Greetings People,
Two years ago I got a Lenovo Flex 14 which at $525 was insanely reasonable on Black Friday and so I dove on it. That same unit is now $700. But it had one shortcoming: it shipped with 8GBs of RAM but secretly devoted 2GBs of RAM to the GPU. Something I don't need. I'd rather have 12GBs of RAM for the PC itself. So I figured I'd sell it this Xmas season. (This PC is not the topic.)
The topic is my intended replacement: this brand stinky new Asus OLD Vivobook
I got a slightly better price of $110 off. I got my wife this model 3 years ago with a MEH IPS screen, 8GBs of RAM, and 256 storage. So to pay $10 less 3 years later but get extra RAM, twice the storage, and OLED? Had to push that button.
This thing flies! Battery is way better, keyboard a slight downgrade, but the star of the show -- the OLED -- is gorgeous for this price. That OLED allows me to use this thing outside (sorry Lenovo) and everything is as beautiful as it appears on an OLED or AMOLED or BILLANDTED phone.
But I did mention an AMAZING flaw, now didn't I? It's already happened 3 times in one day. I don't know if y'all are like try doing things with drivers or send that puppy back as a Christmas gift. I can live without this upgrade, mind you. It's just so disappointing.
That lovely screen? It's died like Pac Man 3 times today. It's really funny looking too. It looks like someone is closing horizontal blinds. As the blinds close a 'blackness' descends and the screen is toast EXCEPT FOR a thin green line at the top of the screen. A reboot fixes, but not for long.
I have until somewhere in January to return this -- and so I'm open to playing with drivers. It's running the latest Windows 11... which I installed on top of it's native Windows 10. (That is, I did not do a clean install.) Oh and I haven't contacted Asus yet because it's Sunday.
SPOILER: in no way am I going to send this into Asus to see what they think. If it's a simple driver thing, fine. If it's wait for our new driver, I'm going to say 'You better hurry up because it's going back if not fixed'. I've read too many stories here and elsewhere of peeps running down the Amazon return window clock and getting STUCK with such a unit.
Sorry for the novel but the movie's screenplay isn't written yet. What do you think? Return it anyway or explore drivers?
SFC says everything is A-OKAY. Troubleshooters are happy too.
Two years ago I got a Lenovo Flex 14 which at $525 was insanely reasonable on Black Friday and so I dove on it. That same unit is now $700. But it had one shortcoming: it shipped with 8GBs of RAM but secretly devoted 2GBs of RAM to the GPU. Something I don't need. I'd rather have 12GBs of RAM for the PC itself. So I figured I'd sell it this Xmas season. (This PC is not the topic.)
The topic is my intended replacement: this brand stinky new Asus OLD Vivobook
I got a slightly better price of $110 off. I got my wife this model 3 years ago with a MEH IPS screen, 8GBs of RAM, and 256 storage. So to pay $10 less 3 years later but get extra RAM, twice the storage, and OLED? Had to push that button.
This thing flies! Battery is way better, keyboard a slight downgrade, but the star of the show -- the OLED -- is gorgeous for this price. That OLED allows me to use this thing outside (sorry Lenovo) and everything is as beautiful as it appears on an OLED or AMOLED or BILLANDTED phone.
But I did mention an AMAZING flaw, now didn't I? It's already happened 3 times in one day. I don't know if y'all are like try doing things with drivers or send that puppy back as a Christmas gift. I can live without this upgrade, mind you. It's just so disappointing.
That lovely screen? It's died like Pac Man 3 times today. It's really funny looking too. It looks like someone is closing horizontal blinds. As the blinds close a 'blackness' descends and the screen is toast EXCEPT FOR a thin green line at the top of the screen. A reboot fixes, but not for long.
I have until somewhere in January to return this -- and so I'm open to playing with drivers. It's running the latest Windows 11... which I installed on top of it's native Windows 10. (That is, I did not do a clean install.) Oh and I haven't contacted Asus yet because it's Sunday.
SPOILER: in no way am I going to send this into Asus to see what they think. If it's a simple driver thing, fine. If it's wait for our new driver, I'm going to say 'You better hurry up because it's going back if not fixed'. I've read too many stories here and elsewhere of peeps running down the Amazon return window clock and getting STUCK with such a unit.
Sorry for the novel but the movie's screenplay isn't written yet. What do you think? Return it anyway or explore drivers?
SFC says everything is A-OKAY. Troubleshooters are happy too.
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