The Vivobook S 15 is the primary pocket book from Asus to be powered by the brand new Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip. It is also a part of the primary wave of units to ship on this new platform as a part of Microsoft’s renewed push into the ARM-based PC market presently dominated by Apple.
The Vivobook S 15 (or the S5507) is a premium machine with a price ticket of $1300. For that cash, you might be getting the Snapdragon Elite X in its base configuration, a 15.6-inch 120Hz OLED show, 16GB reminiscence, 1TB storage, and a 70Wh battery. The machine is focused in direction of residence and workplace customers who want to do some mild productiveness work and media consumption on the go.
On this evaluation, we shall be taking a look at how the Vivobook S 15 performs but in addition what it is prefer to stay with an ARM-based Home windows PC.
The S5507 design is not something new and appears much like different Vivobook S 15 fashions earlier than it. The outside, made out of aluminum, has a easy matte end to it with a refined Vivobook emblem on the lid. The again has a row of vents with a protracted raised rubber foot.
Life the lid and you may discover that you just now have your thumbprints on the webcam. Additionally, you managed to slip the webcam cowl whereas opening so now the face detection does not work. The placement of those parts is fairly unlucky, as each the webcam and particularly the sliding mechanism for the quilt are proper the place you might be anticipated to place your thumb to open the lid. You need to practice your self to keep away from these which makes one thing so simple as opening the lid extra concerned than I would like.
As soon as open, you may be greeted by the big 15.6-inch show. The show will get very near the aspect edges however the high and backside bezels are noticeably thicker. If, for some motive, you stored opening the lid, you may understand that it truly opens a full 180 levels, making it flat with the bottom.
Under the show, the keyboard deck can also be made out of aluminum with the identical silver end. Even the keys are silver, which has an unlucky draw back as shall be mentioned later. Under the keys is the big trackpad that measures round 13cm x 8.5cm. The trackpad is off-center so it aligns with the keyboard and never the numpad on the appropriate.
The Vivobook S 15 is comparatively compact regardless of the big show. Extra importantly, it is also very mild, weighing in at simply 1.42kg or 3.13lb. This makes it very straightforward to slide right into a backpack and I barely even observed the added weight.
The general design of the pocket book may be very business-like. I am not overly keen on the all-silver scheme, particularly the silver keys that even have a considerably boring, tile-like design. A black variant would have been good however this mannequin solely is available in one shade. Nonetheless, there is not a lot to complain concerning the construct high quality, which is nice general. The keyboard deck has a slight flex to it nevertheless it’s solely noticeable whenever you press down on it fairly than whereas typing. Asus additionally claims US MIL-STD 810H ranking for added peace of thoughts.
The Vivobook S 15 has a 15.6-inch, 2880×1620 OLED show. It has a 120Hz refresh price with a claimed 0.2ms response time, 600 nits peak brightness, 100 DCI-P3 shade protection, and HDR assist.
Asus has included a handful of show choices within the MyASUS app. The OLED Care function permits a pixel refresh mode that runs when the show is static for half-hour to reduce burn-in. There’s an OLED flicker-free dimming choice that reduces brightness with out inflicting show flicker which some folks understand. The Adaptive Edge Brightness setting dims the corners of the show on battery, which seems like having a vignette across the display. On the default setting of two, it is barely noticeable so it is best to simply go away it on.
The show is color-calibrated on the manufacturing facility and comes with a calibration certificates discovered within the MyASUS app. Asus additionally contains shade calibration profiles to lock the show to sRGB, DCI-P3, Show-P3, or simply go away it unclamped at its native gamut.
The OLED panel has excellent picture high quality, with distinctive shade accuracy, distinction, and viewing angles. The decision is ample, and gives a sufficiently sharp and excessive decision picture, particularly on the measurement. The 600 nits brightness is greater than sufficient for indoor use and can also be positive outdoor until you end up below direct daylight.
