ASUS VivoBook S15 S533 Thin and Light Laptop, 15.6” FHD Display, Intel Core i7-1165G7 CPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB PCIe SSD, Fingerprint Reader, Wi-Fi 6, Windows 10 Home, Indie Black, S533EA-DH74

Summary: Great computer, great value.

Wonderful for my needs

Powerful computer,

I was excited to get this computer on Prime Day. I got a great deal and thought it was well worth the price. I read a lot of reviews and that all seemed great. When I got the computer and turn it on there was nothing - just a blank screen. I did a hard reset, but still nothing. I hooked up an external monitor and found that the computer was on and set at the initial get-started screen. When I clicked Enter, to see if it was operational, nothing!

I have been building and buying computers for years, I mainly used desktops because of the work I do, mostly engineering programs and it was much cheaper for me to build a powerful desktop with the graphics I needed then buy a laptop. I bought my wife a Asus laptop for her birthday 8 years ago (I7 with touch screen) I was impressed and bought a few more a year or two later for our CNC programmers to use on the floor. My wife still uses hers and it still performs pretty damn good. So l bought this one for myself. I am not extremely impressed but not really disappointed. It boots up in less then 10 seconds from off to desktop, so that is decent. Everything seems to operate at reasonable speed, I could do without the bloat ware. I just expected a little more lightning speed in a computer. Battery life, not measured but seems a little short, screen seems adequate.

I held out a long time before landing on this laptop--kept bouncing between HP and Dell models until this showed up quite unexpectedly and then got snatched up quickly. I jumped on it at a very attractive price for the infrastructure I wanted that this had: latest I7 chip, 16 GB RAM, 512 SSD. Plus I wanted as many USB ports as possible along with a Thunderbolt port; never could find an HP (my previous laptops brand) or Dell with the right mix. A really nice plus is the function key that can deactivate the touch pad--I use a mouse and sometimes accidentally hitting the touch pad can be a problem. Finally, I liked the Indie Black color. Im not a gamer so cant comment on how this model handles those requirements.

I have found that this system is mainly for web, and small type of work. It has very limited option to upgrade, the way the memory is used is different from standard units. My model has 16gm Ram but only 9gb usable as RAM the other is for virtual memory, with a pagefile size of less than 3GB. The RAM is soldered! No upgrade, period. It is using some of the ram as virtual. Which somehow gives some fast operation. I replaced de 500GB M.2 for a 1TB. It can use up to 2TB. that is the only upgrade that can be installed. From Windows 11 system info I get the following related to memory usage and configuration. Also RAM memory is shared with the video display.

Screen was flickering from the very first moment I opened the laptop. I had to return it right away, simply unacceptable to get a product with such a problem.

Muy buena computadora y gran procesamiento.

This unit failed out of the box and would not power up. It was returned with all original packaging and items but Gimme a Hug claims the accessories were missing. They kept 19% for a dead PC.