ASUS Vivobook S 14 OLED, AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 2.0GHz, 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 3K OLED 16:10 120Hz 400nits, 14", Windows 11, MS Office 2021, Neutral Black, 1.3KG, M5406WA-PP961WS AI Powered Laptop

Awesome laptop.Pros:Great display and 16:10 aspect ratio rocks for coding.Really good sound for a portable non mac(with audio boost enabled from asusu settings)Mad cpu performance (beats mac m2 pro!!)Gpu performance is good for igpu. But heating needs to be considered for non whisper modes.AI speakers and mic is magic! Easily removes all background noise from your mic and ALSO FROM THE OTHER SIDE in calls.Cons:Buggy drivers for display. Sometimes might freeze. Poor wifi reception. Weird behaviour of dolby Atmos that it doesn't support effects on bluetooth devices!Tips for best usage in Indian climate:If normal productivity usage, you can use full speed/perf mode plugged in and balanced/whisper mode on battery.If playing games/rendering etc: use whisper mode on battery(gives max gpu performance) and balanced/whisper mode while plugged in.

I bought this laptop primarily for its screen and CPU and on both counts I think I've got a really good deal. I think it is one of the best laptops you can buy in this price range.The only cons are that the black color picks up smudges very easily and the laptop runs a little hotter than most.I'm running Linux. I get around 7 hours battery life with light screen theme at 80% brightness, 120Hz refresh rate and doing a mix of work. A hour or two more is possible by switching to a dark theme and setting the screen to 60Hz.Thr WiFi is unusably slow on Linux (kernel 6.14) out of the box. The issue seems to be that somehow the transmit power gets set to a very low level of 3dB. A temporary fix is to run as superuser:modprobe -r mt7921emodprobe mt7921e

Here’s what i’ve learnt in the last two months of owning this. Apart from a few minor snags, the value for money for this level of performance is frankly obscene.Battery life is impressive for a windows laptop, gives a good 8 hours on flights when on whisper mode, battery saver and low brightness. In normal use, 5-6hours. Trickle charges on light use when on a phone power bank, so 24+ hours on a flight with one of those.Speaker quality is crazy, as for some light gaming it’s runs forza high settings 1080p at 90fps. AMD frame generation does help with that, but not by a lot.Soldered ram does not have an upgrade path, but 24GB is quite sufficient. Bottom-firing speakers, with the ai volume boost feature are absolutely killer, but only when placed on a solid tabletop. They are only second to some and not all macbooks in my experience.Screen looks amazing, 3K 120Hz and OLED definitely does not disappoint. Mb pro killer in every way, save the battery life and maybe the speakers.The processor, has an equivalent cinebench score with a ryzen 7800x3d, while consuming a fourth of the power. Similar story with the 890M integrated graphics, comparable opencl score with 3050 mobile. insane.Only drawbacks are the stock m.2 500GB ssd, which can ofcourse be upgraded, and the mediatek wireless card. This isn’t mentioned anywhere enough, it’s absolute garbage. Network drops and funny bluetooth and wifi behaviour is common. To the point i’m considering swapping in the pcie network card with the realtek one from my old laptop, and then changing the nescessary drivers.That and a 2tb kioxia or samsung m.2 drive is all which is needed to convert this laptop to a beast.An amazing buy for me personally, a good upgrade path. No other laptops remotely offered such a price to performance, as of november 2024 when i bought it. It’s a similar scene now in Jan 2025, although that’s bound to change with AMD’s new strix point chips, but those laptops won’t be here for atleast another month. But who cares, my (this) laptop has strix point chips too, the currently leading generation of mobile chips.

Build quality is really solid. Keyboard feels great to use, OLED screen has top-tier HDR support. Gives me 11 hours of battery life. My only nitpick is that I would've liked a USB-C port on the right side too, so I can put the charger if I need to.

The product has great build. Metal all over, except back cover is plastic. The performance is insane for the price. The only thing I wish was better is the battery life. It gives a solid 7.5 hrs on mixed usage on battery saver mode, but I was attracted to the company claims of 16hrs while making the purchase, and I was expecting around 11-12 hrs on my usage. It's pretty light weight, the sound is extremely good. Keyboard is a bit mushy but has tactile feedback so it's great for typing nevertheless. Trackpad is not haptic, it's mechanical so that could've been better.

By far the best lightweight OLED laptop, the numbers beat Macbook Air M3 in almost every aspects. Good for professionals and students, won't recommend for heavy gaming though. The black color is fingerprint magnet.

The media could not be loaded. Build quality, speed, battery life and performance of applications are good. But when running generative AI it's working on GPU, not on NPU. Even asus assist omni pet also using GPU.

I was in doubt about it's built quality. But once I received it I was amazed by its built quality, display quality. One of the best in this segment.