Asus VivoBook S15 S530FA [S530FA-EJ269] (90NB0K52-M05400)

Ultrabook baby

With the VivoBook S15 laptops, Asus surprisingly managed to cross a simple office laptop with a premium ultrabook. From the first, he took an affordable price tag just below $ 800, from the second, a stylish and thin body, powerful hardware and fashionable bells and whistles like fast charging and a fingerprint scanner.

Slim and light metal body

Outwardly, it subtly resembles the "Macbooks" of the past generation with a thin frame around the screen, a black keyboard and a light silver base. Also on the market there is a version with a red colour of the cover, which looks 5+ and makes the model recognizable. The cover of the display unit is made of a rather thick sheet of aluminium with transverse polishing, and the case itself, although plastic, is easy to confuse with aluminium. In addition to good looks, the VivoBook S15 boasts a low weight (only 1.8 kg versus an average of 2.2 kg) and in a thin, almost ultrabook case of just 18 mm. Such a crumb will not cause any trouble to anyone during everyday transportation.

High quality IPS display

ASUS VivoBook S15 S510UN is equipped with a 15-inch Full HD IPS display with anti-glare coating. Feelings from the screen are purely positive — it has high detail, comfortable colour reproduction, a decent level of contrast and maximum viewing angles.

Performant hardware

Hardware only confirms the overall pleasant impression: a quad-core Core i5 processor with a maximum frequency of 3.9 GHz, 8 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. Here, a low bow to Asus engineers, who did not save three kopecks and install an ordinary HDD with a gigantic volume, which in fact very few people need.

Long live the king!

Otherwise, this is a great model, which also stands out from the competition with fast charging (60% in 49 minutes), a backlit keyboard, USB-C support, an excellent glass touchpad and an integrated fingerprint scanner. What's even cooler is that the new VivoBook S15 doesn't actually have any weaknesses, no matter how you approach it. Thanks to this set of qualities, he confidently claims to be one of the best, if not the best laptop in the category "under $800".