ASUS Vivobook 15 OLED X1505ZA - 15.6" Full HD Laptop (Intel i5-12500H, 16GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, 400nits OLED Screen, Windows 11 Home)

I highly recommend the Asus Vivobook (ASUS Vivobook 15 OLED X1505ZA 15.6" Full HD OLED Laptop (Intel i5-12500H, 16GB RAM). I can't really talk about its biggest selling point, the OLED screen, because I HDMI the laptop to an external monitor, but for what it's worth, the OLED screen is very impressive with bright deep colours. Related to using the external monitor, I like that the Asus has a 180 degree "lay flat" screen hinge, so it doesn't obscure the external monitor. The Asus laptop has quick start up time; yes, that'll probably slow down over the next five years as most laptops do, but we'll enjoy the good times while they're here. The intel i5 12th gen H series handles multiple processes like Adobe Photoshop, Cap Cut and multiple streaming Internet Explorer tabs effortlessly and I've hardly noticed the fan at all; in fact my external hard drives are louder in operation than the Asus. There's no ethernet port; I believe you can get an adaptor that allows ethernet use. There's a USB C port, which I've never had on a laptop before, so that's handy. Lack of lights on the keyboard is annoying but not a deal breaker. Also a lack of SD card reader, but again no deal breaker Slight negative is the keyboard area around the 'enter' button... when you press the 'enter' button, the surrounding keyboard plastic presses downwards, giving it a 'cheap' feel. It's my first ASUS and so far after three weeks I have no regrets. UPDATE: 27 Dec 2024: touchpad no longer works, which for a laptop is important. All the steps followed on Asus website and still not working. Avoid this product!

I bought this at £499, in a few days the price has increased by £80! ( tariff knock on maybe). Even so this is an excellent spec for the price, super sharp oled screen, i5 processor, 16gb ram, 1tb ssd drive. I knew it was a bargain when I saw it for a local committee i am part of, and now kicking myself I didn’t buy one for myself as well. Out of the box it needed the usual time wasting windows updates so spent about an hour doing that, then discovered that the trackpad was not working. Did some online research and found it needed an Asus firmware update which fixed the problem. I still give it 5 stars because this was a steal at the price and out of the box updates are a necessity. The oled screen is just beautiful, its fast and im sure for the general day to day use it will receive it will be perfect. Not bought as a gaming machine so not sure of the graphics capabilities.

this is my review of the asus X1505ZA with i5 12500H and 15.6" FHD OLED display after almost six months of daily usage as a desktop replacement. When sold at discount price the CPU, size and display makes it a decent desktop replacement though the lack of full featured USB-C ports and the HDMI 1.4 port does not allow to connect 4k or high refresh rate external displays with resolutions above 1080p pros: + gorgeous display though it is quite reflective and that can be disturbing in some environments + core i5 12500H is fast though it doesn't run at its best because of asus setting the tdp profile at 35 vs 45W + quiet though when playing videos on internet the fan often kicks in with a loud though not too disturbing "swoosh" + runs without issues so far + price (when sold with substantial discount) + keyboard is fine + various config settings for preventing OLED burnout cons: - really flimsy build, the plastic of the display frame is really thin and flimsy, I wouldn't trust putting the laptop in a backpack laptop slot without putting a protective sleeve on it as I fear if anything catches the display frame it will easily damage it - power efficiency and battery life are rather dismal, I observe a usual battery active runtime from 100% to 0% and from 80% to 20% of about 3 1/2 hrs and 2 hrs. The most efficient setting I found is to turn on windows energy saver , when using CPU intensive software like photoshop, battery depletes very quickly - good number of ports but the lack of full featured USB-C and HDMI 1.4 limits significantly the resolution and refresh rate of external monitors - the description states the laptop is rugged and complies with military grade standards, however nowhere in the package and leaflets this is mentioned so I guess it doesn't apply to this configuration - the asus splendid software is helpful if you do not have color calibration hardware but it is annoying if you do because it cannot be deactivated and conflicts with other display calibration software - the webcam is simply bad

Two of my family members own Asus Vivobook laptops which impressed me enough to order one for myself. The laptop arrived on schedule. Having sccessfully set up several new laptops including one of the family's Vivobooks I did not expect to have any problems. I pressed the on button and followed the onscreen instructions. I was surprised at the extreme length of time it took to download the updates. When the initial instal procedure was part way through the touchpad stopped working so I had to complete the rest of the process using the keyboard alone hoping that the final reboot would restore the touchpad. It didn't. Noting that some online reviews have commented the loss of the touchpad I searched online for advice to solve the issue. None of the suggestions I found worked for me. So I contacted Amazon helpline who refered me to Asus for help, also Amazon said they would call me the next day to check on the situation. Unfortunately Asus help line had just closed for the weekend. Amazon did not call back as promised. After more searching the internet I decided to do a recovery from within the BIOS, the cloud recovery was slow but did work and restored the laptop to the new out of box condition. So back to the initial install setup. Once completed I had a working laptop with a working touckpad. Great! Next step was start downloading my favourite programs, and I noticed that the downloads were much slower than I would expect compared with other devices in the same location. Using the onboard diagnostic program It showed the signal was weak and suggested I move the computer closed to the router. Download speed got so slow I moved the computer next to the router and ran the diagnostic again, the advice was still the signal was weak and move the computer closer to the router. Having put in a lot of time and effort trying to sort this and getting nowhere I said something like "oh dear" and requested a return for refund which Amazon processed very easily.

