I see a lot of secondhand Asus laptop computers offered for sale. Are any good? Are they being dumped because they are no good. Were they very popular and people have fallen out of love with them?

Opinions please from members who have used them and/or are still using them.

16 minutes ago, Maybole said:

I see a lot of secondhand Asus laptop computers offered for sale. Are any good? Are they being dumped because they are no good. Were they very popular and people have fallen out of love with them?

Opinions please from members who have used them and/or are still using them.

I bought a Vivobook 16" about 6 months ago. Cost £370 on Amazon. Snapdraggon X processor, 512gb storage........works very well, certainly fast enough for what I need, but I'm no PC expert............It's lightweight and my only gripe is that, on mine, (no idea if it's common) the speakers vibrate through the body at 40% volume and up.... and if it's on your lap, it's not ideal. Nothing that a cushion doesn't fix though. I can live with it for the price I paid and have an external speaker when needed anyway....Charge lasts forever and screen is decent enough for my needs........

A while ago we switched from Dell to Asus for the company laptops. These laptops have a hard life due to extensive travel by the users, plus use outdoors. The Dells were always breaking down and while the fix on site service was good, they were just too unreliable.

The Asus laptops just kept working.

So for my own laptop I bought an Asus Zenbook Duo. It's also used when travelling and even on farms, and it's been excellent.

Perhaps there so many for sale because they just keep working and people upgrade to newer specs, whereas other brands break down and get thrown out?

I have 2 Asus laptops 2-4 years old. Both work great no problems. One is the Zenbook Duo, love it.

Edited June 13Jun 13 by henryford1958

ASUS fan also, and every new computer was just an upgrade, not a replacement due to a fault of previous one. Remember having 3 at one time. Almost needed them, XP, 2000, 2007 Windows on them, as with every upgrade, new Windows. loss the ability to see older files.

Now have Win10, (last Windows needed ) with option to buy 365, us use older programs, and now, Win 11 available, NO THANKS.

ASUS makes the components, not just assembles components from other OEMs.

Edited June 13Jun 13 by KhunLA

Many thank Gentlemen, keep the opinions coming please

I am on my 5th consecutive ASUS laptop since some time last century. Only purchased new when I needed higher specs or o/s. I have also built 7 or 8 towers and mini-desktops over the years using ASUS mobos. I wouldn't own anything else.

4 hours ago, henryford1958 said:

I have 2 Asus laptops 2-4 years old. Both work great no problems. One is the Zenbook Duo, love it.

Yep ..... I have an older Duo, and it's great when I need two screens when travelling. I've been eyeing the latest Zenbook Duo with the fold out screens, but it's expensive and my old one is working well. But it just looks so cool 😎

For those wishing to expand the laptop experience ...

... you could watch a movie, trade stocks and troll AN all at the same time

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Edited June 13Jun 13 by KhunLA

I have a Vivobook Pro with a 14" OLED screen which is great. Been using daily for 5 years now.

No complaints or issues thus far...........

I've got a 10+ year old ASUS ROG gaming computer and I'm typing on it right now. A couple of years ago, I spilled water on the keyboard and bought a replacement ASUS Vivobook before I was able to get the ROG fixed for about $20 (in China). The guy soldered on a new chip where there was a scorch mark on the motherboard. (Impressed the heck out of me).

The Vivobook's faster (newer processor), cost less, and weighs a lot less, so it's my traveling laptop. My 2 complaints: 1) Sound isn't loud enough so I wear Bluetooth earbuds for movies on the fly and 2) Keyboard isn't backlit, but it was real cheap so, oh well. It also doesn't have a graphics card like the ROG, but I'm not a gamer.

Big fan of the ASUS here...

Edited June 13Jun 13 by impulse

16 hours ago, Maybole said:

I see a lot of secondhand Asus laptop computers offered for sale. Are any good? Are they being dumped because they are no good. Were they very popular and people have fallen out of love with them?

Opinions please from members who have used them and/or are still using them.

Show some examples in so we can determine age, capability and price etc Some models were prone to charging port faults.

My not ASUS laptop is fourteen years old. Just spent 200 baht upgrading it to 8GB of RAM.

On 6/13/2026 at 1:56 AM, Kinnock said:

A while ago we switched from Dell to Asus for the company laptops. These laptops have a hard life due to extensive travel by the users, plus use outdoors. The Dells were always breaking down and while the fix on site service was good, they were just too unreliable.

The Asus laptops just kept working.

So for my own laptop I bought an Asus Zenbook Duo. It's also used when travelling and even on farms, and it's been excellent.

Perhaps there so many for sale because they just keep working and people upgrade to newer specs, whereas other brands break down and get thrown out?

That makes sense, I saw a row of 5 identical models all 5 years old and all using Windows 10 OS for sale in the window of a shop on Thursday.

On 6/12/2026 at 8:56 PM, Kinnock said:

A while ago we switched from Dell to Asus for the company laptops. These laptops have a hard life due to extensive travel by the users, plus use outdoors. The Dells were always breaking down and while the fix on site service was good, they were just too unreliable.

