Processing: The first device that I got wobbled as in a review before described markedly between the bottom left and top right, Endkippelstellung by the weight was the top right. Amazon has then replaced the unit and the replacement device is as great, rock solid, which should be self-evident for a 1400 Euro device.
The other gap dimensions also fit, the touchpad was well fitted with both. The device (if to disregard the Kippelgerät) acts very high quality and the aluminum makes a great impression.
Performance / sound
The sound of the notebook without an external subwoofer already good, with even a piece of far better, although you should not expect that you can also feel the bass ;-)
From the performance in general the notebook is safely designed very well and has to cope with the i7 4710 enough power to more elaborate tasks. The 8 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 850M graphics card (with 4GB) contribute their part. Battery life that I could test yet was almost 6 hours without load (Windows updates, Office updates, downloads via Steam, a few installations in this period), so you would be well with the device also mobile on the go, even if it does not ensure the objective of a 17-inch monster is.
Miscellaneous: There are a 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD installed. The recovery partition was unfortunately created on the SSD, so this will be reduced in advance to 15 GB (Possibly the Windows 8.1 due to that the data expected on the boot device, but I wanted to mention it.) In addition, SSD and HDD are in each case 2 partitions divided, so that you get 4 drive letter for it. Is it possible to reduce very quickly via the Disk Management, if it bothers you. (It disturbed me there).
The system boots very quickly from the SSD and also a reboot is done in Win8.1 in very few seconds.
The pre-installed McAfee virus scanner is a bit problematic. He has completed the installation of different things in my disabled or completely prevented. It was a game that was purchased through Steam as well as Photoshop Elements 13 Adobe ... have finally replaced him as a trial version with 1 month time was not the Super argument.
Summary: If you caught no mon model to get a rock-solid media work laptop which allows you to play and replacing a desktop fully satisfying. One point I draw from for the quality control of Asus, because apparently increased equipment go out, which are not meeting the requirements of a 1400 Euros device and is sloppy.
Addendum: Did last night for the first time played a little with the device (Half Life 2) and the ventilation was then noticeably audible in FullHD and full details, but ok. As I have the device now turned this morning turned the fan immediately to full strength and the power was in the basement. Short root cause analysis: The internal PCIe controllers for the Geforce graphics card in the Device Manager was no longer activated and the Geforce completely gone. Thus, he has thus used the Intel graphics card, which makes then temperature. BIOS update gabs no newer, so I take my last time to send a replacement unit if it's nothing, then I'll ask for reimbursement. After the fan already full turns into the BIOS and even with the default values, I close times from that I can do something for it and prefer this second device for also again a point from.
