Well, Asus has thousands of products on offer. They probably do not want to spend resources keeping it all up to date on their page aka ïf it aint broke don't fix it"

Asus should "Dance with the one who brought you"! They gained their name and reputation providing very good products and providing good support but for the most part that era has ended. Like many other large companies, they have lost their identity growing and producing a lot of products. I started buying Asus stuff like over 10 years ago and kept buying, but recently that has changed. I got an Asus Transformer Eee Pad that they quit updating after 1 year, and a Sabertooth Z77 with a lot of problems, and my G75VW with the worst sound system of any laptop I can recall.

Last week I bought a Asus Blu-Ray DVD Writer, the BW-14D1XT, which Asus says is Windows 8 compatible. But what the didn't say was that the software included, Cyberlink Power2Go 7, is NOT Windows 8 compatible. Which, means the Windows 8 compatibility, for all intents and purposes, is a lie!!!! Asus just keeps losing credibility this way and loyal customers. For my wife's new computer I chose the Gigabyte company for the main board and when I contacted them about a driver issue, they were fantastic and sent me a new updated disk immediately!

I'm not saying Asus stuff is all crap, 'cause it's not. But they have to win me over now and prove their products with poor support are better than another company's product and support!

fyi. This may not help a whole lot, but if you're interested, you can also get unapproved drivers from the ASUS download site by selecting your notebook model manually and looking under 'apps' or 'drivers' for the series as in the screenshot below.

Why are there no model specific unaproved drivers? When I select Drivers for Windows 8 and then touch pad drivers, there are 16 different drivers, but no specification for what model notebook. Just perfect support from ASUS!

This seems to be a 'secret site' so If you aren't having any issues, it's better not to try with them.

If you're still interested, go to the approved drivers for your notebook model to check the version and manufacturer name if available then go to the unapproved drivers to look for slightly higher versions since usually only the last few numbers will change for a newer driver.
Tell me your model and driver you are looking for if you want me to help check.

After the notebook has gone out of production for a while though, you may not even see any new unapproved drivers released for your model, so normally it will be just for the more recent models.

Not sure if anybody needs to hear this, but if you want to be safe, create a restore point, back up, and prepare for the worst in case something goes terribly wrong, etc. although don't expect anything too serious to happen normally.

I was just asking because the current driver for the touch pad I am using is 130MB and the newest unapproved one is 17MB. As I am so pedantic when it comes to my hardware, I want to have the most current, light and clean software installed on it, hence my interest in the newest drivers, no matter if they are approved or not. I would try the newest unapproved driver, but it is not specified which notebook it is meant for.