Asus Multimedia F555/556 Series

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81% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Lots of processing brawn; Moderately affordable; Strong audio ; Low-res display; Bouncy keyboard; Tons of bloatware ; The Asus F555UA is a high-performing and moderately affordable notebook that's hampered by a low-res display and flexy keyboard.

Low-res display; Bouncy keyboard; Tons of bloatware ; The Asus F555UA is a high-performing and moderately affordable notebook that's hampered by a low-res display and flexy keyboard.

The Asus F555UA is a high-performing and moderately affordable notebook that's hampered by a low-res display and flexy keyboard.

matte display ; good performance ; suitable for gaming ; doesn't get hot ; very quiet most of the time ; good battery life

dark display ; keyboard flexes ; PWM flickering

The Core i5 processor offers enough performance to satisfy most users, while the GeForce 940M GPU allows for gaming as well. During normal use, the notebook is quiet and doesn't get very warm even under load. The storage space is generous thanks to the...

Good performance, Can handle games, Chassis doesn't get hot, Power consumption comperatively low, Quiet most of the time

Keyboard flexes

Compared to the notebooks equipped with the previous generation hardware, the combination of new Broadwell CPU and Kepler GPU increases the performance significantly. CPU and graphics performance are up by 20 to 30%. Fortunately, the performance gain...

Good application performance, Capable of running games, Barely warms up

Keyboard rocks back and forth, Dark display

Asus' F555LD-XX243H is an inexpensive, all-round notebook. The computer offers enough performance for everyday applications, and its GeForce core makes it possible to run computer games as well. Thanks to the 1 TB hard drive, there's plenty of storage...

Decent display contrast, not good for photo buffs though Good keyboard Decent battery life (~6hrs with battery saver mode) Upgradable RAM

Asus adware galore i7-6500u only has 2 cores and 4 threads, not a full desktop i7 Trackpad software is inconsistent No num lock indicator, scroll lock indicator, caps lock indicator Poor resolution but still better than HD Optical drive (really? I'd...

-Attractive design -Good trackpad -Fast (at first)

-Cheap, badly laid out keyboard. The keyboard "surface" flexed in and out a good 2 millimeters. -Screen not great. -Constant "not responding" messages when using firefox -Laptop had a very noisy hard drive. This was tolerable at first, but after about...

High end laptop with an Intel I7 and 8G of ram super fast light weight great for all around use, not for gaming due to on board video capabilities.

Does not have a removable battery, and the OEM power adapter that ASUS has been sending with the 550 series laptops is cheaply made. I ordered a power adapter that fits all of these laptops 65W Asus F550C F550CA F550CC F550D F550DP F550E F550L F550LB...

Fast Sleek Lots of storage Good battery life Windows 10 i7 Good color

Shift button too small. No backlight indicators for num lock and caps lock. It would be nice if it had a notification on the screen when you have caps lock on or off. Asus Bloatware (Easy to remove) TrackPad buttons are flat.

- Performance is great so far. First time setup for Windows 10 went quicker than I thought it would go. - While not extremely lightweight, it's still light enough to carry around easily. - Manages to stay nice and cool, even with the bit of gaming I...

- No keyboard indicator lights for caps, scroll or num lock. I use my external gaming keyboard so not a big deal for me, but would have been nice to have for the times it's not on hand. - I wish the location of the power button wasn't above the esc key...