It’s a bit of a shame it works for you, because yeah, they’re similar devices but whatever software nonsense ASUS did on Windows to try to fix their crappy downward-firing speakers on mine is not on Linux and they just sound like a 1950s radio. I don’t know that there is or can ever be a fix, honestly, since it’s clearly a quirk of this particular model. I could try to manually EQ them back to life or something, but… yeah, neither ASUS nor Linux maintainers are going to fix it for me.
I agree that it’s definitely worth losing performance most of the time, too. If not for the heat for the fan noise. It’s actually not whiney or high pitched, but it’s definitely not quiet.
I got this thing as a desktop replacement because I was working on the go for a while, and it did that job pretty well while I needed it. I’m not complaining. It’s still a beast of a laptop, honestly. As you can see from the benchmarks it absolutely holds up. Still, there are better, cheaper ways to get that kind of performance if you don’t need to carry them inside a backpack.
FWIW, Bazzite’s build for ASUS laptops does pick up the iGPU/dGPU system correctly and it does handle power management mostly fine. If not for the audio issues this would be a perfectly decent setup. As it is, I’m probably going to keep a Windows install on it for the foreseeable.
Unfortunately they also soldered half the RAM to the motherboard, meaning you can only upgrade half. My favorite feature is that the chassis screws are made of microwaved butter, so one of them has stripped. I upgraded the RAM to 24GB yesterday, and had to open the back at a slight angle and squeeze in there… couldn’t disconnect the battery or anything.
At least I can load up more KSP mods now!
It’s a bit of a shame it works for you, because yeah, they’re similar devices but whatever software nonsense ASUS did on Windows to try to fix their crappy downward-firing speakers on mine is not on Linux and they just sound like a 1950s radio. I don’t know that there is or can ever be a fix, honestly, since it’s clearly a quirk of this particular model. I could try to manually EQ them back to life or something, but… yeah, neither ASUS nor Linux maintainers are going to fix it for me.
I agree that it’s definitely worth losing performance most of the time, too. If not for the heat for the fan noise. It’s actually not whiney or high pitched, but it’s definitely not quiet.
I got this thing as a desktop replacement because I was working on the go for a while, and it did that job pretty well while I needed it. I’m not complaining. It’s still a beast of a laptop, honestly. As you can see from the benchmarks it absolutely holds up. Still, there are better, cheaper ways to get that kind of performance if you don’t need to carry them inside a backpack.
FWIW, Bazzite’s build for ASUS laptops does pick up the iGPU/dGPU system correctly and it does handle power management mostly fine. If not for the audio issues this would be a perfectly decent setup. As it is, I’m probably going to keep a Windows install on it for the foreseeable.
Unfortunately they also soldered half the RAM to the motherboard, meaning you can only upgrade half. My favorite feature is that the chassis screws are made of microwaved butter, so one of them has stripped. I upgraded the RAM to 24GB yesterday, and had to open the back at a slight angle and squeeze in there… couldn’t disconnect the battery or anything. At least I can load up more KSP mods now!