The Asus VivoBook is an affordable multimedia laptop with a sharp 17-inch display, semi-passive cooling of the CPU, and good speakers. But is this sufficient to stand up to the competitors? Our test evaluates the performance, volume, battery live, keyboard, and quality of the laptop.
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No ethernet... that is enough to not even be in consideration.
Have the VivoBook X712JA_X712JA 1TB SSD 16GB Ram Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 1498 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Overall good choice if you don't want a touch screen. The keys don't have back lighting and be hard to see at times (glad I can type). The Lettering on the keys are wearing off.
Beyond that, this was worth buying at the sales price.
I bought the version with Ryzen 5500U, in general it is a good computer for the price. However, I have never seen a keyboard with worse paint quality, I have several keys with light holes where the text was. In less than a year, it is unacceptable and impossible to sell to someone else.