This was to replace a laptop I bought second hand several years ago but have spent multiple times a day cursing as it was sooooo slow. I don’t game but I do use a lot of fairly sizeable spreadsheets to organise my life. It was painful! This ASUS is so fast I rarely have time to blink. The keyboard and mouse are good too but I use separate ones for 99% of the time. This item was the spec I didn’t think I could afford. I would say that some may find the screen a bit small but this is set up on a desk and is the same screen size as the previous one which was ideal for me. It looks a lot smaller as the ‘frame’ is much narrower and it’s so thin. Weighs very little. Windows 11 takes a bit of getting used to but then so did the system on the previous one. The set up was easy but a friend did help copying all my ‘stuff’ over. Like moving home it’s time to clear the attic out. Painful to see how much rubbish and duplication I have on there. This is WiFi only and we set the printer option to WiFi which means a lot less cabling. There seems to be a lot more ports too so I can probably get rid of of the multi socket thing I’ve got for the separate keyboard and mouse. Hopefully this will outlast me! The colours are amazing so this may become my device of choice for tv catch up and not my mini iPad or my aging tv.

I'm by no means a tecchy wiz, but I know a fast laptop when I see one. This one is. The OLED screen is crystal clear, but I'm just a bit concerned that after buying it, I read about the screen burn, but as I just read emails, go to Facebook or play bingo on it, I'm no overly concerned, but I do keep the brightness below 50% just in case. Setting it up was a doddle, unpacked and installed my Microsoft account/Facebook/ favourite games in less than 20 minutes, and all up and running so quickly. It's a stylish bit of kit, looks good, but it tends to get a bit warm if you use it for what it was designed for....on your lap! No problem, I bought a cooling thingy. The only thing that bothers me is why oh why did laptop designers do away with the cd drive? Not Asus at fault here, all of them, I can't install my card making packages, or paint shop pro without having to pay for them a second time..... so thats why they've done it! But I'll just buy some memory sticks and take them off my old desktop and hope I can re-install them on this great laptop, worth a try! Sorry this is not a technical write up, but just to say, its great and the picture quality is gorgeous and I definitely won't drop this one, as I did its predecessor! Oh, I love the 1TB of capacity, it should take me 10 years to get close to filling it!!

First I ordered a USED one. It arrived on time, looked really great but the power button did not start up the Laptop. So I had to send it back. After two weeks of waiting for my refund, It got stacked in the Amazon mail centre, so I called Amazon support line, and got my refund within 3 days. I really liked the design and the price of the Laptop, so I bought again, but a New one. It Arrived even before the day it supposed to. But not a silver colour as it is advertised, but black colour. This time the Laptop start up. Finally I am satisfied. The Laptop has excellent smooth and fast performance for a mid budget laptop, due to the Intel I5 -12500H, fast SSDi drive and 16 gb RAM. The Processor is extremely fast. On benchmark site , it has one of the highest rating of all mid class processors. The laptop has very good display and sound. I like the camera cover. In general I am very satisfied, due to its performance. So far the fastest and smoothest Laptop I have ever had. It can do lot of tasks at the same time, which is what I need .

Asus Laptop Vivobook 15 X1505ZA bought 26/2/25 I'm struggling to rate this. It's 5 stars for the machine and 1 star for my set up experience - maybe it's a one-off and yours might be fine. Here's my observations starting with the bad stuff and ending on a high... *** The bad *** - In setting it up the touchpad would not work so I had to navigate setup menus with TAB, ALT+TAB and arrow keys. Nightmare. After around 2 hours of trying everything on the internet to fix it I was about to post it back to Amazon when I tried one last thing which no new user should ever have to do which was to do a BIOS reset. Most people won't even know what the BIOS is ! It's an easy fix though, hold the power key down as if switching it off but hold the key for over 40 seconds. This cured it once it rebooted. I hope Asus are listening! - The black plastic is an absolute fingerprint magnet and I really do not have greasy or sweaty fingers or palms. I would have preferred silver if it was available at the same price - The speakers are a serious embarrassment, my 180quid phone sounds infinitely better than this laptop - On the keyboard I dislike the tiny "Enter" key. I want something sizeable to whack at the end of a paragraph. If they were short of space who decided that the Shift key should be bigger and more important than the Enter key when there's already a shift key on the left hand side of the keyboard. Madness. - I miss the dedicated "home" and "End" which now require Fn to be pressed, so to select to the end of a document you need to press Shift+Ctrl+fn+right arrow key! - Battery life isn't as good as I expected for a modern machine, may be 3-4hours at best, but I can live with that - Really not bothered about a microbial guard and would rather have had a fingerprint free plastic... *** The Good *** - Good spec for the price 1Tb SSD,16Gb memory, 15.6" OLED screen 469GBP - Positives - noticeably quicker than my previous 10 yr old Acer i5 with 8Gb and physical hard drive when used for the heavy work of DSLR photos, Nikon NX studio and for spreadsheets, Breezes through browsing and document editing - The Wifi receiver/transmitter seems much more sensitive than my old laptop so connects and stays connected significantly better - Windows 11 hardly any different to Windows 10 - Lovely OLED screen display - Very quiet, little fan noise (it may be on more in the summer tbc) - I like the physical light for Caps lock - The laptop is around 1.5cm smaller all around than my previous laptop with the same screen size and is lighter. C contrary to some reviews I don't think it's particularly flimsy and easily holds its own weight without buckling if held up in just one corner - Bluetooth connectivity seems good which allows a better speaker to be used - I like that the tracker pad is more central than my previous machine - After owning it now for 2 weeks I am pleased with the performance and display of my Asus X1505ZA and would definitely recommend it if the price remains competitive Oh and one other thing, if you're currently using Microsoft Edge browser, the "shopping panel" that shows the price trend is absolute garbage, don't believe it. Edge says that in February when I bought the laptop that it was over 100GBP cheaper and I was searching for 2 weeks and the price never moved from the price I paid.