ASUS Vivobook 15 OLED X1505ZA - 15.6" Full HD Laptop (Intel i5-12500H, 16GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, 400nits OLED Screen, Windows 11 Home)

I bought this at £499, in a few days the price has increased by £80! ( tariff knock on maybe). Even so this is an excellent spec for the price, super sharp oled screen, i5 processor, 16gb ram, 1tb ssd drive. I knew it was a bargain when I saw it for a local committee i am part of, and now kicking myself I didn’t buy one for myself as well. Out of the box it needed the usual time wasting windows updates so spent about an hour doing that, then discovered that the trackpad was not working. Did some online research and found it needed an Asus firmware update which fixed the problem. I still give it 5 stars because this was a steal at the price and out of the box updates are a necessity. The oled screen is just beautiful, its fast and im sure for the general day to day use it will receive it will be perfect. Not bought as a gaming machine so not sure of the graphics capabilities.

I have an old Packard Bell TJ65 that's done me 10 years plus, I have to remove the keyboard (Stuck with velcro) then use a screwdriver to short a power up as the power button failed and a real pain to replace but it still works and for an old girl it is fine for me, BUT not for the rest of the family! The old TJ65 has an amazing shiny crystal clear screen as competed with the old Sony cinema laptops, but it is so flippin noisy it drives me mad and I installed a fan control software to quieten it down.So I waited for Black Friday as I do my TV and Mobile requirements and this Asus laptop popped up very early on on Amazon before the sales started and I snapped it for £329. I bought a Crucial RAM 8GB DDR4 3200MHz in the sale for £20 which simply slots in, apart from undoing some screws on back of laptop it was simples, just plug and play, re-screw and done, upgraded Ram to 16GB. I am not a nerd or a techy, I don't even know if I have done any good, but I feckin hate newspaper websites that kill my laptops and this has done the trick.The Asus is really fast, very very quick starting, I have 3 profiles for family and it's bullet fast. The screen is not as good as my old TJ65 but you getz what you pay for and it's fine for what it has to do. If you need a seriously good screen then you need to dig deep right. It is light to carry, the hinges are not looking to be the strongest so will be careful and not take the Michael. But what I really love about it is it is silent, so silent I worry something is not right, I have a £1900 HP work laptop 3 months old and is noisy compared to this Asus! The battery is fine, it lasts for hours and I have never yet had to run for a charger, it is absolutely reliable and suspect that's because it does not have an energy thirsty fan panging away..The only downside is a real cheap keyboard, my HP is back-lit and posh, this is button press, twang and noisy as you type, but actually, for an old fart like me, it actually helps as I don't mistype as much!So I am sorry for the wordy review, I don't do many, but it's a definite yes from me and I would buy another, if I got some amazingly well paid job that meant i needed another, but I guess I have 3 laptops now so by default have a great job, unfortunately not in the pay scale department!!

ASUS Vivobook 15 X515JA 15.6" Full HD LaptopThis comes with windows 11 home S so if you need to run application that not in the windows store then you can opt out of the windows S mode and it will revert to the usual windows home 11.This can be done in the windows store to switch version or even upgrade to Pro if needed too.The laptop itself isn't half bad, for the price you pay its pretty good value its snappy while being responsive and should be able to run most applications and deal with their needs rather well.Its not a gaming laptop nor a system that can be used to run heavy applications, so if you need a system for anything else this is perfectly suitable.Wouldn't be a bad laptop if your needing something for school, college etc.The battery is probably the only thing that i felt within the price range could have been better it still last around 3 - 4 hrs however, this will also depends on the settings and application used so will vary from person to person.Has most connectivity that one needs so one USB-C, three USB-A one of which is a USB 3.2 a HDMI and micro SD card slot which personally could have been a normal SD card slot.Overall is a quick, snappy laptop that prefect for school or college needs. Will run all windows application perfectly fine.Only criticism is the battery life which i felt if aimed at the student could have been a little better.Build quality is as expected within the price range, its still a nice simple yet sleek design from ASUS.

As with all things I buy, I thoroughly do my research and very rarely get things wrong, more out of interest than necessity. I would recommend buying the right laptop for what you want to use it for. This is why buying a laptop can be confusing as there are so many brands and models, however, if you narrow them down to what you want to use it for then it makes it much easier. If you want to play games with great graphics then you will need to buy a laptop that is specifically made for gaming but it will also do all the other stuff such as internet, email etc but they cost a lot more money than a normal laptop . My remit was very simple, I go o holidays and stay overnight in hotels on business so being able to watch films (Amazon Prime of course), surf the net, email then this laptop is ideal. 8GB of RAM and 512GB SSD is ample for what I want and at a very good price for the specification. The I3 processor is fast enough for me. I bought a larger screen but makes watching films and doing emails a lot easier as I am getting on a bit with age and eyesight is not perfect. The laptop is quick to start, smooth and responsive on web surfing with no lag on watching films so ticks all the right boxes for me. A must was a HDMI port so that i can connect the laptop to a tv screen to watch films on a bigger screen and a USB 3.0 port so that data transfer is quicker. All in all very pleased with my purchase to suit my needs