I’m sick of RAM-hogging Google Chrome slowing my laptop to a crawl, so the Asus Vivobook 16’s record-low price at Best Buy is seriously tempting

I’ve always been looking into ways to be more productive, especially when I have multiple apps and websites open at once.

One solution I’ve been contemplating is getting a second laptop for browsing the web and other less complex tasks, while my main PC is left for heavier workloads. Google Chrome is a notorious RAM hog, and I’m guilty of having far too many tabs open in the web browser, which ends up slowing my entire PC down.

However, I’d given up hope of finding an affordable laptop with decent amounts of RAM until I saw this brilliant offer: the Asus Vivobook 16 is available at Best Buy for $399.99 (was $749.99). It’s equipped with an AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 processor and 16GB of RAM, both more than capable of running multiple simple tasks at once.

Frankly, I’m quite surprised it’s nearly 50% off, considering the price of most PC hardware is skyrocketing due to the RAM crisis, and especially since the Vivobook 16 comes with DDR5 RAM.

This laptop is perfect for me, since I don’t have a laptop for non-work purposes, and with the Vivobook 16, I can easily connect it directly to my Xeneon Edge monitor and easily have two different systems on two screens adjacent to each other.

What makes it even better is the PowerToys ‘Mouse without Borders’ tool, allowing me to use my main mouse and keyboard on both systems, so I won’t have to rely on using the laptop’s trackpad.

It won’t surprise me to see stock disappear quickly at this price due to its 16GB RAM spec (since everyone is after memory nowadays), so it’s easily one of the best options this Presidents’ Day.