Vivobook 15 X1504VA 15.6" Full HD Laptop (Intel i5-1335U, 16GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, Windows 11 Home)

I got this laptop as a replacement for my old laptop. This has been a great buy. It was cheap to buy but serves me well. It’s easy to use and doesn’t have an obvious flaws as far as I can see.

Just what I wanted, very slick and easy to set up. It feels quite solid, the backlight is awesome and it is very fast and just the right size and the battery life seems alright. I do love my new laptop.

Fantastic kit for the price (£407) - it looks great and it performs well, it might struggle with resource hungry games (?) Be aware, the software is way behind and the operating system is end of life - it's Windows 11 Home 22H2 and needs upgrading. If you can avoid applying all of the outstanding Windows updates for 22H2 and go straight to Windows upgrade to 24H2 you could save yourself many hours of software updates and end up on the very latest version - just make sure you pick the option to save your files/data. Deducted 1 star due to this but that's a bit mean....4.5 stars!? Some later updates... 1) WiFi card is weak/poor performing - I have added USB WiFi adaptor - much better. 2) Battery life is nowhere near advertised - even after full charge it rarely shows more than 3 hours even when idling. 3) Registered the device with Asus - it is showing that guarantee started nearly a year ago with 1 week left! Don't know if this is a system error or the goods were previously registered then returned - they looked brand new but...?

Windows 11 is as intrusive as you would expect a Microsoft product to be these days, but managed to switch most of the unwanted stuff off. The 2 remaining annoyances are notifications for games offers, and edge - their browser - starting up seemingly at random. Happily this doesn't cause the new laptop to almost grind to a halt like my old machine, I am mega impressed by the speed, especially for the price. Part of this will be going for more RAM than my old machine as that was a limiting factor on what it could do. The big thing I wanted to improve was the video editing, and this new laptop has dramatically raised the bar, I even can play music and have the internet browser going at the same time as the video editing program, very pleased. Haven't really tested battery performance as replaced a desktop machine, but the ability to take the computer with me has been useful a few times. Running a 2nd, larger screen (from the old desktop machine) no issues at all, indeed has been great having 2 screens to use for some tasks., like moving files around in folders/ drives. Happy to recommend.

Great product, good value.

Update. I've reduced my review to one star as the longer I use the laptop the more I absolutely hate it. Jeepers it's pants. I'm losing faith in Amazon reviews. This device has 86% with four star or higher reviews? I find it hard to believe based on my experience with the Asus laptop. The device looks nice and boots up quickly, but it is badly let down by a very noisy fan that runs permanently when the laptop is on. I can't bear the noise. The keyboard is NOT backlit. The trackpad is noisy. The battery life is extremely poor. Overall I am not impressed with the quality and I'm seriously considering returning the item.

Very Happy with the purchase used for 6 months, does it work, very efficient, very fast and reliable, good quality

Working just fine. Does what it says on the tin.