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The 1920x1080 matte IPS display is undoubtedly the Prime's strongest point, and it's an oasis in a desert of 1366x768 garbage dumped on the market by every PC maker in existence—other Zenbook Prime models with 1366x768 and 1600x900 panels exist, but if you stick to the UX31A series (and not the UX31E or UX32VD) you can safely avoid both the inferior display and, in the UX32VD's case, the mechanical hard drive.
I have good vision, but even I was straining my eyes a bit to read text at native resolution and scaling. Turning Windows' scaling up to 125 percent or 150 percent should alleviate the issue for most people, and that small bump doesn't introduce quite as many problems as does something like 200% scaling. Scaling or no, it can't be denied that the screen here is head and shoulders above the type of panels usually found in Ultrabooks, and it even beats out the MacBook with battery such as Acer Aspire 1300 Battery, Acer BTP-APJ1 Battery, Acer BTP-AQJ1 Battery, Acer BTP-ARJ1 Battery, Acer BATCL32 battery, Acer BATCL32L battery, Acer Aspire 2000 battery, Acer Aspire 2016 battery, Acer Aspire 2200 battery, Acer BATBL50L6 battery, Acer AS10B71 battery, Acer AS10B75 battery Air in resolution and viewing angles.
Andrew CunninghamWhile I wish I had nothing but unchecked, gushing praise for the Prime's screen, there was one small issue: our review unit had noticeably uneven lighting around the edge of the panel, especially at the bottom. This is really only noticeable when the panel is black or dark, but it's significant enough (and the screen is otherwise excellent enough) that it bears mentioning.
The Zenbook Prime's array of ports is neither particularly impressive nor unimpressive: two USB 3.0 ports, one on either side of the laptop, are joined by a headphone jack and a card reader on the left side of the notebook and a mini VGA and micro HDMI port on the right side. The Zenbook also includes a 100 megabit USB Ethernet adapter, a mini VGA to VGA adapter, and a small brown pouch for the accessories that matches the larger brown bag that carries the laptop itself. The power adapter is a small black square with a swappable plug—the Windows Certificate of Authenticity sticker is also stuck to the adapter so, you know, don't lose it or anything.
Our biggest complaint about the original Zenbook was its trackpad, which we called (among other things) "appalling", "ham-handed", and "less predictable than a teenager." Thankfully, whether through new hardware, new software, or both, the Elantech touchpad on the UX31A is much more predictable with the latest drivers installed.