ASUS VivoBook 17 S712DA-BX630 price in Ireland starts from €912.00. This AMD Ryzen 5 powered by Notebook laptop is an absolute workhorse and loved by many professional users and students in Ireland due to its battery with very decent battery life and 4 GB DDR4-SDRAM memory.
Let's have look at some of the Key Pros & Cons of this laptop model to compare if this is really worthy of €912.00
Design and Built quality
From top view, the laptop is 406.9 mm of width and 256 mm height and total thickness of . being in those dimensions the laptop weights only 2.3 kg
Display
ASUS VivoBook 17 S712DA-BX630 has a very large screen of 17.3 inch display which would be perfect for any professional who needs a big screen and doesn't want to use an external display at all the times. graphic designers and gamers love this screen size. 17.3 inch HD+ display with 1600 x 900 pixels is the typical specification for a laptop in this category. you should be able to use as a daily driver for almost all the daily tasks.
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Performance
Processor :
With the powerful 2.1GHz AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor, this ASUS laptop is a power house for all the applications or games that are available in Ireland. Using ASUS utility software, you can boost the processor speed up to 3.7GHz.
Having 4 cores with 4MB cache memory would be ok for running 2 or 3 applications simultaneously.
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RAM :
Having just 4 GB, this Laptop doesn't have sufficient memory to run most of the heavy applications or games. even the newer version of operating systems requires more than 3GB memory. DDR4-SDRAM means that it requires less power consumption than DDR3 or other RAM types. 2666 MHz is average clock speed for most of the RAMs. which means it can store and retrieve data much faster than other RAM types. when Graphics card built in memory is insufficient, system uses RAM for memory. Having a faster Clock speed will make syncing that data much faster.
This ASUS laptop has RAM slots on the board, so you can upgrade memory up to 16 GB.
Graphics :
This Laptop doesn't have a dedicated Graphics card. it has on-board AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphihcs chip with which you can do usual light work. but for gaming or any heavy graphics oriented work. this laptop is not the best.
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Storage :
Primary disk of this laptop is a 1000 GB SSD. This is also compatible with M.2 NVMe, PCI Express 3.0 storage. It doesn't have a buit-in CD/DVD Rom so you will have to use an external device if you plan to use CDs or DVDs.
ports & Connectivity :
Laptop comes with Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Bluetooth version 4.1 connectivity. with WIFI 5 (802.11ac) You would get around 3.5Gbps but now that understand that there are laptops with WIFI 6 which can transfer Data more than 10Gbps. This laptop doesn't have an Ethernet Port so you will have to use a converter if you need to connect using Ethernet.
It has 3 USB Type-A ports which is nice as most of the USB devices use this type of ports.
This ASUS laptop doesn't have any USB Type-C ports which can be adeal breaker for some people who are looking for that extra power. It doesn't have Thunderbolt supported ports. Thunderbolt 3 lets you transfer data at up to 40Gbps.
It has an HDMI port for video output so you can easily connect your monitor or a projector. Laptop is charged using port.
Camera :
Built-in camera in this laptop is a HD with image resolution. Which would be decent enough for your video calls.
Battery :
is not a big battery capacity so you will not be able to use the laptop more than 2 or 3 hours on battery power. ASUS VivoBook 17 S712DA-BX630 has a battery which weights around . Battery is charged with 45 W power adepter using port. It takes around to fully charge the battery.
Price Analysis
The best and lowest price for ASUS VivoBook 17 S712DA-BX630 in Ireland is €912.00 from harveynorman.ie, Swords, Dublin , which is €14.00 (2%) less than the highest price listed here for ASUS VivoBook 17 S712DA-BX630, price from currys.ie, Omni Shopping Centre, Santry, Dublin which is at (€926.00) .. You can find ASUS VivoBook 17 S712DA-BX630 for the above stated price range in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Derry, Limeric, Galway, Craigavon, Waterford, Drogheda in Ireland
