Budget 16-inch laptop! ASUS Vivobook 16 M1605Y review

For the price, this is a special laptop - but is it worth the price?

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[dmitrijgrigorjev]

Not bad laptop for day to day usage, no heating, powerful, but the battery could be bigger, not 42 WH but 62 WH

[anthonykyledaquila]

Bought it last week for only 30K pesos in the Philippines, it was on sale for -15% so i said why not. I really like the 16:10 aspect ratio and the included fingerprint sensor. I got the ryzen 5 7530u variant with 8gb ram. I do need to upgrade it with another 8gb ram to enable dual channel and boost up gameplay FPS. For the screen i don't see any issue with it since it has the same specs as my PC monitor. My only complaint is the very inadequate downward firing speakers. The volume is just too low and there's no bass at all so i resort to using external speakers or headphones.

[clemerlontayaojr]

watching from my newly purchased ASUS VIVOBOOK 16 M1605Y Indie Black Laptop. 🤩

[Mariampouuuu]

I find that the best resolution is 1680 x 1050 for this laptop. It is rather tiring in 1920 x 1200. I have tested it a lot in order to choose the 1680x1050 resolution as optimum. The screen is not very good, but I do own an HP Probook 650 g8 (intel i5 1135g7/8gb/256gb - iris xe graphics) and I think they look quite the same. Overall, this Vivobook is great value for money. I bought it for just 480 euros. The best price that I find for hp pro 650 g8 is 600 euros (well a few months ago because it is not available anymore). The battery on the last one lasts only 2, 5 hours while on asus holds for 7-8 hours and the charger is a lot smaller that the HP's, thus it is a lot more portable. The 16' vs the 15, 6' screen is a huge plus for me. I think that overall Asus holds a better value. Maybe I should go for the oled screen, but I only want to use it for office purposes. Do you have a recommendation as an upgrade option for the screen? Do you think that a screen with better Hz is going to be less strenuous for the eyes?

[Daltirado]

I want to buy this laptop mostly for gaming (I know it's a budget version), mostly I'm interested in playing Valorant, LOL, Fornite, and others. Do you recommend it for those levels of games?

[DjSmoothNY]

Great laptop for djing. I have the Ryzen 9 w/780M built in graphics and since I only use it for Serato Dj Pro it’s plenty powerful. I was using a Ryzen 7 laptop but was getting some audio dropouts. Most likely because I only had 8gigs ram and it wasn’t upgradable. No more dropouts😊 I might eventually upgrade the Ram but honestly there’s no real urgency at this point. Great video✌🏾

[tecmissle]

ASUS Vivobook M1605YA 16.0" WUXGA Laptop (AMD Ryzen 7-7730U, 16GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, Backlit Keyboard, But they sell it with windows 11 home S and people say you cannot remove the S mode .... no interenet cable port ... idk ?

[Aleks]

Не плохой обзор. Смотрел с субтитрами но все хорошо понял. Спасибо 🤝🏻

[mateoalexiou]

I have this laptop but with a 13th gen i5 and it’s so smooth for school and gaming

[tsinoy]

Planning on buying Vivobook 16, i5' 16GB/512GB, Intel Iris GPU, Win 11 with MS Home & Student. Also comes with Microsoft 365 Basic (could be a trial version, might cancel later). Will be using Word extensively and sometimes Excel. Might also be doing video edits on it and watching some. May also install Photoshop later. Not a gamer. Specs good for me? Thanks!

[Shshshsh]

Do you know what is the refresh rate of this laptop? It says 60hz in the product description on lazada store, but the customer service says it is 120hz

[BROS.aGRUNT]

Is this good for project nexus or tf2?

[bleepblop]

I've had this laptop for 2 years now. Runs games well and I felt had a good keyboard. Now for cons, my fan started making an unbearably loud noise so I checked for viruses which was fine and tried changing settings but still continued. Opened laptop to clean fan and there were pieces unattached. Tried putting them back where they should be and the fittings of the hardware did not fit. The screen screws also broke as I was cleaning fan (had barley moved the '180' rotating screen). Noise still happening and laptop is now in a sorry state. The sound is shocking which has been the case since I bought it and the screen quality is awful. Highly recommend not purchasing the laptop. I won't be buying ASUS again!

[milanmondal]

How much maximum ram the SODIMM slot can take?

[lelelechko]

Any problems while using on Linux/Ubuntu os?

[Me-tmdz]

Hey NLT, can you make a video about the Infinix gt 10 pro? I'm planning to buy it and probably use it for 3 - 5 years, there arn't much reviews about it either so i'm not really sure about it🙏

[Arkhamknight-xcvz]

On which resolution did you ply genshin impact

[MikeShift-IOTW]

Is it already OLED? Please respond.. Thanks!

[ASgfjyhgyi]

04:06 - can you see something on screen??? Must I use a candle?

Is it true that there are sanctions against card readers? Today, it is almost impossible to buy a laptop with a built-in card reader. It's like buying a vehicle without a steering wheel.
The screen brightness is also reduced to a minimum for the new laptops. In North Korea, the employees of the laptop company, along with their families, would be shot in public for such an offense. It's a pity that it doesn't happen here.