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ASUS Vivobook 15 M513UA 15.6" Full HD OLED Ryzen 5-5500U, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Backlit Keyboard, Free Windows 11 - £479.99 delivered @ Amazon
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The beautiful new metal VivoBook 15 OLED brings you visuals like you’ve never experienced before. Built to deliver powerful performance with its latest AMD 5000 series Ryzen 5-5500U processor, paired with 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD, coupled with true-to-life visuals, VivoBook15 OLED is your perfect choice for an effortless on-the-go lifestyle.
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- Powered by AMD's latest 5000 series Ryzen 5-5500U processor 2.1GHz (8M Cache, up to 4.0GHz, 6 cores)
- 15.6 OLED FHD (1920 x 1080) 400nits(HDR) DCI-P3:100% screen
- LED Number Trackpad
- 4GB DDR4 on board + 4GB DDR4 SO-DIMM
- 512GB M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 SSD
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port with an any-way-up design
- WiFi 6
- Free upgrade to Microsoft Windows 11, when available
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sorted byIt's pretty much always a good idea with a new laptop to wipe it and install Windows from scratch. Most pre-builts these days have a digital licence key which will self-activate without you even being aware, so you can wipe & re-install to your hearts content.
Process is
- Get a USB stick of at least 8GB that you are happy to wipe
- Plug the USB stick in to any currently working computer, and go here:
support.microsoft.com/en-…20d
- This will create a USB installer for either Win 10 or 11, as you want (and you can keep this for the future)
- Reboot your new computer, and select whatever key press to chose the boot menu. You'll need to google this for your model / make. EG on a Dell it tends to be F12.
Select the USB stick to boot from, then follow all on-screen instructions to install Windows (you may want some help through google / youtube also about deleting the existing partitions etc)
- Finally, go to the manufacturers website and selectively install what you actually want, typically just drivers.
Main advantages of the above are:-
1) No crapware, unwanted software etc
2) If its a used computer or drive, you dont need to worry about anything unwanted that is installed
3) Even when you think you've deleted unwanted software, it is still sitting on the drive really (im looking at you HP)
4) Youve learned a skill. Combine this with good data backup, and any future concerns you can simply recover your computer, then recover your data, and you're good to go. (edited)
To be honest, no, OLED screen burn is no longer relevant on any modern panels. You could still burn an image if you tried to, but technology has moved forward, it's no longer 2010. Screen refresh technology prevents it in most cases, if you do somehow manage to burn an image in the screen by leaving a static image on it at full brightness for more than a day, more often than not, the screen can self repair with a few hours of playing media. These notebooks have anti burn-in screensavers set up as default. Even if you changed the screen saver to one that could potentially burn in, or removed screensavers entirely and left it sitting in desktop at full brightness (I don't know why anyone would do that), you can have it set to sleep when idle for X hours. Sleep when idle negates pretty much all risk of burn in.
Think about it. Mid range to flagship mobiles have had oled screens for years now. How often do you hear about burn in on those? It baffles me that people are still willing to pay the same as/more than the cost of OLED panels for QLED, purely for fear of burn-in on OLED, which is so unlikely unless you're incredibly careless. The difference in quality is very noticeable, I'd never go back to non OLED TV after having the LG CX a few years now
You could use LibreOffice or OpenOffice.
Windows Defender and run malwarebytes now and then. Something like Simplewall can replace the firewall while using built-in Windows API's which gives you much more control. It's over at github. (edited)
Screen is fantastic as the OLED really does give a vibrant picture, I normally use 50% brightness. Also has Auto HDR as well so games can use that and have an increased brightness, I only use Age of Empires for the daily MS Reward points. Youtube HDR looks awesome as well.
Overall it fitted our needs as I wasn't personally going to be gaming on a laptop as I have both Series X and PS5. So fancied spending a bit more and having a decent screen.
Advantages, it has usb c 65w fast charging, better battery life, screen isn't oled but is 2k resolution, much superior build quality, better keyboard, better touchpad, better ports, smaller and lighter, uses two fans to keep it cool, a 4:3 aspect ratio which gives more space on screen for work.
