Review on 💻 ASUS VivoBook 17 F712DA 17.3” HD+ Laptop, Intel Core i5-8265U, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD, Windows 10 Home, Thin and Light, Transparent Silver by Marcus Merritt

Best laptop for the price. All laptops with all they have are $650-$750 and they don't even have everything this laptop has to offer. First, I'm an IT professional. I work on computers every day so I can get Asus (top 3 consumer laptop brands) at this price With these specs, everything you need to know to buy one. This laptop has a 15.6-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) display but fits into a 14-inch laptop case, which is amazing in itself. The 8th Gen Core i5-8250u is a lightning fast SoC. Compared to the Core i5-7200u from back then, the 8250u has 4 cores/8 threads instead of 2 cores/4 threads and is 56% faster overall. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves: In Geekbench 4.2, this laptop scored 4,000 points on a single-core processor, 12,200 points on a multi-core processor, and over 17,000 points on OpenCL computing. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, I'll make it easy to understand: IT'S FAST! The colors are excellent. This PC also plays all but the latest games in Full HD on Ultra settings. This is something you might find at odds with what some reviews say about the Core i5-8250u, but it plays really great. The fingerprint scanner is something you rarely find on laptops under $1000 and this works great, enable it, it loads very quickly on the login screen, just place your finger on the reader which is on the top right of the trackpad to greet you, You are logged in. All in all, from an IT perspective, this is the best damn laptop you'll find at this price point, and even higher, as I mentioned, you can even add a second M.2 SATA III SSD and it will Intel technology used to see the HDD and SSD 1 drive and move all your most used content to an SSD for easy access and use HDD as base storage. I don't see a need for it as it already boots up as fast as many laptops with SSDs, but that would speed it up even more. My only complaint about this computer doesn't bother me much but it will bother regular users of this laptop and that is the fact that you have to remove the entire bottom of the laptop to access the hard drive and add an M.2 SATA III SSD and to add RAM, the two rear rubber feet must be removed to access the screws underneath. Don't let that fool you though, it's not really rigid and the rubber feet just stick back.