ASUS ZenBook Flip UX563 Ultra HD 15.6 Inch 4K Touchscreen Laptop (Intel i7-10510U, NVIDIA GTX 1050 Max-Q Graphics, 512 GB PCI-e SSD, 16 GB RAM, ScreenPad, Backlit Keyboard Windows 10, Wi-Fi 6)

Pros and cons, but first this: Amazon - why are you mixing reviews for different computers? They're different models, not similar apart from brand name!UX563FD-1045T, 15" 4k touchscreen with GTX 1050.I bought this because my whole family is currently living under one roof and we don't have enough computers for school and work - given the choice I'd have bought exactly what I wanted from PCSpecialist - but I needed it asap. So...For Amazon's discounted price, I'm very happy with it. ASUS makes nicely put together computers, it has a pleasing design and it does very well to cater for a household of mixed users.Arrives in a factory sealed box; contains the laptop, power supply and a stylus with 2 buttons for drawing on the touchscreen with precision - no RJ45 adapter is included.Stylus works like mouse/pen etc. It's got a small disc covering the battery connection - unscrew the top and remove the disc, don't pull the flailing flap, it's not to be removed, just wrap it round the battery when putting the top back on. It should work straight away. It takes a standard AAAA battery (provided).OS is Windows 10 Home. Fine unless you need remote desktop or to connect to a corporate-style network (domain).You switch on and Windows installer starts talking to you to complete the setup. The first account you add will be the administrator's account, other users can be added later. It's an easy process and doesn't take long.Pros and cons about this computer...Cons:* Quite heavy - when you flip the screen over it turns into a tablet but a heavy one. I'm not complaining, just noting - not heavy for a laptop.* In flipped tablet mode the keyboard is on the base of the unit so should be handled with care to avoid damage.* Not upgradable, memory is soldered DDR3, old tech, slows it down a little, and HDD occupies the only M.2 slot.* ASUS software 'enhancements', not useful or just bad software. Had a nightmare after Windows updates and getting AudioWizard to work again. I work with computers and fixed it, but my recommendation is just ignore the problem, AudioWizard makes no difference to the sound on small laptop speakers.* McAfee preinstalled. McAfee was well known as a cowboy outfit 25 years ago - it's now owned by Intel but I still find it despicable - many antivirus applications operate very much like viruses. They make it complicated to uninstall and really go for fear-factor hard selling. If you want you can keep it, try a better brand, or just remove it and switch on the underrated and free Windows Defender.Pros - it's innovative and versatile:* Screen pad certainly has many useful features, and for those who aren't interested it can be switched to a normal track pad very easily. Ever wanted to watch something on iPlayer while working? Drag it to the screen pad (and connect an external mouse)! It works as an extension to the normal display - so when you move the mouse cursor off the bottom of the main screen it enters the screen pad. It does more, just have to mess around with it.* Touchscreen and stylus, very useful and fun. Stylus doesn't work on the screen pad, only the main screen.* Face recognition camera for Windows Hello - look at it and it logs you in. I have to cover my eyes when I log out in order to stop it logging me straight back in again! But it's very cool.* Display, 4k useful for artwork, really hard to spot the difference to FHD when watching video though. IPS has good angles and colour, it's 72% NTSC colour quality, 60Hz.* Overall speed is good, I'd rate performance as average, it meets expectations.* Battery life good on Intel Graphics, poorer on GTX (games).* Light gaming perfectly fine - you have to remember to tell your games not to run in 4k mode, and they work well. Plug in the power when gaming, otherwise performance is throttled and the screen is dimmed - we ran League of Legends in 4k (by accident) on battery for 30 minutes and it zapped 50% of its full capacity and dropped to 1fps under highest duress. I'd say average battery life is 6 hours in real usage terms. Ads state 12 hours max, but you have to lower your brightness, enable full battery saving mode and do only light web browsing to achieve it.* Sound is good, almost as good as a 5 year old Mac book Pro - decent for a laptop.Neither a pro nor a con is USB ports... 5 Gb/s usb3.0. Not the very latest but ok for external disk drives and similar devices. If you want to connect an external graphics card or displays via USB-C, this pc won't do it - get one with Thunderbolt-3 instead. I don't need TB3 today, but soon it'll be the standard on most new laptops. Internally I suspect the motherboard to be a design from a few years ago.** UPDATES: it's been impossible to quantify, but the battery has settled down to 4 hours' typical constant use, watching web videos, browsing, spreadsheets etc. not the 6 stated above. The computer itself wildly changes its estimated remaining capacity, sometimes with 50% charge it says below 1.5 hours remain with no high powered apps apparently running, so something is draining power - later it adjusts this figure to 4 hours, but it turns out to be optimistic. I'm still measuring but didn't want to state even 6 hours if it isn't true.There's a free app on the Microsoft store named 'HEVC Video Extensions From The Device Manufacturer' that enables 4k streaming in Netflix (as opposed to a similar app from Microsoft that costs 89p), however I just can't see the difference and wonder if it's the cause of lower battery life. After removing it the battery's lasting longer again, back to 6 hours, so will monitor and update this review again when more data available.Stylus on the inkpad app (Microsoft app for scribbling and drawing) has a very slight latency and loses contact if long, fast strokes used; for handwriting input it's got no latency at all.

