ASUS UX550GE-XB71T Zenbook Pro 15.6" UHD 4K Touch Laptop, Intel Core i7-8750HK, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Win10 Pro, GTX1050Ti

Its a great laptop except for one thing. Coil whine. Ive tried updating my bios, gpu, chipset, and other drivers but it still sounds like there is a loud mechanical hard drive inside. Besides that though it is a great laptop. I still havent used it long enough to tell how good the battery life is but so far that is the least of my worries. Update: Ended up returning the previous laptop and purchasing another hoping that it wouldnt also have coil whine but IT DOES. It also seems to have trouble connecting to wifi, especially 5 ghz, it connects for a bit then it stops. Ive tried updating every driver and bios and both problems still persist. Update 2: I used a program called ThrottleStop to disable the Turbo Boost and the loud mechanical hard drive noise is gone. network problems on the other hand are still an issue and may need to get the wireless adapter card replaced.

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I recently purchased this ASUS Zenbook, and the laptop itself is great. Because I use it in two locations and the adapter is very large and bulky, I need to have a second power adapter. Well, I have been astonished at how frustrating it is to buy one. I looked up the part number (A17-150 P1a) and searched for it at Amazon. I placed my order for the JUYOON 150W adapter that Amazon displayed for this part number. When the adapter arrived, I found that its DC Plug was too big for the hole in my laptop! So be careful because ordering the right ASUS part number on Amazon does not mean that you are going to get the right part!! If I had known that ASUS and its suppliers have more than one adapter with the same part number, I would have measured the DC Plug carefully before I placed my order at Amazon. I then decided to remove the uncertainty at Amazon and find the adapter on the ASUS website. This was frustrating because there was no information there on the right power supply for this laptop. And there was no match for the part number at all. The adapters there were listed by wattage and not by part number. I then tried chatting with their support person, and found that she couldnt help me at all. Not her fault, but shows a poor process for post-sales purchases. She told me to call some phone number during normal working hours and speak to someone who knew the information about what ASUS power adapter went with each ASUS laptop. So be warned about ASUS post-sales accessories. Its very tricky!

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I had to return my unit to Amazon because of the bad pixel on the screen and horrible high coil whine on full load ;(

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