ASUS ExpertBook B9450 Thin and Light Business Laptop B9450FA-XS79

Ok I had the recent Macbooks, Dell XPS 13 all top spec ... then i switched to this! Wow what a machine. The perfect laptop. Longest run time and lightest weight of any 14 inch laptop. The cpu actually feels faster than the xps13 who has a slightly more advanced cpu same gen but 7nm cpu. Single thread is higher on the asus. Also LOVE the asus apps to adjust battery charge and so on. If you need a work laptop, don't play top notch computer games, this is the laptop to get. It is so light it is ridiculous and battery lasts longer than any other box. Love this machine and I am a power user!

It's minimalistic in the right ways. One flash drive slot for a traveling laptop is about all I need, an extra would have been nice though.On Windows:Without any adjustments, the fan was pretty loud with a high-pitched hiss. I could hear it quite painfully in a quiet environment with no other noise. The laptop also seemed to get warm pretty easily.When I was adjusting the BIOS settings the fan was screaming like crazy. The intense ASUS graphics in the background were probably a bit too much for the low-tier graphics card in this thing, although this card contributes to it's awesome battery life.Better with linux!The annoying light in front of the mousepad stopped coming on once I installed linux! This is way better. Before I had configured anything regarding the backlight, I managed to leave the computer running for about ~18 and only lost 60% of it's battery life while the screen brightness was on 100%. This is a pretty hardcore task considering screen brightness is supposed to be a major battery killer.Once I put in proper power-saving controls the battery life has gotten much better, On an all-day lightly-idle reading task my charge has gone from 89% to 83% over the course of 10 hours. The fans and the cpu cores are no longer extremely aggressive, so I don't have to worry about terrible noises. But it's good to know they can work harder for more intensive cpu tasks.Overall:This is a great laptop if you know how to use it. A 66Whr battery is nuts, and this doesn't skimp on processor power at all - it's got the perfect combination of bare necessities for people who process large amounts of data but who don't need this to run games (3d rendering on this would be weak, if that's what you're looking for).AND THERE'S A PHYSICAL SHUTTER FOR THE CAMERA. I can't even begin to describe how many years have gone by when I just wondered when any laptop manufacturer would take such an obvious hint and add one. People's cameras get hacked all the time, you can probably buy footage of at least two of your neighbors online somewhere.My one gripe is that the calculator-touchpad is a pretty pointless addition, it takes away from the minimalistic sense, but I don't need it and it doesn't work on linux anyways so I don't have to worry about it popping up in the wrong place. Woohoo!

Screen has defects. It looks like air bubbles inside. Very disappointed. And Amazon has it in stock, but doesn’t give opportunity to replace it. Return only. In Prime day I received $250 discount, yesterday laptop was sent back. And I can’t order new one with discount!!! I had chat with representative, but no help. So history.

Excellent battery life, excellent industrial design. During COVID I've been working from my car some days just for some variety, and the 180 degree hinge and overall durability & battery life have been great while I multi-task in odd places.Performance-wise, I've been running VirtualBox VMs, Office, Firefox/Chrome, Audio mixing tools, and video capture. All fine. Regarding audio, I was pleasantly surprised at the ASIO driver and the bass in the integrated speakers. Not a pro studio setup of course, but for being fully mobile, it's all rather impressive that I can reasonable record and mix audio on the go.Where I remove one star is the GPU. The GPU is quite slow. In fact in 3DMark this GPU is about 10% slower than my three year old Asus Zenbook. That said, I do appreciate that the panel and LCD driver has a 48 hz option (along with 60 hz). 48 hz does help with more consistent FPS (in the ballpark of what this GPU is capable of), however as an example of the GPU performance I must run Overwatch at 50% scaling mode to hit about 48 FPS. At least it's playable.This is definitely a business & productivity oriented laptop, but excellent at that. I can't expect to run any GPU-accelerated CGI or ML on this laptop. But the battery life best in class as far as I can tell, and performance for everything else non-GPU related is quite strong.4/5 stars, would probably buy again unless I can find the same with a better GPU, however it seems non-glossy displays with fast GPUs are hard to find these days.

I bought this laptop to complement my work laptop, i.e., keep my personal stuff separate from my work stuff. I didn't think I would use it all that much, but it's proven to be such an awesome device, that it's now my go-to device. It's so light, it's also become my tablet replacement.For my home office setup, I have two laptops - one for work and this one. These two laptops share a large Dell curved monitor, along with a Logitech keyboard and mouse. This laptop is plugged in via Ethernet. When I want to work on this laptop, I have to manually switch the monitor, keyboard, and mouse to my #1 setup. I then switch to setup #2 when I work on my work laptop. I also have two video lights (each one is attached behind each laptop). My desktop is "clean" even though I have a lot going on.It's easy to detach this laptop from my desk setup and take it somewhere else in the house or on the road. It quickly wakes up as soon as you touch the keyboard and/or open the lid. Within seconds, I'm doing whatever I need to do on the laptop. This is so unlike any other device I've had: I usually have to wait anywhere from 30 secs - 2 mins before a device is ready to be used. This laptop has restored my confidence in Windows 10 devices.