Asus VivoBook 15 X510UQ [X510UQ-BQ373]

Before us is a laptop in a thin and light body, almost an ultrabook, but at a very reasonable price. Asus laptops in a particular segment offer some of the best solutions and VivoBook S15 is a direct confirmation of this.

Design

The appearance is more reminiscent of the shape of a solid ultrabook, with smooth lines and low thickness, somewhat reminiscent of the Asus ZenBook line, but without catchy elements. It is made of soft-touch plastic (except for the lid), which looks like aluminium. Also, it boasts excellent weight, only 1.5 kg and small bezels around the display: 25 mm at the bottom, 14 mm at the top and only 8 mm on the sides.

The keyboard is traditional for Asus and has a short but precise stroke. A distinctive feature of the keyboard is the backlight, which is not typical for this class of devices. The trackpad is quite accurate, supports Windows 10 gestures, and you can even refuse to use an additional manipulator.

Screen

The laptop is equipped with an IPS matrix with FullHD resolution (1920x1080 pixels) and a pixel density of 141 ppi. The matrix, alas, is the weak point of this laptop. Mediocre viewing angles, saturation and contrast are all explained by the mediocre quality IPS display. The colour temperature leans more toward warmer tones, so everything is a little more yellow than it should be. When working on a white background (surfing, documents), this is hardly noticeable and even good — the eyes do not get tired so quickly, but when watching movies it can be noticeable.

The maximum brightness for outdoor work on a sunny day may not be enough, but there is an anti-reflective coating. A nice bonus is the presence of the Splendid application, which allows you to adjust the saturation, temperature, and even turn on the "evening" mode.

Iron

It is equipped with Intel Core i3 7100U processors of the Kaby Lake generation with a clock speed of 2.4 GHz, in conjunction with a discrete graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 940MX with 2 GB GDDR5 video memory. The amount of RAM type DDR4 with a frequency of 2133 MHz is 4 GB and can be expanded up to 16 GB. The drive is an HDD disk with a capacity of 1 TB and a spindle speed of 5400 rpm.

Such iron completely satisfies the needs of almost every user. The cooling system is quite noisy, but effective. Throttling can only be felt if you perform resource-intensive processes while running on battery power, otherwise it works quickly and stably.

On battery power, the Asus VivoBook S15 can last up to 4 hours under moderate load.