ASUS Vivobook Go 11.6” HD Slim Laptop computer, Intel Twin Core N4500, Intel Graphics, 4GB, 128GB, Home windows 11 Residence, SonicMaster, ErgoSense, Black, L210KA-ES04

These Laptops Are Disappearing
These small, inexpensive Windows laptops are disappearing. It looks like 95% of the market in this segment has been taken over by by Chromebooks. If you find Chromebooks even more obnoxious than Windows machines, read on.I don’t want to travel around with a $600 laptop, so this cheaper, lightweight machine is perfect for traveling, and possibly getting stolen or lost.It was no trouble to disable “S” mode. Instructions are readily available on the internet. I disabled it on the first try.Some things I like: There are LED lights for both “power” and “caps lock.” Though the keyboard is not lighted, the “enter” key is painted fluorescent green around the rim, which makes it easy to see in dim light. The response from the 128GB SSD is pretty snappy, and better than I expected. The screen is matte, which is good — not glossy. The power supply is small, about the size of a standard cell phone charging block.It took about 30 minutes to get Windows 11 going the first time.On the first charge, I ran the laptop for about 3 hours straight, always doing something, and used about 35% of the charge. This looks more than adequate for the tasks I do.There was approximately 80GB of free space on the 128GB SSD, since Windows takes up a good chunk of it. That’s still plenty, since you are unlikely to install any giant games.About the only downside I see is that it gets a little warmer than my previous laptop when doing a lot of work. Not hot – just warm. When it’s idling or under low usage, it’s nearly at room temperature. But the N4500 processor is about 3X faster, so this is not a factor to drop the score. The processor in this 2024 model is also significantly better than the one in the 2023 model.No problems encountered thus far. I am very pleased with this machine.UPDATE: After three days, I ran into a problem — but it has to do with the dreadful Windows 11, not the ASUS laptop itself. The Windows version that came installed was two years out of date (V22H2). When I attempted to update, the update downloaded, but then failed to install, giving a message that Windows had reached the end of its service life. Attempting the update again gave no relief. In short, this is a problem with TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot. This was solved by referencing the excellent article by Konstantinos Tsoukalas. Just do an internet search for “Windows has reached the end of service but not updating.”Another “problem” was that W11 was using 3.1GB of the 4GB on the machine when the machine was just sitting there idling. The CPU load was running at 20%. I used the REVO uninstaller to get rid of three-fourths of the Windows apps, and all of the ASUS bloatware (which was fairly minimal). This brought the idling memory usage down to 1.7GB and the CPU load down to 10%. Quite significant.Still very happy with the laptop, itself!

Satisfied.
I bought this for travel, and being small and light it’s perfect for that. The numeric keypad function on the touchpad doesn’t work on my unit, so I keep it turned off. Appears to be a physical issue within the touchpad. That wasn’t really a feature I needed anyway. The touchpad works fine as a touchpad, but I use a trackerball so I don’t even need it for that. It came with version 22 of Windows 11, and as soon as I got it initially set up it started downloading version 24. That download and install took a very long time, and the computer was very slow until that got finished. Now it’s up-to-date, it runs fine.

Para uso escolar está excelente, muy buena

Llegó antes del tiempo estipulado, el producto es lo que se anuncia, tal vez ponerle material de embalaje para que no se mueva mucho la caja pero todo bien!

Es rápida, solo la uso para office y videos… Es mediana, casi no pesa… Funciona bien…. La batería le dura varias horas