Asus Vivobook S 15 S5507 evaluation

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 gadgets 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 gadget with a price ticket of $1300. For that cash, you’re 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 gadget is focused in direction of house and workplace customers who wish to do some gentle productiveness work and media consumption on the go.

On this evaluation, we will likely be how the Vivobook S 15 performs but in addition what it is wish to stay with an ARM-based Home windows PC.

Design

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 clean matte end to it with a delicate Vivobook brand on the lid. The again has a row of vents with an extended raised rubber foot.

Life the lid and you will 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 would not work. The situation of those parts is quite unlucky, as each the webcam and particularly the sliding mechanism for the duvet are proper the place you’re 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 massive 15.6-inch show. The show will get very near the facet edges however the prime and backside bezels are noticeably thicker. If, for some cause, you saved opening the lid, you may notice that it really opens a full 180 levels, making it flat with the bottom.

Under the show, the keyboard deck can be made out of aluminum with the identical silver end. Even the keys are silver, which has an unlucky draw back as will likely be mentioned later. Under the keys is the massive 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 proper.

The Vivobook S 15 is comparatively compact regardless of the massive show. Extra importantly, it is also very gentle, weighing in at simply 1.42kg or 3.13lb. This makes it very simple to slide right into a backpack and I barely even seen 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 coloration. Nevertheless, there is not a lot to complain in regards to the construct high quality, which is sweet total. The keyboard deck has a slight flex to it nevertheless it’s solely noticeable if you press down on it quite than whereas typing. Asus additionally claims US MIL-STD 810H ranking for added peace of thoughts.

Show

The Vivobook S 15 has a 15.6-inch, 2880×1620 OLED show. It has a 120Hz refresh charge with a claimed 0.2ms response time, 600 nits peak brightness, 100 DCI-P3 coloration protection, and HDR help.

Asus has included a handful of show choices within the MyASUS app. The OLED Care characteristic 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 possibility 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 appears like having a vignette across the display. On the default setting of two, it is barely noticeable so it is best to simply depart it on.

The show is color-calibrated on the manufacturing unit and comes with a calibration certificates discovered within the MyASUS app. Asus additionally consists of coloration calibration profiles to lock the show to sRGB, DCI-P3, Show-P3, or simply depart it unclamped at its native gamut.

Show setttings

The OLED panel has excellent picture high quality, with distinctive coloration accuracy, distinction, and viewing angles. The decision is ample, and supplies a sufficiently sharp and excessive decision picture, particularly on the dimension. The 600 nits brightness is greater than enough for indoor use and can be advantageous open air until you end up beneath direct daylight.

The 120Hz refresh charge is a good accompaniment to the stellar picture. You get very fluid scrolling, which is aided by OLED’s phenomenal response occasions which are close to instantaneous. HDR efficiency can be fairly spectacular however with no Dolby Imaginative and prescient help, you’re restricted to static metadata HDR10 content material solely.

The show does have two controversial facets. First is the 16:9 side ratio, which is nice for media consumption however not for productiveness and even internet shopping. The second is the shiny panel, which is terrific if you find yourself in a pitch-dark room however anyplace else you’re continuously combating reflections.

That apart, it is onerous to not be impressed by the show on the Vivobook S 15. Asus has achieved an incredible job on this one.

Keyboard and trackpad

The Vivobook S 15 has a typical chiclet-style keyboard with 1.7mm key journey and a numpad on the facet. The keys have a single-zone RGB backlight, which might 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 achieved it was a breeze to kind on. I’m personally a bit break up on the devoted numpad on the proper, particularly since Asus has proven it might have a digital numpad on the trackpad that features simply as effectively, and I would quite have an evenly spaced keyboard and trackpad.

What I am not break up on is the pointless new Copilot key, which replaces the proper management key. All this does is launch the Copilot ‘app’, which additionally occurs to be only a window in Edge, and one thing you may simply pin to the taskbar. All that is on prime of the doubtful worth that Copilot brings. I would a lot quite 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’ll be able to modify the lighting coloration, sample, and brightness from the MyASUS app however since it is a single-zone lighting, it is going to apply uniformly to the complete keyboard. The backlighting is not very vivid and has the unlucky facet impact of constructing the important thing legends troublesome to see throughout the day as the sunshine simply blends with the silver surrounds, particularly in case you choose a impartial coloration like white.

Under the keyboard is the quite sizable trackpad. The graceful glass floor makes this a pleasure to make use of, though one might argue if it must be this massive. Asus has assigned some gestures to the highest and facet edges, which management issues like quantity, brightness, and playback however I discovered myself triggering them unintentionally too typically. Fortunately, you may simply disable them however it’s important to disable all of them and never simply the one which’s getting in your method.

