ASUS VivoBook S15 S533 Thin and Light Laptop, 15.6” FHD, Intel Core i5-10210U CPU, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB PCIe SSD, Windows 10 Home, S533FA-DS51, Indie Black

I bought this Vivobook model S533F in Sept. 2020 and have been very satisfied with it. I have had Dell and Toshiba laptops before this. I wanted to try a solid state model and am always surprised at how fast it starts up. It is thin and lightweight. I like the brief keyboard lights, and the moving keys feel just right. I never used a fingerprint logon before, but now that is all I use, it's great. I love the screen - it's a good size, and it is made of etched glass so you don't get all the reflections, which always bothered me. I can't understand why manufacturers went back to the shiny glass screens. I keep a micro SD card in the slot. Windows has been updating fine with no problems, and it looks like the Vivobook will take Win11 when it comes. Windows 10 comes with a nice little email program and I use it all the time. I can see all four of my mail adddresses without having to switch email programs.Cons:Has no CD/DVD drive - I really missed it and bought an outboard drive for around $20.Why no numlock light? (Caps Lock has a light!)Wish I could add more memory. I have a couple of apps that really push the memory and sometimes even crash.Camera is only so-so. It's not usually a problem, but with COVID have been Zooming a lot.Laptop fell about 3 feet onto the living room rug when it was plugged in. It landed on the power jack and bent it badly, so I had to buy a whole new power block for $20. This is not a mfg. fault, though. I just got the power block; it came very quickly, so thank you Amazon.But for these I would give this machine 4.5 stars if I could, but it's a keeper.

Very nice laptop for everyday use. It’s not a gamer obviously, but it will handle school and most work functions with ease. Backlit keyboard is awesome when using it in low light. Very lightweight with clear and vibrant graphics. The M.2 NVMe is upgradable to a larger one, but sadly no slot for a second M.2 drive. RAM is motherboard bound, so no upgrades there either. For the price, you get good form, function, and value, but not much in the way of upgradability.Definitely Recommended

I didn’t receive this laptop in the mail, I received a different laptop and I’m unsure why. I emailed the company but didn’t see a reply for q while so i started using the one sent to me. It works just fine.

Wow Asus! First time buyer and you have not disappointed. Bought 2 of these for my girls for online school. Now I think I should have kept one for me. I charge my laptop 3 times before they have to charge theirs. Battery life is 6 to 8 hours. Now that's value for money. It is definitely thin and light as well. Easily portable in a school bag. Oh, and the stickers! The girls loved them. Sleek design too! All in all a great buy.

Great laptop works great for my small business. Good value.

loved it

This is a nice notebook as long as it's working. Big screen, light, nice keyboard. Not superpowerful, but a good basic machine. Until it doesn't work. Troubleshooting may address a lot of typical user problems, but it didn't address mine. Chat support is harder to find than it should be. Requires your serial # which is inconveniently located on the bottom of your machine, or otherwise accessible via a command prompt that you'll never remember. And once you get there, if they recommend a procedure that requires a reboot, you lose the chat and have to find it again and describe the same problem to a new tech. Something like gotomyPC would be handy. After two chats, I decided that a phone call would be preferable. The tech there said that I would need to send my machine in for warranty repair. Estimated repair time 5-7 week days (repair doesn't work weekends) plus round trip travel time. To their credit, they pay for shipping (at least while the unit is under warranty). I have yet to see what shipping service they use, but the bottom line is that you have to assume that you will be without your machine for a couple of weeks, maybe more. No carry in service; no swap out; no loaner. Nor is the machine built to facilitate owner repair - following in Apple's footsteps. If it needs repair, it's got to go to the depot. Bottom line is, if the machine is critical to you for any reason, you'll need two, in case your first one fails.