What Would You Like to Ask Asus?

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1. Can you please make the MINIMUM screen resolution you offer on laptops 1600x900 and offer quality TN panels (not the nasty cheap ones) at the lower end and IPS on all models over a certain price point?

2. Can you please stop using glossy plastics and also matte plastics that just love to absorb any grease from handling them. Surely there is a plastic out there that is vaguely grease resistant? I have a new Asus laptop that I am preparing for a customer and within 20 seconds of taking it out of the packaging its covered in fingerprints all over the case. Looks a mess.

3. Can you please stop adding so much 'extra utility software'. I don't know any customer that use it or want it. I spend an hour on each machine removing all that stuff before it goes to the customer. They also don't need awful McAfee/Norton AV software on Windows 8 that then lapses after 6 weeks and then never gets updated. It just gets removed. It also cheapens the user experience and basically makes your machines look a mess. This goes for all Windows laptop manufacturers.

4. Can you start making some more AMD AM3+ M-ATX boards with better features and newer chipsets? The current ones on offer are pretty dull.
 
does this mean mobos AND any ROG product, or only ROG mobos?

personally I'd be interested in seeing if they plan on making a ROG monitor at any point, given the brand, may it be a 4k, 60Hz+ ROG monitor? 😛
 
Asus. You are so good at making mother boards! It seems that you follow market trends in product design and implementation, however innovation seems to be put on the back burner. The Taichi laptop was a great fresh new design. Market demand in mother boards may be created with fresh new motherboard designs such as the new Apple Mac Pro. Moving forward the next 5 years, what are your new objectives following a decline in the desktop motherboard space? Will you make laptop motherboards more customize able? I would really love to see an Asus laptop that can be added to a docking station with built in GPUs for added hardware.

I've always had a great experience with Asus customer support for their motherboards. In fact I learned a lot about the extensive time and testing that goes into them, and it made me appreciate the company more by talking to a customer service rep. I didn't fully understand how to enable new bios features at the time. Since then I've come a long way, and most of my products are now Asus.

 
Ah, Asus, just the company I wanted to talk to.

1) When will we have some decent low/midrange WiFi routers with gigabit LAN? The tech has been out for YEARS, it's disgusting there still even EXISTS 100 Mbps only networking equipment. The price gap between the cheaper RT-N12 series and the more expensive routers - the only ones to have gigabit LAN - such as RT-66 series is insanely high, more than triple the price. How is that TP-LINK has such products and you don't? I honestly don't care whether WiFi on the router is 150 Mbps, 300, 750 or whatever, all I need is a device that can BOTH connect my phone/tablet to the Internet (no need for high-speed WLAN, ISP is the bottleneck) AND manage my gigabit-enabled desktops network (backups over LAN etc.)

2) I want to know which brand of hard drives you're using inside your external HDDs. WD or something else? Consider adding it to every specs page, it's annoying to search for dis-assembly videos all the time just to see what's inside the enclosure.

3) Guys, your products are great. Honestly. Most of the time, you feature-pack them like crazy for same price as competitors (and it's especially true for your consumer network equipment where your DSL-N series modems stomp all over overpriced garbage from Belkin, D-Link and so on) or just a tiny bit more. Your warranty service - at least here in India - is fine by me. However, availability SUCKS. Big time. Shops never stock your stuff, I don't see enough Asus ads (cheap Acer/HP/etc garbage is advertised EVERYWHERE) - basically, most of the general public view your product as some weird Chinese junk, whereas it's as far from it as it gets. You're kind of the only name in consumer networking right now after Cisco sold Linksys to Belkin, you make amazing laptops with great build quality, your Zenbook series laughs at all other ultrabook-wannabes - why are you not acting on it? Why do people still NOT praise the Asus brand name the same way they praise Apple's?

4) Will you EVER stop putting NumPads on laptops? I generally loathe MacBooks but that's one thing they got right: no NumPad = more space for key spacing. NO ONE EVER USES THAT STUFF except the French (because on their layout you need Shift to enter numbers from the number row - dumb, I know). Not gamers, not home users. It's a confusing and useless bunch of keys. And PLEASE stop putting NumPad via Fn+<key>, too. No. One. Needs. It. Period. Especially not G-series. If somebody wants a NumPad, they will buy a separate USB version. Why do you insist on slapping it on every laptop? It's a useless derelict from cash registers.

5) Will you sell laptops without pre-installed Windows 8? There seems to be a lot of people who don't want to pay for that garbage and would rather use 7 or Ubuntu.
 
Looking at getting the M6 Formula but I'm worried about the anodized aluminum in the CrossChill. Will this be a problem since i'm running it in a copper loop? What steps could I take to limit any damage.
 
Z87 Sabertooth Motherboard. Will you make the next version even better suited to gamers; with a top notch Creative Z Sound Core chip; and Bluetooth (for gaming controler); maybe with a fridge to pump cold air to the PSU....
Oh; and put more user friendly information in the Bios so we don`t have to search the net for all the info on what the heck we are adjusting.
 


Along those same lines I've been wondering if / when Asus would ever consider releasing laptops under its' Republic Of Gamers brand exclusively for the gaming community. Maybe high end units to compete with the likes of Falcon Northwest and Razer.
 
When will the Thunderbolt 2 motherboard be available? Are there any plans on releasing Thunderbolt 2 equipped boards on some of the lower end models as well?
 
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