ASUS VivoBook L203MA Extremely-Skinny Laptop computer, Intel Celeron N4000 Processor, 4GB LPDDR4, 64GB eMMC, 11.6” HD, USB-C, Home windows 10 in S Mode (Switchable to Professional), L203MA-DS04, One 12 months of Microsoft Workplace 365

Perfect portable typing and research station
Wow wow wow. I can’t find enough good things to say about this portable powerhouse. I’m a pretty hardcore gamer who also uses a lot of graphics intensive programs like Photoshop and Unreal 4. This laptop… is not for that.It’s for those times away from your high-end programs, where you need 10 chrome tabs open in a coffee shop while you’re experimenting with Microsoft Word layouts. It’s for when you’re out in the woods and want to sort and organize the photos on your camera’s SD right then and there. It’s for trips where you want to travel light, but still want the world at your finger tips.OK, OK, enough flowery language. Let’s get to the pros / cons:Pros:-The keyboard feels great, with a nice balance of being chunky and “clicky” while still being compact. Once you get used to its size, it’s pretty easy to get close to your fastest typing speeds with minimal errors.-This thing is really light. Maybe I’m too sued to heavier laptops, but seriously, this thing is effortless to bring around. Throw it in a backpack, tuck it under your shoulder, do whatever. This thing is pretty durable from what I can tell, so all that lightness doesn’t come at the cost of having to gingerly secure it in a special compartment. Any ol’ laptop bag / pocket will do!-The battery life is great! Maybe I’m too used to being tethered to outlets by more power-hungry machines, but I was able to get hours of typing and Chromeing out of this thing. The key I’ve found (as with most machines) is to keep the brightness a bit low when you’re not plugged it, it can make a big difference.-ASUS has always made my favorite laptops and this one is no exception. If you’re a fan of ASUS’ work, you’ll find everything you know and love about and ASUS packed into a tiny package.-The ports, lordy, the ports! So many ports in such a tiny machine.-The screen is far brighter and more colorful than I was expecting. My other laptop is a “state-of-the-art” ROG Strix II, with a high color accuracy, high refresh-rate display… the issue is they never calibrate said displays and they always end up coming out sickly yellow, requiring hours of manual adjusting. Not this little fighter though! Bright and beautiful right out of the box! Color pureists will notice things can get a bit washed out, but it’s certainly preferable to the yellow tint of other machines.-The price is the best I’ve seen for the quality of machine you’re getting. This thing is durable, sturdy and built for a few specific things it excels at. It’s definitely given my productivity a boost and is well worth the investment.-There was pretty minimal bloatware on the machine, which was great.-Office 360 for a year is a HUGE plus. Also be sure to upgrade the machine to full Windows 10 (from S), the process is free, fast and jarringly painless.Cons:-Even 64 GBs is not a a huge amount of space. This is definitely more of a document and cloud oriented device. If you’re hoping to put your entire music library on this thing you’re going to need to expand the storage. If storage isn’t an issue, than this is probably the book for you!-Similarly the 4 GBs of RAM can make this little engine chug sometimes. Don’t expect it to be happy with running 20 chrome tabs at once,n or for it to instantly load pages the moment you click them. It’s certainly fast enough, but as someone who’s coming from a 16 GB machine the little differences can be noticeable.-The touch pad is … OK. It’s not terrible, but (much like all touch pads these days) it loses tracking now and then and lacks any real buttons for the left and right. I never much enjoyed touch pads to begin with so maybe I’m biased.Closing thoughts: If you like what you’ve read, read more reviews and honestly take the dive. If you’re looking for a durable portable typer, that can do a little bit of everything this is your machine!More closing thoughts: A story for you, about ASUS laptops…In winter I got an ROG Strix II, a very powerful and very pricey machine. It was maddening getting the thing to work properly. Getting photoshop to play nice with the dual graphics. Getting the screen to not look yellow. Getting the damn speakers to not crank the bass. Many of these issues are still unresolved and frankly though I love the hardware I’m more than likely going to have to start from square one with that thing.I was all emotionally prepared to go through the same process with this little trail-blazer. I was ready to troubleshoot and troubleshoot and finally get something that mostly did what I needed. To my absolute delight, this machine seems to be the last bastion of PCs that do everything right, everything the way they’re supposed to, right out of the box. I haven’t had to troubleshoot a single thing about this beautiful laptop and honestly couldn’t be happier. If you’re looking for something portable, something durable, something to up your productivity and most of all something easy to work with, this is the laptop for you.

An excellent budget notebook
After 1 month of use:What I like–Much improved over its prior generation (X205TA):Better surface treatment so less messy fingerprints. Plenty of port for connections. Reliable and large-area touchpad. LED indicators are more visible. Battery life > 8 hrs for my daily tasks. Upgrade to Win10 Home is free and easy. Booting into Puppy LINUX is easy and fully functional w/o searching special hardware driversSome disappointments:1. The USB-C is gen 1 that won’t support “Alternative Display Mode”.2. The LCD is 1366×768. But it was advertised in the comparison table as 1920×1080 . See link and scroll to the comparison table. “https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N6S4SY1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1″3. Top surface coating isn’t scratch resistance. Remember not to put it against something too hard.4. HDMI output support 4k but it is very slow and unusable. It is fine however for 1920×1080 output.

La compré con un descuento de bonificación bancaria, y me parece que es exactamente lo que necesitaba. Pude instalar la versión completa de windows (de fábrica tiene Windows 10 S, una versión que te limita muchísimo), paquetería de office, antivirus, dropbox y firefox y no es nada lenta. Le puse una tarjeta SD de 64 GB clase 10 para que guardara archivos temporales y descargas de internet. Incluso he podido abrir sin problemas programas de edición básica de imágenes. Puedo usarla en la escuela y es super ligera. Definitivamente es un producto básico, pero cumple al 100% si tus necesidades son básicas y tienes idea de cómo evitar que una computadora se haga lenta (eliminación de caché, eliminación de archivos temporales, etc.).

I bought this to stream movies online and it does the job so I am happy with it. It’s light and compact perfect size for me.

I use this as an extra laptop for work. Battery life has been pretty good, able to last a full work day on just surfing, using Office programs and some video clips. Although it’s not as slim as depicted in pictures, it is fairly light and resistant to scratches. I’m loving it so far and no regrets on this purchase. Should have gotten this instead of a MacBook when I was studying, serves its purpose and costs 10x less. If there is one thing I would change, it would be the font on the keyboard..