ASUS ZenBook Pro UX550

With the latest generation of CPUs and GPUs from Intel and NVIDIA on the mobile front, OEMs started a race - who will build the fastest, yet the thinnest and most portable notebook. We've seen some great design and performance from the latest generation of Apple's MacBook Pro 15 and Dell's XPS 15. But what if you get roughly the same specs and performance and put it on a much more affordable package? That's exactly what ASUS has managed to achieve with its latest ZenBook Pro UX550VE - a successor to the well-received ZenBook Pro UX501 and a worthy competitor to the MacBook Pro 15 and XPS 15.Costing around €300-350 less than its direct competitor, the XPS 15, you'd expect that there are some compromises along the way. But at first glance, there's nothing wrong or fishy about the UX5[...]