It drastically reduced my perception of Asus as a brand - I wanted something I could game with, it promised the moon of portability and performance but they couldn't pull it off.
It drastically reduced my perception of Asus as a brand - I wanted something I could game with, it promised the moon of portability and performance but they couldn't pull it off.
As I write this, the fans are either completely stopped or so slow that I cannot hear them. The fans can get a little "whooshy" under load, but nothing out of line with other Windows laptops, as far as I can tell.
I'm running under Windows profile (not one of the ASUS-specific ones in Armory Crate). I also limit the battery to 60%, since I'm mostly using it plugged-in, with external monitor and keyboard. A month ago, I upgraded RAM to 40 GB and added another 4 TB SSD (and cleaned the fans in the process, so it's even quieter). I think I'll keep this machine for a few more years...
That being said, I did experience occasional cursor stuttering, but mostly when the machine is under load (typically during Visual Studio build).
I got a good 2.5 years out of it, but I was hoping to use it for at least 6 or 7.
Now that I think of it, I did disable sleep and just use hibernate instead. I no longer remember why - perhaps I too had some issues. Maybe I was just annoyed by Windows restarting in the middle of a night and (c)losing my open applications whenever it wishes to update? Or did I disable Wake Timers for that? Sorry, my memory is a bit fuzzy.
As it is, hibernate works perfectly for me, is fast enough, and it never closes my applications behind my back.
OTOH, I had sleep issues with pretty much all PCs that I ever had (be it laptop or desktop), so maybe it was just inertia to always use hibernation instead. :)