ASUS VivoBook F510UA 15.6” Full HD Nanoedge Laptop, Intel Core i5-8250U Processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB HDD, USB-C, Fingerprint, Windows 10 Home - F510UA-AH51, Star Gray

For the price I paid, this laptop cant be beat. I applied for an Amazon Store Card while purchasing, which gave me a $40 instant credit, further knocking down the price. This laptop is small and thin for a 15.6" screen (fits in my 14" laptop sleeve), very light (only 3.7 lbs), and fast (8th gen i5 and 8 GB RAM). As others have said, the only downside is the slow 5400 RPM 1 TB hard drive. As far as that goes, I have a trick to get around it if youre planning to install an SSD. Alternatively, I also have advice if youre planning to stick with the included hard drive. Here it goes. If youre planning to upgrade to an SSD drive and already have the SSD drive in hand, then do this to avoid the slow hard drive headaches: 1. Boot up the new laptop for the 1st time. 2. While activating Windows, DO NOT connect to your WiFi. 3. After Windows fully starts up, install disk cloning software (Macrium Reflect, Acronis, etc.) from a USB flash drive. You cant download the disk cloning software because you are not connected to WiFi. 4. Shut down the laptop, open it up, and install your SSD drive. 5. Turn on the laptop again. Use the disk cloning software to clone the hard drive onto your SSD drive. 6. Turn off the laptop. At this point you have a choice. You can either boot into the BIOS to set your new SSD drive as the default boot drive while keeping the old hard drive installed, or you can just remove the old hard drive to force the laptop to boot off the new SSD. 7. Turn on the laptop and admire how awesomely fast it starts up from the lightning quick SSD! :-) 8. Now you can finally connect to your WiFi network and let Windows download and install all its updates and security patches. The reason I recommend doing this is because you dont want to let Windows try to download and install hundreds of MBs of updates and patches while running off the dog slow 1 TB hard drive. That would take a very long, long time. And the slow hard drive will be at 100% disk utilization for hours or days while its trying to download and install all these Windows updates. As other people have said, the laptop will seem to freeze and be unresponsive during this time. But by upgrading to an SSD drive BEFORE letting the laptop download and install Windows updates, the fast SSD will make this process go A LOT FASTER. And my tip for those people who dont plan to install an SSD drive and just keep using the included 1 TB hard drive: 1. After booting up the laptop for the 1st time, activate Windows, and connect to your WiFi. 2. Then leave the laptop on for a day or two and dont try to use it. Why? Because people have said it can take up to 2 days for the laptop to download and install all the Windows updates. Trying to use it during this time, with the hard drive utilization pegged at 100%, would be a exercise in frustration. 3. Then finally, after all the Windows updates have been downloaded and installed, reboot the laptop and use it as you wish. The laptop should be fairly speedy now after the initial slowness from the updates. Enjoy!

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This is an excellent product once you add a solid state drive. I would recommend this one: Crucial MX300 275GB SATA M.2 (2280) Internal Solid State Drive - CT275MX300SSD4 Some tips: ~When you go to add it, make sure you remove all twelve screws on the backside. There are two underneath the screen side feet. There is one screw that is significantly longer than the others. There are two exceptionally small screws, remember where they go. ~Use a guitar pick or thin putty knife to disengage each of the clips holding the case together. You want to use some force but not too much force (where youd break the clips). Do not use anything metal. ~To disengage the clips I would recommend moving left to right. ~The Crucial hard drive comes with a link to download a licensed version of Acronis True Image, which lets you clone the spinning drive to the SSD. It should also change your bios to boot to the SSD. ~Format the spinning drive after your cloning is successful.

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Best laptop you can get for the price. Any laptops with everything this has will cost between 650-750 dollars and they wont even have all that this laptop has to offer, first Im an IT I work on computers daily so getting an Asus (top 3 consumer laptop brand) at this price with these specs is all you need to know to buy it. This laptop has a 15.6 inch Full HD (1920x1080) display, yet fits in a 14 inch laptop sleeve, that in itself is awesome. The 8th gen core i5-8250u is a blazing fast SoC. Compared to last years core i5-7200u, the 8250u has 4 cores/8 threads instead of 2 cores/4 threads and its overall 56 percent faster. Ill let numbers speak for themselves, on Geekbench 4.2 this laptop scores 4000 on single core, 12,200 on multi core, and over 17,000 on computational using openCL. For those of you that have dont know what Im talking about, Ill make it easy to understand, IT"S FAST! The display is brilliant, has the whitest whites and the blackest blacks, contrast is excellent and the colors are outstanding. This computer will also play all but the newest games on Full HD with ultra settings, this is something that you might find contrary to what some reviews have said about the core-i5-8250u, but it really does game great. The fingerprint scanner is something you rarely find on sub 1,000 dollar laptops and this one works perfectly turn it on, it boots up extremely fast at the login screen just press your finger to the reader which is on the top right of the trackpad and when it tells you hello your logged in. All in all from an ITs prospective this is the best dang laptop your going to find at this price and even above it, did I mention you can even add a second M.2 sata III ssd and it will using an Intel technology will see the HDD and the ssd as 1 drive and move all your most used content to the ssd for fast access and use the HDD for basic storage. I dont see the need to because it already boots dang near as fast as a lot of laptops with ssds but that would speed it up even more. My only single complaint about this computer doesnt bother me much but it will bother regular users of this laptop and thats the fact that you have to take off the entire bottom of the laptop to access the HDD, to add the M.2 sata III ssd, and to add ram, this includes taking off the two back rubber feet to access screws under them. Dont let that get you down though its really not hard and the rubber feet just stick back on.

