ASUS Vivobook 15 X1504ZA 15.6" Full HD Laptop (Intel i7-1255U, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Backlit Keyboard, Wi-Fi 6E, Windows 11)

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.

As one would expect from Asus this is a capable, well designed machine. An aluminium cased option would be even better and worth paying more for, my previous Asus is aluminium cased and has stood the test of time, the only reason I have upgraded at all is that recent software updates have rendered it obsolete for the purposes I require it for.Upgrading the RAM is simple, it will support 40gb easily enough after a straightforward BIOS update, I swapped the 8gb stick for a 32gb by Crucial (make sure to get the correct spec, it's important) and it improved its performance dramatically. It will also be receiving a storage capacity upgrade once I work out the best option, the 500gb provided is adequate for most users I would imagine but I would be happier with a minimum of 1tb onboard storage, like most modern laptops there aren't many ports available so external drives aren't ideal (I use it for live music performance and DJing which requires wired connections to controllers and professional sound card modules).

So far so good. This review is for the Asus Vivobook15x1504VA (silver) with i5 processor and 16gb Ram. It's well built. Internal speakers are ok but sound is better through headphones or external speakers. It's fast enough for most everyday tasks - but I had to set to High Power Plan for it to be working at max CPU instead of the 'energy efficient' setting which it installs with. It comes with Windows 11 which I didn't want (because of some of its quirky features) but nevertheless it sets up easy enough and I'm now learning to live with those quirky features. Battery life seems pretty good. The reason for only 4 stars is that the viewing angle of the screen is quite limited so as to view with best brightness and contrast and I also wish that there was the ability to increase the contrast as there seems to be only the facility to adjust the brightness. I also wish it came with a backlit keyboard but finding a laptop with this spec and at this price with such a keyboard is impossible. The keyboard itself feels nice to type on and its nice to have the separate numeric keypad. All-in-all I like it and the price was right when I bought it (and even happier that I could spread the payments over five months, interest free, through Amazon.

This was to replace a laptop I bought second hand several years ago but have spent multiple times a day cursing as it was sooooo slow. I don’t game but I do use a lot of fairly sizeable spreadsheets to organise my life. It was painful! This ASUS is so fast I rarely have time to blink. The keyboard and mouse are good too but I use separate ones for 99% of the time. This item was the spec I didn’t think I could afford.I would say that some may find the screen a bit small but this is set up on a desk and is the same screen size as the previous one which was ideal for me. It looks a lot smaller as the ‘frame’ is much narrower and it’s so thin. Weighs very little.Windows 11 takes a bit of getting used to but then so did the system on the previous one. The set up was easy but a friend did help copying all my ‘stuff’ over. Like moving home it’s time to clear the attic out. Painful to see how much rubbish and duplication I have on there.This is WiFi only and we set the printer option to WiFi which means a lot less cabling. There seems to be a lot more ports too so I can probably get rid of of the multi socket thing I’ve got for the separate keyboard and mouse. Hopefully this will outlast me!The colours are amazing so this may become my device of choice for tv catch up and not my mini iPad or my aging tv.

Very pleased with the overall appearance of this “renewed” laptop. It looked as if it had been taken out of packaging and put back, no marks or scratches. It was running Windows 11 with most of the updates done, but reset to new user so no problems there. I was beginning to think it may not of been switched on but on registering the warranty I got the “This product has already been registered” as I expected this it no real problem as I am covered by the Amazon warranty.The speed of the machine is super quick with a really good quality feel to it, the only criticism of case is that it does finger mark easily (quick wipe and there gone) can make it look grubby. Graphics are sharp and fast along with the sound card that has good stereo separation makes movies entertaining. Haven’t used it for gaming yet so can’t comment yet but if it lives up to the movies it should be good.Overall an excellent buy especially with over £100 savings on paying for a brand new version. Would always recommend having a look at Amazon renewed deals, they are so well worth it. And don’t forget you can always return within 30 if it doesn’t live up to expectations.