The ASUS Vivobook S16 OLED is spacious and easy on the eyes

The ASUS Vivobook S16 OLED is spacious and easy on the eyes

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Everyday laptops are everywhere, all at once. No, really. If you’re looking for a laptop that can handle your daily tasks, whether that’s work or personal, you have a lot of options to choose from. But not all of them are good or even worth your while, so it can be tough to find the best one for your needs. Enter the new Asus Vivobook S16 OLED, a 16-inch laptop designed to be your everyday device, whether you’re a student, a businessperson, or just looking for a solid all-around machine for surfing the web and tackling your daily projects.

ASUS Vivobook S 16 OLED: An affordable AMD workhorse

I’ve been using the Asus Vivobook S16 OLED as my daily driver for about two weeks now, and like most of Asus’s newer laptops, I’m seriously impressed with what it can do. It’s sleek, weighs just over 3 pounds (about the same weight as my normal daily driver, a MacBook Air 15-inch), and offers a ton of performance, not to mention that brilliant 3.2K, 120Hz OLED display, which really makes things pop.

There are a few different variations of the Asus Vivobook S16 OLED, including Intel models, but the version Asus sent me came with an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS chip (with Radeon 780M Graphics), 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and a 1TB SSD. It’s a solid configuration that left me wanting more. The Ryzen 9 8945HS is a fantastic processor, especially for day-to-day tasks, and the integrated graphics are more than enough for basic work and personal use, plus some light gaming on the side.

Anecdotally, overall performance was always snappy and I never felt like the laptop was bogging down, even when I had multiple Chrome tabs open, as well as the various Office applications I needed to do my day-to-day work. I even tried running a few games (Hades and other lightweight indies) on the system and found that they played reasonably well, considering the lack of a discrete graphics card. Of course, if you really want to play games on your laptop, I’d recommend getting a gaming laptop – perhaps the Asus Zephyrus G16, which I reviewed previously . I had to make a lot of sacrifices to get Red Dead Redemption 2 to run, and even then the fps often dropped below 30.

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