Asus VivoBook 15 vs LG Gram 17

If you are even thinking about gaming, the answer is no. Seeing as this laptop has such limited uses with the horrible screen and speakers, I cannot give this laptop a better review that 3 stars. It's only purpose is to view webpages and basic coffee-shop work.

You are of course going to get much better performance from something like this, although of course you are compromising on it being thicker and heavi...

bang for Buck and don't need the 450M because of the dual channel 16 gigs of 3200 memory.

I like the weight and intent of this laptop, but the compromises are unacceptable, especially for the price. Laptop paint also chipped first day of light use.

* Asus Vivobook 15 (R5 5500U) - the battery is smaller than the Aspire at 42Wh, but maybe that would be offset by better power efficiency of the 5500U, however its port selection is not that great and I've heard that the quality of vivobooks is not that great. * Lenovo Thinkbook 15 Gen 2 (R5 4500U) - it has the weakest CPU in this list, but paired with a 45Wh battery I feel like the battery life should be decent.

The speaker is terrible at high volumes and sometimes cause the whole machine to vibrate. What I love about this machine is the battery life, it last all day without having to recharge and that I can charge it from a PD power bank, which is another plus. Overall if you are looking for a 17" laptop for travel, this is perfect

ASUS F512DA-EB51 VivoBook 15 Thin and Light Laptop, 15.6” Full HD, AMD Quad Core R5-3500U CPU, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB PCIe SSD, AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics, Windows 10 Home, Slate Gray. Standing screen display size15.6 InchesScreen Resolution1920 x 1080Max Screen Resolution1920 x 1080 PixelsProcessor3

They chose an unorthodox but genius resolution of 2560x1600 ( used to be what'd come on those big Dell 30" super expensive monitors which was the highest resolution you could get on a PC monitor for many years ). It's a 16:10 aspect ratio, which you never knew you needed, but once you try it and can see so much more content without scrolling it'll be hard to ever love a 16:9 laptop again. Move your taskbar to the left side of the screen and voila, you have a semi-desktop-like web browsing experience.

The overall size is great, it's very small for a 15.6 laptop. I like the way the plastics look, very high quality. The keyboard is back lit which is nice

I wish it was a bit bigger, there was room for this.The other issue is by default the laptop is set to too aggressively throttle in software and requires tweaking.Other than that fantastic all around, 2 nvme slots, 1 upgradable ram slot, lots of IO.

4. One of the main things I like about this computer is that it is light weight especially at the price, your getting a relatively light weight computer with a fairly standard size keyboard and screen without paying Apple prices. Cons: 1

4.7 pounds is pretty normal for gaming and workstation laptops at 15 - 17 inches. I think a large M1 laptop at half that weight would be very nice, see the LG Gram 17 for instance.