VivoBook S510UN- EH76 is a uniquely designed laptop that’s both light and compact in your wallet, yet packed with powerful performance. It doesn’t blow away the expensive desktop replacement laptops of the past, but it will serve budget hunters well.
It’s no secret that we’re fans of the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501VI-XS74, having named it our Editors’ Choice for premium mobile gaming laptops. But the build we reviewed will cost you almost $2500. What if you don’t have half the money to buy a gaming laptop? Well, the Asus S510UN-EH76 has a modest starting configuration with an 8th Gen Core i7 processor, a 256GB solid state drive, and a 1TB hard drive.
The Asus VivoBook S has narrow bezels similar to what you see on the Dell XPS 15 (Dell calls it the Infinity Edge, Asus calls it the Nano Edge), a design that includes a 15.6-inch display into a form factor. almost 14 inches .
We admit a few shortcomings, though, including the lack of Thunderbolt 3, but bargain hunters will find the VivoBook an attractive, champagne gold candidate.
Asus S510UN-EH76 Laptop Review Reviews
Design
The champagne gold finish on the VivoBook S is recognizable and easy on the eyes. It has a 15.6-inch display, with the overall size being on the big side of ultraportable devices. At 0.7 x 14.2 x 9.6 inches (HWD), the S510 is about the same size as the XPS 15’s 0.66 x 14.1 x 9.3 inches and is quite slimmer than most laptops. 15.6 inch arm.
For example, our Editorial Board’s budget desktop replacement laptop, the Acer Aspire E 15 (E5-575-33BM), measures 1.2 x 15 x 10.2 inches, which is pretty decent. standard for this category.
The Asus S510UN-EH76 weighs just 3.7 pounds, which is significantly lighter than the XPS 15’s 4 pounds and the HP Notebook 15’s 4.7 pounds. It has a unique scratched aluminum lid with the chrome Asus logo in the center, while the Asus S510UN-EH76 weighs in at just 3.7 pounds. The keyboard deck is plastic, the sides and bottom are the same yellow.
If you need a laptop that you can take with you on your daily commute, this laptop is nearly as large for easy portability. You’ll definitely feel it more in your backpack than when using a MacBook Pro, but a bit lighter than a laptop, with a bit of flex if you grip the corners of the screen or press on the center of the table. keys. However, it is not flimsy. It can easily be carried with one hand, but will require two hands to open.
Connect
For a laptop labeled for professional users, the ASUS S510UN-EH76 offers excellent connectivity. On the left edge, there are two USB 2.0 ports, along with an SD card slot. On the right side. You’ll find one USB 3.0 port, one USB-C (USB 3.1 Gen 1) port, a single HDMI video output, and an audio jack. We’re not sure why they didn’t swap out the USB 2.0 port for USB 3.0, but it’s fine.
As I mentioned earlier, Thunderbolt 3 will make the VivoBook more versatile, but the main causality will be the price. Therefore, there are more than enough ports to connect up to two external displays, via HDMI or USB-C ports, and enough USB ports for other accessories and peripherals, which you should use regardless of your device. set up.
Input And Display
On the S510 is a backlit chiclet-style keyboard, which doesn’t impress. It has a shallow, flat typing feel and the plastic keys have stiff feedback, deviating from a great layout. It is for the perfect typist, the rest of us will find the keyboard good and can start using it after an hour of practice. As for shortcuts in excel and spreadsheets, the lack of a numeric keypad is annoying enough, just like on the XPS 15.
Beneath the keyboard is a buttonless trackpad that responds smoothly to touches, although I prefer to simply tap the surface of the keyboard for a left-click instead of pressing deeply into the bottom-left corner. There’s a fingerprint reader in the upper right corner that works well with Windows Hello gestures.
There are also two bottom-mounted speakers that are good enough for everyday use, and a built-in webcam that isn’t too good. Even in daylight, photos taken at 640×480 suffer from noise, blur, and excessive pixels.
The full HD (1,920 x 1,080) IPS non-touch display is perhaps the VivoBook’s best feature. It has spot brightness, colors are not saturated, instead look full and rich, especially if you decide to adjust them via the provided Splendid utility that lets you choose from other modes different: normal, vivid, blue light reduction, or manually select color temperature. The FHD display shows sharp detail in Windows’ default 125 percent zoom.
Performance
The Core i7-8550U used in the Asus S510UN-EH76 is a 1.8GHz quad-core CPU (3.0GHz turbo) with hyper-threaded graphics and NVIDIA GeForce MX150. Combined with 8GB of memory, a 256GB solid-state drive, and a 1TB hard drive, Asus gets incredible performance with fast system startup and lag-free application and multitasking.
This is a system suitable for both work and play. By play we are referring to the game naturally. The Pascal-based GeForce MX150 is the long-awaited successor to the popular (now obsolete) GeForce 940MX mainly used in multimedia notebooks.
This new chip features 2GB GDDR5-VRAM standard memory with a clock speed of 6000MHz, making it a better choice for casual games even though it won’t deliver high fps (FPS) on modern games.
If you need better playability on modern titles, you can buy a laptop with a Pascal-based GTX 1050 or GTX 1050 Ti, like the ASUS M580VD-EB54 or the Dell i5577-7359BLK-PUS, for the same a price. However, if you don’t need fast speeds, the S510 is hard to beat.
However, the VivoBook S510 is capable of handling things its way. It may not be the fastest machine on the market, but it has muscle and is more capable for both work and play, especially when you factor in the price.
Battery life
In the battery life tests, the VivoBook S510UN-EH76 struggled a bit against the Dell XPS, managing just over 3 hours and 14 minutes, while the Dell XPS 13 hit 4 hours and 7 minutes. In the movie tests, VivoBook S recorded 5 hours and 43 minutes, which is almost a day of use. With this, if the battery is enough for a movie during a short flight, it might struggle to stay awake on a cross-country flight.
Conclusion about VivoBook S510UN-EH76
If you’re looking for a laptop around $900, with the main priorities being storage capacity and screen size, the Asus VivoBook S510UN-EH76 checks all of those boxes. Backed by a hybrid SSD and HDD storage setup, 8th gen i7 and 8GB RAM, performance will never be an issue.
The biggest trade-off lies in battery life, and even then, it’s not so horrible. However, it would be nice if it kept the tradition of all-day battery life that has been preserved in previous versions of VivoBook. All told, you’re looking for a near-perfect Windows laptop for the casual user, making the Asus S510UN-EH76 worth considering when you’re shopping for a laptop for work. and entertainment.
Salenhanh – Product review blog
Address: 115 Nguyen Van Qua, Tan Hung Thuan Ward, District 12, Ho Chi Minh City
Website: https://salenhanh.com/en
Mail: Salenhanh.com@gmail.com
#salenhanh #Reviewsalenhanh