That is correct, the 12mm thick Zenbook UX305 from ASUS does not have a LAN port, it is wireless or nothing for this ultrabook. It does have three USB 3.0 ports, a micro HDMI, a 3.5mm jack for audio and an SD card reader so you will be able to use some wired peripherals with this ultramobile device. At a mere 1.2 kg the machine is very light and with a M-5Y10 which can clock between 800MHz up to 2GHz with Turbo Boost it will run when you need it and be gentle on your battery when you do not. KitGuru has posted a review of the UX305 here.
"The ZenBook UX305 is the latest Ultrabook offering from Asus. When I last reviewed one of their products – the hybrid T300 Chi – it greatly impressed me. The UX305 is a similar device, with a Core M processor, 8GB RAM and another SanDisk M.2 SSD. This time, however, it is a conventional laptop, and is priced at £649.95."
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Not for me. You’d think
Not for me. You’d think though that there’d be a slim ethernet standard developed by now. The vast majority of the RJ45 connector is plastic, not copper.
In the same breath I feel
In the same breath I feel like a notebook like this doesn’t really benefit from having it. I’d say most don’t. Wireless AC is pretty darn quick.
jees – what did they save w/o
jees – what did they save w/o ethernet port – like a dollar?
Looks pretty tempting as a
Looks pretty tempting as a replacement for my wife’s 7 year old Dell. Our apt has really nice wifi signal/speed since upgrading to an 802.11 ac router and wifi is strictly more convenient than ethernet. It’s not like you need ethernet levels of latency for gaming as this is an ultrabook.
This is exactly how I feel
This is exactly how I feel about it.
Sockpuppet!!!!
Sockpuppet!!!!
Gaming on an ultrabook, the
Gaming on an ultrabook, the Ultrabook is why HP is stuck with tons of unsold inventory, that and windows 8, and windows 10 looks to be of little influence for new sales. Yes those OEMs are still trying to pawn off the loads of ultrabooks that are clogging the supply channels, and forcing some OEMs to write down some inventory. That ultrabook initiative contra revenue style program by Intel has led the OEM’s by the nose ring into the sales crapper. It’s tine for some beefy laptops in a regular form factor laptop cases and a proper cooling solution running a non ultrabook laptop CPU/SOC SKU.
Even AMD is under Intel’s market influence, having to go along with the flow by just releasing a line of so called Carrizo “Business” SKUs that are castrated at 15 watts, and many are asking about getting a laptop with a Carrizo FX8800p that can be run at its full 35 watts, and not shoehorned into those thin and light form factor abominations restricting the FX8800p to a lifetime of 15 watts usage, at the loss of about 20% of the FX8800p’s potential performance.
There must be warehouses full of those thin and light laptop case parts, and the OEMs are getting them for loss leader pricing and the OEMs are still trying to pawn these Thin and Light/Ultrabooks on the consumer, and now they don’t even want to include LAN capabilities!
It’s better to get a last years model, or earlier model regular form factor laptop on sale(new) for 300$ that has much more processing power than this, and still has an Ethernet port. Really this is like Apple and its USB Type-C port laptop with only a USB 3.0(Gen1) controller chip, to replace a thunderbolt port, what a joke.
Intel has some much of these M ultrabook parts, and so many OEM’s can’t even get rid of their old ultrabook inventory. It’s about time that laptop OEMs go back to producing the laptop as a desktop replacement types of systems that made laptops a more useful choice for consumers, or begin to go out of business. I’m sure a hell not getting a laptop that can’t even run its APU part at the part’s full design envelope, just because the laptop has to be beyond any logical reasoning thin and useless! Get a clue laptop OEMs!!!
Actually, ASUS ships these
Actually, ASUS ships these with USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet adapters. Sure, it’s not built in, but it sure isn’t “wireless or nothing.” It’s a great student laptop or desktop companion, by the way. Source: I own one.
I’m typing this on my UX305
I’m typing this on my UX305 right now. It is an excellent laptop. I received a good quality Ethernet adapter when I purchased it, which is just fine with me.
I’m so upset that this
I’m so upset that this feature is removed… admittedly I only use wireless networking for all my mobile devices, as does everyone I know.
I’m still fuming over the floppy drive removal though so perhaps I’m not the guy to ask about this.
Seriously though, if you don’t use it you shouldn’t care, and if you do need wired (I get 90MB/second to my WD MY CLOUD over ethernet) you can get a different device.
USB-to-ethernet adapters also exist BTW so you could just leave one plugged to the end of an ethernet cable to plug in. Easy peezy!
They didn’t remove anything,
They didn’t remove anything, it’s used via a USB-ethernet-dongle.
