ASUS 11.6 inch VivoBook with Microsoft Office 365 - E210 11.6 inch Laptop (Intel Celeron N4020, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, Windows 10) - Includes LED-NumberPad, Blue

I needed a Windows laptop for travelling. This is small and light but ideal for my needs. Battery life seems good. The screen is fine. As with all Windows laptops, it takes forever to do the initial setup and updates! Unlike previous Windows machines I’ve had, it was not stuffed full of trial software. The only trial software was McAfee The description said it came with Windows 10 but mine came with Windows 11. As others have noted, it comes in S mode which means you can’t install software that isn’t from the MS store. It’s very easy to disable this. I plan to add an additional SSD for my data as there isn’t much space left on the C drive. I think this was a bargain. Very impressed so far. UPDATE: I notice it has shot up in price since I bought it so do shop around. I have fitted a 500GB SSD for less than £40. The laptop is now perfect for my travel needs.

If you're wanting to buy a windows laptop to use day to day, this is not the laptop to buy. It's slow, the screen is bad, and even just doing a basic windows update, the laptop's cpu was maxing out at 100%. You would be better off buying something more expensive, or looking at other used intel processor laptops with an i3. However, if you are wanting a lightweight linux laptop and are capable of installing an nvme.2 drive, this is actually quite a nice & cheap option. I bought this used for £124 along with an nmvm.2 ssd that I immediatley swapped after attempting to boot windows, along with installing a lightweight linux distro. For £145, (as a curiosity purchase) I have a laptop that runs Xubuntu easily, has a long battery life, and is small and portable to allow me to do basic web browsing and work on a very minimal budget that I can take with me everywhere.

Excellent, lightweight, ultra-portable everyday cloudbook computer - plenty fast enough for web browsing, office applications and entertainment, though this is definitely not a gaming machine. Remarkable screen: glare free but almost as sharp and deeply coloured as a good glossy screen. Superb keyboard: don't let the slightly quirky layout put you off - it soon becomes second nature, and despite the small form factor it is comfortable and accurate for touch-typing long documents. Long battery life - a good 12 hours on light duty - fanless and very cool-running. Rather odd lid pattern is more attractive than it might appear in photographs, and resists fingermarks better than a high-gloss finish.

We have two of these ASUS laptops, they are fantastic for the price. I expected them to be slow but TBH they are not much slower than my much more expensive, large HP laptop. I got this to use on the go because my main laptop is 17in and very heavy. This little guy can fit in a large handbag and only weighs 1kg. The battery life is amazing.

Immediately installed Linux and have had no performance issues, can comfortably play back 720p video and do all the text editing and programming I needed to do. It has an M.2 slot for upgrading storage, battery life lasts me a full day comfortably on low-medium brightness. The screen could be better if this was a more expensive laptop, doesn't have the most vibrant colours, but as a cheap laptop for college work, does the trick.