ASUS Vivobook Go 15.6" E1504gA-WS35, Core i3-N305, 8GB, 256GB SSD, Silver

The ASUS Vivobook Go E1504gA is all about that OLED screen, which is a standout at this price. Everything else is budget-tier, with weak CPU, RAM, and storage scores. Worth a look only if you find it cheap and your needs are light.

The i3-N305 is an 8-core chip, but these are efficiency cores, not performance cores. It handles Chrome tabs, Office apps, and video streaming fine. Push it with photo editing or a dozen browser tabs and you'll feel the 8GB RAM ceiling fast. The 256GB SSD is also tight, and it's UFS storage, not a proper NVMe drive, so load times are okay but not snappy. The integrated Intel UHD Graphics are what they are. Gaming is a 10.7 out of 100 in our scoring, which is basically a polite way of saying don't. The OLED screen is the one bright spot, literally. It's only 250 nits and 45% NTSC color, so it's not a great OLED, but it's still an OLED. Blacks look black and colors pop more than any LCD at this price.

Stack this against the MacBook Pro M5 or Surface Laptop 7th Edition and it's not even a fair fight. Those machines cost multiples more and obliterate this Vivobook in every performance metric. The more realistic comparison is against other budget Windows laptops. The Lenovo Legion 5i and Acer Predator Helios are gaming machines, totally different category. The MSI Creator A13V is for creators. None of those are really competitors for someone shopping this. The honest take is that this Vivobook competes with Chromebooks and other sub-500 EUR Windows laptops, and its OLED screen is the one thing that sets it apart. Everything else is average or below.

Pricing is all over the map here. We see it listed at 946 EUR in Europe and 677 GBP in the UK, which is frankly too much for these specs. At that price you're paying a premium for the OLED panel and not much else. The refurbished listings on Newegg might bring the price down to something more reasonable, but we don't have a confirmed US price. If you can find this under 400 EUR or so, the screen makes it interesting. Above that, you're overpaying for a pretty face.

The ASUS Vivobook Go E1504gA is a budget laptop that tries to punch above its weight with an OLED screen. That display is the whole story here. It's a 15.6-inch 1080p OLED panel, which is genuinely unusual at this price point and lands in the 76th percentile for screens in our database. The rest of the machine is a lot more ordinary.

Inside you get an Intel i3-N305, 8GB of DDR4, and a 256GB SSD. That's a recipe for basic web browsing, document work, and streaming. Not much else. The CPU sits in the 22nd percentile and the RAM and storage are both down at the 14th percentile. This is a laptop for people who want a pretty screen and don't ask much else of their hardware.

Skip this if you need to run anything beyond a web browser and Office. The 8GB RAM and weak i3-N305 will frustrate you within months if you're a heavy multitasker. Also skip it if you need long battery life away from an outlet, since we have no battery data and budget ASUS laptops tend to be mediocre there. And if you need real storage for photos, videos, or games, 256GB is a non-starter.

Buy this if you want the cheapest OLED laptop you can find and your workload is email, web, and Netflix. The screen is genuinely nice for the money, assuming you find a good refurbished deal. But know what you're getting into. 8GB RAM and 256GB storage will feel tight within a year or two. This is a second laptop, a student machine for light work, or a streaming device with a keyboard. It is not a primary computer for anyone who does more than the basics.