ASUS VivoBook L203MA Ultra-Thin Laptop, Intel Celeron N4000 Processor, 4GB LPDDR4, 64GB eMMC, 11.6” HD, USB-C, Windows 10 in S Mode (Switchable to Pro), L203MA-DS04, One Year of Microsoft Office 365

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.

Had this laptop for about a year and a half and in that time it has seen considerable use and still works splendidly. There are obvious drawbacks to the computer, as it is truly intended for low-cost accessibility. I have since upgraded to a newer laptop as my needs demanded, but this cheapie will definitely be kept around for a good while due to its compact size and meeting basic task fulfillment. Excellent product for those who, like me, needed this laptop for mostly school purposes. As a media device, it falls short, but this is expected due to the price and specs. Screen quality is pretty good, but audio quality falls behind. Still the device is perfectly audible in a single occupancy setting. Most people would probably use headphones in a public setting anyway, so audio isn't as much of a concern I doubt if this is the laptop you're looking to buy. Don't expect to be running any kind of demanding software or any games that aren't Minesweeper. There's a serviceable amount of storage on the drive, but not much; heavy files will fill her up quick. These shortcomings I can excuse, as this laptop even far exceeded the one I had previously which was triple the price! It got me through a few semesters during a time when I was short on cash. This is a surprisingly hardy machine that buyers should know is good for simple use.

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 1366x768. But it was advertised in the comparison table as 1920x1080 . 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 1920x1080 output.

I wanted a slightly smaller sized and much better battery life laptop to code on in my free time. I was looking at macbook airs but at 4x the cost.The cons: the trackpad is not the best, but not the worst. Definitely workable, but a huge downgrade from a mac. Better than some lenovos.the screen resolution is fine but the screen feels a bit.... odd. i can't put my finger on it. the video card isn't a beast, nor do I need one, but it feels like the refresh rate was obviously low.2 gigs of ram is enough for what I need, but barely. Getting a windows license was a headache, it didn't come with one and the support was bad.the pros: actual 10 hour battery life. I'm using this for web browsing, coding and small tasks. it handles them perfectly and I get an actual 10 hours of screen on time with this laptop using linux.perfect size and weight to go: Its easy to throw into a backpack or just carry out.usb c and 2 full usb ports.Thats really all there is to it.