The 120Hz refresh price is a good accompaniment to the stellar picture. You get very fluid scrolling, which is aided by OLED’s phenomenal response occasions which can be close to instantaneous. HDR efficiency can also be fairly spectacular however with no Dolby Imaginative and prescient assist, you might be restricted to static metadata HDR10 content material solely.
The show does have two controversial features. First is the 16:9 facet ratio, which is nice for media consumption however not for productiveness and even internet looking. The second is the shiny panel, which is terrific when you find yourself in a pitch-dark room however anyplace else you might be always combating reflections.
That apart, it is onerous to not be impressed by the show on the Vivobook S 15. Asus has completed an incredible job on this one.
The Vivobook S 15 has an ordinary chiclet-style keyboard with 1.7mm key journey and a numpad on the aspect. The keys have a single-zone RGB backlight, which could be custom-made within the MyASUS app.
The keyboard is snug with respectable journey. The keys are barely extensive with much less spacing than a typical chiclet-style which takes some getting used to however as soon as completed it was a breeze to sort on. I’m personally a bit cut up on the devoted numpad on the appropriate, particularly since Asus has proven it may well have a digital numpad on the trackpad that capabilities simply as effectively, and I would fairly have an evenly spaced keyboard and trackpad.
What I am not cut up on is the pointless new Copilot key, which replaces the appropriate management key. All this does is launch the Copilot ‘app’, which additionally occurs to be only a window in Edge, and one thing you’ll be able to simply pin to the taskbar. All that is on high of the doubtful worth that Copilot brings. I would a lot fairly have my management key again, please.
As talked about earlier than, the keyboard options RGB backlighting, which feels a bit odd for a tool of this nature. You may modify the lighting shade, sample, and brightness from the MyASUS app however since it is a single-zone lighting, it should apply uniformly to the complete keyboard. The backlighting is not very vibrant and has the unlucky aspect impact of constructing the important thing legends tough to see in the course of the day as the sunshine simply blends with the silver surrounds, particularly in the event you decide a impartial shade like white.
Under the keyboard is the fairly sizable trackpad. The graceful glass floor makes this a pleasure to make use of, though one might argue if it must be this huge. Asus has assigned some gestures to the highest and aspect edges, which management issues like quantity, brightness, and playback however I discovered myself triggering them unintentionally too typically. Fortunately, you’ll be able to simply disable them however you must disable all of them and never simply the one which’s getting in your method.
The trackpad is hinged on the high as is normally the case however you’ll be able to click on on a superb 80% of it and get a satisfying response, with solely the highest edge being unable to maneuver.
One recurring situation I had with the trackpad was it will confuse a two-finger scroll gesture within the browser for a pinch-to-zoom gesture. The web page would briefly zoom in a bit of earlier than scrolling. This can be a problem with the trackpad driver that may probably be fastened with an replace.
The Vivobook S 15 has a pair of bottom-firing Harmon Kardon-tuned audio system. The audio system have respectable audio high quality, particularly when the bundled Dolby Atmos app is enabled. There is not a lot bass however voices sound clear with good timbre.
I used to be not notably impressed by the headphone jack output. Whereas it acquired very loud, there was noticeable background noise coming by the jack. The sound was additionally oddly mild on bass and every part sounded skinny and flat by default with the Atmos app disabled. I would not suggest utilizing the Atmos app for headphones because it brings extra distortion with it. Sadly, even in the event you flip it off, it one way or the other manages to show itself on once more.
The webcam high quality is mediocre. A lot was made concerning the picture processing of the Snapdragon chips however I am not seeing it. It seems like every other webcam, which is to say it is positive for the informal video name however it is best to nonetheless take into account an aftermarket digital camera in the event you want it typically.
The Vivobook S 15 S5507 runs on the Snapdragon X Elite X1E 78 100 chipset. It options 12 CPU cores that may clock as much as 3.4GHz together with the Adreno X1 GPU clocked at 1250MHz.
