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Screen is not good. That 60hz oled is super reflective. I would much much prefer a regular anti glare 120hz IPS or even a 60hz one. With a bright background all color is off and literally not usable. CPU is mediocre. 9500 cinebench r23. 5500/5600G level. Battery life is not that good. Half a world away from my m1/m2 devices. Still decent windows laptop but don't expect it to be excellent. GPU is very good. 4000+ timespy. This chassis is one of the best portable laptop that I have ever owned. The screen however put it into the mid to budget class. One very weird issue with this specific model. The laptop has something wrong with its video out. I still have like 5 of them. We bought over 10 and sold some. All of these laptops regardless of driver bios or system all can't reliably drive external monitors. We linked these to 4k 120hz initially. The cursor was super lag despite everything else is good and smooth. We thought it was the bandwidth limitation and replace with qhd 120hz. A lot better but still occasionally have this issue. We tried 1080p with 120hz and it still, occasionally lags. This lag is extremely bad especially having the build in screen on. While its off the external monitor works better, but still occasionally lag. Overall its a crap deal for over $500. Lunar Lake has been way overrated by the community who never own them. In reality it sucks. The battery is good but its lagging and the performance, especially without plugging in is toooo bad. It's to a level that you absolutely can feel it in everyday use, while any CPU including the slowest Ryzen AI 340 after 2024 can be fast enough that nobody can notice any difference in everyday life. I would call the system remind me of our i3-1220p devices - decent for everyday work, but you can't call it smooth. BTW, if you love posting crap deals and want to earn that commission, you need to accept criticism. By all means, a regular $450 device posted at over $500 while the device itself is not that great is NOT a good deal. A down vote for you and all your crap deals.
when or where can I get this for 450? I'm considering buying this over spending 850 for a macbook air m4 with 256gb ssd and same ram, which also has a 60hz display...
when or where can I get this for 450? I'm considering buying this over spending 850 for a macbook air m4 with 256gb ssd and same ram, which also has a 60hz display...
Keep an eye on Best Buy. It goes on sale regularly.
The lowest was $450 in March 2025, but that's the lowest I've seen. It typically goes down into the $5xx.
In the few months I've used it, I've had no problems. Battery literally lasts me all day. Personally, I like the glossy screen. Makes the colors pop. I just watched the Dodgers game on it today.
Keep an eye on Best Buy. It goes on sale regularly. The lowest was $450 in March 2025, but that's the lowest I've seen. It typically goes down into the $5xx. In the few months I've used it, I've had no problems. Battery literally lasts me all day. Personally, I like the glossy screen. Makes the colors pop. I just watched the Dodgers game on it today.
well itd be worth waiting for 450 maybe if it hit that in the next few weeks or so, but if it only goes down to around this to 20 dollars or so less than this, than this deal seems pretty good.
well itd be worth waiting for 450 maybe if it hit that in the next few weeks or so, but if it only goes down to around this to 20 dollars or so less than this, than this deal seems pretty good.
Screen is not good. That 60hz oled is super reflective. I would much much prefer a regular anti glare 120hz IPS or even a 60hz one. With a bright background all color is off and literally not usable.
CPU is mediocre. 9500 cinebench r23. 5500/5600G level.
Battery life is not that good. Half a world away from my m1/m2 devices. Still decent windows laptop but don't expect it to be excellent.
GPU is very good. 4000+ timespy. This chassis is one of the best portable laptop that I have ever owned. The screen however put it into the mid to budget class.
One very weird issue with this specific model. The laptop has something wrong with its video out. I still have like 5 of them. We bought over 10 and sold some. All of these laptops regardless of driver bios or system all can't reliably drive external monitors.
We linked these to 4k 120hz initially. The cursor was super lag despite everything else is good and smooth. We thought it was the bandwidth limitation and replace with qhd 120hz. A lot better but still occasionally have this issue. We tried 1080p with 120hz and it still, occasionally lags. This lag is extremely bad especially having the build in screen on. While its off the external monitor works better, but still occasionally lag.
Overall its a crap deal for over $500. Lunar Lake has been way overrated by the community who never own them. In reality it sucks. The battery is good but its lagging and the performance, especially without plugging in is toooo bad. It's to a level that you absolutely can feel it in everyday use, while any CPU including the slowest Ryzen AI 340 after 2024 can be fast enough that nobody can notice any difference in everyday life. I would call the system remind me of our i3-1220p devices - decent for everyday work, but you can't call it smooth.
BTW, if you love posting crap deals and want to earn that commission, you need to accept criticism. By all means, a regular $450 device posted at over $500 while the device itself is not that great is NOT a good deal. A down vote for you and all your crap deals.
