Andrew Cunningham
Asus' new UX305C.
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It’s easy to find cheap PCs and it’s easy to find good PCs, but it can be difficult to find a PC in between those two poles that gives you a really great value for your money. Too often, you’ll find PCs in the $600-700 range that aren’t portable enough, or that use bad LCD panels, or that give you too-small SSDs or too-slow HDDs.
That’s one reason we liked Asus’ Zenbook UX305 laptop so much. It was never the best laptop you could buy, but it gave you a whole lot for $700. There are some odd design touches, and its trackpad, like so many Windows PC trackpads, is mediocre at best. It doesn’t include a touchscreen. But the keyboard is good, the screen is good, and it’s as fast as it needs to be. In other words, Asus made most of the right compromises, and the Skylake version of the laptop delivers the same stuff with improved performance.
Look and feel
Asus didn’t change a thing about the way the Skylake version of the UX305 looks, which is mostly a good thing. It’s still a mostly metal laptop with a burgundy or dark purple finish (it looks different depending on the way the light hits it), with a smooth matte texture on the palm rest and bottom of the laptop and a brushed metal texture on the lid.
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