Overall Review: It looks nice. It froze the second time I logged on. It went to a black screen. I rebooted several times. I couldn't get into the settings at all. Asus customer service is offline and only self-help is available. It had trouble connecting to wifi straight out of the box. Unfortunately, I didn't open it for several weeks with all the pandemic issues. Now, I'm not sure I can return it.

Pros: Lightweight, sturdy, perfect for travel. Very fast.

Overall Review: Excellent laptop. Lightweight laptop and charges so it is great for travel. Boots in in a few seconds. Very good looking, too.

Pros: - Solid build and feels like a well made device with a nice keyboard
- Quiet operations although I am not a gamer and typically just use Microsoft products on the device
- Fast boot times and excellent performance so far after 1 month of daily use, I was hesitant on Ryzen as I'm a long time intel user, but I've been very happy so far

Cons: - I find the keyboard hard to read at times in low light settings with screen at certain angles due to glare, the keys need more contrast and darker writing (I have the silver model), this may not be an issue on the black/dark blue keyboard

Overall Review: I would recommend this to a friend for sure (and I have). I would definitely buy this again for the form factor, weight, solid build, and price point. I am very happy with this purchase.

Pros: Booting is super fast
Fast overall
Relatively light

Cons: Screen is short and wide

Overall Review: I would buy this again

Pros: CPU and GPU awesome
Lightweight
Sound Quality Harmon Kardon

Cons: Keyboard backlighting is slightly disruptive...some keys clear some keys are not, at same angle

Overall Review: Love it takes some getting used to if you have been dragging around a heavy 15-17in dell or hp. Think of it as a tablet on steroids. And the fan has yet to be heard!

Pros: I've been looking at laptops for awhile. I looked at the MS Surface Pro and others. I didn't want to spend a lot of money but I still wanted something that was close to my desktop in power and storage (Win 10 Pro, 16 GB memory, at least 512GB SSD HD). That seemed to be a tall order until I discovered this laptop. It has everything I wanted and the price was right. It's fast and quiet. I thought I'd have problems with the 14" screen, but it's working out very well. OK, I have to wear my readers when I use it (not a kid anymore), but for what I got, I can't complain. It's also very light, which is great for moving about. I'm almost using it more than my desktop.

Cons: I had an issue powering it up the first time - took me a while to figure it out. I had to hold the power button down to get it to come on. After that, I had no problems. I also miss the ethernet port, but I can always get a converter if that becomes necessary later on.

Overall Review: This laptop is just right for me. I'm very happy with my purchase.

Pros: -Lightweight
-Stylish appearance and good build quality (as good as you can get without going full metal - minimal flex on screen and no flex on body)
-Good temperatures (i.e. no overheating, fan not too noisy when it ramps up)
-Fantastic performance for the cost (8 cores, 16GB DDR3 ram, big and fast SSD)

Cons: -No option for higher quality screen, although this is not necessarily a con as a nicer screen would increase cost! 1080p screen is nice and very bright.

Overall Review: I am a graduate student in the quantitative social sciences. My workflow includes heavy internet traffic, data analysis on medium-sized dataset (think 30-200 variables, 3k-50k rows), GIS (QGIS, ArcMap, etc.), TeX platforms, and light software development. I am incredibly satisfied with the product. I was debating between the 14 inch and the 13 inch - glad I went with the 14 inch as you get the full sized keyboard (there were some complaints that the 13 inch keyboard was squeezed or too compact). Light gaming (DOTA, LOL) is possible but only on lowest settings, so it keeps you focused on work!

All in all, I think it is hard to beat the quality and performance at this price for an ultrabook.

Pros: Overall this is a this is a great laptop.

It has sleek design, wide touchpad, and I love the thin bezel on the screen. The screen size and resolution are nice. This has a matte finish screen rather than glass, which greatly minimizes reflections. I’m running at 1920x1080, scaled 125%.
The Ryzen processor runs great with the 4 cores/8 logical, I love the performance compared to an older i7 2.5Ghz laptop i’ve had.
This has a 1Tb Samsung HDD PCIE, 16 GB DDR4 Memory.
Memory Speed is running at 2400Mghz (while plugged in and high performance power setting)
SSD Sequential Read Time 1125MB/s, write: 1071MB/s

Battery is good, on general usage it lasted quite a while roughly 5/6 hours on medium power settings with constant usage. If playing a game or something a little more intense it will certainly drain a little faster, however that is normal on all systems.

The Touchpad is nice, it is a larger touchpad and for the most part I don’t really notice issues with palm rest. (which has been an issue on older systems in the past.) This touchpad does NOT have the ASUS 5-Key touchpad… that would be a nice add to this laptop, though I can’t say how well it would work. The touchpad does support multi-finger actions which have been pleasant and responsive.


I like the keyboard. The back-light on the keys is adjustable with three settings (basically a low, Med, High). The low setting in certain lighting can make the keys a little hard to see. Overall Keys are responsive, but do have a just a little bit of travel in pressing them.

You do have to be mindful of where the power button is if you are accustomed to your delete key being in the very top right. Takes a little getting used to, but after a bit it hasn’t been a problem. I actually like the fact that the power button is not on the side of the chassis as in some other devices, less likely to power on/off when transporting.

The ports included are a decent mix given the size of the laptop, a full HDMI, 2 USB, USB C, Micro SD card port. This also has Bluetooth.

This sound is ok… not breaking any records. I generally use headphones most of the time, so it is not a big deal to me. Those that are picky about sound quality will probably want to use external speakers when possible. (typical for most laptops in my experience)

The Power Cord is small with an adapter that runs parallel with the two prongs that plug into the wall. This does not require the ground port. The adapter doesn’t take up multiple ports if you plug it in the bottom plug in the wall, however it may take cover additional port on a power strip depending on the direction of the ports.

Overall Review: Overall, I don’t really have any complaints and have really enjoyed this laptop.