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Asus VivoBook S14 Ryzen 4500 - Excellent buy
As my 4 yr old HP 14 inch HD i3 4th gen/ 4 GB started becoming slow, I shortlisted 5 mid budget laps after some research, during Prime Day sales. All are 14 inch Full HD, 8 GB RAM & Windows 10 Home. All prices are without card discount.1. Mi 14 Notebook - 10th i5Pros- Stylish, Thin & Light at 1.5 kg (1.6 kg with webcam), 10th i5, 512 SSD @ Rs 45,000. Good battery 45 WHr.Cons - SATA (Not NVMe) SSD, No Type C USB port, Loses 1 USB port if webcam attached, No Card Reader,No Backlit KeyBoard. Wifi 5, MS Office only 1 month trial.2. Dell New Vostro 14 3491 - 10th i5Pros - 10th i5, 1 TB+ 256 NVMe SSD @ 50,000. Expandable RAM, Type C port, 3in1 Card Reader, MS Office.Cons - Less Stylish, Bigger, relatively Heavier at 1.66 kg, 1 Ghz Processor, Average Battery 42 WHr, No Backlit KB. Wifi 5.3. Asus VivoBook 14 412FAPros - Stylish, Thin & Light at 1.5 kg, 10th i5, 1 TB= 256 NVMe SSD @ Rs 50,000, Expandable RAM, Type C port, Card Reader.Cons - Poor Battery 37 Whr, No Backlit KB. Wifi 5, No MS Office.4. Mi 14 Horizon i7Pros - Stylish, Thin & Light at 1.35 kg (1.45 kg with webcam), 10th i7 with 1.8 Ghz base, 512 NVMe SSD, MX 350 Graphics @ Rs 60,000. Type C port, Good Battery 46 WHr.Cons - i7 is 4 core only, RAM not expandable, Loses 1 USB port if webcam attached, No Card Reader, No Backlit KB, No Fingerprint Scanner. Wifi 5, MS Office 1 month trial.5. Asus VivoBook S14 M433IAPros - Stylish, Thin & Light at 1.4 kg, Latest Ryzen 5 4500U 6 cores with 2.3 GHz base, 512 NVMe SSD, Radeon Vega 6 Graphics @ Rs 60.000.Extra slot for SSD, Type C, Card Reader, Better Battery 50 WHr, Backlit KB, Fingerprint Scanner, Wifi 6, Lifetime MS Office.Cons - RAM not expandable, Type A 3.1 USB port only one (+ 2 USB 2.0).I decided on Asus VivoBook S14 Ryzen 4500U despite poor ratings in amazon and received it on 10th August. The lowest i7 1051U processor powered laptop now available is Mi 14 Horizon @ 59,999. Then nearest i7 10th gen is above 70.000 from other brands.This S14 has Ryzen 4500U which is more powerful, more efficient and slightly less power consuming than i7 1051U.(Same Asus Vivobook S14 is available with more powerful & efficient Ryzen 7 4700U with 8 cores & Vega 7 Graphics (all other features same) @ around 70,000.)Initial impressions -Very Stylish & Light (Even charger is very compact and is only 270 gm, others expectedly heavier.), Great Display, Very fast Booting, Net Connection & Shut down. Audio could have been better. Keypad is very good with letter/ digit in bigger font size, Trackpad very nice to use. Charged Battery full showed 11 hours 12 min, shut down for 24 hours, still it showed 100% . After more than 3 hours of continuous system updates and another 15 minutes of full HD video play, it showed 55% remaining. Again after 24 hours of shutdown it shows 53%. After some light work, at 51% 4 hrs 49 min. So battery should last around 8 hours on routine use without any games.The full HD videos were quite good with excellent color reproduction and sharpness.UPDATE on AUDIO.The speakers, as I said earlier could have been better. But have noted that if the quality of the youtube content is high, audio output also improves.With the Windows media player, if you play movies from hard disk, the output is just about average only. But if you download and use VLC media player and play the same movie, audio output is much above average (though this also can vary depending on the quality of the content you play).The main use of laptops world over is not gaming, but learning, networking,creation, productivity, and movie watching. For gamers, there is a subset of Gaming laptops. If there was no Covid, the price of this would have have been at least Rs 4000 less, and if all those who spent most time playing games on laptops used at least half of that time for learning & productivity, probably we would have got this laptop for Rs 45,000.Would be better if amazon accepted ratings & reviews only from verified purchasers, if they believe in ethical business.
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Brilliant laptop
Received on 11th August.First Impressions: Better than what I expected and loving it.THIS LAPTOP IS VERY UNDERRATED .PROS:BUILD QUALITY: This laptop screams premium feel.It has an aluminium full metallic body and weighs 1.4kgs which is so light to carry with single hand.It looks and feels premium and is easily one of the best around 60K. Very Compact and u can actually open it with one hand too.The black colour of the laptop looks good.SCREEN : Much better than what I expected .Asus has finally changed their screens on the vivobook series.It has thin bezels and a 85%body to screen ratio.The Screen is an IPS LCD panel with anti glare coating and LED backlighting,Netflix and Youtube are a delight to watch on this screen.Brightness is more than enough in indoors and manageable in outdoors. Colour accuracy is average. 14 inches is perfect to me .TOUCHPAD: The glass coated touchpad feels premium and works well.It also supports precision controls of windows.PERFORMANCE: The main USP of this laptop is the Ryzen 5 4000 series processor .This is more powerful than 10th gen i5. It handles all the daily tasks very smoothly and consumes less power.There is no heating problem and no fan noise.However U cannot play big games on this.Still it manages to play PUBG at normal settings.Vega 6 is more efficient than the integrated graphics of intel.BOOT SPEED: IT just takes 5-6 sec for booting up the laptop from shut down and shuts down within 3 sec!!!!!FINGERPRINT SENSOR works blazingly fast too.Battery: Laptop can easily give 6-8 hrs of battery life depending on the usage.It also has fast charging which is very helpful.the battery adapter is light weight too however ,the battery cable is small.___ IT has 512 GB SSD(PCLE NVME M.2 3.0 SSD- the latest version) which provides in butter smooth experience while working on laptop.Also U can extend the memory,it has an empty slot for another M.2 SSD.___IT has the latest WIFI 6 support .___ has all the needed ports___Camera is good ,much better than most of the other laptops under 60 and more better than other costlier ones too.It is inbuilt in the top bezel of the screen.___WINDOWS 10 and MS OFFICE comes pre-installed.___Backlight Keyboard with 3 levels of control is very handy.___Less BloatwareCONS:KEYBOARD: I didn't like the keyboard layout and feel,Though the keys provide good feedback and have good travel,the quality is not impressive and the spacing of keys needs more time to get adjusted.AUDIO: Better than most of the other laptops around this price range ,the audio is not impressive ,it doesn't get loud when needed.Stereo setup is nice but not adequate enough due to the bottom firing speakers.However,AudioWizard app from ASUS helps a little.__NO dedicated graphics__NO TYPE C charging__NO chance for RAM expansion,have to live with 8GB RAM__Battery cable is not of good quality.__NO ergo lift mechanism which comes in the ASUS Zenbook models.The only laptop that can rival this at this price range is Mi NOTEBOOK Horizon i7 model. Mi note book offers more performance and dedicated graphics.But this laptop has an upper hand in rest all departments.I got it at 58400 Rs.Try to get it below 58000 atleast.
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