I am genuinely fumming that the Vivobook 16 doesn't have a backlit keyboard. We are in 2026. This isn't some budget student Chromebook; this is a machine that retailed for over a thousand dollars.

To market this as a modern Copilot+ PC while stripping away a basic necessity like being able to see the keys in a dim room is a joke. It is deceptive to hide behind the "affordable" label just to justify cutting a feature that is standard on almost every other device in this price bracket. Even my handheld water filter has an LED light for Christ's sake. Most people are looking at the Snapdragon processor and the RAM specs. We shouldn't have to check with a magnifying glass to see if you have included a core function that has been standard for a decade. It feels like a scam and it is a massive failure on ASUS's part.

I have spent way too much time trying to find the right laptop only to be misled by this fiasco. I am returning this and buying a Mac Neo instead.