Bought this last year for my son and have been very aggressively trying to sell it off late .
The biggest lesson that I take away from this deal was I will never ever buy a machine with just 2gb of RAM. Especially if the RAM upgrade is almost impossible .
Every hardware component is completely encased and not in any separate compartment, not even the battery and to upgrade the ram I will have to rip open the complete unit. One needs to dissemble every component before one can reach The DDR3 RAM .
What a waste .
I dropped the idea of upgrading it myself as I will have to dig deeper and calling Asus to do it means a very heavy expense .
Instead I have put up an Ad on Olx to get rid of it at 11k .
Not that its not worth what I paid for it. This laptop came along with windows 8.1 Bing, pre -installed was "free-update-upgraded" to a windows 10 about a month ago . It’s a legal copy .
But the lack of support for high end -gaming which my son wants and video editing softwares / web development softwares running sluggish meant it was suitable only for simple jobs .
Yes 2 gb of ddr3 RAM is enough to run simple application and slim games . But anything that’s a memory hog or a graphic intensive tends to freeze the lappy .
Its okay for home users who just need to run maybe a windows office or watch youtube, browse the web and watch movies / listen to songs .
The lappy is powered by the cele_45ron Quad Core @ 1.83GHz with turbo boost upto a 2.16 GHZ.
The HDD is a standard 500 GB and there is no DVD drive . There is also a slot for for full size SD card.
There are 2 usb slots on the left one being usb 3.0 . we seriously needed one more usb slot . We do have an HDMI out which is full size . An RJ 45 port for LAN connectivity and an audio 3.5mm jack . It also has a VGA port for Anasultanlog-video- out.
The 15.6 inch TFT screen is average and the display blurs when we look at it from angles even minor angles . You will find yourself frequently tilting and adjusting the screen angle and swapping USB devices as its 1 port, too short .
The VGA camera is as ordinary as it gets and the sound output volume is so low, it’s mandatory to use an external speaker . The windows came preinstalled with a lot of Asus bloatware that I had to either remove or suppress.
The battery back up is decent and under ideal condition can give upto 4 hours . though after 10 months of usage its dropped to under 3 hours now .
Yes, it has bluetooth and wifi connectivity, that obviously is expected from any laptop
This is a buy for students, housewives and for non- serious users . Those who are into some serious work that demands good resources don’t even think about it unless you are confident of upgrading the ram to a min 4 gb ddr3 . It has just 1 memory slot so if you are upgrading you will need to dispose the 2gb ddr3 that will come off .
In a nutshell.Its a buy for simple tasks and single tasking only . It’s capable enough of working with multiple browser tabs but the performance starts to suffer the moment you open 2 or 3 applications .
You see you get what you aishwaryasingh23 for and I paid just 18.5K for this one . I still like this machine as its anyways a good value for money . One must know that they get a legal of windows 8 copy preinstalled .
The build quality is average . the keyboard is a chick let, island key type, big enough but seems a little fragile . The touchpad is good and wide enough .
The lappy is neither too slim nor too bulky, neither too heavy nor too portable . Infact its average in most respects .
A lessons or 2 to learn here - 1. never buy 2gb ram models 2. never buy machines that encase every hardware component and need to be completely ripped off for a simple upgrade like RAM / battery. We need easy user accessible compartments at least for the ram / battery and HDD. Don’t we? 3. never buy Units with just 1 memory slot .
Pls leave your thoughts about it and let me know .
The day i’m able to dispose it off for 11k which is a good price I feel both for the buyer and me i’m looking to buy the very compact HP Pavilion 300-010IN Mini Desktop(4th Gen Core I3/2 GB/500 GB/Win 8.1) or an Intel nuc the size of a tiffin box and upgrade them which should be easy, having acquired some skills while working for HP and Dell in the past .
We are moving into an era where the Pcs fit onto a palm, palm-tops is the new age buzz.I welcome this transition from the mammoth desktops to the ultra slim mini pcs like Intel Nucs and mac minis .
I use the Asus laptop with:-
- Gavik 8 way surge protector with 2 USB charging slots in-built . 2. Samsung Full HD 22 inches monBrianbalakumaranr, Syncmaster S22B370, connected via HDMI out. 3. F & D mini soundbar 4. Logitech K330 wireless combo with unifying support .