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I got this refurbished on eBay and simply love it, The screen and battery life is amazing. Obviously not for gaming but overall a good laptop for the money
I get confused at this price point. If no gaming, is $800 really a good value for a machine for surfing and office work?
You're typically not getting OLED or this type of battery life on a recent $800 gaming laptop. Maybe if you can score one of those nutty Best Buy open-box deals. This can still do stuff like entry-level 4K video editing and such.
On a gaming laptop you'll gain performance as you know, along with maybe some ports like ethernet, but I think the KB, touchpad, display, battery life, thermals, and fan noise will all be in favor of something like this Vivobook.
I think gaming laptops become more viable at around $1,200 where you can get a Zephyrus G14 with an OLED panel and AMD CPU to help level the field and negate some of the pros of a regular laptop, along with a possibly superior internal hardware upgrade path.
I purchased the 32gb ram version of this refurbished from an eBay seller for a bit less; using it as a portable development and work laptop, and absolutely love it. Native apps are super fast; x64 apps seen to start slow but then generally run ok. The only thing I don't really like is the keyboard backlight color; it's just not that visible.. but it stopped bugging me after the first day or so.
Way better gaming performance with that one. Faster in multicore as well. The latter won't be noticeable in everyday tasks. I'm in the 14" camp myself, I feel it's the perfect size for a laptop that will be used in the lap. Look at MBA and MBP, for example. 13.6" and 14.2" on their smaller variants. Get a bigger screen if you need to see more on screen for Excel or video editing timelines.
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On a gaming laptop you'll gain performance as you know, along with maybe some ports like ethernet, but I think the KB, touchpad, display, battery life, thermals, and fan noise will all be in favor of something like this Vivobook.
I think gaming laptops become more viable at around $1,200 where you can get a Zephyrus G14 with an OLED panel and AMD CPU to help level the field and negate some of the pros of a regular laptop, along with a possibly superior internal hardware upgrade path.
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