ASUS - 15.6" Laptop - Intel Celeron - 4GB Memory - 500GB Hard Drive - Black

A nice and simple design for this ASUS Laptop; It's a great option as a child's school basic laptop for homework; Comfortable keyboard; Very fast overall performance; Above-average battery life; Fast boot and transfer times. And the price was awesome.

the laptop is not that bad for high school kid to be use for their school work and entertainment.

As a graduate student I was looking for a device to check emails, browse the internet, and write papers. This laptop fits the bill and is cheap. Some issue areas: - touch mousepad directly under the space bar, so occasionally picks up taps that aren't' taps. Some issues with scrolling (minor, this is more of a technique issue). - Can be slow when multitasking (4+ browser tabs, more than two programs, etc). -Windows 8 is a little odd, but if you hate it you're probably capable of uninstalling it and reinstalling an older/newer version. -- As someone with an msn email account, I love that I don't have to double log in to get my emails. --As someone who doesn't have windows office, I hate that Windows 8 forces you to sign up for a demo version (with the plan to upgrade you to a paying customer). If you're not too picky and price is your major deciding factor, then you'll be happy with this laptop. I've had it a little over a month and it still has a super fast boot time and no critical issues (cross my fingers). Plus, the battery can easily go for 3-4hrs between charges (impressive for non-Mac).

I got this on Saturday for $192.99 at BestBuy. It is now $229.99. I guess there was a 2 day special. I was lucky because I got the last one in the store. I got this for my 8 year old beginning 3rd Grade this year. He loves it. I should have bought one for myself at another store, because this laptop is great for the price. The manual is easily accessed online, but it would be nice if one was included. That is the only reason it got 4 instead of 5 stars.

The worst part about this machine is of course Windows 8.1. One would think that the ineptness of Microsoft would have brought out competitors who could do an OS that was not so confoundingly obnoxious. Other than that this machine weighs just ounces it seems. It holds a good battery charge. But, one must consider this machine to be a disposable since it is impossible to access any of its interior components. I also love the fact that it is sooooo silent and stays cool. If you want to position this laptop on your legs, you will not get scorched. I am sure the Windows 8.1 system registry will turn this machine into another paperweight. My last system (vista) now takes over 30 minutes to boot up.

This is an excellent laptop for basic computing. This was a gift for my niece and she is very happy with her new laptop. She uses it for browsing the internet, Facebook and watching videos. The laptop has a good performance, and the display has a good picture, laptop is lightweight, the power adapter is not a brick, it is just like a tablet power adapter, really nice. The laptop has a dual-core celeron processor and it is not so fast, but gets the job done. The best thing was the price, I bought it for less than $200. Asus always makes good products.

Purchased in November 2015, one month ago. This has been an excellent buy for my intended use. I saw it on 'Flash Sale', one day only, for $192.00 including tax. I would have given it 5 stars but for one odd feature of it's touchpad. The pad is so ultra sensitive that it will jump around with the slightest touch while typing. My workaround is to use the function key with F9 to disable the keypad while typing. Repeat the same function after typing is finished to enable touchpad. Not a big deal for me. I use a tiny LED flashlight that clips on the top of the monitor to light the keyboard while typing in the dark; cost me a $1.00 at Dollar Tree. This laptop came with Windows 8. I bought this laptop because I wanted to see how well a new machine would run with Linux Mint installed, so I immediately installed LM and wiped Windows. I had to find the BIOS and make 2 or 3 changes to the settings there, after which the LM installation went well. I had to force a reboot 2 or 3 times initially, but after those reboots, it runs perfectly. With LM installed, this machine runs quite fast. It has plenty of ram and HD memory for the lightweight nature of Linux, compared to Windows. For the past month, I've used this as my main laptop, enjoying using Linux MInt Cinnamon, which is the perfect Linux distro for a new Windows-to-Linux convert like me. I'm still keeping my Windows 7 on another laptop, but it sits idle while I'm enjoying this operating system on this new, inexpensive pc. This has been such a success that I'm so tempted to switch my Windows 7 laptop to Linux Mint as well. I will resist temptation awhile longer, since Windows 7 is the last decent MS operating system. When MS quits supporting Win 7, I'll be ready to convert entirely to LM Cinnamon. So, purchasing this laptop from Best Buy at $192.00, has turned out to be a great experience. And to date, all my purchasing from Best Buy has been a very good experience. I almost bought a 'Black Friday / Cyber Monday' laptop that Best Buy had put on sale for $299.99, 8GB ram with plenty of HD memory, simply because it was such a great deal. I just had no use for another machine.

