ASUS Vivobook Laptop computer, 14″ FHD Show, i3-1215U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Wi-Fi 6, HDMI, Webcam, Touchpad, Home windows 11 House, Blue

Glad I bought this.
I like this laptop very much. It was priced very affordably and without sacrificing performance. I really like the size of the computer’s keys as they are larger and easier to see and press since I have big wide fingers and sometimes with keyboards my finger can hit more than one button. I also like the built in camera eye shield. It gives you a sense of security knowing that no one is watching you through your camera. The air flow is also good because I can be on the computer for hours and it doesn’t overheat. I would buy it again if I had to.

Vivobook model X1404ZA. Blue.
This review is for the Vizio book 14 inch, with the i3 processor and 16gb of ram.The model per the computer is x1404za. It’s not listed on Amazon but that’s what it is.First this has pretty good hardware for the price of ~$300. The processor is about 4x better than the i7 in my old (10 years) laptop. The ram is fast. DDR4 3200 Mt/s which is very good and not listed so figured I’d let yall know.On task Manager it says it has Intel 8gb GPU. But I do not think this laptop has a dedicated GPU. So this might be a semi -lie. Basically it’s a software that converts the CPU processor into GPU functions. But that’s not the same as a dedicated GPU. Intel doesn’t make GPUs anyhow.It’s not a gaming laptop (regardless of the 8gb GPU listed) and I don’t plan to even try to run games from it. It’s probably going to be perfect though for viewing videos or anything like that.It’s a work laptop for me so as long as I can do zoom, PowerPoints, and some stats software, it’s prefect.The laptop is light weight which will be nice considering I pack it around daily.Additionally the housing is aesthetic. I also really like the number pad option.The screen seems pretty good. I have a 4k TV and looking back and forth, the laptop screen seems about the same quality and resolution even though technically, it’s not. But it does look good.Be sure to do all the updates and bios updates when you get it. You will need a Microsoft email to set up Windows. That’s how Windows works since a few versions back. Hotmail email works fine.It didn’t come with a bunch of bloatware, for once! I appreciate that. Nothing like spending hours removing junk from a brand new PC. Glad they stopped doing that nonsense.Overall , had it a week. Works great. No complaints.

Several complaints
I have encountered several problems and I don’t know if that was me or windows 11 or the laptop itself or all three combined.I have avoided upgrading to windows 11 until now, so I am still not used to it. In short, my problems may be caused by windows 11 as well.The Biggest problems I have are:1 The fan sometimes started to run when the memory was only used at 30%. The bottom of the laptop became really hot. The fan could work really hard and loud all the time and the web pages started to open slow. This could happen even when I only had 6 web pages opened. I didn’t play games. I installed very few apps.2 Sometimes it struggled to open apps like pdf, zoom and Line. Not always, but frequent enough to annoy me.3 The webpage could become unresponsive. For example, When I wanted to change the color on a Yahoo Finance’s chart. It failed. I saw the cursor, the color options, I clicked it and nothing happened. The screen is just unresponsive.4 Asus’s screen is clear, but when i switched to look at my Acer IPS screen. I found it felt much better. Asus’s night light color saturation is also worse than Acer.5 When I tried to return this laptop due to the above problems, I found out Amazon only offers 2 Amazon stores for drop-off which are about a 30 min drive away from home. If I need to drive to other cities to return, I don’t consider it a free return. Why for something worth 30 dollars, Amazon gives you return labels for free shipping or lets you return to your nationhood Kohl’s, but not for a much expensive computer?

Beware number pad
I don’t like reviews that score a product low because it has a feature or lacks a feature that the purchaser could have noticed before buying the product. However, in this case I feel justified because the product pictures on this page do NOT show that the trackpad is written all over to make it look like a number pad. I hate that because I never use the number pad on a keyboard, and I hate having all those numbers right in my face all day. I also hate that it takes some research to figure out how to turn it off permanently so you don’t keep turning it on by mistake with a button RIGHT ON THE NUMBER PAD!! As a side note, I don’t actually know people who use the number pad on their laptop, but for those who do, I imagine that having it painted on the touchpad is not the same as using a real number pad because you can’t feel where the keys are — like using the on-screen keyboard with an iPad.I feel like so often companies make these changes to basic functionality (moving around the ctrl key, moving around the pg up, pg down keys, messing with the touchpad) thinking they are being clever. It make me want to ask: Do you actually USE a computer much?Returno.