Asus ZenBook UX305CA Review: Thin And Light, Great Battery Life

Name: Asus ZenBook UX305CA
Brand: Asus

by Joshua Gulick — Thursday, January 28, 2016, 12:10 PM EDT

Being able to get through the work day is the goal for battery life in laptops and ultrabooks. Many can handle a good six hours of light Web browsing, but heavier workloads can seriously ramp up battery drain. We tested the Asus ZenBook UX305CA with Battery Eater Pro, which chews through laptop batteries, and our own Web browsing test, in which we refresh a webpage until the battery is depleted.

The ZenBook UX305CA has excellent battery life. In fact, it took top honors in the Battery Eater pro test by hanging in there for 4 hours and 26 minutes. On top of that, the system lasted a whopping 10 hours and 9 minutes in our Web browsing test.

As for noise, the Asus UX305CA is virtually silent. Aside from the keyboard vibrating when we typed, we couldn’t hear the ultrabook at all because the CPU is passively cooled and there are no moving internals.

Tags: Asus, Notebook, Mobile, laptop, Ultrabook, zenbook, ux305ca

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.