Asus Vivobook S 14 review

So, I bought myself an ASUS VivoBook S 14 with a Ryzen 7 8845HS processor with a Radeon 780M integrated GPU circuit and even a Neural Processing Unit. the CPU riuns 8 cores and 16 threads, tops at 5.1GHz and operates with 16MB L3 cache. The GPU can handle games at acceptable framerate at low to medium settings when hooked to a wall socket, i've noticed around 75fps in Counter Strike 2 on low settings which is a pretty good result and the game still looks good, the AMD Windows software can tune the FPS count to even higher amounts making 75 the lower count; Call Of Duty: Cold War will run acceptable with no ray tracing and rendering resolution 95 or 110 with display resolution turned down to 1920x1080 or even 1600x1000, textures and models at medium, GPU dedicated memory increased to 8GB, few other tweaks and the game will run at stable 60fps. The cooling contains dual fan solution which, due to good heat reduction, allows the chips to work at high frequencies. The glossy OLED screen runs with 120hz frequency and displays 2880x1800 image, and the image is ow boy, beautiful, HDR capable. The battery capacity is 75WH which allows for 5-6 hours of work. The camera works with Full HD resolution and the image quality is really acceptable and is Windows Hello compatible. The speakers play just fine, no buzzing noise on high pitch. The computer has WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 as expected, however no celluar modem. To the left of device we can find an HDMI port, two USB-C 4.0 ports, a micro SD card slot and an audio jack. To the right we can see two USB type A USB 3.2 ports and two leds – one for power, one for charging. The keyboard feels alright, has a RGB back light and even a dedicated Copilot key, the only issue I noticed with it is the arrow keys get stuck from time to time (which sucks :( ). The whole device is enveloped in a plastic case, yeah, I prefer metal cases, however it’s not a biggie to me. The touch pad seems fully usable and does the job. I payed 5000PLN for the unit which is around $1250, which seems a bit expensive in comparison to the original price of the unit, however, the computers got a bit more expensive on the market last few months. The unit came with Windows 11 Home which runs smoothly but there is no problem to dual boot with Linux. The Linux I’ve installed is Fedora 43 AMD64 Workstation and it is fully compatible with device, all components work. The only problem with Linux on this device is – it drains battery faster than Windows.

Over all it’s a pretty good buy, I use it mainly for work but entertainment is also an option using this unit. It’s a well designed, well made laptop, the quality I rate at 4/5, biggest downside is these nasty arrow keys stuck which breaks all the niceness of this thing. This is all from me. Good luck.