Cheapest OLED laptop available. 40% off RRP$999 which The Good Guys sells it for.
Up to 10 hours of battery life and a FHD OLED screen makes this laptop a good option for media consumption.
27 units in stock around the country at time of posting.
ASUS Vivobook Go 15.6" OLED Laptop: i3-N305 CPU/8GB RAM/512GB SSD $597 (C&C Only, Limited Stores) @ Officeworks
950
shxhshzhz on 19/05/2024 - 18:15 officeworks.com.au (4621 clicks)
Last edited 19/05/2024 - 19:09 by 1 other user
Last edited 19/05/2024 - 19:09 by 1 other user
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15.6" is a large-ish screen for a laptop.
Yeah worry that 8gb ram only will sure struggle with watching youtube + unzipping rar files + downloading all happening at once.
Not if you install linux or chromeos
You mean wipe out Windows and run linux on this laptop will make it much faster?
Always
my laptop came with windows 11 and consumed 25-35 watts at "idle" with 50% ram usage. swapped to linux and my idle was 11watts, ram usage around 20%. windows is basically malware.
@JigBew: You might do significantly better if you can kill off unnecessary processes maybe even better than Linux. Linux is not the best with managing low power states as the proprietary device drivers are written by the vendors and tested with Windows and the Linux devs may not implement the proprietary tricks that are only apparent from reverse engineering the Windows drivers. I often suggest to Windows users not prepared to switch to Linux that they upgrade to an earlier version of Windows.
I don't know that you can compare raw RAM usage figures across systems as they are nor measuring the same things. At the moment my Linux laptop is reporting free RAM for me but roughly the same amount is in use as swap. More RAM is in use as buff/cache. Maximising RAM usage is good. Wasting it is not.
@Stingo: I have dual boot L Mint and Win11 on my Dell XPS 13, battery life is slightly better in Win11.
@giordan0: You might be able to improve battery life on Linux with suitable tweaking. Here's a random thread I googled.
Do we even know whether the hardware of this laptop is compatible with Linux?
@Stingo: Thanks, I haven't run any optimizations so far on the XPS13 (just stock install of Mint). I'll read up further on the link supplied.
Why no just do one of those things at once?
Perfect media laptop. Hopefully these kind of laptops have way better battery life with the new snapdragons being released soon.
Anyone know how this screen might compare to the magnificent Surface Laptop screen I'm used to?
Could anyone please let me know if it's possible to swap the screens between these two different laptop models? Here is the link: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/846475
No
Thanks for your reply.
Any stock anywhere?
New South Wales
Bondi Junction
(02) 8305 0200
4
Campbelltown
(02) 4621 6700
1
Chatswood
(02) 9201 8600
1
Eastern Creek
(02) 9854 1000
1
Hunter St
(02) 8223 1700
1
Nowra
(02) 4428 9800
1
Orange
(02) 6361 5100
1
Taree
(02) 6539 0300
1
Taren Point
(02) 8543 3100
1
West Gosford
(02) 4336 2100
1
Victoria
Coburg
(03) 9353 5400
1
Kew East
(03) 8851 4700
1
Pakenham
(03) 5943 3400
1
Taylors Lakes
(03) 9361 5700
1
Wodonga
(02) 6049 1100
1
Queensland
Hervey Bay
(07) 4197 9500
1
Windsor
(07) 3637 4400
1
Western Australia
Joondalup
(08) 9301 8600
3
O'Connor
(08) 6310 3100
1
South Australia
Gawler Place
(08) 8233 0000
1
Australian Capital Territory
Fyshwick
(02) 6131 9200
1Took the last eastern creek one
Pls let us know how's the oled screen.
If warranty is something you care about then I say watch this video. I personally would hesitate buying anything from ASUS.
https://youtu.be/I3DwhTc7Z4o?si=mebmXE18tNF5s5O8You're not buying direct from ASUS though, you're buying from Officeworks.
Hmm I could be totally wrong but I thought if there's an issue with the product you would need to claim it directly with the manufacturer. Even if you can claim it with Officeworks they will still need to send it back to ASUS for assessment and repair.
No, you have Australian Consumer Law rights as against the retailer, not the manufacturer. Manufacturers' contractual warranties can't restrict those.
You can and should go through retailers first.
@Gorby: Ahh right so I was indeed totally wrong haha. This is good to know as I have always gone straight to the manufacturer in the past i.e. Apple, Samsung etc.
Americans with sh*t consumer protection (much like their healthcare system) versus chad accc backing us up?
Asus have 2/5 like Lenovo on consumerreports, that looks low until you realise its still better than other major laptop manufacturer at 1/5 stars, yeah no, no brand is better than other here.
Yeah ACCC eventually fine dodgy companies, like MSY coped $750000 and Dell got a 10 million penalty. Anyway I think ASUS still make the one of the best graphics cards, but for this post when it comes to laptops they feel cheap and usually end up in a repair shop pretty easily. For the same price you can definitely shop around for something else.
My 14 yo pampered upgraded asus still surfs . Bit slow tho .
My 24 year old Asus is the only HN product that still works.
My 24 year old Asus
Pentium 3 ?
Probably below. At one stage I managed to run Win XT ATM version, all the security, no bloatware.
Then Gerry adopted a furry?
awesome price for NEW and the specs
Just told it was display stock! Doh!
Same and I was offered a discount of $100
I’ve picked mine up and I’ll run a battery test tonight if it’s too bad I’ll just return it. What did you end up doing?
Doh just realised ex display model and OLED screen burn in. I’ll boot to recovery tonight to see how bad it is.
@Jaff: Screen was perfect, the bios hold down f2 before power on, has a screen test function. battery report states only been in use for 2 months and 2.5% degradation. Touch pad does show some signs of use but that it’s to be expected.
nice laptop for a student, with a decent screen for media consumption
May I ask where I can check live stock?
thanksNo stock anywhere
https://officeworks.youinstock.com.au/
or
I'm not sure how "live" these are though (plus it looks like this particular laptop is no longer on the Officeworks website).
My year 5 child's school requires a MacBook and the cheapest new MacBook Air is $1800. The school says you can not bring any devices other than a MacBook, it is used to learn web browsing and Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
Not too sure where you've been looking but the MacBook Air M1 is $1278 at Officeworks. Still a very capable laptop.
That or you can find the same model for less than $1k used.
The non oled Vivobook I purchased last year only lasts 4 hours off battery. But it is a beefier unit (better processor and ram). Jealous about the 10 hour usage time.
paloverde88 on 19/05/2024 - 19:18 Comment score below threshold.