Dear Asus,
In the past few years you have been making some of the best gaming laptops, as well as the most well engineered desktop components on the market, It's time for you to focus on mobile workstations for industrial designers and engineers.
My personal laptop is an Asus N550JK, it is great, performs beautifully, but there are some aspects that I would change.
This is some of the things I want from an Asus mobile workstation
Focus on performance and cooling - Put some of that desktop knowhow in your mobile products, with high performance fans and heatsinks, to keep those components nice and cool.
No need for an Optical drive - Those who need it can buy an external one for 20 bucks
Extreme edition Mobile i7 quad-core processor for better performance
Professional graphics cards - Nvidia Quadro (GTX for those who don´t need a quadro)
Storage - HDD and SSD M.2
Ports - Lots of Usb ports for peripherals, thunderbolt and HDMI ports for external displays, SD card for expandability, 3,5mm jack and ethernet
Decent battery life - doesn't need to have a huge battery.
Build quality - You need to step up your game, my Asus N550JK has an all aluminum body, which is a good thing, but in some places the cheap plastic spoils the look a bit, especially the display hinge, which crackles every thime I change the angle of the display.
Styling - I know that you try to distance yourself from your competitors styles, but there is no need to complicate what is simple.
A professional laptop should be designed as a tool, simple shapes that make the laptop something beautiful and timeless. Over with the overcomplicated shapes, patterns and "gaming" colors.
My idea is a 15 inch, 30mm thick professional laptop, with a dual tone anodized aluminum body, 4k LED IPS non-touch display (and an OLED display when they get cheaper), i7 Quad-core Extreme edition mobile CPU, or a desktop one if possible, Nvidia Quadro graphics, or GTX 1070 for those who don't need a Quadro. 32gb of RAM, 2Tb HDD and 240gb m.2 SSD, Dual High performance fans, improved heat sinks with vapor chambers, larger vents for optimal airflow and better thermal paste. Carbon Fiber display hinge (just for fun), thicker aluminum outer parts (the aluminum sheet you use on your current laptops is a bit too thin and fragile) and a backlit keyboard without a numeric pad, and better quality plastic for the keys.
If anyone from Asus sees this, I hope you like the idea, please make something like this, and if you need more designs, Let me know, I am available,
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