ASUS - 15.6" Laptop - Intel Core i3 - 4GB Memory - 1TB Hard Drive - Silver
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Features
Windows 10 operating system
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15.6" display
HD resolution.
5th Gen Intel® Core™ i3-5020U processor
Smart dual-core, four-way processing performance for HD-quality computing.
4GB system memory for basic multitasking
Adequate high-bandwidth RAM to smoothly run multiple applications and browser tabs all at once.
1TB hard drive for ample file storage space
Holds a significant collection of digital photos, music, HD videos and DVD-quality movies. 5400 rpm spindle speed for standard read/write times.
Built-in Cloud support lets you access your files anywhere
Easily save your photos, videos, documents and other files to Dropbox for secure access across multiple devices. Fees may apply.
Basic UMA graphics
Unified Memory Architecture shares the total system memory with the processor. Suitable for basic productivity programs, everyday Internet use and movie playback, but may bog down with more graphics-intensive applications.
Built-in stereo speakers
SonicMaster technology provides a crystal-clear sound experience.
Weighs 4.41 lbs. and measures 1" thin
Balances portability and screen size, so you get a respectable amount of viewing space without the laptop being too cumbersome for practical portability. 3-cell lithium-ion battery.
1 USB 3.0 port and 1 USB Type C port maximize the latest high-speed devices
Also includes 1 USB 2.0 port to connect more accessories and peripherals. USB 3.0 ports are backward-compatible with USB 2.0 devices (at 2.0 speeds).
HDMI output expands your viewing options
Connect to an HDTV or high-def monitor to set up two screens side by side or just see more of the big picture.
Built-in media reader for simple photo transfer
Supports SD memory card format.
Wireless and wired network connectivity
Built-in high-speed wireless LAN connects to your network or hotspots on the most common Wi-Fi standards. The Fast Ethernet LAN port also lets you plug into wired networks.
Built-in webcam
Makes it easy to video chat with family and friends or teleconference with colleagues over Skype or other popular applications.
Keyboard with chiclet keys
Touchpad pointing device.
SuperMulti DVD/CD burner
Reads and writes to a wide variety of media formats, including DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, DVD-RAM and double-layer DVD.
Silver hairline finish
Offers a sleek, elegant look.
Basic software package included
Evernote. 1-month trial of Microsoft Office 365.
Additional ports
VGA output (15-pin, mini D-sub). Microphone-in/headphone-out combo jack.
Intel, Pentium, Celeron, Core, Atom, Ultrabook, Intel Inside and the Intel Inside logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
What's Included
- 15.6" Laptop - Intel Core i3 - 4GB Memory - 1TB Hard Drive
- 3-cell lithium-ion battery
- Software: Evernote and more
- Owner's manual
Key Specs
- Screen Size15.6 inches
- Screen Resolution1366 x 768 (HD)
- Touch ScreenNo
- Processor ModelIntel 5th Generation Core i3
- Processor Model Numberother
- Processor Speed (up to)2.2 gigahertz
- Storage TypeHDD
- Hard Drive Capacity1000 gigabytes
- System Memory (RAM)4 gigabytes
- Operating SystemWindows 10
- Battery TypeLithium-ion
- Backlit KeyboardNo
General
- Product Name15.6" Laptop - Intel Core i3 - 4GB Memory - 1TB Hard Drive
- BrandASUS
- Model NumberX540LA-SI30205P
- ColorSilver
- Color CategorySilver
Display
- Screen TypeOther
- Screen Size15.6 inches
- Screen Resolution1366 x 768 (HD)
- Touch ScreenNo
Processor
- Processor BrandIntel
- Processor ModelIntel 5th Generation Core i3
- Processor Model Numberother
- Processor Speed (up to)2.2 gigahertz
Storage
- Storage TypeHDD
- Hard Drive Capacity1000 gigabytes
- Hard Drive RPM5400 revolutions per minute
Memory
- System Memory (RAM)4 gigabytes
- Type of Memory (RAM)DDR3L
- System Memory RAM Speed1600 megahertz
- Cache Memory3 megabytes
- System Memory RAM Expandable To8 gigabytes
Compatibility
- Operating SystemWindows 10
Connectivity
- Wireless NetworkingWireless-N
- Bluetooth EnabledNo
- NFC EnabledNo
- Number of VGA Ports1
Power
- Battery TypeLithium-ion
Features
- Backlit KeyboardNo
- Media Card ReaderYes
- Audio TechnologySonicMaster
- Speaker TypeBuilt-in
Dimension
- Product Height15 inches
- Product Width9.92 inches