The X1E 78 100 is without doubt one of the 4 Snapdragon X Elite fashions and is technically the runt of the litter. Not solely does it have the bottom increase clock velocity, nevertheless it’s additionally the one one with no single or dual-core increase like on the opposite chips, which may briefly increase one or two of their cores even increased. The GPU can also be slower than the highest two fashions.
Paired with the chip is 16GB or 32GB of LPDDR5X reminiscence clocked at 8448MHz. In contrast to Apple’s M-series chips, the Snapdragon X Elite doesn’t embody the reminiscence on-die. Moderately, it is soldered onto the motherboard like on most different notebooks as of late. Whereas it is good {that a} 32GB choice exists, it appears it is solely out there in choose areas, and ours solely got here in 16GB with no different choice out there.
For storage, our evaluation unit had a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD with a 512GB choice out there in some areas. Fortunately, the SSD here’s a normal 2280 M.2 drive, which may simply get replaced do you have to require extra storage.
Regardless of what you may assume, the Vivobook S 15 has a decently-sized cooling system inside with twin followers cooling twin warmth pipes. There are no fanless notebooks but primarily based on this chip since it may well pull a good bit of energy. However extra on that later.
Relating to connectivity, the Vivobook S 15 does very well, particularly in comparison with its rivals. You get two full-size USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports on the appropriate with 5Gbps bandwidth and on the left are two USB 4.0 Gen 3 Kind-C ports, which assist 40Gbps bandwidth and quick charging. There’s additionally an HDMI 2.1 TDMS port right here however in actuality, it is simply HDMI 2.0 when it comes to precise bandwidth. Lastly, there’s a microSD card reader and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
For wi-fi connectivity, you get tri-band Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) and Bluetooth 5.4 with LE audio.
The Vivobook S 15 comes with Home windows 11 Residence Version put in. That is clearly the model constructed for the ARM 64-bit platform, and virtually all of the apps that come pre-installed are additionally constructed for ARM.
By way of bloatware, Asus is mostly fairly good. There are only a handful of Asus apps which can be pre-installed, all of which could be eliminated. Nonetheless, it is best to preserve the MyASUS app because it presents an enormous array of settings for the machine together with the flexibility to improve the machine firmware, which is separate from the Home windows updates.
Being an ARM-based machine, there was all the time going to be a query mark on how the machine runs all of the apps you might be used to working on a Home windows machine. This was a serious bugbear of early ARM-based Home windows units, which might solely run a choose few apps from the Home windows retailer that had been constructed for ARM.
Thankfully, we’ve got come a great distance since then, and making issues lots simpler this time round is Prism, the Home windows emulator that permits you to run x86-64 apps on the machine with out you even realizing it. Severely, all you must do is set up the app as you usually would and it simply runs as you’d anticipate it to. Effectively, besides if it is a sport, however extra on that within the Efficiency part.
Nonetheless, emulation is not a free lunch, and there’s a price to translating the app to a different structure each time you might be working it. When you will not discover the distinction a lot in light-weight apps apart from some delayed launch occasions, extra demanding apps will run noticeably slower.
That is the place native ARM apps are available. Fortunately, with a bit of little bit of looking out, you’ll be able to normally discover an ARM model of your app. Generally it is going to be in beta and even alpha however relying on the character of the app can nonetheless run vastly higher than a secure x86-64 model. The previous month or so of utilizing the Vivobook S 15 despatched me down the rabbit gap of discovering the ARM model of each app I exploit and it was truly type of enjoyable. I used to be shocked to see simply what number of apps do have an ARM model now, at the very least in some state of improvement. Funnily sufficient, it was normally the apps with small dev groups who had been fast on the uptake however even larger apps like DaVinci Resolve and Photoshop now have a local ARM model.
The mix of a sturdy emulator and a rising library of native apps means Home windows on ARM is presently in a superb place, at the very least so far as every single day or generally used productiveness apps. After all, there shall be instances the place the emulator does not work effectively neither is there a local app out there however at the very least in my utilization I by no means got here throughout this state of affairs. Primarily based on my private expertise as of August 2024, I would not hesitate to suggest Home windows ARM notebooks to on a regular basis residence or workplace customers.
