PX13 GoPro 128GB/1TB pics
Disclaimer: I'm just a guy who bought one obviously not a pro reviewer.
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The unboxing experience was fantastic. It's extremely well packed and an Apple-level experience. The crinkly paper between the keyboard and the screen is also nice, and sounds like a chocolate wrapper.
To boot it the first time you have to have it plugged into the wall. It came up fine and everything was good.
The keyboard keys are quite stiff, a little bit more than a Surface Pro. The device is heavy but not noticably more than a Surface Pro, but it is noticably thicker. The aspect ratio makes the display a bit longer and thinner than a Surface Pro too but overall dimensions are very similar.
The trackpad is okay. Not as good as a haptic but fine. If you use the dial area to move about the pointer goes slow which is probably great for precise work.
I like the screen. I like glossy OLED and 60Hz does not bother me at all. By default Windows sets it up with a crazy 225 or 250% magnification which I turned down to 200% and can probably go a bit lower.
I feel like the lid is not metal, it sounds more like plastic when I tap my fingernails on it. The fans kicked in pretty much the second I opened it and they're quite loud at whatever this default is, but who cares, it's a hell of a spec!
There was a new BIOS update to download, and a lot of Windows Updates, about an hour's worth on a gigabit connection.
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I wanted to test the UEFI Cloud Restore before setting it up for real. When I started it there was already a Cloud Restore update to apply.
After that I began the process and had it connected to my normal (WPA3 Wi-Fi 6 Unifi) and it kept silently failing and rebooting back into Windows at about 2% progress.
As soon as I connected it to a special 2.4GHz WPA2 only network instead of my normal one, it continued fine. So, that's a good tip if you ever have to do it.
After the download it reboots in Windows a few times setting up OOBE apps, and one of them actually failed. I logged a ticket with them so hopefully they can clean up their process for future users.
After I continued on, it went into the final fresh OOBE experience and I was able to set everything up fine, but it required a couple extra reboots to get the dial going, seeing as it is the component that had failed.
But the final experience is like fresh out of the box, so that's nice.
I saw in at least one online review that the person got theirs with McAfee installed and had to remove it. Neither of my installs (fresh or cloud restore) had it. I didn't see any obvious slopware beyond the ASUS apps which are arguably necessary.