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Not sure why the guy gave a 1 star when he hasnt even purchased one, but got mine today. It does have an IPS screen, battery life is going strong, and no touch pad issues. For $499, you cant beat it. Its fast for what it is, will pop in a small SSD for the OS at some point possibly, but in no rush as its not given me any lag or issues yet at all. Highly recommend, cant beat the price! **PS the color in the photos is darker than it is in reality due to crappy lighting, so again pay no attention to Bob with his 1 star review on a laptop he doesn’t own. I added another photo with some better lighting. It is a grey laptop, not black **

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Definitely a steal at the price i bought this for. Initial impression is that this thing is super light, almost 1/2 the weight of my Asus ux501vw but with the same screen dimensions. Hard drive is slow and definitely needs to be replaced by an SSD. I Bought an M2 gen 3 SSD, but it does not fit, appears that this is NVME. Also, popped off the back cover and added a 16gb stick in the empty slot. My guess is that this can handle 32gb, which makes it such a steal. keyboard feels firm and no flex, screen is nice for the price range. Battery life doesnt seem to be more than 5 hours, but i expected that going in. Battery charger is super tiny and lightweight, which is an additional advantage vs the 1 lb brick that you have to lug around with the ux501vw. Word of warning, the back cover is a PITA to take off, almost breaks the warranty on how difficult it was to remove. Edit: it definitely supports 32gb ram as that is what i installed last night and it is running just fine. also the m2 slot is nvme, i just ordered one as my m2 gen3 ssd did not work due to the connector. if i can figure out how to post pics, i will do that shortly. This is a great deal!

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Used as bought, it is an OK laptop, but not great (probably a 3 star value). Most of the laptop is actually very good, but is held back by a 5400 rpm HDD. Not only is it a HDD, but its a slow one. Other than that its components are actually very good. I bought the laptop but also bought an SSD and some extra RAM, and the difference is night and day. Once the new SSD was set as the system disk, and the extra RAM was in place, you get a laptop that compares favorably with others worth two, three, or four times as much (with the exception of the graphics card, which is OK for regular use and light gaming, but will struggle with graphics intensive stuff). I used: WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s M.2 2280 Solid State Drive - WDS500G2B0B Crucial 8GB Single DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) DR x8 Unbuffered SODIMM 260-Pin Memory - CT8G4SFD824A reimage the HDD onto the SSD and youre set. The downsides? - Keyboard isnt back-lit - You get Windows Home instead of Pro - No ethernet port (Not that Ive used or needed one that I can recall) - No CD/DVD reader (but who uses them nowadays anyway) - You need to put your own AV solution in place (I do that anyway, so its not a problem for me) - You have to do some tinkering to put it all together (I consider this an advantage, but thats just me) The only real downsides are keyboard not being back-lit and it coming with Windows Home. For a premium laptop those are expected... for a 500 dollar laptop? I bought it two weeks ago and am still laughing myself to sleep over the purchase. To all the low review writers for this product I would like to say THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THE PRICE DOWN!