They removed the thicker
They removed the thicker laptops with the beefier cooling solutions that were and are a better solution to laptop computing than these underpowered Ultrabook “solutions”. And now they want to go all Apple with this SKU and remove the Ethernet, and make the laptop owner tie up an available USB 3.0 port with an adapter. So let’s just shove all the functionality onto the USB subsystem, and take away more available bandwidth from the USB bandwidth allotment, instead of Ethernet through a separate internal PCI mini card slot with its own bandwidth through PCIe. Let’s continue this mindless ultrabook gimping, while charging more for this style over substance! Enjoy carrying around all those extra adapters, and be sure not to forget the thing when you are about to go out. While they are at it The OEMs and APU/SOC makers can sure pump up the excitement around their latest APU, and benchmark the 35 watt top end part at its top design envelope (Carrizo FX8800P at 35 watts) but only offer the part shoehorned into these Ultrabook influenced thin and lights running at a constrained 15 watts, at the cost of 20% of the parts potential performance. Where are the thicker regular form factor laptops with the FX8800P able to run at the full 35 watt design envelop of the part!
If a user needs to have longer battery life with a regular form factor laptop and this 35 watt part, then give the user a power settings profile in the laptop to dial the laptop back to 15 watts, but don’t forever restrict the user from being able to use a 35 watt APU to its fullest potential, by cramming it into a laptop case with a gimped down cooling solution, and the part forever relegated to 15 watt usage. CPU/APU makers where all about advertizing these adjustable thermal/wattage features to the consumer, but little did the consumer know that the OEMs/APU/SOC makers would take this so called advantage and use it to shove the APU/SOC parts into these thin and light ultrabook laptop form factor devices and permanently restrict the variable thermal/Wattage parts to cater to the OEMs cost savings in not having to provide devices with the cooling, other abilities to run the APUs/SOCs to their fullest ability. The OEMs are even charging more for the laptop while taking away some of the APU’s/SOC’s built in design capabilities(The ability to run at 35 watts and give the users the needed performance)!!!
The OEMs are only removing the functionality to increase their margins, and charging more in the process! Ultrabooks the UltraScam of the new millennium!
This does however come with a
This does however come with a USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter, it is simply too thin to have one built in
And it comes with a lot of
And it comes with a lot of sock-puppets trying to spin things positive, and the consumer sentiment in the form of more sales declines for the PC/Laptop market. Oh but we’ll be stuck with those millions of cheap plastic injected molded “Ultrabook” laptop cases filling the warehouses of the part’s suppliers, and ditto for the underpowered laptop CPU/SOC/APU parts also!
And some of those parts not so underpowered like the Carrizo FX8800P that can be run at 35 watts and give users much better GPU bang for the buck, but will be imprisoned in a 15 Watt “ultrabook” inspired laptop case with a cheap cooling solution, and the the OEMs all quoting the FX8800p’s 35 watt benchmarks.
I do not think that the OEMs are going to ever see their sales return to the good old days! And I know a good use for those unsold cheep plastic injected molded Ultrabook laptop style cases, grind them up and make kids playground equipment out of them, because most consumers can see what is happening and there are still loads of older model laptop SKUs in regular form factor offerings that beat this abomination in price and performance as well as available ports and features.
Too thin!! should be the wake-up call for all those that want regular from factor laptops with regular cooling solutions able to run the device’s APU/CPU/SOC/GPU at full design Wattage without having things thermally throttled, just so some failed marketing ultrabook/thin and light flop can be pawned off on consumers!
I wouldn’t buy a laptop type
I wouldn’t buy a laptop type device without an Ethernet port. I live in a large building so there are ridiculous numbers of wifi networks around, which makes it unreliable. I could get a really expensive wifi router, but for most of my devices, I just have them hard wired. It is faster and more reliable. I have to use the wifi for the phones and tablets though. It is understandable to use a USB dongle if the device is too thin, but I am not interested in such a thin laptop. For a certain size of laptop, I am of the opinion that there is a “thin enough”. I would rather have more battery or more cooling than thinner at a certain point. Also, for a laptop, I would prefer easy repair-ability rather than a few mm thinner. I want to be able to take the battery out with no tools. Having had several machines with bad DRAM or bad hard drives, I would prefer easy access to these also. At this point, I would say they should focus on just lighter and not necessarily thinner as this allows good cooling, although the weight of the battery will quickly dominate.
Honestly i feel that quite a
Honestly i feel that quite a number of people,like me, may not have access to a good wireless internet connection, so a ethernet cable is really quite useful and boosts our connection tremedously. I didnt know this computer didnt have a ethernet cable port,which renders my faithful yellow friend useless. Didn’t particularly like it when i realised, and really hope that computer manufacturers keep implanting these fantastic little ports into our computers.
Other than that, i feel this computer is overall pretty good and all rounded. Gaming is handled perfectly compared to my old laptop (an Acer bought in 2009,leaving not much).Browses fine, graphics good, but then, this battery doesn’t last very long.
Hope anyone thinking of buying this computer has a better inside look now reading this =]