Asus VivoBook S15 review

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There’s nothing much to the Asus VivoBook S15, but, then again, that’s sort of the point. It’s a 15.6-inch laptop, but since Asus shaved off some of the frame around the screen, the brushed aluminum-clad body is smaller (and yes, it also looks like a MacBook).

The PC is also remarkably light for its size at 3.6 pounds (1.6 kg). That’s not quite as light as the 15-inch Samsung Notebook 9 or the 15.6-inch LG Gram, though the S15 costs a lot less for specs that aren’t all too different.

Based around a dual-core 2.7GHz Intel Core i7-7500U, the S15 starts around $800 (approximately £600 or AU$1,000), but there are several configurations available. They’re mainly just variations on amounts of RAM and storage, but there is a Windows 10 Signature Edition that upgrades the integrated graphics to a discrete Nvidia 940MX GPU — definitely worth the $50 extra. We reviewed the base model here, the S510UA-DB71.

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