I also bought this to replace my desktop. I have a Dell Inspiron 580 with i3 processor, 4GB ram and a 750 GB hard drive. This laptop has basically the same specs, just a smaller hard drive.

I put this Vivobook on my desk and use a wireless mouse. I put in multi-monitor mode with extended desktop. I use an HDMI cable to attach my 24″ monitor. I can watch Netflix on the 24″ and still work productively on the laptop. It works great, nice smooth video, uninterrupted by anything I do on the laptop screen.
The wifi works great. On my desk the speeds as tested by Speedtest.net were just as fast as when I used an Ethernet cable. It recognized all wireless networks up to at least 2 or 3 houses away from mine.
the laptop speakers are nice, rich and clear, but not super loud. I have a pair of Harmon Kardon speakers hooked up through the headphone jack.

Battery life is as advertised, 3.5 to 4 hours. Boot time from off is only about 30 seconds. If you run the sleep mode, you just close the lid to sleep, it turns on instantly when you open it.

Windows 8 is easy to get used to, however there is a desktop mode very similar to Windows 7.

The touch screen is very responsive and fun to use.Yes, even though the screen wobbles slightly when touched, it is a non issue. It doesn’t affect the touch gestures at all.

there are only a few things I could say negatively.
1.I would have preferred a matte screen. The glossy screen is a fingerprint magnet, so they give you a cleaning cloth with it.Also in certain situations there are reflections, but not when just looking head on indoors. 2. The keyboard lettering is not bright white like my Dell desktop keyboard. Which makes it a little hard to type in low light. However the keyboard is very responsive and easy to type with. It just takes a little getting used to if you’re used to a full size desktop keyboard.I wish the battery was easily replaceable like most laptops and an extended battery was available. However I believe it can be replaced by removing the back cover. Also, the memory is not upgradeable, it’s soldered in I hear.

All being said, I like the Vivobook very much and the price was right at $499, just at my budget maximum.And it has worked flawlessly for the month I’ve had it.Would I buy It again? A resounding yes.Of course if I had $800-$1200 to spend I might have looked at other options. But this one is great.

1. The automatic disk park problem which caused what was for me a very aggravating constant clicking, which I dealt with by always having to run disapm2, a free download that disables the automatic park.

2. I basically like the feel and keyboard and silent somewhat soft and delicate feel of the key-presses, but every now and then don’t press down enough and which ends up skipping a letter (or maybe I do press hard enough and it is intermittent variability in the hardware).

3. Although I am happy with the quality of the screen, looking at small objects or reading text on browsers, word processors, files, etc. is a somewhat challenging for my ageing eyes. So I can’t really say I “love” the computer (5 stars)

4. Turning off the touch-pad fn-f9 became nonfunctional after a system update or something like that. This is another thing that is very aggravating to me because my palms accidentally contact the touch-pad and the cursor flies off somewhere unattended. From scouring the web I know that this has happened to some other ASUS users. Turns out it appears that downloading/installing the latest Elan touchpad driver seems to have fixed it. But this has happened a couple of times.

However I just put in solid state memory (SSD) and viola. With the SSD I rate it 5 stars. A nice plus is that once the screws are off the back case, it pops on and off really nicely like the back of a smartphone.So as I was working out what I had to do, I could pop the back on and it held pretty firmly without screwing any screws back in. (way easier than back in the day). At first it looked like I was facing a time-consuming nightmare getting the SSD ready to be a system disk recognized by the X202E. But fortunately I found a utility that made it VERY easy (see description of the process below).

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1. Bought a hard drive case (about $10) that converts a SATA drive to have a USB connector.

2. Put my SATA solid state drive (SSD) into the hard drive case and connected it to laptop USB port (laptop = ASUS X202E, Windows 8.1)

3. Installed and ran “Paragon Migrate OS to SSD” which took about 30 minutes to migrate my Windows 8.1 system to the SSD.

4. Replaced the original hard disk in the laptop with the SSD.

5. The SSD booted right up like lightning – didn’t even need to change boot order in BIOS

6. Can’t tell any difference except the computer is faster.

Note: I put the original SATA hard disk into the hard disk case I bought for connecting the SSD to a USB port for migration. I could use it normally as an external hard disk but will keep it as a backup Windows system in case the SSD crashes or becomes dysfunctional

Other reviewer is correct: Paragon Migrate states that it cannot image dynamic drive. But it sure worked great for a standard drive setup. I’m not sure what a dynamic drive refers to but partitionwizard website has a long explanation, which includes this:

“Basic disc and dynamic disc are the two basic hard disk configuration types in Windows System. Most personal computers use basic disks which make the disk management easy. Advanced users and IT administrators may use dynamic disks which are used to improve the performance of computers with several hard disks.”