Asus laptops

Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 15 threads.

People raised many different problems with Asus laptops, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 15 complaints

Laptop becomes so sluggish on USB-C power that the cursor barely moves and audio stutters2025-09-17
Keyboard top can't anchor itself when placed on the secondary screen2025-03-06
Trackpad is practically unusable, so a separate mouse must be carried2024-08-26
Delays when switching keyboard layout, causing characters to be swallowed2022-08-05
Laptop is essentially unusable because its disk is so slow and memory is small2021-10-25
Old laptop is getting slow at many everyday tasks2019-02-25
Enabling or disabling the screen requires pressing a function key, which is awkward2018-06-09
Trackpad unusable because dragging didn't work properly under Windows drivers2016-12-31
Trackpad inaccurate, ignores multi-finger gestures, cursor jitters unless chassis is touched2016-11-01
WiFi drops every 15 minutes needing reboot; touchpad scrolling awful for months2015-02-19
Everything is so tiny the laptop is basically unusable out of the box2013-04-12
Mouse lag and stutters make the pointer hard to control2012-11-06
Touchpad is nearly unusable under Linux due to unsupported hardware2012-03-18
Trackpad is unusable for the person using the laptop2011-11-10
Trackpad is laggy and inaccurate when used2011-10-24