- Product Depth1 inches
Certifications & Listings
- ENERGY STAR CertifiedNo
- EPEAT QualifiedNo
Included
- Included SoftwareEvernote and more
- Blu-Ray PlayerNo
- Numeric KeypadYes
Warranty
- Manufacturer's Warranty - Parts1 year
- Manufacturer's Warranty - Labor1 year limited
Other
- UPC889349290477
Customer reviews
Rating 4.2 out of 5 stars with 1493 reviews
(1,493 customer reviews)to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Amazing to say the least
||Posted .Okay at first i brought one that was on sale for only 200, but then i had to return it due to problems and i asked the associate about this computer seeing as it had same amount of memory but a larger hard drive and i read alot of the reviews on this verses the one i previously brought and this one had the best reviews, it wasnt the same color i liked the other one due to the color but i came home with this laptop and its amazing, worth the price, it has so much room on the hard drive its worth the extra money and it works wonderfully, never overheats , its the best laptop i have ever owned
I would recommend this to a friendRated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Laptop
||Posted .I like this ASUS Laptop Model X540L. It does not get warm even it is on for a long period of use like my former laptop.
I would recommend this to a friendRated 4 out of 5 stars
Great laptop for a basic user
||Posted .Decent battery life. Good processing speed for a basic user.
I would recommend this to a friendRated 5 out of 5 stars
Great laptop for me
||Posted .The laptop is great and I'm really happy I decided on this one. I love taking pictures and this laptop holds them great. Love editing them with the photo apps.
I would recommend this to a friendRated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Machine, good price
||Posted .Good price ; It is a great machine. very quickly and with optimal image. I can cite the fact that it has 1 TB of disk space , which leaves useful for long.
I would recommend this to a friendRated 2 out of 5 stars
Fair product for little things
||Posted .Overall it's a fair laptop for checking email and paying bills. Tends to freeze a lot and run slow!
No, I would not recommend this to a friendRated 4 out of 5 stars
You get what you pay for.
Posted .So the short and simple of it all is that this laptop is built to a price point, and they absolutely nailed it. You get above average (for the price) specs, but the screen, battery, keyboard, touchpad, and enclosure are where the sacrifices are made. These are usually very important things, so you should reconsider if those things are more important to you than performance. For me, the sacrifice is well worth it. Overall I would recommend this to anyone needing mobile compute power on a very tight budget. 4 stars instead of 5 because UEFI lockdown and there is no documentation for the rebranded AMI BIOS. All testing was done with Linux, Windows was never booted. If I were a normal user it would be 5/5 easily. In this review I'll mostly touch on things that aren't easily found by searching the model number. First and foremost, the first one I received had a faulty fan. I had zero problems getting a replacement device the next day. Best Buy's customer service shined as usual with a hassle-free replacement. It made a slow ticking sound, had low air flow, and overheated during the initial setup. At this price point, QA will suffer, so be sure to fully evaluate it within the 15 day return policy otherwise you'll have to deal with Asus warranty (which is likewise good, just much slower than a simple return). The CPU is an Intel Core i3 5020U (5th gen). It has TWO physical cores, and has hyperthreading, which is where the advertising gets it's "four" cores from. This is a bit misleading, but only if you actually care. It is a great CPU for the price (a common theme with this device). This is a well documented CPU so you can find reviews elsewhere. Important to me is that it has the Intel virtualization extensions, which is unheard of at this price point. The GPU is an Intel HD 5500. It will play most any modern game on the lowest settings, and has hardware video decode. This is important for battery life. My experience with the GPU has been far better than prior Intel integrated chipsets. Like all integrated GPUs, it shares memory with the system, so you will only have ~3.5GB available