MicroCenter has
ASUS Vivobook 15 Laptop (90NB0Y51-M002K0; Quiet Blue) on sale for
$349.99. Shipping is ~$19.85 (
via no rush 7+ days shipping).
Thanks to community member
delz4stelz for finding this deal
Note, product is available for shipping only
Specs/Key Features- AMD Ryzen 5 4600H 3.0GHz 6-Core Processor
- 15.6" 1920x1080p FHD HD IPS Anti-Glare w/ 720p HD Front Camera
- 512GB PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD
- 8GB DDR4 RAM (Onboard Configuration)
- AMD Radeon GPU
- 2x2 Wireless Lan WiFi 6 w/ Bluetooth 5.0
- Backlit Keyboard w/ Fingerprint Sensor
- 3-Cell Lithium Ion battery
- Windows 11 Home OS
- Inputs
- 3x USB 2.0 (Type-A)
- 2x USB 3.2 (Gen 1 Type-C)
- 1x HDMI
Warranty- Includes a 1-year manufacturers limited warranty w/ purchase (parts + labor)
Leave a Comment
Top Comments
The brand I avoid is HP. They won't let you set a battery limiter on anything other than business-line laptops, because they want it stuck at 100% when plugged in, which degrades the battery so it holds less and less of a charge as time goeson.
ASUS lets you set the limit all the way down to 60% which is the best I've found so far among mainstream laptop makers. Lenovo and Acer are also good but set the minimum higher than 60%. (50% = ideal for battery longevity.)
Great. Links?
Ryzen 4600H 45 watt
Average CPU Mark rating 14628
Single Thread Rating: 2450
Samples: 1530*
Versus
Ryzen 5500u 15 watt
Average CPU Mark rating 13161
Single Thread Rating: 2456
Samples: 1597*
some options for lower power 5500u with almost the same single core performance and slightly lower multi core performance, both $400. Just a very quick search, you might be able to find something that is not $50 more, or a 5600u for the same price.
https://www.microcenter
or https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KNSMR14/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_089VJC4E4SDPXJJ25FH2_0?tag=slickdeals&ascsubt... [amazon.com]
54 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
But bad battery life(possibly bc using H processor?
Took me a while to find the answer as to how bright the screen is, but it's 250 nits.
Pulled the trigger, in for 1.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank goldchocobo
The brand I avoid is HP. They won't let you set a battery limiter on anything other than business-line laptops, because they want it stuck at 100% when plugged in, which degrades the battery so it holds less and less of a charge as time goeson.
ASUS lets you set the limit all the way down to 60% which is the best I've found so far among mainstream laptop makers. Lenovo and Acer are also good but set the minimum higher than 60%. (50% = ideal for battery longevity.)
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank PaulL3556
Regarding this specific laptop, its an older Ryzen CPU, soldered ram. There are better choices than this.
Regarding this specific laptop, its an older Ryzen CPU, soldered ram. There are better choices than this.
Great. Links?
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank PaulL3556
Ryzen 4600H 45 watt
Average CPU Mark rating 14628
Single Thread Rating: 2450
Samples: 1530*
Versus
Ryzen 5500u 15 watt
Average CPU Mark rating 13161
Single Thread Rating: 2456
Samples: 1597*
some options for lower power 5500u with almost the same single core performance and slightly lower multi core performance, both $400. Just a very quick search, you might be able to find something that is not $50 more, or a 5600u for the same price.
https://www.microcenter
or https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KNSMR14/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_089VJC4E4SDPXJJ25FH2_0?tag=slickdeals&ascsubt... [amazon.com]
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank goldchocobo
Regarding this specific laptop, its an older Ryzen CPU, soldered ram. There are better choices than this.
You can get a potentially skewed data sample from following one guy's repair shop, where the local population's market share may be heavily Asus for some reason, in which case Asus will be overrepresented in repairs. Also, people typically bring only higher end laptops in for repair as fixing cheaper ones isn't worth it, so you'd want to know Asus's market share among more-expensive laptops.
Gotta love the reddit comment asking how reliable is the repair shop's opinion? Lol. Does he have statistical data or is he just talking off the top of his head?
If you want a different repair shop's opinion, try this: https://computertechnic
Here's another repair-oriented take: https://www.geckoandfly
Lots of movement! One year brand X might not do so well, but then they look great the following year. Microsoft was apparently last-place in 2016 according to Consumer Reports, yet number 4 in 2018 in RescueCom's report, rising to number 1 in 2019. So take any brand's ranking in a specific year, with a big grain of salt.
I'm not saying Asus is perfect, but I've never had a problem with any of their laptops, motherboards, or video cards, out of about 12 products (I wrote 3 motherboards in an earlier post, but I also built 2 PCs for family members using Asus motherboards, so that's 5 Asus motherboards; the rest were laptops and video cards.) But I am only one person.
About Lenovo... their Thinkpad business laptops might be good, but their 2-in-1 Yogas and some Ideapad and Legion laptops had hinge issues for years. Google it. Apparently they finally fixed it last year.
To the question-asker: whatever you do, don't buy HP. I'll never buy another HP again if I can help it, not just because of their consumer-unfriendly stance towards battery limiters, but because their monitor broke 4 years after I bought it. I've never had a monitor of any other company break on me, just HP. HP also cuts corners on stuff like not using USB-C chargers, even on its more upscale Envy line.
Regarding this specific laptop, its an older Ryzen CPU, soldered ram. There are better choices than this.
Regarding this specific laptop, its an older Ryzen CPU, soldered ram. There are better choices than this.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
I would snap up this deal if I didn't have a laptop for every room of my house, office, travel bag.
Leave a Comment