What do you guys think of the Vivobook S14? I think for $849 OLED + an Intel Core Ultra 9 is not bad at all.

An ultra 7 would've been more than enough, this laptop won't squeeze all the power from the ultra 9 but for that price I can't complain.

I know it's hard to complain for the price, but I would trade the Ultra 9 for an Ultra 7 if I could have gotten a 120hz display along with it....that would have made so much of a bigger difference in everyday utility.

I like the blue backlighting and I won't sweat the speakers. For the price, this looks great! My wife had a friend whose husband imported laptops. He said for ling life and reliability you can't beat Toshiba and ASUS. It's about time for me to replace my twelve year old Toshiba…

Can someone please review the 16 inch of this? It is literally (one of) the only one that is 16 inch and really lightweight! Im really eyeing it but I cannot find any review! ( I'm looking at you, Matthew lol)

If i'm not mistaken, it should not only blue backlight, it's should be a RGB backlight keyboard, so you should be able to custom the color, but yeah, only single zone

OLED is nice and all...but if you're spending $900 on a laptop with no dGPU in it, just for a nice display, why not go for an HP Pavilion Plus 14 with AMD? 8845HS + 16GB + 1TB + 2880x1800 OLED display for $889.99 currently. You could even spec it up to have 32GB which is non-upgradeable in either of these laptops, although it's an extra $150. If you can afford to trim the storage (maybe you have an external SSD and don't need as much internal storage space?) then the 8845HS + 32GB + 512GB + 2880x1800 OLED display spec is $920.

Any plans for the 2024 models of the Yoga and Yoga pro series? The 2024 models were fantastic and I'm interested in seeing your take on this years models!

You do know you can choose what color you want on the backlight right?

It's an one zone RGB keyboard, you can change it

Just purchased the zenbook 14 Ryzen 7, waiting for the delivery

Just got this laptop a few days ago, battery life is great, 10hrs easily, that was really surprising. Display looks amazing for the price. I always shop in that price range, and this definitely stands out.

I have the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 with Core Ultra 7 and it costed me around 99k here in india and im so much impressed with the battery life, speaker and display. I wanted something powerful yet portable. I went for this since the Vivobook S14 wasn't available here. Im so satisfied with the choice I didnt bother much about the dGPU as i have another gaming laptop. Major issue is the unstable early drivers for Arc graphics

4:09 What is blue RGB light ? Is that a RGB backlight set to blue by default or it is a " non RGB blue backlight keyboard "

Which one is better to get? The intel version or ryzen?

You commented about the 2.3k model being available but do you happen to have a link to it? I can never find that model for the 14 inch model.

Apart from the laptop itself, is it just me or the Copilot keycap is kinda unnecessary and more of a marketing thingy? I mean we can still access Copilot by just one or two clicks.

I have just picked up my unit 14 inch S5406 (Ultra 7) 2 days ago, in Mist Blue color ;)

staple has the 16inch version 3200 x 2000 for 899, and you get 15% with Rakuten now. The problem is that it’s running out if stock

Dell Inspiron 16 vs ASUS Vivobook s16, which would you go for? Price-wise similar.

I don't understand how a 185H would underperform a 155H if properly cooled.

Good review. A solid mid-range ultrabook, and for many mid-range is the way to go due to premium Windows machines now being close to double this in price (XPS 14, LG Gram 14, Galaxy Book4 Pro 14, Surface Laptop 6, etc). Glad you pointed out that these benchmark battery tests do not represent real life and I can understand why Windows OEMs like them being used as they do overplay the battery SOT. I usually discount by 33% but with the caveat that higher brightness can drain that time even further. Good bang for your bucks but I have seen the MB Air M2 13-inch for only a little bit more and if like me you use your ultrabook for casual work meaning 8GB/256GB is enought, then I would still choose the Mac. But there is a good reason Windows has a natural monopoly, the reluctance of people to move OS'es so in Windows-land the Vivobook S14 is shortlist material.

Only issue with the Unstable drivers as they're very new. A driver can break ur performance. I had issue with video playback on battery . Which was fixed after an update

So he blocked the camera but it was still recording the video?

Does it have the feature of limiting the charging to 80% ?

