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hey what's up guys mkbhd here back with a video taking a look at one of the slimmest most well-built ultra books that you can buy right now we're taking a look at the Asus Zenbook ux301 go ahead and give a thumbs up on this video if you enjoy it and without any further ado let's get right into this one alright I'm gonna go ahead and start this off by saying the Zenbook ux301 is a picture perfect definition of an ultrabook and in case you didn't already know I'll include a link in the description as Zenbook in order to be called an ultrabook needs to fit a certain number of qualifications and this does just that you can see it's razor thin and it has a nice tapering design to it from back to front but this one separates itself from other possibly tapering laptops check this out on the right hand side you have a USB 3.0 port okay 3.0 power mini VGA and mini HDMI ports and a battery charging light and on the left hand side you have another USB port a headphone jack and a memory card reader and they can get a good look at that nice solid tapering design so there's nothing on the bottom of the laptop and the battery while it's non removable is actually pretty good so it wasn't a problem and the whole laptop is this nice spun metal finish that's just just screams slick or something I don't know it's hot reminds me of the transformer prime actually how but there's no ports on the back of this laptop either which is perfect the way it should be so all you have is this hinge and I can tell that Asus spent time designed it properly put the right parts in the right places just so that it could do this oh yeah boss does your laptop do that I didn't think so okay so once you open it up you get the keyboard the trackpad and the screen and this is where you can make or break it here in a laptop the keyboard it's alright it's not the best I've ever used but it's definitely not the worst there's a little bit of flex but not much because it's metal and the size of the keyboard was fine for even my mammoth size hands and there's function keys and everything they work great with Windows the keyboard is pretty good and the display was right on I might not be a fan of glossy on the desk up but they pulled it off here with a 13.3 inch 1600 by 900 IPS panel the viewing angles were decent but the screen actually gets really really bright which is nice for using it outdoors and a trackpad uh no it's just bad I mean it's a it's big and smooth and has nice hidden buttons and everything but for some reason mine just wasn't that sensitive at all it was really weird I don't know if it was just mine or maybe too much I maybe I'm a mouse and keyboard kind of guy but I feel like if you're getting an ultra portable laptop you don't really want to carry around a secondary Mouse you know so the keyboard and the trackpad should be really top-notch but this trackpad let me down it worked ok with windows gestures but I would have preferred a more sensitive keyboard and trackpad I feel like it could use a firmware update or something so inside the beast we have Windows 7 home premium and an Intel Core i5 25:57 M at 1.7 gigahertz so you know what that means you can do work on this thing it's an ultra-low voltage processor so battery lasts well but performance doesn't lag behind even a split second graphics were snappy and it's responsive to everything I threw at it including editing a video while plugged in in power mode but still I'm convinced that the 128 gig SSD in this laptop had a lot to do with that also the speakers were really loud it surprised me it kind of blew me away actually but I'd like to see more of the technology they used in these speakers in more mobile devices I liked it a lot and all this comes in a 17 millimeter thin package I don't have to tell you which one's the Ultrabook at least I hope not peace out guys you