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Ah, yeah. In that case, yeah, it's not just you. Similar experience on my 3698-4RU. :) In fact I just took the machine out of sleep when I saw this post and the fans are running with the high-pitched noise and nothing running except IE and standard Windows services (haven't checked temp). But yeah, as mentioned, it's fairly quiet. [update: the fans did turn off this time after ~5mins -- they automatically come back on when you close & re-open the lid]
Regarding the battery life question, hopefully some other early adopters can weigh in but I'm looking at 7h 38m remaining in laptop mode right now on a ~93% charge on the dock battery (tablet 99%). This is with 1/3rd or so brightness. Real world time will tell for how it all shakes out. I've drained the battery only once thus far and other users here seem to indicate that it improves with use. I'm guessing that I could squeeze 9+ish out of it right now with judicious use of resources, a bit lower brightness, and perhaps airplane mode.
I also feel I should point out for any other picky users like me that there's some mild backlight bleed on the bottom of the screen. However, you can see this only on boot-up so far -- I can't even replicate it on a black background in Windows. It's no worse than the bleed I had on my last iPad Mini. Nothing like what you see on the Zenbooks.
For better control of fan speed, did you try the free software tpFanControl?
Just downloaded and tried TPFC v0.62 and ran it normally and it shot the fan down at idle...awesome! To make sure it would still cool the system under stress, I ran the IntelBurnTest in laptop mode with power and the fan slowly kicked in around 65C. At max, it got to 82C and the fans where really kicking in, more than they did without tpFanControl installed. It kept it stable there. Interestingly, the CPU throttled less with TPFC. Idle temp was around 50C or so, a few degrees warmer than before, bot no fan and well within reasonable temps.
Unplugging it in laptop mode throttled the CPU as I expected and the fan quieted. In both cases, stopping intelburntest stopped the fan from running within 20-30 seconds after it cooled down.
In tablet mode at idle, the fan completely stops and the temp stays around 45-50C. Running the burn test the fans kicked in after a while but it kept below 70C and not super hot in the back (but plenty warm).
All in all, I'm loving the difference. I may tweak the levels where the fan kicks in a bit downward 5 degrees or so, bot overall I'm now completely pleased with this machine...just about perfect!