QuoteHow can the power connector go bad if you are running on battery power?
I'm speaking of my old laptop; you drop the machine enough times with the cord in, bend it accidentally or just use it enough (I believe the power sockets on laptops are rated for X thousand inserts) and eventually the port will pack it in. Had I bought a spare in 2020 I could have potentially kept it going, although even the keyboard was starting to fail. It had a crack diagonally across the screen, which was only visible at certain angles. I took that machine all over the world and it survived being bashed and bruised through well-considered mobo and part layout, as well as an incredibly robust chassis (second only to the Macbook Pro). Only real problem with it was that the fans rattled after about 6 months, but this was solved by taking the fan blades out and adding some extra lithium grease to the blade insert hole.
Quotethe moronic and fragile USB-C should not be the main socket for power
I am finding this with the Vivobook - and at every insert/removal of the cord it gives an incredibly irritating 'slow charging' message, which you can't disable - but did not at all with the Xiaomi Notebook Pro. Also, having a generic plug (I used a 100w but could get away with less) means that if your cords or power pack are lost or break you can find one inexpensivelyand instantly, which is especially valuable when travelling. You're right about the charging sides, it should be possible both left and right, ideally with more than one on each side and set as far back as possible. In this case you can't have rear ports because the screen can open to 180 (why? ~120 or 360 are the only meaningfully useful angles!) so the hinge prevents it - I'm totally fine with this and would trade rear ports for a good strong hinge.
But I agree with you on the general anger at laptop design and this one especially. It's overpowered for its cooling system and the ergonomics suck. I would add (again) that the chassis is absolutely awful due to upward pressure from the bottom affecting the keys and the trackpad especially. How can this pass QA?
QuoteAsus has never had a full-fledged numpad in this series
I can use it onehanded and blind once I became used to it, and it is vastly preferable to the arrow keys for macros/gaming and the above letter key numbers for typing, IMHO. I would have preferred a smaller trackpad and full-sized arrow keys, larger F keys and properly sized enter/backspace/delete etc. The trackpad picks up too much from the thumb and wrist anyway, so being smaller would actually benefit the entire layout. Why make the pad so big? How many giants and farmers are using it? I'm 6'5/196cm and hate it!
QuoteI understand your criticism but this point is said to apply to almost all Windows notebooks with fast CPU or dGPU so not specific to your model.
Many laptops allow you to adjust the degree of their performance. Asus locks the BIOS and locks voltages and other parameters from being altered through things like Throttlestop. Why? General multimedia consumers have no interest in this while advanced users are going to want to improve thermals and performance. Despite this laptop being a 2023 model, I doubt there will be a BIOS update that fixes this.
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