ASUS ZenBook UX3430 (14-Inch, 2017) Series

solid and well-finished case ; security features ; carry bag included ; decent input devices ; bright display ; good color accuracy and reproduction from the factory ; very good viewing angles ; MX150 significantly improves the option of gaming ; quiet...

no one-handed opening ; poor card reader ; high black level ; high color temperature ; blue tint to the display ; SSD write speeds are suboptimal ; CPU and GPU clocks are suboptimal ; a little short on battery life

The ASUS ZenBook UX3430UN manages to achieve the balancing act between being a mobile office subnotebook and an occasional gaming machine with only a slight reduction in performance.Although the new ZenBook UX3430UN does not necessarily belong in the...

compact for a 14-inch laptop ; well-made rigid case ; high quality ; ambitious design, nice blue color ; 2 adapters included ; fingerprint-reader, TPM 2.0 ; decent keyboard, very good ClickPad ; excellent display ; very quiet, never gets annoying ;...

comparatively expensive ; surfaces very susceptible to fingerprints ; lid cannot be opened one-handed ; very slow card reader ; low-performance SSD ; GPU rather slow ; users barely profit from 940MX

Why oh why did Asus opt for the almost ancient and most certainly outdated GeForce 940MX? And why did they not manage a decent implementation of this well-known chip to boot? Remember, the Zenbook’s 940MX is only around 30 % faster than the integrated...