Customer Ratings & Reviews

very light weight ..great for basic emails and watching movies etc. was a good buy for the price so far no issues ..could be a little faster

I love this computer its very easy to use. Its a great size to carry. My kids can even use this. But it do needs to have more USB ports.

Very happy with this laptop. Not the fastest and not the best graphics but also not the most pricey. Overall very happy with the purchase

The reason I gave it 4 stars and not 5 is because the battery lifetime is not what I expected. Otherwise neat imaging and perfect speed.

Great for college assignments. Plenty of storage. I love the ability to watch dvd's as well. Must try and see for yourself. Great price match. Sleek design and texture. I love windows 10 that is now being used. My kids love it as well and can't stay off of it. Very good upload speed as well.

Great overall computer for the money. Very pleased with standard quality of this computer as compared to others in the same price range.

Good laptop at great price. Bought 2...one for my husband & one for myself. Has all the features we want. Hardest part was getting used to Win 10, but Microsoft insists on cramming it down our throats, wanted or not. Quality laptop, lots of storage, decent RAM, all at a very good price.

Great laptop- esp. for the price I paid. 4 GB memory and 1 TB of space. Fast boot up, ease of use with Windows 10, lots of space. Only downside is the power button as part of the keyboard. I've accidentally pressed it twice trying to 'pg down' as there is no scroll bar on touch pad.

the size of the memory and processor wasnt much more than the 500mb. have been very pleased so far. everything is running perfect with zero issues.

This is a nice basic laptop, I was looking for a laptop with the ten key number pad so thta was why I choose this one. After using it, I found the 10 key number pad to be smaller then a regular keyboard so it took me a while to get used to it. Also the keyboard feels a little tinny, like if I press to hard I could break it. But overall it served the purpose for what I need it for. I would say it is not a computer for everyday use. I only use it about 3 or 4 times per month and the rest of the time I use my iPad.

I have several employees that I need to have a laptop for. This one is perfect for the price and what they use it for. They use it mostly for email, Dropbox online software to complete tasks for work. It gets the job done.

This computer was a great deal and exceeded my expectations!

I needed a laptop exclusively for browsing purpose and the Asus was perfect for it. The 1 TB is an overkill but am not complaining.

I needed to purchase an affordable computer that could function for both work and home use. This product exceeded my expectations.

Great for the price. Performs as advertised. Only reason not 5 stars, wish the build was more sturdy, but it was just $269 on sale.

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 didn,t realize how outdated my Dell computer was. I am so, so happy that it took its final breath. I love the ASUS laptop. So many people bad mouthed windows 10 and I was afraid I wouldn't be happy with it. It's great!

I walked into Best Buy not knowing anything about computers and with just a few questions by the sales associate, she referred me to the Asus laptop computer. She gave me a few helpful hints to get me started and I haven't regretted my purchase once. I love my Asus laptop computer!

The only thing I don't like about this laptop is the lack of a replaceable battery - it is built in. I use this as a back-up computer in case my desktops in the office go down for some reason - I have all the Accounting, File-keeping, CRM, Password, Backup, Office and Email programs I use on the main desktop at my desk loaded onto this, and if (as it has several times in the past) the main desktop takes a dive, I have a computer that I can continue doing business on while I fix the desktop. Works well!

The laptop is good for the price. Overall performance is pretty good, not great. The keyboard feels pretty cheap, but for under $300, it is a good bargain. It will certainly get the job done. A word of warning: if you plan on upgrading the RAM, know that you have to completely disassemble the computer. There is no access to the RAM from outside the laptop. You have to first remove the keyboard, then the hard drive, cd rom drive, and motherboard. This was a real pain to do. My company purchased 15 these, and I spent 2 days taking them apart.