While you can get through YouTube videos without recognizing the display’s middling color quality, it becomes apparent once you switch displays.

kg 2, the extremely portable ASUS X515 is the lightweight laptop that keeps up with your fast-paced lifestyle. In exchange, you get numerous ports, a thin chassis, and a nearly edge-to-edge widescreen display, but this Asus VivoBook 15 review will show how the result is merely a reminder of the compromises one has to make to save money. The chiclet keys are comfortable to type on, and there is ample backlighting to get work done with the lights down low.With the built-in fingerprint sensor 3 in the touchpad and Windows Hello, there’s no need to type in your password every time — all you need is a single touch!

In the case of the Vivobook 15 X515JA, you’re paying for less performance, less battery life, and a less stellar display. Alex Wawro is a lifelong tech and games enthusiast with more than a decade of experience covering both for outlets like Game Developer, Black Hat, and PC World magazine. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page. Bassier genres of music, like house and synthwave, sound just as hollow, and sometimes it's hard to hear vocals even on podcasts.

But as this Asus VivoBook 15 review showed, performance doesn't particularly impress, which doesn't make it a laptop worth an upgrade. You can listen to music and watch a movie without headphones, but the sound will seem as if it's strained. Four cores of computing power are plenty for most tasks, and with headroom-to-boot clock speeds of 3. In that frame, the VivoBook is fairly well-rounded in terms of features and features; however, its latest upgrade, the ASUS VivoBook 15 X515EA is money better spent.