Customer Ratings & Reviews

I got this to replace an old 6th Gen I5 Inspiron that fell apart in my hands. Great little laptop, especially on sale, I picked this I3 laptop for Celeron money. Don't let the low storage or RAM dissuade you, 10 screws and a few sturdy clips and it opens up to an empty DIMM slot and a replaceable M.2 SSD. I grabbed an extra 16GB stick when I picked this up, and installation was a breeze with the stick automatically being recognized. It's built surprisingly well, it doesn't feel cheap and there's minimal flex in the body. The screen isn't the best, the viewing angles aren't great but it's bright enough and very clear, 1080P looks great on a small screen like this. The machine is very sleek looking overall, and the color is nice. It has 3 USB A ports, one USB C, and a full size HDMI port for a good amount of connectivity. Unfortunately no USB C charging, but I'll give it a pass. Overall I'm extremely happy with this laptop and it's performance, especially for the price.

Awesome laptop, light, powerful, easy to use, great and fast initial setup

Great laptop for those needing something affordable, fast (I rate the speed an 8.5/10) and small yet big. My only negative review is like everyone else-- battery life sucks. But if you keep your charger on you, you'll be perfectly fine!

An absolute steal for the price! Great for school work, office work, and slight gaming. I am able to run Sims 4 and Roblox pretty smoothly. Screen could be better, but at this price point it’s doable.

So, don't believe everything you read in PCWorld. Performance and construction are on par or marginally better than expected for the price. Sound system is average at best; I use an external BT speaker for enhanced sound. Case is attractive, but very prone to showing fingerprints. Battery life is terrible. Stay close to the wall outlet if you plan on using this notebook for more than a 2-3 hours. Something about this laptop seems to resist successful installation of Linux, which is really why I bought it. Wireless card from MediaTek may not be recognized by Linux distros, even with recent kernel versions. I replaced with an Intel based card--problem solved. (I wanted to use it as a test machine for Linux distros.) Still working on that. This notebook is easy to upgrade. Bottom cover pops off easily after removal of 10 screws. Have already upgraded storage to 500GB and memory to 24GB. Cost was still under $300 with those new parts. If you are sticking with Windows, you won't have to replace the wireless card as I did. All in all, this notebook is pretty nice after the improvements, but you will definitely want to do the upgrades. Even then, the battery life will still be a bummer.

So fast and I haven’t had issues the battery life is good I use it for school and I play games which is a plus ! Really fond quality was worth every penny

Pretty solid machine for basic tasks like O365, internet browsing, and streaming- especially for the low $200 range. Anything beyond that, even basic gaming, is going to be noticeably slow and choppy, and the fan is going to be pegged at 100%. Even under normal circumstances the fan is running but you can easily adjust the fan settings in the ASUS control panel. One interesting thing I've been noticing is that this is the only device that brings my Google Home mesh network to a crawl while it's trying to connect to a website for the first time after coming out of sleep mode. The laptop's WIFI card is noted as being a MediaTek Wi-Fi 6E MT7902 Wireless LAN Card and I'm connected to my network's 5Ghz band.

Runs fast for an i3. Works great if you buy on sale. I would recommend pushing the RAM from 8GB to 16GBs for better performance.

I needed a windows computer to run some video software and this inexpensive laptop came in to save the day. For the pricepoint it is very easy to use and set up and can handle all my basic tasks including using programs like Canva and Microsoft Office.

Great low end laptop! Can't beat the price for the quality, and the features are an added bonus. Battery life is outstanding and once you optimize the power settings to your needs, it runs super fast and smooth.

A very good computer that is also easy to use for children and students with little technology background. My daughter with special needs loves this laptop! The laptop is not too heavy to carry and the size of the screen is perfect even for a person with some vision problems.

Great laptop. Definitely perfect for watching streams, YouTube, movies, browsing, etc. Screen is good. Speakers are good. Keyboard is not bad (doesn’t light up). Battery is good. I got It for 229 which is crazy. I recommend this and this is coming from a gamer which a $5,000 gaming setup.

Nice, affordable computer. Easy to set up. Nice large clear screen.

For the black Friday sale price, it's an amazing deal. i3-1215u slightly beats that outdated Ryzen 5 7530u(Zen 2) they keep using in most $500 laptops. the 8GB/128GB is definitely too low for a 2024 laptop but for $12 for another 8GB 3200mhz DDR4 stick and $30 for a decent gen 3 512GB SSD it's unbeatable . The two complaints would be battery(somehow 4hrs on balanced) and TN non IPS screen. But for the price I paid for a fast 16GB 512GB laptop really can't complain.

Computer was great out of the box, handled all tasks that I needed with no issue. I did upgrade the 8 GB of RAM that is included by adding a 16 GB course air vengeance 3200 ram module which increase the ram to 24 GB which is the maximum for this particular laptop, and I also upgraded the 128 GB hard drive to a 1 TB crucial hard drive. The ram just helps because I personally tend to run many apps at once, and since I make high-def videos I need more internal storage space hence the upgraded ssd drive. Nice to see the laptop that has easily upgraded ram for the novice laptop owner, same with the SSD upgradeability. Many laptops either don't give the option to upgrade or make it where you almost need to be a computer technician to be able to get to the components, props to Asus for allowing us easy access to change these.

Great computer at a great price. I like the larger keys and the quick response from an i-3 processor and 8 mb of RAM. Thanks!! I do recommend the item as I bought if for my relative. I am a long time Best Buy consumer.

Really good laptop when you can get it on sale for $230. Upgradable RAM for a total of 24GB and upgradeable the NVMe drive to any storage you want. Really fast. Only cons are the screen and battery life.

Great cheap, light computer that can tackle most common people's task even with the original specs. However I put 16 GBs of RAM more so now it has 24 and replaced the SSD by crucial 500 GB. Looks cheap but really practical and runs well. Things to improve but that if don't bother you, there is no issue at all. Screen not that bright, looks cheap and music sounds terrible. Bottom line if you get it in a good deal like I did ~$200 dollars, more than recommended with Intel 12th generation processor which means it has efficiency cores therefore the battery is not great but OK if you choose the right power mode.

I bought because i needed an affordable and easy to handle a f that delivered. The fan noise is loud and the keypad sometimes turned the numbers on but it's nothing that it can't be easily fixed

Shockingly fast for a very low powered device. RAM is upgradable. If you don't want to pay a lot but want office/browser type tasks to move quickly, this will do the job well.