Productiveness
The Vivobook S 15 has 4 ‘Fan profile’ choices within the MyASUS app which, counterintuitively, are literally the ability restrict choices that in flip additionally have an effect on the fan speeds. You get Whisper mode, which targets 20W as the height energy worth, Normal, which is the default, targets 35W, Efficiency (45W), and at last, Full-speed mode, which targets 50W.
It is vital to notice these energy figures as that is the one actual data we get concerning how a lot energy this chip pulls. Qualcomm has not supplied entry to any of the ability consumption metrics from the chip so regardless that apps like HWiNFO can entry data concerning clock speeds and temperatures, there may be completely no information out there on the quantity of energy being pulled.
No matter which energy profile you choose, the chip can hit the acknowledged 3.4GHz throughout all 12 cores. Whisper can solely maintain 3.4GHz in an all-core workload for a few seconds earlier than dropping right down to 2.2GHz for the remaining length. Normal stays a couple of seconds longer earlier than dropping right down to 2.7GHz. Efficiency will drop right down to 3GHz and Full-speed will preserve 3.4GHz till it hits its 95-degree thermal restrict. The chip regulates the variety of cores it may well assign to a job in batches of 4, so you may see 4, eight, or all twelve cores being energetic relying on the duty.
With all that in thoughts, the next benchmarks had been run utilizing the Full-speed profile in MyASUS and the Home windows energy profile left on the default Balanced. All makes an attempt had been made to get the ARM model of the benchmark wherever potential however sadly, a few of the exams are nonetheless x86 solely.
| Benchmark | Class | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Cinebench R23 (x86) | Single | 1120 |
| Multi | 12753 | |
| Cinebench 2024 | Single | 107 |
| Multi | 1130 | |
| Blender (Classroom) | Time (seconds) | 372 |
| 7-Zip | Compression | 91781 |
| Decompression | 90799 | |
| Geekbench 6 | Single | 2446 |
| Multi | 14277 | |
| GPU (Vulkan) | 23662 | |
| Geekbench AI | CPU (Quantized) | 5837 |
| NPU (Quantized) | 21633 | |
| Corona 10 (x86) | Rays/s | 4332801 |
| WebXPRT 4 | General | 280 |
| JetStream 2 | Rating | 282 |
| Speedometer 3.0 | Rating | 20.9 |
As talked about earlier than, there’s a penalty for utilizing emulation and you’re looking at anyplace from 12.5% in 7-Zip to an enormous 74% worse efficiency in Blender when switching from the native ARM to the x86 model.
| Benchmark | Class | Rating (ARM) | Rating (x86) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blender (Classroom) | Time (seconds) | 372 | 646 |
| 7-ZIP | Compression | 91781 | 80377 |
| Decompression | 90799 | 79341 |
The 4 energy profiles in MyASUS have a proportionately increased impression on efficiency as you go down the record. From Full-speed to Efficiency, you lose about 9% efficiency in Blender within the Classroom scene. Taking place to the default Normal makes you lose about 22% of the efficiency of Full-speed after which lastly at Whisper, you lose a big 53% of the efficiency.
| Benchmark | Energy profile | Time (seconds) |
|---|---|---|
| Blender (Classroom) | Full-speed | 372 |
| Efficiency | 404 | |
| Normal | 451 | |
| Whisper | 567 |
Nonetheless, as you’ll be able to see, even working on the lowest energy degree is healthier than working in x86 for Blender, because the Whisper mode on ARM outperforms Full-speed in x86.