The trackpad is hinged on the prime as is normally the case however you may click on on a great 80% of it and get a satisfying response, with solely the highest edge being unable to maneuver.

One recurring concern 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 earlier than scrolling. This can be a difficulty with the trackpad driver that may doubtlessly be fastened with an replace.

ASUS additionally despatched over its MD100 Marshmallow Mouse Steve Harrington Version, a cutesy gadget with a cool sample and a useful strap that may be tucked away when not wanted. It is a respectable mouse with Bluetooth and wi-fi connectivity, smooth clicks and scroll wheel, and a slim, light-weight design.

Audio and webcam

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 via the jack. The sound was additionally oddly gentle on bass and all the pieces 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 case you flip it off, it by some means manages to show itself on once more.

The webcam high quality is mediocre. A lot was made in regards to the picture processing of the Snapdragon chips however I am not seeing it. It appears like another webcam, which is to say it is advantageous for the informal video name however it is best to nonetheless think about an aftermarket digicam in case you want it typically.

{Hardware} and connectivity

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 likely one of the 4 Snapdragon X Elite fashions and is technically the runt of the litter. Not solely does it have the bottom enhance clock velocity, nevertheless it’s additionally the one one with no single or dual-core enhance like on the opposite chips, which might quickly enhance one or two of their cores even larger. The GPU can 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 embrace the reminiscence on-die. Relatively, it is soldered onto the motherboard like on most different notebooks as of late. Whereas it is good {that a} 32GB possibility exists, it appears it is solely out there in choose areas, and ours solely got here in 16GB with no different possibility out there.

For storage, our evaluation unit had a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD with a 512GB possibility out there in some areas. Fortunately, the SSD here’s a customary 2280 M.2 drive, which might simply get replaced must you require extra storage.

Regardless of what you may suppose, the Vivobook S 15 has a decently-sized cooling system inside with twin followers cooling twin warmth pipes. There are not any fanless notebooks but based mostly on this chip since it might pull a good bit of energy. However extra on that later.

In terms of connectivity, the Vivobook S 15 does rather well, particularly in comparison with its rivals. You get two full-size USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports on the proper with 5Gbps bandwidth and on the left are two USB 4.0 Gen 3 Kind-C ports, which help 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.

Software program

The Vivobook S 15 comes with Home windows 11 House Version put in. That is clearly the model constructed for the ARM 64-bit platform, and nearly all of the apps that come pre-installed are additionally constructed for ARM.

When it comes to bloatware, Asus is mostly fairly good. There are only a handful of Asus apps which are pre-installed, all of which might be eliminated. Nevertheless, it is best to hold the MyASUS app because it provides an unlimited array of settings for the gadget together with the power to improve the gadget firmware, which is separate from the Home windows updates.

Being an ARM-based gadget, there was at all times going to be a query mark on how the gadget runs all of the apps you’re used to working on a Home windows machine. This was a significant bugbear of early ARM-based Home windows gadgets, which might solely run a choose few apps from the Home windows retailer that have been constructed for ARM.

Fortuitously, we’ve come a great distance since then, and making issues so much simpler this time round is Prism, the Home windows emulator that allows you to run x86-64 apps on the gadget with out you even realizing it. Critically, all it’s important to do is set up the app as you usually would and it simply runs as you’d count on it to. Nicely, besides if it is a recreation, however extra on that within the Efficiency part.

Nevertheless, emulation is not a free lunch, and there’s a value to translating the app to a different structure each time you’re working it. When you will not discover the distinction a lot in light-weight apps aside 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 little bit of looking out, you may normally discover an ARM model of your app. Typically it will likely be in beta and even alpha however relying on the character of the app can nonetheless run vastly higher than a steady 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 take advantage of and it was really sort of enjoyable. I used to be stunned to see simply what number of apps do have an ARM model now, at the very least in some state of growth. Funnily sufficient, it was normally the apps with small dev groups who have been fast on the uptake however even greater apps like DaVinci Resolve and Photoshop now have a local ARM model.

The mixture of a strong emulator and a rising library of native apps means Home windows on ARM is presently in a great place, at the very least so far as on daily basis or generally used productiveness apps. After all, there will likely be circumstances the place the emulator would 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 house or workplace customers.

