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

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.

Purchased for my father in law, who is in his late seventies, to replace his six year old Lenovo. I set it up for him and apart from getting used to the difference between Window's 10 and 11, he is very pleased with speed of the laptop and how bright the screen is, everything is working as it should

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...?

Nice lightweight laptop. Speedy to boot, it has plenty of storage and a nice large screen. More than adequate for general day to day use at a very good price.

I bought this in September 2024 as a birthday present to myself. My old Fujitsu laptop was well overdue an upgrade.Initially it looked like a fantastic spec for the price. Unfortunately looks can be deceiving.Right from the beginning, the touchpad has been temperamental, but as I always use a USB mouse, I’m not sure just HOW temperamental. I ordered an Asus USB mouse to use with the laptop. It worked fine initially. Then it didn’t. The cursor would just stay in the same place, no matter what. I assumed batteries? So put new in. Nope. Tried different USB ports, checked drivers etc. Made sure all updates were done. It worked for a few weeks if that. On and off. No apparent reason as to why.Then at the beginning of April it didn’t work again. Then the touchpad stopped working. Then the keyboard stopped working!!!!I contacted Amazon who were very helpful. They directed me to Asus but told me to come back to them if I didn’t get a satisfactory result.Asus told me to try the usual fixes. Updates. Etc etc. My husband knows a lot more about computers than I do so he’d already tried everything anyway.Asus arranged for it to be sent to one of their repair centres to be repaired. It was collected the next day by DPD. Apparently they have changed their repair contract and have a backlog of at least one month! I was told by phone that my “option” was to get the laptop back and still use it, then send it for repair when they’ve caught up!!!! I explained that it’s not useable so I left it with them. I’m extremely frustrated at having no working laptop. I paid close to £500 and can’t afford to buy another!I’ve since tried to contact Asus both by phone and by email. Not an easy task as I find their website less than helpful!They still can’t give me a time estimate. No offer of a solution other than to get it returned.I contacted Amazon this morning after the email reply I’d had from Asus. They said that if I get the laptop back and return it to them, they will give me a full refund. So I’ve messaged Asus to request it back.I will never buy another Asus again!

The back lit Keyboard can be a bit distracting, but you can switch it off

Great laptop. Great seller

Very nice