I bought X412FA partly because my 3 year old Lenovo Ideapad 300 all plastic chassis was disintegrating and partly because it was being sold at such an amazing price on Flipkart; couldn't resist. I would like to elaborate the specs of this machine based on my usage of it 1. Core i5 8265U : hard to believe but it absolutely decimates my Dell Inspiron 14 7460's Core i7 7500U. 8265U consumes lesser power yet has 4 cores, 6MB cache and higher Turbo speed. This really shows up in build times of my Maven / Gradle projects, despite both systems being on fairly fast SSDs. There is no reason to choose a yesteryear's Core i7 U series processor over 8th/9th gen Core i5 U series. 2. 8 GB DDR4 RAM : Out of this 4 GB DDR 4 RAM is soldered on the mainboard. There is one DIMM slot to which I installed a Crucial 16 GB DDR4 module, so totalling to 20GB DDR4 RAM. All in all there is room for expansion if you need that kind of RAM. 3. 512 GB SSD : Asus provided Intel 600p series 512 GB NVMe PCIe x 4 lanes SSD. Definitely read / write speeds over random IO operations is faster compared to SATA 3 SSDs. I have not benchmarked it yet. One thing to remember - keep the AHCI mode set to Intel Premium RST in UEFI if you ever decide to install Windows OS yourself. I am yet researching if 600p series SSD support inbuilt Intel's 2nd gen Optane or not. I did see Optane related cache folders getting created in my root partition. All in all, 512 GB NVMe SSD with 228 TBW endurance - Asus has you well covered there. Good choice of storage! 4. Display : Display while FHD, is of poor quality. After calibrating using Xrite i1 and DisplayCal, the resultant ICC profile did make the colours a bit even - still just about 59% sRGB coverage. Obviously at this price point you can't ask for 100% Adobe or even sRGB coverage. Somewhere Asus ought to cut the corners. Display is a TN panel with no ghosting when viewing from an angle. 5. Body : Mostly ABS plastic with metal back and front chassis. That's ok for

Very good laptop Sleek and stylish wonderful performance Display has colour issues but negligible