sleep here! At first I tried to be objective and work out a dual boot! I was very careful cautious and took time. End result, did not want to cooperate with having a dual boot between my Ubuntu and Windows 8! Was not an easy ticket USB wise to load either! As have posted before, I am not going to burn umpteen disks! Unetbootin is my friend! Number one with these laptops, ironically since USB 3 is there, you have to change things in the bios to get a flash drive with Unetbootin w/yourOS to boot! MMM, this Windows 8 boot manager to me seems like some kind of Gustapo! "You vil have our system or else!" For the timid and scared this situation can send you hiding under the bed or cowering to Microsoft til death do you part!!!! Nope sorry, not happening on this side! Had 6 partitions now is down to 3! No more Windows except under Vbox(perfectly caged!). Fully loaded with my 12.10 ubuntu(similar to Ultimate!)! How does it boot? How does it run????
Faster than the previous owner!!! Exceptionally well! Feel bad for it now as is tasked with a terrible job! My ole Zune! Zune = Great Great sound, everything else dud! This thing has never been 100%, always crazy things with it! Could write a book on it! Anyway is not registering well with computers of any kind anymore! Is getting replaced with an IPOD and has 92gigs of great music on it! Is now loading onto Win7 in vbox via laptop! Is a nightmare as is taking forever since it does not like computers anymore! So yes I feel bad for an nice laptop w/nice OS to be in that predicament! Had no success with any program in Ubuntu to transfer music from it. Sure can be read, but that was all! Not blaming Ubuntu as this Zune has never been right! Crashes at will, runs out of power at will you name it! Was to the shop several times and never runs as it should. Still does sound great when is going! Have heard IPOD does not sound as good but is real close! Of course will take the dependability or the sound! Same goes for OS's. Am sorry, I am no dancer and can not stand on my head and spin around!!! So I guess Win8 is just not for me! Maybe am getting old, but I just feel more of a need to get things done than just fool around on the internet and play games! Guess that is why Ubuntu suits me so well!!! Still wish Windows would go back to development instead of promotion! Am sick of their commercials! And what exactly are they promoting?????? Sure wish I knew cause seems like nothing to me!!!!!