Amazon.com: Customer reviews: ASUS VivoBook S15 15.6” Slim and Portable Laptop, Intel Core i5-8250U Processor (up to 3.4Ghz), 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, NanoEdge Bezel, Silver Blue with Yellow Trim, S530UA-DB51-YL

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2019

8GB/256SSD model. The screen is bright and clear, the weight is light, and the battery runs for 4+ hours. Setup was extraordinarily easy. Everything works as it should. My only complaints is that the speakers are too quiet even at full blast. After downloading an equalizer app, they are much louder but still not distorted, so I'm unsure why they're artificially so low as they can handle a lot more. And even though it ran fine without it, I went ahead and added a spare 8GB of ram to make it 16GB. Its not easy to get at the RAM, and you owe it to yourself to watch a video or two so you understand how careful you should be getting the back plate off to install; If you follow the steps (remove screws and use a guitar pick/other type of thin plastic around the edges) it will open up just fine.

The only other thing I've added is a 400GB SD card to store my MP3 collection with room to spare for other bulk storage.

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AlexaBuy

Best Laptop I’ve Ever Owned

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2019

Color: Firmament Green with Aquamarine TrimVerified Purchase

I have had this Laptop for about 2.5 weeks now, so it’s fairly new and I’ll update this if anything changes, but so far I love this Laptop to death! It’s super light, thin, and runs beautifully!! I got the exact color that I ordered, the battery life is amazing and has exceeded my expectations, and it’s overall just a really stunning design! I had an old, refurbished dell before and this Asus laptop blows it out of the water! I even get compliments when I take it to class! I’ve had no issue with the display or any problems and I will forever be an Asus supporter if this Laptop lasts as long as I expect it to!! The last thing is that the Firmament Green color shown on Amazon is different than what you receive! It’s like a darker blue/green on the outside, but the inside is stunning and the outside is still very beautiful. If that turns you off from this Laptop please don’t let it because it’s a gorgeous color!

Update (2022): I have now had this laptop for 3 years and I still love and worship it! It’s so good! It still runs very well! I have no issues with it slowing down or lagging!! It still looks just as beautiful as the day I got it and I am hoping it lasts so much longer!

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R

I Am Loving It!

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2019

Color: Firmament Green with Aquamarine TrimVerified Purchase

I waited over a month to write a review so I could tell my honest opinion about the Asus VivoBook S15. Before purchasing this product I was headed for the usual Dell (had three over the years) and considered changing to HP. I wanted something different that was not going to break the bank and saw reviews of this laptop on PC mag and a few other sites and decided to step out of the norm and give it try. Out of the box I saw the cool Firmament green color with the aqua trim that is a welcome change from the drab looking silvers, grays and blacks that most companies use for laptops. The setup process was easy and the lightweight design did not weigh me down like my older laptops. It does not take long to boot up and the battery life is long. The back lit keyboard is a nice feature when having to work in dark areas. I never had this with my previous laptops. I use it mostly to surf the Internet, check emails and write and listen to music. The keyboard is smooth and I seem to type faster on it. Like most brands there are some adjustments getting familiar with function keys and Windows 10 but that is minor. For the price it does what I want it to do. If you are looking for a moderately priced lightweight laptop that has an ergo hinge tilt for easier typing, beautiful visual display, a long battery life and comes in cool colors...you will not be disappointed with the VivoBook laptop.

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CBD88

Buyer beware! This laptop is garbage!

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2020

Color: Gunmetal Grey with Light Grey TrimVerified Purchase

When I buy a high-ticket item such as a laptop, I research my options for weeks. By all accounts, the ASUS VivoBook was an excellent choice - all the features I desired, a reasonable price, and stellar reviews. Well, the reviews left out one major flaw; many, many users of ASUS laptops across all models report the same issue - one day, it just won't boot up. The power light is on, but it just won't turn on. Sometimes, after performing hard resets for about 30 minutes, I can get it to work, but the same thing happens when I need to turn it on again. I've contacted ASUS, and they can't help me (because, of course, the problem began immediately after the one year manufacturer's warranty ended). I contacted Asurion (from whom I purchased a 4 year all-inclusive warranty) and they told me to talk to ASUS.

I do most of my work on my phone or my work laptop, so this computer was rarely used. In the year I had it before it malfunctioned, I probably turned it on 15-20 times, and it never once left my desk, so this issue was not caused by any kind of user error.

Incidentally, I have a work-provided portable monitor from ASUS that has given me countless problems as well. In fact, the office tech team had to give me three of them before we found one that worked. And within a week, it started to malfunction as well. I've come to the conclusion that, despite my in-depth research, ASUS is simply a very, very unreliable brand.

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Kiris

Entirely satisfied. Great value.

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2019

Color: Firmament Green with Aquamarine TrimVerified Purchase

Holy crap, this is awesome. It is exactly what I needed.

Super light weight, way faster than my old machine. Boots right up. I'm having issues with the fingerprint reader, but that's likely user error.

Way, way less pre-loaded garbage than usual. Turns out you have the option to download the 'free gift' of useless apps. Nice. No thanks.

I really like the way the keyboard tilts when open.