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Amazing Computer, but YOU NEED THE SSD (m.2 SATA 3), It went from 2 min to turn on to 14 sec. Cons: No backlight Keyboard, not light indicator on the CapsLk key, Power button too close to "Delete" key. Pros: The computer is amazing, lightweight, slim design, Beautiful Screen, Great Battery life and really powerful. And one of the best things is super upgrade friendly. You can add M.2 SSD and RAM memory without having to take anything away, NOT EVEN YOUR 1 Year Warranty!!!! First of all, About , THE WARRANTY: As you can see in the picture, I contacted ASUS Customer Service myself, and asked if adding RAM or the SSD would void the warranty, and even confirmed saying "If I open it (the computer) and add the SSD myself"; they confirmed you still have warranty, BUT ONE THING, they also said that the only thing that, in this case, would void the warranty is IF YOU DAMAGE THE COMPUTER in the process. But honestly is not that easy to damage it, as long as you dont try to open it with a Hammer and a chisel is gonna be fine. Its delicate, but not a little baby. So if you want to Upgrade the SSD or RAM, here is how: I have read a LOT of reviews online and here on Amazon saying that "is a pain to open" or " easy to break" but its not true, Ive opened it 5 times, I do it in less than 2 min, and nothing has broken. so here is how: 1.- There are 12 screws, 10 visible (silver color) and 2 underneath the black sticked rubber pads, (the screws are also Black). The rubber pads can be taken out with a flat Screwdriver, just be careful not to puncture them. The glue is good quality, so it will stick back, not need to worry. Once the 12 screws are out 2.- Insert a card or if you have a pry tool, just a little bit, only about 5mm, into the back of the laptop, by the vents. First work your way right and left of the center, youll hear when the lock pop out, and slide along the edges until you worked your way all around. 3.- The cover comes out STRAIGHT UP, no to any side. 4.- Add the Upgrade: 4.1. For the Ram, just slid it in and push it down there is not tricky part or lock. 4.2.1 For the M.2 SATA SSD, insert it upside down, be sure the 6 pin side is on the right side of the plug. 4.2.2 Add a screw. This is not included on the computer (and unfortunately for me, nither on the SSD), so you may have to buy one, or as I did, I took the screw off the top center from the motherboard, it seems to work well without it (>.<) This is everything to do in order to install the RAM and SSD. Youll have to migrate the data to the SSD and then format the HDD in order to have the 1tb + SSD size you bought. To migrate the information, youll have to install a migration software, I used "Samsung Data Migration", I have used it twice and it works well. This are the steps to do that: 1.- Install the SSD, and close the computer back (Youll have to open it again, so I would advise you to put the cover and put Only the black screws and the back line silver ones, including the center one, to give enough support to the hinge of the laptop) 2.- Install the Migration Software in the HDD (at the beginning I could NOT see the SSD on My PC but it was recognized in the BIOS and once I open the migration program, it was there too) 3. Do the Migration. Once finished DO NOT REBOOT!! If at this point you reboot, go to BIOS and Change the Booting order, Due to both the SSD and the HDD having windows, the system is not going to boot from the SSD properly. 4. Turn OFF the computer, Open it. 5. Take out the SSD in order to... 6. Take out the HDD, there are two screws underneath the tape, be sure to take those ones out too before trying to remove the HDD 7. Put back the SSD And close the computer, YES, WITHOUT THE HDD. 8. Your computer will automatically boot from the SSD. 9. Format the HDD, I did it with an external SATA to USB cable. 10. Open computer, take out SSD, Install HDD, put the SSD back and YOU ARE FINISHED Now you have a computer worth over $900, for just around $600.

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Pros: * 15.6" display in 14" body * Thin and light * 1920x1080 screen * IPS matte display with good color accuracy, deep contrast, and wide viewing angles * Quad-core i5-8250u * 5-9 hours of battery life * Lots of usable ports * Decent keyboard and trackpad * Extra m.2 slot for SSD, 4 total RAM slots for 32GB total * Solid build quality * Silent at idle, quiet at full throttle Cons: * No dedicated GPU * Meh speakers * Fingerprint reader sometimes takes 2-3 tries to work (not sure if this is Asus or Microsofts fault) For the money, this is the best $500 budget laptop you can buy. Its a near ultrabook notebook at a budget laptop price. A few years ago, a laptop with these kind of specs would cost $800 and up, and a $500 laptop would get you a 1366x768 screen with a washed out TN panel and a dual-core i5. This laptop has no compromises, and the pros easily outweigh the cons. You get a thin and light laptop with quad-core performance and a good screen with good battery life. Geekbench 3 score was 3172/12439, which is 10% shy of my old desktop i7-4770k at 3496/13396, crazy. In battery saving mode with normal web browsing it lost 11% battery in one hour. In best performance mode it lost 20% battery in one hour. The keyboard is good, I get over 100 wpm, and the trackpad is accurate and responsive, I don’t hate using it. And unlike other premium $1000+ ultrabooks like the Macbook, this laptop has a ton of usable ports. But understand this is still a budget laptop. The i5-8250u is good, but there’s no dedicated GPU, so this is not a gaming laptop. The screen is good but it’s not the best, it doesn’t have 100% RGB color accuracy, and it’s not super bright either. Keyboard is good, but it’s still a thin laptop, so there’s not a lot of travel. Trackpad is decent, but it’s not made of glass. Build quality is solid, but it’s made of plastic not aluminum, so it still flexes (but not that much). Battery life can get you through a whole day if you leave it on battery saving mode, otherwise bring your charger. Ignore people who comment saying this laptop needs a backlit keyboard, or that the keyboard flexes. Theyre comparing a $500 budget laptop to a $1000 ultrabook, which doesnt make sense. The most underrated feature of this laptop is the expandability. Popping off the back panel is easier than baking a pie, just take off the screws (two hidden ones in the rubber feet) and pop off the panel, takes less than 5 minutes. Theres an available m.2 SSD and 4 total RAM slots with an 8GB stick in place, leaving you room for 32GB total, that’s insane. I got a 500GB m.2 SSD for $90, making this a $600 laptop in total, and it’s money well spent (considering the 128GB SSD version is $620). So if you’re on a budget and you’re looking for the best laptop in the $500 range, this is it.

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