to applications. Again, it is very good for the price. The battery gives me just over 3 hours of heavy pedal-to-the-metal use and reduced screen brightness. I'd say you would be lucky to get a full 4 hours of normal use out of it. This is to be expected at this price, and not a detractor. The hard drive is a Toshiba 1TB drive. Nothing special here, Toshiba makes good drives, but I would never specifically buy one as I trust other manufacturers more. It has a SD card reader along the front left edge which sits flush and out of the way. The headphone jack is a combined jack that will work with cell phone headphones/mics or with a very cheap adapter. Normal headphones work just fine. There is no line input. It has HDMI and VGA out, which is a bit strange to me. The Ethernet port is right next to the VGA port, and it gets blocked when the VGA port is in use. All of the I/O including power is on the left side of the device, with only the DVD drive on the right side. Nothing on the back (yay!). It has one USB2, one USB3, and one USB3 type C port. The power adapter is not grounded, and a bit on the short side. The networking is gigE, not 10/100 only as advertised (it's proper gigabit), and the wifi is 2.4GHz only, no 5GHz support. Realtek and Aetheros/Qualcomm respectively. The touchpad is an Elantech "clickpad". It has one actual button and depending on where your finger is when you click depends on whether it is a left or right click. I am unable to get a middle click event out of it. The biggest problem with this, in fact it is infuriating, is that when you click the cursor WILL move. It is possible to set "deadzones" so the cursor won't move, but it is fiddly. This is absolutely the worst part about this laptop. The screen is 1366x768, and the color depth is 6 bit (yikes, how low can you go). Model number is B156XTN04.5. The viewing angle is abysmal -- you won't be sharing a movie with a friend. It is glossy, and there's very little light leakage around the edges. Again, this is by far how Asus was able to put such a good CPU/GPU at this price. This is typical of budget laptops, and you won't see good screens until you're paying at least double this price. As of this writing the cheapest laptop with a good screen at Best Buy is around $800. Lastly we have the physical qualities of the laptop as a whole. The case provides no access to the HD, memory, or miniPCI slot. THE BATTERY IS NOT USER REPLACEABLE. I haven't taken it apart yet to see just how bad it is. The keyboard is flimsy all over, not enough to be annoying and cause typos, but enough to notice and need to adjust to. All of the keys are where you would expect them on the keyboard, the function keys are function keys and don't require you to push a button first. As mentioned before the touchpad is awful, so definitely beware of the learning curve unless you're used to "clickpad" style mice. The plastic enclosure itself is very flimsy and thin (TOO thin). I doubt this would survive a drop from the couch on to carpet. I doubt it would survive a full year of commuting, but I'm about to find out. The plastic has a bit of a texture to it and does not show fingerprints easily. Stuff like this is how they are able to sell such a good CPU/GPU combo for such a cheap price. Purchase price for me was $329.99, and I wouldn't pay a single dime more. You get what you pay for. In this case the sacrifices are worth it for me. It will Youtube, Factorio, and homework just fine. It will compile and develop just fine. It's a fantastic deal. Some pro tips for you fellow nerds: Hit escape to get the boot menu & BIOS, turn off secure boot & "fast boot", and enable "CSM" to allow booting from USB/DVD. The signing keys are a part of grub's shims so you can turn secure boot back on if you want or need to. This is also the only way to get access to Window's F8 boot options -- normal UEFI stuff. Out of the box Ubuntu's kernel will have all the hardware working perfectly, just add the open source Intel HD drivers if you want to game or want hardware video decode. Totally painless. The touchpad masquerades as a proper Synaptics touchpad, which causes driver problems. The ArchOS wiki has details on working around this. I haven't gotten around to ricing the kernel and still having a working touchpad, though.
I would recommend this to a friendRated 4 out of 5 stars
Pretty nice, for the price.