I bought this computer for my computerized sewing projects. I bought a new one since I'm skeptical about refurbished. It's a great computer overall. The issues I DO have about it is that first of all, I did not know that it came with MacAfee already installed. I downloaded our usual Norton program & that's when I found it had MacAfee. The MacAfee totally messed up my computer from the get-go. It kept making it do squirrely things like never ending popups about how my computer has a virus & needs to download this or that program & every time I tried to x out the popup it'd immediately start more popups to some strange websites hosted by McAfee. It did this despite the fact I blocked all popups and would do it no matter what webpage I went to. The more I tried to x out, the more popups happened. I was only visiting my usual websites like Facebook, checking email, etc. it kept saying that the website was a virus infected and fake website that I needed to download some program from McAfee and kept shooting me over to a website I didn't click on. This went on for several days. I happened to remember that my husband had the same issue with his laptop when McAfee was on his & he uninstalled McAfee on his & had no further issues so I uninstalled it on my new computer and have not had any issue like that since. So if you get a computer & it seems to have the same squirrely issues, try uninstalling McAfee & install Norton instead. McAfee may just be the issue like it was for us. On this computer, the plug-in for the power cord is on the side which surprised me. I prefer it to be on the back but again, just a slight annoyance for me. The keys are separated which is not necessarily a problem per se but I find that I have to type more slowly & press more firmly to get it to type correctly, otherwise I get typos all the time...although on any other computer with the usual keyboard, I can type normal speed. Also, it's completely different programming than previous computers we have purchased. I'm used to Windows XP, ME & prior programs. This one, so far, is hard to figure out where all the accessories are. There are no games already downloaded...the "games" app on here is for X-Box only. I have to play for free online or pay for a downloaded game or buy a game & install the cd for it; this computer didn't even come with simple, usual games like Solitaire. The instruction manual is downloaded in an app instead of in paper form & it took 3 days to find it on here. It's wasn't marked "owner's manual" on the desktop and I didn't see anything in the paper startup instructions either. There is no Paint program that I can find on here or an Accessories menu or a Favorites menu to where I can save a favorite website link, that I can find although it does seem to have a Music Maker app but I have yet to click on it. It took several days to find the calculator on here. There were also many, many "apps" already on here that were totally irrelevant to me so I deleted them. I'm not a tech savvy person so I expected a more simple computer programming or a more user friendly one which this one, in my opinion, is not very user friendly in the desktop part of it because I feel like I should be already schooled in laptop wizardry to figure out what all these already downloaded apps mean & what they're for and where to find stuff automatically. I'm old school, I need to be told where to find stuff. Some apps are obvious but others are just symbols without explanation. It is, however, VERY fast on the internet. I do not plan to use it for more than checking email, using social media & for my sewing projects so, hopefully, it will remain fast. It WAS a total surprise to find it DOES have what most laptops don't...a 10 key to the side as well as having the usual numbers along the top so I don't have struggle with using the numbers at the top now which I had to use on my husband's laptop because his is older & has only numbers at the top and was difficult for me to use. Having the 10-key does, however, make the keyboard off-set from the center so keep that in mind because it took me a few days to get used to the off-set feel of it when trying to type. It does have a smooth touch pad for the mouse which is what I prefer...don't like that new textured pad that some have now. It does not, however, have right/left click buttons for click & drag. You can tap, "click & drag" on the touch pad but I'm not very mechanically inclined to figure out how to do the click & drag without buttons. There are instructions on how to do it in the user's manual but again, I'm not very tech smart on things like that. I need buttons so I just use my wireless mouse & it's fine with me. This laptop is also quite large compared to what I thought it would be. Nice screen size & brightness. The lid tilts back almost flat which surprised me. It has GREAT speaker output, excellent sound output and quality. Another thing I like is that it does NOT get "hot". It stays cool so it doesn't burn your legs nor heat damages whatever it sits on so that's a HUGE plus, no need for a laptop 'cooler' unit for it to sit on, it doesn't need it. It has nice memory storage as well. The battery life seemed to be good at first. At first, the battery life lasted a couple of days but now, if I have it unplugged all day, the battery does seem to run down now after a few hours but that's ok for my needs. It does have a dvd drive so that's also what I was needing in a laptop to use my embroidery cds. Overall, it's a great laptop. It has everything I need in a laptop. Just a few inconveniences which, to me are minor such as wishing that I could save my fave websites to a favorites menu & had a paint program on here and clicker buttons for the mouse 'touch pad' on the laptop. It does have apps on here to link directly to popular websites like Twitter, Facebook, etc. so that's really handy to have so I don't have to bother typing in the web address. Overall, I'd recommend this laptop. It is pretty affordable for what you get & other than the aforementioned issues, I, so far, like it well enough. I think anyone can use this computer & be happy with it, just keep in mind the technical hiccups I had. A more tech savvy person may know more & can utilize all what this computer offers. I'm just not tech smart enough at this point so as long as it works for what I need it for, I have no complaints.