65wh battery with core ultra 7 gives around 6-8 hours of rough use. And over 9 hours of casual use. I wish if They had a 75+ wh option. Sadly lenovo didn't offer at the time i bought the Yoga

do the s14 oled vs hp envy x360 ad0097nr it would be a great comparision

What's that show on 2:12?

I ordered the AMD 16" version of this, suppose to be delivered on Friday. I'm hoping I can swap the SSD in that one just like the Intel one. But on Asus website it says "up to 1TB" for the m5606

A curious question: Are there people over eighty years of age who are very elderly people who own and will use modern smart phones??

Asus has brought OLED to its budget line. Amazing! Who else is doing it? I think nobody.

$1,6k for the same model but with the ultra 7 is daylight robbery from my region

What about vivobook pro 15 they have an dedicated gpu(4050/4060) and 120hz oled

Review the vivobook S15 with 155h in walmart for 750. 16gb, 1tb, 2880x1620 display 120hz. I am on the fence thinking about it.

Gorgeous laptop!

The keyboard is RGB so you can change to white if you want according to the ASUS site.

I was thinking about this as well. The one with a TN 1920x1200 screen with 128 mega bytes.

It's $899 now, still a good deal tho.

Thanks for sharing....just picked up a Galaxybook 3 Pro.....comes with the pen and its feature filled. If your not a gamer you can't beat ALL the features and the pen.

What about the Battery life? Have i just overseen this?

I really want to see something like Dell XPS 16 but for asus with Zenbook in name, with f-keys function row, something like 16\32ram, 512+rom, 2.5k oled, core ultra 5\7, nvidia 4050\60\70, 2 decent fans (not like in zenbook 14 this year), 2 thunderbolts, wifi7, bt 5.4, and extra m.2 slot would be great. And price starts at 1500$ for 16\512\ultra5\4050 Am I asking too much?😒

You didn't have to bring the kids into this 😂😭

I just wish asus will give this Vivobook option to upgrade the ram to 32GB because i afraid 16GB will not be enough in the long term

32GB RAM option would be nice.

Ultra 7 or even Ultra 5 with a dGPU would've made so much more sense

US prices are confusing to me. I have the Vivobook 14 pro model with a 3060gpu and the R7 6800HS, 16GB, 90Hz refresh rate, oled 2.8k - for the exact same price in China, official Asus shop.

There’s the 15 pro and 16 models 🥹

The specs of this $849 Vivobook, beats my $1200 Zenbook 2022. Ridiculous value.

Adding copilot button is really dumb move. Copilot is not even avaliable anywhere else than USA n EU. Also mind having somthing like Linux. . . just what if

1080p webcam looks worse than my 720p webcam on MacBook.

His T-shirt reminds me Belgium Soldier I found from "NATO" official Instagram account 😅

If this was this price with like an Ultra 5 125H/ Ryzen 7 8845H with a 2.5k 120Hz OLED screen it'd be a GOAT level thin-and-light, but 1200p is meh, and 60Hz really hurts

Thanks for another honest review Matt. I'm a fan of ASUS VivoBooks, I've had the S15 since the late 90s and it's still going strong.

Unfortunately it's out of stock in Bangladesh 😭

Just got one from Amazon. Will be testing Forza Horizon 4 on it today. Am betting that the game will crash. That seems to happen on every Core Ultra + ARC graphics laptop I have tested recently.

A curious question: Are there people over eighty years of age who are very elderly people who own and will use modern smart phones?!0

I was considering this vs macbook air base model, but after reading about customer service issues, I’ve decided to stay away for now.

Agree!

Every Vivobook model that I've seen is 65% sRGB. Using OLED on a productivity laptop is out of touch...

that has to be the worst webcam I've seen on a recently released laptop

Very nice

Asus s14 series is best deal

849 nah I'll stick with apple.... u get dar better customer service if something happens.

bruh I already bought a zenbook

better version AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS, intel suck.

60hz, 1080p... wow, I thought u were smarter than this

Obviously 😄

this to early for me

Non un upgradeable wifi card are red card and scam 😕

16 pls not 14 at least not 13.

Man I wish I was like Matt, everything's so obvious to him🥲