Staples has
ASUS Vivobook S 16 Laptop (S5606CA-SB91) on sale for
$899.99.
Shipping is free.
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ASUS product page for full specs for this model (S5606CA-SB91). Some of the information in the body of the Staples product page appears to refer to a different model than the product title and model number.
Specs: - IntelCore Ultra 9 285H 16 cores, 16 threads (2.9 GHz Base / 5.4 GHz Boost) Processor
- 16" 3K (2880 x 1800) OLED 16:10 aspect ratio, 120Hz 600nits HDR peak brightness, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut Display
- 16GB LPDDR5X RAM
- 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive
- Intel Arc Graphics
- Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) (Tri-band)2*2 + Bluetooth 5.4
- Backlit Chiclet Keyboard 1-Zone RGB with Num-key
- Windows 11
- Ports:
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 2x Thunderbolt 4 with support for display / power delivery (data speed up to 40Gbps)
- 1x HDMI 2.1 TMDS
- 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
- Micro SD card reader
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I kept getting the Blue Screen of Death. The Geek Squad "FIXED it" THREE times, but shortly after I got it home, same thing, BSOD!
Sent it into the ASUS service center, and when I got it back 15 days later, got BSOD twice within 4 minutes. They said the warranty does not include any replacements or refunds.
I will never buy another ASUS product. And will avoid buying from Best Buy also.
They allegedly scanned for hardware errors & viruses, updated s/w, then later full Windows re-installs.
Once, they said found & removed 4 viruses. But usually, "They couldn't find anything wrong"
PS - I offered to give the Geek Squad my timestamped notes on what I was doing when I got the BSODs, but the were NOT interested.
Later, I never connected to the internet, or installed Any s/w, just opened the Task Manager and ran the MyAsus program to scan the computer. Then it just sat idle for a bit... and eventually BSOD.
They allegedly scanned for hardware errors & viruses, updated s/w, then later full Windows re-installs.
Once, they said found & removed 4 viruses. But usually, "They couldn't find anything wrong"
PS - I offered to give the Geek Squad my timestamped notes on what I was doing when I got the BSODs, but the were NOT interested.
Later, I never connected to the internet, or installed Any s/w, just opened the Task Manager and ran the MyAsus program to scan the computer. Then it just sat idle for a bit... and eventually BSOD.
I bought the 14 " Vivbook S deal via BB that was front page here a few weeks ago. I have all sorts of quirky issues that are pretty much impossible to diagnose. Originally, after I had all my software installed and Win11 settings dialed, the machine suddenly started crawling -- apps would take 5-10 seconds to open instead of being instant, web pages would take 30+ seconds to load, yet Task Manager said thermals and CPU were fine. I uninstalled everything down to barebones and ran scans with the MyASUS bloatware crap, everything reported fine. I formatted the disk and reinstalled a clean copy of Win11 and everything has been "fine" since, aside from random bugs that can be resolved with app or system restart.
The thing is, Windows 11 is hot garbage. ASUS drivers are hot garbage. Intel drivers are hot garbage. And Win11 automatically installs all sorts of drivers and system packages under the hood and you have no way of controlling this. So there's infinite permutations of things going wrong from various conflicts and bugs, and the old days of manually installing your own drivers and figuring out the most reliable versions and configs (which was still its own hell) are pretty much gone -- Win11 does whatever the hell it pleases.
So, not that ASUS gives a damn anyways, but there's not really an economic means for them to assess every claim and establish software vs hardware glitches, and with these newer architectures I don't think "defective hardware" is always a simple binary function anyways, so ASUS just takes theirs off the top and screws everyone over as much as possible through poor service. This is an over-simplification but pretty much what most experience.
It's disappointing how cheap and disposable the entire experience of owning a new laptop feels because of all this, namely the attrocious dumpster fire that is Windows 11.
Your alternatives are Apple or creating a hobby project of trying to get linux drivers to work with your hardware, But I work in AEC so windows is pretty much a requirement to run a lot of the industry standard stuff.
The thing is, Windows 11 is hot garbage. ASUS drivers are hot garbage. Intel drivers are hot garbage. And Win11 automatically installs all sorts of drivers and system packages under the hood and you have no way of controlling this. So there's infinite permutations of things going wrong from various conflicts and bugs, and the old days of manually installing your own drivers and figuring out the most reliable versions and configs (which was still its own hell) are pretty much gone -- Win11 does whatever the hell it pleases.
So, not that ASUS gives a damn anyways, but there's not really an economic means for them to assess every claim and establish software vs hardware glitches, and with these newer architectures I don't think "defective hardware" is always a simple binary function anyways, so ASUS just takes theirs off the top and screws everyone over as much as possible through poor service. This is an over-simplification but pretty much what most experience.
It's disappointing how cheap and disposable the entire experience of owning a new laptop feels because of all this, namely the attrocious dumpster fire that is Windows 11.
Your alternatives are Apple or creating a hobby project of trying to get linux drivers to work with your hardware, But I work in AEC so windows is pretty much a requirement to run a lot of the industry standard stuff.
I re-installed Win11 using the laptop's "copy" of it (I think). But I did not format the SSD boot drive (as far as I know) -- do you think that might be a critical step?
Then Geek Squad eventually re-installed from their own copy. Would they have formatted the SSD?
Then Asus said they re-installed Win11. Would they have formatted the SSD?
I re-installed Win11 using the laptop's "copy" of it (I think). But I did not format the SSD boot drive (as far as I know) -- do you think that might be a critical step?
Then Geek Squad eventually re-installed from their own copy. Would they have formatted the SSD?
Then Asus said they re-installed Win11. Would they have formatted the SSD?
I re-installed Win11 using the laptop's "copy" of it (I think). But I did not format the SSD boot drive (as far as I know) -- do you think that might be a critical step?
Then Geek Squad eventually re-installed from their own copy. Would they have formatted the SSD?
Then Asus said they re-installed Win11. Would they have formatted the SSD?
What I did was format just the partition that Windows was installed on and left the recovery partition as is just in case I ever want / need to go back to the factory bloat version. Opinions vary but the IoT LTSC version of Windows 11 worked great for me (relatively anyways, like I said, it's all dog shit) but DYOR.
They continually go on sale because YOU CANNOT UPGRADE THE RAM.
They are beautiful laptops. I played with one for a while.
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Of course, not at the current price point, but it will inevitably drop. But why couldn't they have made it in black??