If you’re looking to pick up a powerful laptop on the cheap, you’ve come to the right place. Best Buy’s selling the Asus Vivobook 16 for $499.99, which is a savings of $250. This machine comes loaded with AMD hardware and a spacious 16-inch 1080p display. The blue color scheme is also quite chic. According to one review on Best Buy, this laptop is lightweight and it’s fast enough to run multiple tabs at the same time. Bootup times are blazing fast, too.
Let’s dive into the specs for a moment. The Asus Vivobook 16 is rocking an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H CPU, AMD Radeon graphics, 12GB of RAM, and 512GB of SSD storage. That’s more than enough oomph (aka power) to handle office tasks, browsing the web, watching YouTube, and so on. The 16-inch display also has a resolution of 1920×1080, which is fine for day-to-day use. As for connectivity options, you’re getting one HDMI, one USB-A 2.0, two USB-A 3.0, and one USB-C 3.0.
This is a good deal, but I don’t expect it to last very long, so you better swoop in sooner rather than later.
Author: Ashley Biancuzzo, Associate Editor, PCWorld
Ashley Biancuzzo manages all laptop and Chromebook coverage for PCWorld. She's been covering consumer tech since 2016, and her work has appeared on USA Today, Reviewed, Polygon, Kotaku, StarWars.com, and Nerdist. In her spare time, she enjoys playing video games, reading science fiction, and hanging out with her rescue greyhound.