On battery, the ability profiles in MyASUS app don’t change and you may nonetheless get the identical efficiency, supplied you allow the Home windows energy profile to Steadiness. Nonetheless, by default, Home windows switches to the Greatest Energy Effectivity profile on battery, which has a extreme impression on measurable efficiency.
| Benchmark | Class | Time (seconds) |
|---|---|---|
| Blender (Classroom) | Energy | 372 |
| Battery | 750 |
Now for some real-life testing. I attempted utilizing the Vivobook S 15 in a typical residence use case consisting largely of internet looking and media consumption and in addition in a extra productivity-oriented setting with heavy picture and video enhancing.
Within the former, the Vivobook S 15 carried out flawlessly. No matter whether or not you might be on energy or battery, there all the time appears to be ample energy out there and the machine feels fast and responsive. After all, this was largely when working native ARM apps however even non-native apps appeared to run positive more often than not exterior of benchmarks to the purpose it was straightforward to overlook they had been working below emulation.
When it got here to heavier productiveness duties, there was an issue, and it was not the Snapdragon chip. Seems, the chip has sufficient energy to deal with the issues that I do for work, which is enhancing high-resolution RAW photos in Affinity Picture (which additionally is available in native ARM) and sometimes enhancing a 4K video in DaVinci Resolve (additionally ARM however in beta). I used to be capable of energy by these apps with out experiencing any main slowdowns. That’s till I hit the boundaries of the 16GB reminiscence. Sadly, this merely is not adequate to do any actual productiveness work on the machine, and the second I opened greater than three RAW recordsdata or bigger video tasks, the efficiency floor to a halt.
As talked about earlier than, Asus does supply a 32GB reminiscence choice in some markets. That might be the go-to in the event you plan on doing memory-heavy duties. Sadly, not having that choice all over the place seems like leaving efficiency on the desk because the Snapdragon X Elite chip, and thus the Vivobook S 15, is able to extra however is held again by the 16GB configuration. Residence customers in all probability would not take care of internet and media purposes however then once more, you can too simply use an iPad if that is all you wish to do.
The 1TB drive that got here with our Vivobook S 15 carried out fairly effectively. It is not the quickest drive we’ve got seen however for the use instances this machine is designed for it ought to be sufficient.
Gaming
That is the place issues go pear-shaped for the Vivobook S 15 and the ARM-based Home windows platform on the whole.
That is the unlucky actuality of the present state of affairs; there are merely no video games out there for Home windows on the time of writing which can be primarily based on the ARM structure. This implies each sport you strive should undergo emulation, which impacts video games disproportionately in comparison with common apps.
All of the video games I attempted (and I attempted lots) fell into three classes:
A small subset of video games fell within the first class. They put in and functioned roughly as they might on a local x86 machine. The typical body price wasn’t nice owing to the emulation, lack of drivers, or only a common lack of GPU efficiency, nevertheless it was secure and playable. Some examples of those embody titles like Management, Metro Exodus, Alien: Isolation, Stray, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Sadly, many of the video games fell into the second and third classes. Whereas some video games launched positive, the efficiency was typically unplayable. Should you had been to simply take a look at common body charges, you may make the error of pondering the sport runs positive however the body time efficiency was in all places with large spikes that made the sport tough to play and unattainable to get pleasure from. This contains titles corresponding to God of Struggle, Outer Wilds, Resident Evil 3, Counter-Strike 2, and Overwatch 2.
Some titles appeared to run positive however had visible points. The Tomb Raider I-III Remastered assortment, for instance, ran completely however was too darkish, which made it tough to see. A few others additionally had artifacts like flashing textures and visible glitches whereas taking part in.
Then some video games merely wouldn’t even launch. This included titles like Demise Stranding and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. The primary immediately crashes on launch. The second, like many others, searches for suitable drivers doubtless from Nvidia or AMD, and upon not discovering any throws the system does not meet minimal necessities message and peaces out. Then there was Doom Everlasting, which initially didn’t launch in any respect, then later would launch and crash after the opening logos, and most not too long ago would launch and attain the menu earlier than crashing.
