what is the difference between these two models?

cem

model 1

model 2

I have called up Asus support and they had no idea..both companies have been hopeless..Wonder if any techie would be kind enough to assist?

Model names are:
1) Asus Zenbook UX32A-R3021H
2) ASUS Zenbook UX32A-R3037H

:mad:

kwikbreaks

Probably the only difference is the £50 price tag unless some microscopic examination of the specs shows something else.

If you are looking for a price match or refund from PC World then I suspect you'll be out of luck because of the mismatch in product numbers. Possibly a lot of Currys/PC World stuff has product numbers unique to them for exactly that reason but I'm sure that couldn't be so.

BTW Asus Zenbook UX32A (no sub code) seems to cover both i5 and i7 processors.

DCFC79

Well 1 of the links says [FONT=Verdana,sans-serif][SIZE=10.0pt]Intel Core i7 2.90 GHz yet further down the list it says its [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,sans-serif][SIZE=10.0pt]1.9 GHz.

Cant see anything different than that. Some retailers will give items a slightly different model # so I wonder if thats the case here.
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Mista_C

Only thing I can see is the PC World one has a 24GB SSD alongside the 500GB HDD.

Hard drive - 500 GB and 24 GB SSD
- SATA III
- 5400 rpm

kwikbreaks

So does the other one ...

The Asus UX32A-R3021H has a 500 GB hard drive and 24 GB SSD for superb storage performance. Store all your apps without the worry of taking up space and enjoy up to a whopping 125,000 songs or 160,000 photos.

It just isn't mentioned in the brief specs.

Southychxc

Looks as though the solid state drive is the only difference, other than the obvious typo of 1.9GHz and 2.9GHz, my best guess on that is that it will usually turbo to 2.9GHz when running intensive things.

Solid state drive is fairly small though with the install being 10.6GB, you won't have much room to install things on there but your OS will have impressive performance. I have a rig with an SSD for boot speeds and granted its more powerful than your laptop but it will boot in 10 seconds to desktop fully loaded. And the games I install on there (albeit temporarily) have impressive performance compared to my conventional HD

Johnmcl7

Southychxc wrote: »

Solid state drive is fairly small though with the install being 10.6GB, you won't have much room to install things on there but your OS will have impressive performance. I have a rig with an SSD for boot speeds and granted its more powerful than your laptop but it will boot in 10 seconds to desktop fully loaded. And the games I install on there (albeit temporarily) have impressive performance compared to my conventional HD

It will be a caching SSD so it will appear as a normal 500GB hard drive and the system will automatically cache the most used data to the SSD.

John

kwikbreaks

... and as I said both models have it.....

cem

Thanks all..yes apart from the price I couldn't really any difference to either of them. I will still try my luck with pcworld's price match..never know.. might get lucky

Fifer

One lists the webcam as 1.3MP, the other as 720p HD (with face recognition log-on). Might be the same camera, might not.

kwikbreaks

Well spotted - more patience than me

1.3Mp not going to be 720p and may well be the difference. That makes the cheaper one look even better value.