The Asus laptops just kept working.

So for my own laptop I bought an Asus Zenbook Duo. It's also used when travelling and even on farms, and it's been excellent.

Perhaps there so many for sale because they just keep working and people upgrade to newer specs, whereas other brands break down and get thrown out?

My ASUS is 5 years old. Works fine. Why did I buy an ASUS? I am just a "primitive user" so I bought the ASUS because it was in the middle price range. A highly academic approach, right? 😊

I'm planning to buy an ASUS Vivobook Go 15. This laptop will be only for watching Youtube movies in the evenings outdoors so I'm mostly interested in the screen quality. No gaming or office work. Advert says FHD. Anybody here can comment on Vivobook screen quality? Thank you.

Have had 2 Asus laptops and both great price for all the specs they had. I sold first one as didn't use it much but bought a Vivobook on Lazada for about 13000 bht and it does everything I need it for .

The woman I sold the first one too had always used macbooks and she said after 2 weeks of using the Asus that she couldn't believe how brilliant it was and that she wouldn't be wasting money on a MacBook again . Can't remember model number of the laptop but I got it for 28000bht reduced from 40000 bht from power buy as far as I remember.

I have used a second hand Asus Chromebook, £75,for 4 years now.

Still like new and completely idiot proof.

Bought a second hand one for our other house where we stay some weekends , works well.

On 6/13/2026 at 12:45 PM, KhunLA said:

... you could watch a movie, trade stocks and troll AN all at the same time

I hope you are joking. If not, you need to get more engrossing movies, or stop talking to the GGs!

Edited June 15Jun 15 by wil iam not

On 6/12/2026 at 6:12 PM, Maybole said:

I see a lot of secondhand Asus laptop computers offered for sale. Are any good? Are they being dumped because they are no good. Were they very popular and people have fallen out of love with them?

Opinions please from members who have used them and/or are still using them.

Second hand computers — both laptops and PCs — that are sold i malls or by larger stores on Lazada and Shopee are generally fine, but old and cannot be upgraded to a safe OS like Win10 or Win11. They will typically come with Win7 and some software, which can be a full MS Office-pack, fully licensed. Good for offline work, but cannot — or rather should not — be used online.

An old computer might have a limited hardware lifetime left — especially the hard drive — which you shaould compare in price to buying a new machine with full warranty.

An old Win 7 can be needed if you are using older — but still cool functional — software, which cannot woth on a 64-bit system, while a 32-bit Win7 or WinXP does the job. I bought for example such a secondhand Win7 PC for a brand new, but now rare, professional negative/dias scanner, that don't have drivers for Win10+.

On 6/13/2026 at 1:05 PM, KhunLA said:

ASUS fan also, and every new computer was just an upgrade, not a replacement due to a fault of previous one. Remember having 3 at one time. Almost needed them, XP, 2000, 2007 Windows on them, as with every upgrade, new Windows. loss the ability to see older files.

Now have Win10, (last Windows needed ) with option to buy 365, us use older programs, and now, Win 11 available, NO THANKS.

ASUS makes the components, not just assembles components from other OEMs.

I started off subscribing to office 365, but dropped it and downloaded Libre. Does everything office does for my basic needs and is free.

Didnt feel the need to drip feed one of the richest men on the planet my money.

What is really annoying is I had a paid for version of office from the early 2000's that worked on all the variations of windows until win11 came out.

Edited June 15Jun 15 by emptypockets

3 hours ago, khunPer said:

Second hand computers — both laptops and PCs — that are sold i malls or by larger stores on Lazada and Shopee are generally fine, but old and cannot be upgraded to a safe OS like Win10 or Win11. They will typically come with Win7 and some software, which can be a full MS Office-pack, fully licensed. Good for offline work, but cannot — or rather should not — be used online.

Your assertions are somewhat inaccurate. I think that you may have left a few essential words out. I have taken the trouble to add them to your original post:

3 hours ago, khunPer said:

Second hand computers — both laptops and PCs that are more than sixteen years old — that are sold i malls or by larger stores on Lazada and Shopee are generally fine, but old and cannot be upgraded to a safe OS like Win10 or Win11. They will typically come with Win7 and some software, which can be a full MS Office-pack, fully licensed. Good for offline work, but cannot — or rather should not — be used online.

Almost any PC from 2010 and beyond may be compatible with Windows 10. Any PC from 2018 and beyond should be automatically be compatible with Windows 11, though even older PC are still currently able to install it, bypassing arbitrary requirements.

Your post is quite misleading.

On 6/12/2026 at 11:12 PM, Maybole said:

I see a lot of secondhand Asus laptop computers offered for sale. Are any good? Are they being dumped because they are no good. Were they very popular and people have fallen out of love with them?

Opinions please from members who have used them and/or are still using them.

I use one but bought it new about two years ago, best laptop I ever had.

3 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

I use one but bought it new about two years ago, best laptop I ever had.

Asus laptops are very good computers. I have an Asus monitor that's been starting to lose an edge and will need replacement soon enough, but it's almost 15 years old now.