A overwhelming majority of video games that will not launch had been multiplayer titles with anti-cheat. Even when the sport itself would run below emulation, the anti-cheat software program would stop the sport from launching as a consequence of an incompatibility error. In some instances like Elden Ring the place the multiplayer is an elective element of the sport, it was potential to bypass the anti-cheat and instantly launch the sport to play offline. However with titles like Fall Guys, there isn’t any method in.
The issue right here is twofold. In the beginning, sport builders are going to must construct native variations of their titles to have the ability to run correctly. Within the interim, a few of them might at the very least make them launch in order that even when the efficiency is not nice, one might nonetheless at the very least get into the sport and perhaps with a little bit of fiddling round with the settings, have a considerably playable expertise. Second, Qualcomm wants to begin delivery graphics drivers for titles. Nvidia does this, AMD does it, and now even Intel does it. There isn’t a getting round it and if Qualcomm must be taken critically on this house, it additionally must meet up with the others.
Microsoft has included a temporal picture upscaling answer in Home windows referred to as Automated tremendous decision, which runs a handful of whitelisted video games at a decrease inside decision after which upscales them. Sadly, all of the titles I attempted that supported this function regarded terrible because the decision is much too low and non-adjustable. You’re much better off launching the sport usually and utilizing no matter picture upscaling expertise the sport comes with, like TSR, FSR, or XeSS.
In case you might be questioning why there are no sport benchmarks on this web page, the reply for that’s that the benchmarking software I exploit wasn’t capable of run appropriately. Initially, it would not work in any respect and later having the software working would trigger any sport launched to crash instantly, even when the sport would run in any other case.
By way of precise playability, I used to be capable of get easier titles to run fairly effectively sufficient. I might, for instance, play Inside or Gris effectively sufficient on the machine. Primary 2D titles just like the Ace Lawyer collection additionally ran positive. I used to be additionally capable of run Management at a fairly secure body price. The trick with these was to all the time simply drop the decision to the bottom quantity you’ll be able to tolerate, which for me was 720p on this display after which set every part to the bottom settings.
One might argue that the chip is not geared toward players neither is Asus’ Vivobook collection on the whole. Nonetheless, the sensation I had taking part in video games on the machine was that there was adequate energy right here to get a PS4-level of efficiency, which is to say, 1080p with medium settings and 30fps locked body price. That is not too unhealthy, however for that to occur there would should be native titles out there, in addition to optimized drivers from Qualcomm.
Funnily sufficient, the Mac now has a good variety of native ARM titles out there for it. You may have titles like Resident Evil 4, Baldur’s Gate 3, Murderer’s Creed Mirage, Demise Stranding Director’s Lower, and a number of other others natively out there on the Mac App Retailer, with extra within the pipeline. Not solely is there not a single ARM title out there for Home windows, nobody has even made any claims to launch them sooner or later. It is so bizarre to see macOS and Home windows swapping locations in terms of video games when switching over to ARM.
Funnier nonetheless, our Vivobook S 15 got here with three months of Xbox PC Recreation Move Final membership. The factor is, you’ll be able to’t entry most of those video games for the reason that Xbox app on ARM will merely not present any of them to you. You may obtain a handful from the Microsoft Retailer app however after I say handful, I actually imply handful. A lot of the others is not going to present up within the retailer in any respect or is not going to allow you to obtain them citing compatibility causes. It is potential the Recreation Move membership was a one-off factor for evaluation items because it is unnecessary to bundle this for precise customers.
Lengthy story brief, gaming, for essentially the most half, is a no-go on the Vivobook S 15 in the intervening time and if that is an issue then this is not the machine nor the platform for you.
Thermals
The Vivobook S 15 has a decently sized thermal answer regardless of what one may anticipate from an ARM chip. The reality is, the Snapdragon X Elite can pull a whole lot of energy, and working it fanless does not appear to be an choice for the second.
As such, the followers on the Vivobook S 15 are virtually all the time working. Nonetheless, by default they’re so quiet, you’ll not often hear them, even in a quiet room. The one method to get the followers audible is to run the 2 increased energy profiles and do one thing closely multi-threaded on the CPU. For every part else, it is virtually like having a fanless system.