Obviously oled is better in the colour department and this has upgradable ram. But in every other department I think the matebook wins and so it's worth the £20. I was torn between the two so researched alot. seems the oled screen meant they cut corners elsewhere. I guess if its purley a movie machine then you might prefer the oled (edited)
It is backlit keyboar (edited)
Save £20 and upgrade it yourself.
This one has fail safes.
I think some of you are confusing image retention for screen burn in? (edited)
You get Microsoft word free online you just need to sign in with your Windows account. office.com/lau…h=1
I don't think you need an antivirus software anymore it's built into windows but check to see if you get free antivirus with your internet provider and if you get it for free you might as well use it but you don't need any separate antivirus software.
Yeah ultimately I went for it because better build, lighter and better battery with USB c charging.
But oled is definitely something to consider, plus it has one slot of upgradable ram. Either way I think you get a good deal. Just depends what you prioritise.
Personally I'd buy ms office professional through your work for £15 ish, it lasts for years check if you're work offers it, alternatively if you've got kids at school and if they have their own email address you should be able to do it that way.
If you're still struggling ask a mate to see if they'll be able to do the above for you.
Antivirus there's loads of free options including built in Windows defender etc but what I do is usually my broadband provider offer it for free for the duration I'm with them. So worth checking your provider.
I'm pretty certain McAfee offer a free web antivirus which is ok ish for browsing protection.
This is a crazy got deal in my opinion, don't need it but soooo tempted.
Laptop prices really starting to come down now (edited)
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Main difference would be the display.
There are differing qualities of OLEDs just the same as there are LCDs with some better than others. The characteristics of the cheaper ones will be worse, not necessarily brightness. But for general use I wouldn’t want an OLED for the reasons mentioned before, I’ve had systems with them in the past and it’s not something I need or want in a laptop. There are reasons why they’re not more commonplace.
As to the actual deal, it’s a good amount of system for the money even though I don’t rate ASUS at all for quality or customer service. Also not sure why they’ve soldered 4GB RAM onboard, possibly to give it dual channel support. (edited)
If in doubt, run the following before you start the process & write down your Windows key for future use:
C:\WINDOWS\system32> wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey
This is what I did with mine (same model).
Yeah. Was really quick to change and Windows 11 works well (though so did Windows 10, tbf).
Main difference I can see is that 11 has a Mac OS style centralised taskbar (which has been quite significantly redesigned), if that makes sense.
I have the K513E (slightly cheaper variant) and it’s extremely quiet. In fact, now that you ask about it, I realise that I can’t remember it making any noise at all. (edited)
I mean to avoid 1), don't install Windows 10 or 11 as this is a fail at the first hurdle
Ignore the uber nerds and Apple fanboys - this is a really nice, slim and light laptop which is perfectly good at browsing and word processing. The screen looks great and it feels very well made.
Oh and mine came with Windows 10 but the upgrade to Windows 11 was free and effortless. (edited)
Go big, 4 soldered + 16 = 20gb RAM?
Haha! Thanks for that dude! I’ll think about it 😁
Yeah I'm not a fan of oled , they look amazing but my anxiety kicks in about static images ,etc.
Should be able to do most things in low detail and resolution
8GB could make it a little stuttery when swapping but low enough settings should be manageable like you say.
Unfortunately even a clean install of Windows 10 comes with its own bloatware, Bing News, Xbox, Zune Music, Candy Crush, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify to name a few. I run some scripts on fresh installs to remove all this as well programs I'll never use like. Makes the start menu looks more streamlined when I'm finished instead a lots of adverts from MS sponsors.
Childness? Facts.
Few my friends have oled screens. Not an issue. Don't really think is an issue anymore.
What do you mean cheap OLED? They're all pretty decent. 400 nits too.
I wasn’t criticising its brightness of 400 nits but that’s not the only factor with these. I have a Galaxy Book Pro with OLED and it’s nice but constantly concerned with static images because it really doesn’t take a lot to burn them (especially at high brightness) and most OSes don’t provision for this.