ATTENTION!!! His statement about the cover not getting off because of the adhesive stripes does NOT apply to 15" models of the zenbook! There ARE two additional screws under the black rubber parts which also have to be removed. I nearly broke the cover because of that..
I used, and I think it might be better, asus backtracker which is included on the laptop. It makes a recovery usb for you. Put in your new SSD and use the USB. Make sure you have set your BIOS to boot on USB which there are other guides for. After that just use the new Windows 8 reinstall feature to get a fresh install without any bloatware you don't want. Or just be happy with the factory restore.
So doing this frustrated the crap out of me, mainly because I lacked some info from the video, so here is a quick highlight of what I did: 1. Unscrew all bottom screws, like said in the video there are two wads of glue at the top, slowly nudge the bottom cover off. 2. Unscrew all screws around the battery (huge black thing with speakers glue to it). 3. Unplug the tiny speaker cables. 4. (This is where it where I had issues) Lift up the battery at an angle, the cable should stretch a bit, now do soft tugs upwards from it to lurch it off. 5. Unscrew the 4 hard drive case screws. 6. Pull the hard drive away from the connectors. 7. Screw the case off the hard drive(really only two rails). 8. Do everything in reverse to put it back together. So the tricky part now is installing windows again, easiest way is to get an ISO of windows 7 or 8 and use this: www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool to make a bootable usb. But now the damn usb won't boot, cos that stuff was made for Windows 7, which is legacy at this point, so what you need to do is change a settings in your bios. Under the boot tab, you need to enable Launch CSM, which will allow you to use "legacy" boot code. Once you are done installing, remember to restart your pc, press f2 to enter the BIOS and disable CSM and re-enable Fast Boot. What does fast boot do? Makes sure your pc will boot in like 5-6 seconds. Hope this helps. :)
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I nearly got this laptop. What held me back was the lack of a solid state drive and touch screen. I already have a desktop for max performance and I wanted I lightweight one I could take to uni. The problem is to buy this model with the touch screen option and to buy a solid state drive somewhere else I would have to pay $2000 (at the time). I bought the touch screen model without a graphics card instead. It cost $900 and was defiantly worth it. But for $100 more I could have gotten the lower end Macbook pro with a graphics card. Engineering of course demands I use windows however.
It's beyond me there isn't more 7mm SSD drives out there. There would be a huge marked for them plus there's nothing on the PCB actually using the extra 2 mm of space. Also fitting a 7 mm drive in a bay accepting 9 mm drives is usually no deal at and I've seen no machines requiring a spacer on order to do so. To my knowledge many of the Intel drives are actually 7mm high with an attached spacer. Remove the spacer and fit some shorter screws. How also voids warranty even no sticker and reversable
For me when I open up the gallery I have a delete button on the bottom. Not sure why your's doesn't. As for un-linking, open up the contact, click the three dots in the upper right, then click link, then break the link chain by clicking on it and click save.
If I'm being honest, the daytime performance of the camera is a little disappointing. Pictures just don't seem as sharp as they should be once you zoom in a little bit. That said, the low light capabilities are astonishing. To give you some idea, when I setup up my google authenticator app I was in my bedroom at night and the only light on was a tv in the corner. The barcodes all scanned in instantly.
I just purchased my HTC ONE today and can not figure out how two things. 1.. how do I delete pictures all there is, is a share button and a refresh button.. and 2 .. I somehow linked 2 people together in my contacts and I have no idea how to unlink them. Do you know??
Any thoughts on the camera quality after a few days? Do you lose a lot if you are cropping or photos or zooming in on photos that you've already taken? Great review.
48 hours in it still makes me happy every time I pick it up and feel the solid aluminium frame. Also, enough cannot be said screen, the fonts are amazingly crisp. As for the gap issue. Here's a thread with some pictures of the gaps others have found: forum[DOT]xda-developers[DOT]com/showthread.php?t=2197732&page=4. Mine doesn't seem to have those.
Would you please update your impressions after 24 hours? I am waiting to to order on t-mobile. Can't wait. I did see reviews showing gaps on top of the phone? Any truth to that? or it's certain early pieces that were affected?
It does have an external sim slot over on the left hand side of the phone. However, I don't have another carrier's sim card at the moment to test what would happen if I placed it in the HTC One.
One apple has almost never invented anything on their own, two MB air is way over-priced; also the wall adapter is pretty much generic in ultra-books and netbooks, i have an Aser aspire 1 a great netbook same plug as MB and Asus
Finally after playing around with the BIOS settings, I managed to unlock the USB Boot option, as it is locked by the BIOS BOOT securty lock.... Now I can try to boot with USB for installing windows but I get an error of having an image in the 24 GB SSD drive on board...how do I disable that...or disable the onboard SSD so I can install windows and my laptop gets back to normal
You probably need to change your BIOS settings so that the computer tries to boot off the USB instead of your blank hard drive. On my laptop to get into the BIOS you press delete immediately after powering on the machine. Different computers use a different keystrokes so do a google if that doesn't work.
Hello Benjamin Bjurstrom, Thank you very much for the video, I have asus S400CA and I have upgraded the Harddrive to 1 TB, But I cant boot up to USB now and cant install Windows 8 on it. What is the Solution. Also the onboard 24 GB SSD was divided in to two parts 6 GB was dedicated windows cache and rest was empty...can I dedicate the entire other partition to windows cache...Thanks...Mukul