I did a fair degree of research before taking the plunge with this. I had looked at HP Envy/Spectres, Dell XPS' and Inspirons and several Zenbooks from Asus. I had pretty much narrowed it down to one of three Asus Zenbooks based on price, specification and aesthetics. The Zenbook 14 Duo (UX481) shot back up from a good deal price, so that, the fact it was 14" and it not being 4k ruled it out. The Zenbook UX534 was going to be my preferred choice but it was out of stock and £200 dearer than this UX563 Flip on current prices.I have only had it for less than 24 hours but my early impressions are very good. It is well built, nice material (although I think they overplay the 'US military grade' thing) and the keyboard feels great to the touch with perfect key travel. If I'm honest, I think the UX534 looks better aesthetically in the blue and rose gold combo, and is about 25% lighter than this - so that might form part of your decision making process - do you need it to be 2-in-1 and is weight a factor for you.I haven't had chance to get stuck into Screenpad 2.0 yet. It's cool that you can drag Youtube videos down into it and I played around with Amazon Music in there too. I don't know if there are dedicated widgets for either yet, like there is for Spotify. One would hope that as Screenpad develops, more dedicated apps that are tuned to work directly for it will become available. For now, its a little gimmicky and I will plan to spend time on trying to get the most out of it, when I can.I read a few reviews on here and there was a bit of confusion on whether it shipped with a license for Windows Home or Pro. Mine came with Home. Its still only a free trial (they take credit card details and automatically subscribe you after a month if you don't cancel - Amazon style!), although I had a brief look to see if its easy to upgrade to Pro/other versions and it wasn't that clear. I will take a bit more time to find out.The speakers seem OK on first listen. I think you get sucked into the name Harmon Kardon and have expectations of some kind of audiophile utopia. Remember, this is a relatively thin laptop with small speakers, that Harmon Kardon help to tune. Music IS very important to me. The first thing I did was load up some lossless FLAC files, connect my external Chord Mojo headphone DAC and used my Sennheiser HD650 headphones and it sounded great.The 4k screen looks really nice and crisp, displaying normal day-to-day stuff (email, excel etc) and also web browsing. However, taking advantage of the screen for entertainment purposes has been a real struggle so far. First thing I did was download the Netflix app from Windows store. I then went into my Netflix account to upgrade to Ultra HD. But when I went to watch some UHD stuff, I couldn't find any. You go to a show or film and there;s the little orange tab that says if you're viewing in HD or UHD. Well whatever I went to, including stuff I know is available in UHD, I could only get HD. Its really frustrating. I refreshed the app, looked to see if it was something to do with limiting bandwidth due to the lockdown but I'm none the wiser. If anyone here has any suggestions please let me know.I then did the next obvious step and went to Prime Video, which also has loads of UHD content. This proved to be even more frustrating. There doesn't appear to be a dedicated PC/Laptop app, so you have to watch via a normal web browser. I live on my phone and also use Xbox to watch Prime Video. As both have dedicated apps, the viewing experience seems to be so much easier. Going into Prime Video via Chrome, I don't know why, but again, selecting shows that I know are UHD, when I played them, it defaulted to only playing in HD. I checked the actual laptop settings and the display was set to 4k resolution I'm still none the wiser. Web forums speak of this issue, but people seem to say check the laptop display settings, which I did already. Again, if anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful.These clearly aren't issues with the laptop, but its really frustrating, as the 4k screen was a major buying decision for me, so I fee I've got this luscious screen and can't do anything with it.Apart from fiddling around with email accounts and arranging some basic folders, I haven't had chance to do anything else yet. It shipped with a stylus pen and after calibrating it in settings, I had a little play with it. It will work with programs like Paint and quite a cool 'Sticky Yellow Post It' program. I had a quick doodle but not enough to comment on.I spent a fair bit more for this laptop than I originally intended, on the basis it could last me 4 years or so and cover both business and entertainment needs. Its early days, but I'm really pleased with it.Hope this review helps someone.

Everything about this laptop is quality. The screen is brilliant and visible from all alnges. The sound is brilliant. the flip part is very sturdy and feels solid.The screen pad was something that i thought would be a worthless gimick but has turned out to be a major improvement and works grat as a 2nd screen and the options for it are very usable once adjusted to them.Camera is very nice. I got this to replace a surface pro 4 and i wasnt to impressed with the camera unlock feature but this one is great only had to do one refrence and it can identify me with out with out glasses on and from many diffrent angles.the only gripe i would have about it is the pen. (which it had a asus pen and the Carry Sleeve not the USB3.0 to RJ45 Cable, which i was happy about) I liked the surface pen a lot more. The pen seems to be the only after thought part of the lap (but i havent used it much either). 1 other thing is the power button is hard to use but you get use to it,Graphics wise it has played most that i have thrown at it. Doom eternal ran smooth on it in 1080p of cource but i play cities skylines and annon 1800 in 4k with no issues.The full keyboard is nice and the keyboard light is adjustable so can dim or turn of when you do not need.Touch pad is also the best i have ever used on a laptop.