Efficiency

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, Customary, 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 info 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 although apps like HWiNFO can entry info 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 said 3.4GHz throughout all 12 cores. Whisper can solely maintain 3.4GHz in an all-core workload for a few seconds earlier than dropping all the way down to 2.2GHz for the remaining period. Customary stays just a few seconds longer earlier than dropping all the way down to 2.7GHz. Efficiency will drop all the way 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 might assign to a activity 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 have been run utilizing the Full-speed profile in MyASUS and the Home windows energy profile left on the default Balanced. All makes an attempt have been made to get the ARM model of the benchmark wherever potential however sadly, a number of the assessments are nonetheless x86 solely.

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.

The 4 energy profiles in MyASUS have a proportionately larger impression on efficiency as you go down the listing. From Full-speed to Efficiency, you lose about 9% efficiency in Blender within the Classroom scene. Happening to the default Customary makes you lose about 22% of the efficiency of Full-speed after which lastly at Whisper, you lose a big 53% of the efficiency.

Nonetheless, as you may see, even working on the lowest energy stage is best 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’ll nonetheless get the identical efficiency, supplied you permit the Home windows energy profile to Steadiness. Nevertheless, by default, Home windows switches to the Finest Energy Effectivity profile on battery, which has a extreme impression on measurable efficiency.

Now for some real-life testing. I attempted utilizing the Vivobook S 15 in a typical house use case consisting largely of internet shopping and media consumption and likewise 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’re on energy or battery, there at all times appears to be ample energy out there and the gadget feels fast and responsive. After all, this was largely when working native ARM apps however even non-native apps appeared to run advantageous more often than not exterior of benchmarks to the purpose it was simple to overlook they have been working beneath 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 pictures in Affinity Picture (which additionally is available in native ARM) and infrequently enhancing a 4K video in DaVinci Resolve (additionally ARM however in beta). I used to be in a position to energy via these apps with out experiencing any main slowdowns. That’s till I hit the boundaries of the 16GB reminiscence. Sadly, this merely is not ample to do any actual productiveness work on the gadget, 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 possibility in some markets. That will be the go-to in case you plan on doing memory-heavy duties. Sadly, not having that possibility all over the place appears 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. House customers most likely would not look after internet and media functions however then once more, you may also 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 moderately effectively. It is not the quickest drive we’ve seen however for the use circumstances this gadget is designed for it ought to be enough.

Gaming

That is the place issues go pear-shaped for the Vivobook S 15 and the ARM-based Home windows platform basically.

That is the unlucky actuality of the present scenario; there are merely no video games out there for Home windows on the time of writing which are based mostly on the ARM structure. This implies each recreation you strive must undergo emulation, which impacts video games disproportionately in comparison with common apps.

All of the video games I attempted (and I attempted so much) fell into three classes:

• The sport put in, launched, and ran as anticipated with decreased efficiency
• The sport put in, launched, however had graphical errors and/or unplayable efficiency
• The sport put in however couldn’t be launched

A small subset of video games fell within the first class. They put in and functioned kind of as they’d on a local x86 gadget. The common body charge wasn’t nice owing to the emulation, lack of drivers, or only a basic lack of GPU efficiency, nevertheless it was steady and playable. Some examples of those embrace titles like Management, Metro Exodus, Alien: Isolation, Stray, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Sadly, a lot of the video games fell into the second and third classes. Whereas some video games launched advantageous, the efficiency was typically unplayable. For those who have been to simply take a look at common body charges, you may make the error of considering the sport runs advantageous however the body time efficiency was in all places with large spikes that made the sport troublesome to play and unattainable to get pleasure from. This consists of titles reminiscent of God of Struggle, Outer Wilds, Resident Evil 3, Counter-Strike 2, and Overwatch 2.

Some titles appeared to run advantageous however had visible points. The Tomb Raider I-III Remastered assortment, for instance, ran completely however was too darkish, which made it troublesome to see. A few others additionally had artifacts like flashing textures and visible glitches whereas enjoying.

Then some video games merely wouldn’t even launch. This included titles like Loss of life Stranding and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. The primary immediately crashes on launch. The second, like many others, searches for appropriate drivers seemingly from Nvidia or AMD, and upon not discovering any throws the system would 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 just lately would launch and attain the menu earlier than crashing.

A overwhelming majority of video games that will not launch have been multiplayer titles with anti-cheat. Even when the sport itself would run beneath emulation, the anti-cheat software program would stop the sport from launching because of an incompatibility error. In some circumstances 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 is no method in.

The issue right here is twofold. Initially, recreation builders are going to need to 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 start out delivery graphics drivers for titles. Nvidia does this, AMD does it, and now even Intel does it. There isn’t any 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 known 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 characteristic appeared terrible because the decision is way too low and non-adjustable. You’re much better off launching the sport usually and utilizing no matter picture upscaling know-how the sport comes with, like TSR, FSR, or XeSS.

