Question Do you have experience with Asus laptops about durability?

[Manuel Jordan]

Hello Friends

A member of my family has the intention to buy a new Asus laptop (ZenBook serie). A friend told him that the new Asus models since few years ago are not the same than 10/15 yrs about its durability. Thus it would pass away in 5/6 yrs.

His nephew would be able to buy other for him to be used with Windows/Linux. Reason of this post too.

Do you have a kind of experience about this? It about its durability and performance throughout the latest years.

Perhaps by yourself, member of your family, co-worker, neighbor etc …

Thanks for your understanding

 

[Lutfij]

A friend told him that the new Asus models since few years ago are not the same than 10/15 yrs about its durability.
This is true for pretty much everything now these days(2024, since the pandemic hit). As time moved forward, companies tried looking into degrading the quality of their products without affecting their prices. If you're looking for quality, you will need to pay a premium, in most cases.

It about its durability and performance throughout the latest years.
What sort of tasks will the purchased laptop undergo? If it's daily tasks, you should be fine. You might not be able to retain the laptop for more than 5 years anyway since Windows launches a new OS about every 5 years and if the current trend continues, you will run into a wall when you're unable to update the OS(due to lack of support from Microsoft). If it's Linux, that's kind of moot, since the smart folks who use them tend to make a lot of things work under any hardware spec, IMHO.

 

[BFG-9000]

If they want longevity in a laptop, then it's hard to argue with Framework which is user upgradeable. Even between Intel and AMD, and they have inexpensive cases to reuse the old hardware as a mini-PC.

Nearly all laptops regardless of brand, are manufactured by one of 6 Taiwanese companies: Compal, Foxconn, Inventec, Quanta, Pegatron and Wistron. Framework use Compal as their OEM, while ASUS spun off Pegatron for board manufacturing and Unihan for cases and molding so probably use them. In any case congressman Seth Moulton and former National Security Adviser Robert C. O'Brien have called for bombing TSMC if Taiwan is captured by China, so this laptop may have to last them awhile.

ASUS have the resources to let R&D engineering staff minimize costs more than just about any other manufacturer. Think of them as the General Motors of laptops, and they've been like this since their el-cheapo Eee-PCs and Chromebooks. Yes, they feel flimsy but last well enough and things like hinges don't break any more often than other manufacturers.

I suppose that's better than being the Chrysler or Fiat of laptops, where they don't actually have the money to pay the engineers so have to guess, and random things you wouldn't expect to ever break like door latches or hood release cables fail. But for laptops that mostly just means they'll choose not to customize the reference platform supplied by their Taiwanese OEM and it should still be OK, just not as svelte or stylish.