External optical drives can be had for around $20, so not a deal breaker. It’s a real disappointment in design! Next, there is no optical drive, but I knew that when I purchased it and know it’s more “the norm” these days than the exception. , are VERY hard to see, especially with the keys, mouse and keyboard cover all being the same, silver color! The letters/numbers on the keys are not painted on, they are translucent and I assume they are so to let the light through on those with the backlight option. Having read one of the reviews that mentioned the backlit keyboard, I thought it was standard. If you have the backlit keyboard, there will be a keyboard icon on the F7 function key if the F7 function key does not have the icon, then the laptop does not have a backlit keyboard. I thought I lost a lot of pics and documents on my last computer, but I was surprised to find my items transferred over via the cloud once I clicked on the import bookmarks option on the Microsoft Edge browser! There are a few things that I don’t like, the biggest being the keyboard is not backlit apparently, it’s an option on the ASUS Vivobook K712E laptops. ![]() 3″ screen laptop! It arrived in two days and was easy to set up. ASUS has a good reputation and I was very impressed with the $499 price of this 17. My previous two laptops were both made by Acer and lasted almost 10-years each. The touchpad is offset in relation to the letter keys, making it likely your right palm or thumb will hit the touchpad while typing. This, along with the touchpad, could have been better implemented by eliminating the number pad and centering the letter keys over the touchpad, which would make it less likely to bump the touchpad by accident while typing. , is strange if you’re used to a standard keyboard. The other thing I don’t like is that the number pad is a bit strange, as it’s squeezed horizontally but not vertically, so the relative distances between the numbers and +,-, /, etc. It prevents most of these inconveniences, but not all. 5 seconds (you pick the interval) before the touchpad becomes active again. You can have it turn off the touchpad while you’re typing and have a time delay of like 1. I can’t completely work around this, but a free utility called Touchpad Blocker helps some. ![]() While typing, it’s all too easy for your palm or the base of your thumb to momentarily touch the touchpad and move the insertion point up or down, sometimes into an entirely different paragraph. One is the “new and improved because it’s bigger” touchpad, which gets in the way when typing. One thing to note, though, is that OLED screens can suffer from screen burn-in if you have a static image There are ONLY two things I don’t care for on it. That gives it nice, rich colors and deep contrast. It’s backlit, which is nice, even if you’re in a well-lit room. They’re chicklet style and fairly quiet, but not totally so. The feel of the keys on the keyboard is nice. It boots very quickly, has a nice sized screen without being too wide like a 17″ screen seems to be for me. ![]() Now that I got that out there, I am quite satisfied with the laptop with the two exceptions below. My recommendation is to immediately go into the Asus utilities and get your video driver updated. It’s been a week that I’ve had it with no problems. I manually went in and updated the video driver the same night I brought the 2nd one home and haven’t had any BSODs. I’ll add here that right after getting the laptop the first time, it upgraded to Windows 11, and win 11 may have added the wrong video driver. I did a little research with the MyASUS utility on the laptop and it may have been an incompatible video driver. ![]() After getting the Bitlocker protection to let me into the moved hard drive, everything was OK from there. I took it back to Microcenter, and we switched it out for another one, switching the heard drive in the process. It would then restart and seem OK for a day, then it would do it again. I will first say that the first one of these I received kept giving me BSODs (blue screen of death) every day or so in the middle of doing things.
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