ASUS VivoBook F512 Thin and Lightweight Laptop, 15.6” FHD WideView NanoEdge , AMD R5-3500U CPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Backlit KB, Fingerprint Reader, Windows 10, Peacock Blue, F512DA-EB51

This laptop performs pretty pleasantly, is nicely designed, and has some good features, but that is all unimportant with a sub-par, poorly designed cooling system. The heat pipes do not even make contact with the fan, which, instead of blowing the heat from the pipes out of an exhaust port, is instead pointed across the pipes, and not directed toward any exhaust at all. This is no secret, either - plenty of comments have been made about it, and its easy to find a teardown that shows this asinine engineering. Because of this, the fan will run quite often under any remotely demanding workload (that it CAN handle, just not without getting hot), and the fan is not super quiet either, so noise levels are abysmal.

Whoever designed the keyboard layout does not use a computer. There is no button to turn on/off Wi-Fi radio. There is no indication that the numlock is on or off. The fan is underneath, so if you are using it on your bed for instance it will get hot. Besides the quirky keyboard layout, overall performance is good.

La descripción está mal, solo trae un ssd de 256gb no trae el hdd de 1tb como dice.

Big problem: NO HDMI 2.0+

I’m not sure what everyone is complaining about, the screen view is perfectly clear from a wide angle, the battery does good, lasting me about 4 hours with normal use, and I haven’t had any slow issues. In fact, it is one of the smoothest laptops I have worked on.

I got this computer specifically for the compact size and for teaching online. It works well for both. There is notEthernet port but I can work around that.

This laptop was purchased Sep 1, 202 for my daughter whose previous, old laptop had died. With the pandemic, she needed a laptop to attend online school. The laptop worked great for the first two months, then one day just wouldnt boot up. Dead as a doornail. I contacted ASUS Customer Support and they issued an RMA for it. Got it back two weeks later, and it worked fine until Dec 11, 2020. She brought it out to me and showed me the laptop. The LCD display was pulling away from the frame! (see the picture). I called ASUS Customer Support and told the first person I wanted to speak to a manager, not her. A supposed manager called me back a day later. I explained I wanted a new laptop, not this one repaired. I did talk to a Lamar U. who told me I would be getting an email about a new laptop or a substitute if that model wasnt available. This morning I got an email from Tevon B. telling me ASUS in the S doesnt send new laptops, only RMA/repairs. I looed online, and sure enough the US Lemon Law applies to computers, so I replied with that information.

Me llego en mal estado se apagaba sola, materiales externos pésima calidad

Does all I expected and more.

Nothing can make you feel like a relic from the past faster than trying to learn to use these sleek new laptops after having been a desktop model only nerd for too many years. My fingers are too clunky, the keys are definitely not where I expected to find them, and the backspace key is my new best friend. Actually, I never thought Id cross over to a laptop at all because they were too compressed and I am way to old to want to tackle muscle memory lessons on where to find the keys.