Unfortunately they also soldered half the RAM to the motherboard, meaning you can only upgrade half. My favorite feature is that the chassis screws are made of microwaved butter, so one of them has stripped. I upgraded the RAM to 24GB yesterday, and had to open the back at a slight angle and squeeze in there… couldn’t disconnect the battery or anything.
At least I can load up more KSP mods now!
I know nobody really cares, but I had a bit of time to go mess with the audio problems and I ended up rewiring the speakers with alsa-tools. As suspected, the default install doesn’t pick up the integrated speaker config properly, so it’s only using two of the four internal drivers. Overriding the mapping to blast the audio signal out of every speaker possible fixes the audio issues, but then the volume controls only map correctly at the midpoint and changing the volume messes with the mix of the speakers unless you use the alsa mixer instead.
I bet you can sort it out one way or another but man is this not practical compared to just… having per-model Windows drivers from ASUS.
(oh, and while I’m here, who cares about laptop backplates, those things have a million screws for no reason on top of a million plastic tabs, just do what you gotta do to yank that thing out and then put some chewing gum in there to hold it together)
Unfortunately they also soldered half the RAM to the motherboard, meaning you can only upgrade half. My favorite feature is that the chassis screws are made of microwaved butter, so one of them has stripped. I upgraded the RAM to 24GB yesterday, and had to open the back at a slight angle and squeeze in there… couldn’t disconnect the battery or anything. At least I can load up more KSP mods now!
I know nobody really cares, but I had a bit of time to go mess with the audio problems and I ended up rewiring the speakers with alsa-tools. As suspected, the default install doesn’t pick up the integrated speaker config properly, so it’s only using two of the four internal drivers. Overriding the mapping to blast the audio signal out of every speaker possible fixes the audio issues, but then the volume controls only map correctly at the midpoint and changing the volume messes with the mix of the speakers unless you use the alsa mixer instead.
I bet you can sort it out one way or another but man is this not practical compared to just… having per-model Windows drivers from ASUS.
(oh, and while I’m here, who cares about laptop backplates, those things have a million screws for no reason on top of a million plastic tabs, just do what you gotta do to yank that thing out and then put some chewing gum in there to hold it together)