Posted .I'm a student in college and I needed to purchase a new laptop as my old Chromebook fell apart. I purchased this laptop for $300 over the weekend for me and my girlfriend primarily for study and work, however, it turns out this laptop is capable of a little bit more. It handles school work perfectly fine, and it's great for surfing the internet. I haven't tried yet but I'm confident it will handle Hulu, Netflix or any sort of streaming an average person would want. You can even run some light weight games on here such as Hearthstone, Counter-Strike on lower graphics settings, or classic (dated) games such as Morrowind quite nicely. While it's not a gaming laptop and can't run modern games, these small bonuses are appreciated by me, since I've had hand me down computers in the past that weren't capable of these things. The Intel i3 Processor and 4 GB of RAM should be able to handle most everyday business the average person could throw at it. Also, this computer comes with Windows 10, which is nice once you get used to it. Now, on to the physical aspect of things. The computer looks nice, I like the color and metal look to it, however it is plastic and it feels somewhat flimsy, I feel like it wouldn't be able to take any more than a few falls. On the left side of the base includes the standard fare of ports that you would see on the average laptop: USB, Ethernet, headphone jack. The keyboard is nice, the touch pad is okay, and the ASUS SmartGesture makes navigating pretty smooth. Speakers are pretty good, and the screen is nice with a 1366x738 resolution. As far as energy goes, the laptop charges fully in about an hour and a half, and has a battery life of about 2-4 hours depending on what you use it for. Overall, I'm pleased with my purchase, my girlfriend likes it too, but hasn't used it as much as I have. It fits my needs pretty well which are school work, studying and a little entertainment. It's a nice size, and looks good, but may lack portability in my opinion, due to size and fragility. I feel like this is a good laptop for the average person/student on a budget like myself. If you take good care of your things and are careful with what software you download, it should last a good 2-3 years or more depending on if you want to upgrade by then. Anyways, I hope someone found this helpful or useful. If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave a reply and I'll do my best to answer.
I would recommend this to a friend
Q: QuestionIs there a way to add a Bluetooth feature?
Asked by Kun.
- A:Answer The specs show that there is no Bluetooth, but it popped up several times & is in the hidden icons on the lower right-hand of the screen. I originally thought that it was something that was part of Windows 10 but not hardware that was included with this particular machine. Then, I decide to test it out and it worked. This machine does have Bluetooth!
Answered by Freightbug
Q: QuestionWhat is the battery Run Time because in specification it shows its 3 Cell
Asked by Neelesh.
- A:Answer Three cell refers to the size of the battery, the run time is determined by the specific applications you're running. In a typical configuration the ASUS 15.6" Laptop has 4-5 hours of battery life.
Answered by CommunityAnswer
Q: QuestionDoes it come with Windows 10
Asked by Maxi.
- A:Answer Come with Windows 10 home edition.
Answered by Ron2000
Q: QuestionDoes this have a SD card reader?
Asked by Anonymous.
- A:Answer There is an SD card reader on the bottom left side of the laptop. Thanks!
Answered by DerekBBY
Q: QuestionCan it play blu-ray?
Asked by A.C..
- A:Answer No, this laptop comes only with a CD/DVD drive.
Answered by CommunityAnswer
Q: QuestionDoes this laptop tend to get really hot or overheat? My previous laptop, if it got too hot it would shut off after only maybe 2 hours of use. Would this one do that?
Asked by Anonymous.
- A:Answer No its the best laptop i have ever owned so far and it never gets hot or overheats its amazing for the price
Answered by Bellaisbae99
Q: QuestionDose it have enough GBs for me to play games and do homework
Asked by Jason.
- A:Answer If you mean hard disk space, then yes. This laptop has a full terabyte of it. If you mean RAM (system memory), the it will also work, though not for highly intensive games.
Answered by Anonymous
Q: QuestionIs it touch screen?
Asked by Anonymous.
- A:Answer Asus - 15.6" Laptop - Intel Core i3 - 4GB Memory - 1TB Hard Drive - Silver is not a touch screen laptop.
Answered by MariahBBY