You are 100% right about the external video issue with this laptop. I had one and returned it because it would go very slow while trying to display to my external monitor. It was terrible and driver updates did nothing.
Battery was great, I could use it the entire evening and still be in the 90% battery range. But I was just going through pdfs.
Laptop feels cheap, the build quality with asus is awful. I tested out 2 or 3 of these and they all had some fatal issue. Eg. Trackpad doesn't click properly, fans stuck on 100%. All were returns. I got one for 450 but even that was a return.
I got the HP omnibook X and it's been so much better. It just works. Now Best Buy has some omnibooks on sale. I bet they are a much better device. IMO cpu performance is mostly irrelevant for most people. Just get the newest gen laptop and don't get an arm chip if you don't have comparable software.
Screen is not good. That 60hz oled is super reflective. I would much much prefer a regular anti glare 120hz IPS or even a 60hz one. With a bright background all color is off and literally not usable.CPU is mediocre. 9500 cinebench r23. 5500/5600G level.Battery life is not that good. Half a world away from my m1/m2 devices. Still decent windows laptop but don't expect it to be excellent. GPU is very good. 4000+ timespy. This chassis is one of the best portable laptop that I have ever owned. The screen however put it into the mid to budget class.One very weird issue with this specific model. The laptop has something wrong with its video out. I still have like 5 of them. We bought over 10 and sold some. All of these laptops regardless of driver bios or system all can't reliably drive external monitors. We linked these to 4k 120hz initially. The cursor was super lag despite everything else is good and smooth. We thought it was the bandwidth limitation and replace with qhd 120hz. A lot better but still occasionally have this issue. We tried 1080p with 120hz and it still, occasionally lags. This lag is extremely bad especially having the build in screen on. While its off the external monitor works better, but still occasionally lag. Overall its a crap deal for over $500. Lunar Lake has been way overrated by the community who never own them. In reality it sucks. The battery is good but its lagging and the performance, especially without plugging in is toooo bad. It's to a level that you absolutely can feel it in everyday use, while any CPU including the slowest Ryzen AI 340 after 2024 can be fast enough that nobody can notice any difference in everyday life. I would call the system remind me of our i3-1220p devices - decent for everyday work, but you can't call it smooth.BTW, if you love posting crap deals and want to earn that commission, you need to accept criticism. By all means, a regular $450 device posted at over $500 while the device itself is not that great is NOT a good deal. A down vote for you and all your crap deals.
Did you try the original display drivers from Intel? I'm asking since I also got a Vivobook about a year back with a Ryzen 5 Zen3, 1080p OLED about a year ago and had the exact same issue that when connecting an external monitor, the laptop would lag and have micro-freezes which would be noticeable when moving the cursor and specially when dragging windows from the laptop screen to the external monitor, it looked awful. Then I installed the Radeon display drivers directly from AMD and the performance was much better, still I would see the occasional glitch here and there but it worked well and way better compared to the original drivers from Asus. Then about 6 months ago or so the Radeon update at the time completely fixed all issues. So I'm guessing all vivobooks have dislplay driver issues at lunch. By the way I tried installing the newest Asus display driver which was dated from about 7 months ago and the lag shows up, then back again to AMD direct newest drivers and problem is gone. So even to this day Asus has not fixed the lag with their own drivers.
Not sure I would call an OLED display, even a 60 hz low end one "budget", especially considering there are still a few laptops being sold this day in this price range that have only a TN display and many others with a 60% sRGB 1:800 contrast IPS displays, those I would consider "budget" (and yes, TN displays should not exist anymore, even in the lowest end categories, but they still do)
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Well, I've been using this laptop for media consumption (watching MLB, Netflix, Yourube), light work (Word, Excel) and I've been loving it. The screen has been really nice to watch MLB games on. I thought I'd mention that this thing is a fingerprint magnet though.
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Whats best usb c charger to use with these? I want to leave the factory charger at home and usb c one in my backpack for traveling.
It's a 65W charger so look on Amazon for "65W USB-C charger". TONS to choose from. Get name brand (and pay more) if you want, but you can find some real deals on no-name ones that might be on sale and also have lots of good reviews. I'd skip the tall "tower" (rectangular cube) style as they tend to fall out of wall sockets and especially hotel rooms where the sockets are worn out.
