ASUS X551MA-RCLN03 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black )

Machine worked right from the start. It has all the features I wanted and software was loaded and ready for me to start it up. Instructions for use easy. It has performed well since I purchased it.Since it comes from the gaming community it has sound features (surround sound) that I will probably never use, but I don't mind it. I would easily recommend this machine to others and expect it will give me long service..

This is what you get for trying to get a laptop on a budget...After one month it just decided to not turn on. It seems the mother board just went out... really?The specs are everything were fine. But because it died after the period in which we can refund it, we wasted 326 dollars...I see the price is now at 256, but that isn't even a fair price still.This was for my dad cause his HP died after 4 years (cause he dropped water on it), and I recommended him an ASUS cause I have an ASUS and it has served me well for 3 years. But I guess really cheap ASUS's are bad...I got him the Dell Inspiron 15.6-Inch Laptop (i15RV-954BLK) on here, its around 350 for that and it has worked fine so far and he had it for 5 months now.

I purchased this laptop for my son who is a college student. So far, the laptop has met his academic needs.Thomas

This laptop does not have latest windows 8.1 as advertised. The PC did not meet expectations as described in product description.

First, I'm loving the speed of a new laptop running Windows 8 (downloaded separately). However, I find the mouse pad built into the keyboard a bit wonky. The cursor floats a lot and because all three surfaces (mouse, left-click, and right-click) are under one physical surface the cursor tends to float away as the user clicks. I'm getting used to the slight differences in keyboard layout (as well as the major differences in Windows 8), but it remains difficult to easily control the cursor. I'm considering resorting to a separate mouse! I did have one unexpected power-off event and found that none of the backup saves stuck so that several hours of work was lost. I was able to recreate it, but it was frustrating. Still, I don't know the reason for the momentary power loss. The screen is nice and wide. I'm not sure if it's me or the keys, but they don't always respond as I expect, but this doesn't happen often. I may just need more time to get used to the touch. The price was nice, but if I had a second chance I'd hold out for something a little more solidly built.

So far we love it.....I am not sure of the battery life but hope it lasts for years to come because the battery is not replacable! It is light weight and the charger is much smaller than a usual laptop charger....the only thing we dislike is it comes with Windows 8 which we hate but overall this is a great laptop!

A friend of my family turned me into Asus a few years ago. My first laptop last a long time before it gave up, so I knew Asus was going to give me my next laptop. Windows 8 is amazing (even if it just takes a little getting used to!). I love this laptop and would recommend it to EVERYONE!

I like it because it has full keyboard with numeric pad, has large RAM memory and hard drive capacity, enough for me. Processor is not on the best performance, but for work is enough.