Whereas the fan noise is pretty nice on the Normal and even the Efficiency mode, the Full-speed profile seems like summoning a demon as all of the sudden the followers get very loud. After all, regardless of the identify, the followers will solely spin as much as their full velocity when doing one thing extraordinarily taxing on the CPU, that means you can too simply run the system on this profile and never hear the followers in any respect till you determine to run Cinebench for some motive.
Below load, the underside half of the keyboard deck stays at a cushty temperature though the realm above the highest row will get fairly heat.
The Vivobook S 15 has a 70Wh battery. Asus makes a fairly daring declare of 18+ hours of battery life, a determine they obtained whereas taking part in video regionally.
For my testing, I left the machine on the default Normal mode within the MyASUS app and the Greatest Energy Effectivity profile in Home windows settings. The show was set to 60% brightness and the keyboard lighting was off. The Adaptive Edge Brightness function was left on the default worth of two. All different battery-saving and standby mode options had been disabled.
Utilizing these settings, I acquired about 12 hours of pure internet looking in Edge. For video, I acquired about 14 hours when taking part in YouTube 4K and 15 hours when taking part in Netflix 1080p.
The Home windows Greatest Energy Effectivity profile is completely sufficient for internet looking and media consumption. Nonetheless, you’ll wish to swap to Balanced if you wish to do productiveness work on the go, because it makes a giant distinction to efficiency. It additionally has a serious impression on battery life and I acquired about 6-8 hours when attempting to do combined productiveness duties on this mode, which concerned enhancing RAW recordsdata in Affinity Picture and watching the occasional YouTube video.
One nice function of all these new ARM-based PCs is that the idle energy draw is considerably diminished. I can shut the lid and go away the PC in a single day solely to search out about 3% drained within the morning.
General, the battery life on the Vivobook S 15 is unbelievable. I used to be capable of go on a two-day journey with out the charger and nonetheless had energy left after I got here again. The effectivity good points over earlier x86 chips are actual and you might be now not blowing loopy quantities of energy for fundamental duties. If all you do is a few hours of internet looking or watching Netflix in a day, you will not have to cost greater than as soon as per week.
Talking of charging, the Vivobook S 15 comes with a 90W USB-C charger. Trying on the HWiNFO figures, the machine was pulling about 72W whereas charging. I additionally tried a 65W USB-C PD charger, which Home windows promptly advised me wasn’t quick, and it pushed about 48W. Contemplating the battery lifetime of the Vivobook S 15, you’ll be able to simply carry a single high-power USB-PD telephone charger for all of your units for a brief journey as a substitute of lugging across the a lot bigger and heavier Vivobook S 15 charger.
One factor to notice is that the left edge will get extraordinarily sizzling when the machine is charging. The floor temperature is increased than even whereas working one thing CPU-demanding on the machine. In case you are utilizing the machine whereas charging, your left hand goes to begin feeling it quickly.
The Vivobook S 15 S5507 is a superb machine for residence and workplace customers. It is skinny and lightweight but well-built, has a improbable show, a wide selection of ports, a cushty keyboard and trackpad, quiet operation, and an distinctive battery life. The general efficiency for internet looking, workplace work, internet looking, and even mild picture and picture enhancing is greater than sufficient.
What the machine is not good at is heavy manufacturing work because of the restricted 16GB-only reminiscence configuration out there in some areas and the 16:9 facet ratio show, and the gaming expertise was largely poor as a consequence of a scarcity of native titles and driver assist.
In case you are in search of a jack of all trades, this may not be the choice for you and also you is perhaps higher off trying on the new Ryzen AI 300 fashions. However for these taking a look at doing largely residence, workplace, or faculty work with a little bit of media consumption on the aspect, the Vivobook S 15 is a extremely compelling choice that is solely going to get higher with time.
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