Screen is not good. That 60hz oled is super reflective. I would much much prefer a regular anti glare 120hz IPS or even a 60hz one. With a bright background all color is off and literally not usable.CPU is mediocre. 9500 cinebench r23. 5500/5600G level.Battery life is not that good. Half a world away from my m1/m2 devices. Still decent windows laptop but don't expect it to be excellent. GPU is very good. 4000+ timespy. This chassis is one of the best portable laptop that I have ever owned. The screen however put it into the mid to budget class.One very weird issue with this specific model. The laptop has something wrong with its video out. I still have like 5 of them. We bought over 10 and sold some. All of these laptops regardless of driver bios or system all can't reliably drive external monitors. We linked these to 4k 120hz initially. The cursor was super lag despite everything else is good and smooth. We thought it was the bandwidth limitation and replace with qhd 120hz. A lot better but still occasionally have this issue. We tried 1080p with 120hz and it still, occasionally lags. This lag is extremely bad especially having the build in screen on. While its off the external monitor works better, but still occasionally lag. Overall its a crap deal for over $500. Lunar Lake has been way overrated by the community who never own them. In reality it sucks. The battery is good but its lagging and the performance, especially without plugging in is toooo bad. It's to a level that you absolutely can feel it in everyday use, while any CPU including the slowest Ryzen AI 340 after 2024 can be fast enough that nobody can notice any difference in everyday life. I would call the system remind me of our i3-1220p devices - decent for everyday work, but you can't call it smooth.BTW, if you love posting crap deals and want to earn that commission, you need to accept criticism. By all means, a regular $450 device posted at over $500 while the device itself is not that great is NOT a good deal. A down vote for you and all your crap deals.
Oh, look...another "crap" review of a laptop by you. There is nothing wrong with the screen. It's OLED. OLED screens perform best when they are glossy, which is why they are all glossy. If you are frequently in areas with lots of light and reflections, I'd say you made a bad purchasing decision and you're blaming it on the screen.
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The lowest was $450 in March 2025, but that's the lowest I've seen. It typically goes down into the $5xx.
In the few months I've used it, I've had no problems. Battery literally lasts me all day. Personally, I like the glossy screen. Makes the colors pop. I just watched the Dodgers game on it today.
Compared to that, for just $20 more, this is still a good price.
CPU is mediocre. 9500 cinebench r23. 5500/5600G level.
Battery life is not that good. Half a world away from my m1/m2 devices. Still decent windows laptop but don't expect it to be excellent.
GPU is very good. 4000+ timespy. This chassis is one of the best portable laptop that I have ever owned. The screen however put it into the mid to budget class.
One very weird issue with this specific model. The laptop has something wrong with its video out. I still have like 5 of them. We bought over 10 and sold some. All of these laptops regardless of driver bios or system all can't reliably drive external monitors.
We linked these to 4k 120hz initially. The cursor was super lag despite everything else is good and smooth. We thought it was the bandwidth limitation and replace with qhd 120hz. A lot better but still occasionally have this issue. We tried 1080p with 120hz and it still, occasionally lags. This lag is extremely bad especially having the build in screen on. While its off the external monitor works better, but still occasionally lag.
Overall its a crap deal for over $500. Lunar Lake has been way overrated by the community who never own them. In reality it sucks. The battery is good but its lagging and the performance, especially without plugging in is toooo bad. It's to a level that you absolutely can feel it in everyday use, while any CPU including the slowest Ryzen AI 340 after 2024 can be fast enough that nobody can notice any difference in everyday life. I would call the system remind me of our i3-1220p devices - decent for everyday work, but you can't call it smooth.
BTW, if you love posting crap deals and want to earn that commission, you need to accept criticism. By all means, a regular $450 device posted at over $500 while the device itself is not that great is NOT a good deal. A down vote for you and all your crap deals.
You are 100% right about the external video issue with this laptop. I had one and returned it because it would go very slow while trying to display to my external monitor. It was terrible and driver updates did nothing.
Battery was great, I could use it the entire evening and still be in the 90% battery range. But I was just going through pdfs.
Laptop feels cheap, the build quality with asus is awful. I tested out 2 or 3 of these and they all had some fatal issue. Eg. Trackpad doesn't click properly, fans stuck on 100%. All were returns. I got one for 450 but even that was a return.
I got the HP omnibook X and it's been so much better. It just works. Now Best Buy has some omnibooks on sale. I bet they are a much better device. IMO cpu performance is mostly irrelevant for most people. Just get the newest gen laptop and don't get an arm chip if you don't have comparable software.
Not sure I would call an OLED display, even a 60 hz low end one "budget", especially considering there are still a few laptops being sold this day in this price range that have only a TN display and many others with a 60% sRGB 1:800 contrast IPS displays, those I would consider "budget" (and yes, TN displays should not exist anymore, even in the lowest end categories, but they still do)
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