The coil whine, like others mentioned, is originated from the top left corner of the keyboard and it persisted throughout my whole 20 min usage of the laptop

The only problem I have with it is the EXTREMELY loud coil whine

This computer has some of the worst coil whine I've ever heard

Personally, I would say the coil whine is not unbearable because I owned a 7+ year asus laptop and the noisy level of

No, it was not fan noise, it was electrical noise (coil whine I believe) and very noticeable in a quiet room

If only the coil whine didn't exist, this laptop would've been the best I've used up to date.

but I just couldn't stand the coil whine

but I wish the coil whine issue would be fixed.

** I can't stand the coil whine

It's a very good computer, don't get me wrong, and I was hoping to sneak through the bad models that were reported having the coil whine

The coil whine, like others mentioned, is originated from the top left corner of the keyboard and it persisted throughout my whole 20 min usage of the laptop

There is no coil whine on this unit, it is the SSD that screeches.

Its just so unfortunate that the coil whine is too loud to be unnoticed

But my concerns about Asus' quality control remain: the computer has a noticeable coil whine emanating from the top left corner of the base (near where the escape key is), and the notebook has a serious chassis flex problem

There is a coil whine

The only problem I have with it is the EXTREMELY loud coil whine

I guess I got lucky and did not have the coil whine issue; laptop is virtually silent unless running a heavy process

In sum, the only reason that I returned it is the coil whine issue

Asus pushes this product knowingly that it has a defect called “coil whine”

LOOK**Reduced the coil whine tremendously by setting my wallpaper to solid black, and changing battery settings from 'performance' to 'balanced'; it still screeches from time to