Lastly, what a gorgeous color. That's a pretty neat option.

All in all, very pleased.

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Farzan

Light, portable, powerful, beautiful and reliable

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2018

Color: Firmament Green with Aquamarine TrimVerified Purchase

It's about one week i'm using this laptop and i'm pretty satisfied with the overall quality of this product.
It's really light, it has very tiny bezel, it has great performance even for running multiple heavy programs, it has great battery performance, and above all it has a great color. I've bought the greenish one and it's absolutely gorgeous.
This laptop will make you satisfied.

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Ivan R

Great design and performance for the money

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2018

Color: Gunmetal Grey with Light Grey TrimVerified Purchase

I'm a computer science student and it handled everything I throw at it. I continually have 6+ tabs of chrome open with 1 PDF on internet Explorer while coding and it doesn't even stutter. I would recommend this laptop.

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Remus Vintila

Works well, but has some small quality issues

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2019

Color: Gunmetal Grey with Light Grey TrimVerified Purchase

I bought this for the fast boot time of the SSD, and in that, it delivered. I've had it for a over a year now, and it still boots up in 20-30 seconds at most. Battery life is also pretty great. However. 5/6 of the rubber pads at the bottom fell off within the first few months. The speakers also blew (or sound like it anyway) within the same timespan. Otherwise it's a pretty great computer.

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Amazon Customer

Great Value ... Good Buy

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2019

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Overall, this is a great value and I'm happy that I bought it. I won't delve into pros and cons that you'll read elsewhere other than to communicate a few things that drop the stars I awarded from five to four. First, I've noticed that occasionally the "right click" on the touchpad doesn't sense that I've activated it. When I repeat the click it almost always works properly. This may be something subtle that I am doing slightly offbeat, as opposed to the computer, I cannot say for sure.

The bigger issue for me is that ASUS seems to be conflicted on whether to market this computer as an expandable device or package it as a "don't attempt to modify what you've bought." You'll note that a manufacturing representative in the FAQ below offers that the SSD, HDD, and RAM are expandable/exchangeable. And yet it's rather difficult to get specifics from tech support from ASUS on how to do an upgrade. Don't get me wrong, if you decide to do an upgrade, IMHO, it should be on the customer if something goes wrong as it often is attributable to the customer's lack of knowledge. ASUS should not be liable for incompetence. On the other hand, if the company publically states the device is expandable it should be open about options that will work properly as part of the upgrade process while being very clear that you undertake the upgrade entirely at your own risk.

That said, I did upgrade the SSD from 256 GBytes to 1 TByte and the RAM from 8 GBytes to 16 GBytes. Awesome!

Anyway, as noted, I'm very happy with this computer. I'd give it five stars if ASUS would adopt a consistent policy with respect to either saying it's expandable (with associated technical details) or that it is not.

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Hasith Nawarathne

Disappointed for the price

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2019

Color: Firmament Green with Aquamarine TrimVerified Purchase

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I bought this laptop 6 months ago. I wanted to love it so bad because it's just so sleek and beautiful, but there are just certain flaws that a laptop close to $1K shouldn't have.

Cons:
1. Right out of the box, the screen does this weird thing where it blinks black when I resize windows. So annoying as I work full-time from my laptop and have to resize windows constantly.
2. The max volume is ridiculously low. My 4 year old Samsung Galaxy phone has louder/better sound quality than this computer. Such a deal breaker for Netflix and chill in bed.
3. The charger died on me 2 weeks into using it and Asus made me jump through so many hoops to get a replacement that I gave up and bought one off of Amazon. Really disappointing. Their customer service representative was not pleasant at all, she just read from a script, no empathy at all, and after 2 phone calls they wanted me to do some paperwork. You think they would have better customer support for such a pricey device.
4. Who the heck thought to put the power button around the area where the delete button generally is in Windows computers? I can't begin to tell you how many times I shut down my computer when I really meant to delete text (and lost important work). It took me a good 3-4 months of full-time work to get used to it.
5. The track pad gets stuck sometimes and goes really slow. Nothing to do with the settings as it magically seems to fix itself.
6. The charging port is on the right side of the computer. When using a mouse in a limited space, it's annoying. It just seems like it would've made more sense to put it on the left since most of the population is right handed.
7. The battery lasts 4 hours tops and I can notice that it has diminished in the 6 months that I've been using the laptop. I expect to have to replace the battery within the next year and a half or so. I don't have high hopes for it.
8. The headphone jack is pretty finicky and doesn't recognize certain headsets (I've tried the headsets on other mobile devices and they work just fine). You also have to manually switch audio output to headphones instead of it doing it automatically.
Pros:
1. Mostly nice design. Sleek-looking.
2. Backlight in keyboard has 3 settings, it's nice to be able to pick the brightness.
3. Works pretty fast and hasn't crashed more than a couple of times in 6 months.
4. Numeric pad comes in handy a lot.

Overall, I really feel like I overpaid for this laptop. Will definitely think twice about buying Asus again. Bad customer service and quality control.

P.S. I'm living in Sri Lanka for a while so please don't refer me to any customer service channels that only work in the US.

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