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Do you mean to ask which is the best at running the software you want to run? Except for ThinkPads, software that comes with a laptop is generally useless bloatware regardless of the manufacturer.</p>
<p>I have an ASUS G75VW. It’s a 17.3", 4.5 kg gaming laptop, so it doesn’t have much in common with ultrabooks other than the brand. But it does its job beautifully; I dual-boot Windows for games and Ubuntu for everything else. It handles games like a champ and the only problem I’ve encountered with Linux is inability to change the screen brightness. ASUS’s Republic of Gamers and Alienware are the only brands that seem to take laptop cooling seriously. Mine has two giant vents in the back, one for intake and the other for output, which can get very loud. Heat never becomes a problem or even a discomfort no matter how demanding the application.</p>
<p>I’ve had to make some adjustments like getting a bigger backpack and relying more on my iPad, but it’s “worth the weight” as Valve fans like to say.</p>
<p>The one fatal flaw is its touchpad. It freezes, jitters, scrolls to random spots, and suffers from just about every glitch imaginable that can render a touchpad unusable.</p>