In case you’re questioning why there are not any recreation benchmarks on this web page, the reply for that’s that the benchmarking instrument I take advantage of wasn’t in a position to run accurately. Initially, it would not work in any respect and later having the instrument working would trigger any recreation launched to crash instantly, even when the sport would run in any other case.

When it comes to precise playability, I used to be in a position to get easier titles to run moderately effectively sufficient. I might, for instance, play Inside or Gris effectively sufficient on the gadget. Fundamental 2D titles just like the Ace Legal professional collection additionally ran advantageous. I used to be additionally in a position to run Management at a fairly steady body charge. The trick with these was to at all times simply drop the decision to the bottom quantity you may tolerate, which for me was 720p on this display after which set all the pieces to the bottom settings.

One might argue that the chip is not geared toward players neither is Asus’ Vivobook collection basically. Nevertheless, the sensation I had enjoying video games on the gadget was that there was ample energy right here to get a PS4-level of efficiency, which is to say, 1080p with medium settings and 30fps locked body charge. That is not too unhealthy, however for that to occur there would must be native titles out there, in addition to optimized drivers from Qualcomm.

Funnily sufficient, the Mac now has an honest variety of native ARM titles out there for it. You’ve gotten titles like Resident Evil 4, Baldur’s Gate 3, Murderer’s Creed Mirage, Loss of life Stranding Director’s Minimize, and several 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 Sport Cross Final membership. The factor is, you may’t entry most of those video games because the Xbox app on ARM will merely not present any of them to you. You’ll be able to obtain a handful from the Microsoft Retailer app however once I say handful, I actually imply handful. Many 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 Sport Cross membership was a one-off factor for evaluation models because it is unnecessary to bundle this for precise shoppers.

Lengthy story quick, gaming, for probably the most half, is a no-go on the Vivobook S 15 in the meanwhile and if that is an issue then this is not the gadget nor the platform for you.

Thermals

The Vivobook S 15 has a decently sized thermal answer regardless of what one may count on from an ARM chip. The reality is, the Snapdragon X Elite can pull plenty of energy, and working it fanless would not appear to be an possibility for the second.

As such, the followers on the Vivobook S 15 are nearly at all times working. Nevertheless, by default they’re so quiet, you’ll not often hear them, even in a quiet room. The one strategy to get the followers audible is to run the 2 larger energy profiles and do one thing closely multi-threaded on the CPU. For all the pieces else, it is nearly like having a fanless system.

Whereas the fan noise is pretty nice on the Customary and even the Efficiency mode, the Full-speed profile appears like summoning a demon as abruptly 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, which means you may also simply run the system on this profile and never hear the followers in any respect till you determine to run Cinebench for some cause.

Underneath load, the underside half of the keyboard deck stays at a snug temperature though the realm above the highest row will get fairly heat.

Battery life

The Vivobook S 15 has a 70Wh battery. Asus makes a quite daring declare of 18+ hours of battery life, a determine they obtained whereas enjoying video regionally.

For my testing, I left the gadget on the default Customary mode within the MyASUS app and the Finest Energy Effectivity profile in Home windows settings. The show was set to 60% brightness and the keyboard lighting was off. The Adaptive Edge Brightness characteristic was left on the default worth of two. All different battery-saving and standby mode options have been disabled.

Utilizing these settings, I acquired about 12 hours of pure internet shopping in Edge. For video, I acquired about 14 hours when enjoying YouTube 4K and 15 hours when enjoying Netflix 1080p.

The Home windows Finest Energy Effectivity profile is completely enough for internet shopping and media consumption. Nevertheless, you’d wish to swap to Balanced if you wish to do productiveness work on the go, because it makes an enormous distinction to efficiency. It additionally has a significant impression on battery life and I acquired about 6-8 hours when attempting to do blended productiveness duties on this mode, which concerned enhancing RAW recordsdata in Affinity Picture and watching the occasional YouTube video.

One nice characteristic of all these new ARM-based PCs is that the idle energy draw is considerably decreased. I can shut the lid and depart the PC in a single day solely to search out about 3% drained within the morning.

Total, the battery life on the Vivobook S 15 is unbelievable. I used to be in a position to go on a two-day journey with out the charger and nonetheless had energy left once I got here again. The effectivity beneficial properties over earlier x86 chips are actual and you’re not blowing loopy quantities of energy for primary duties. If all you do is a few hours of internet shopping or watching Netflix in a day, you will not must cost greater than as soon as every week.

Talking of charging, the Vivobook S 15 comes with a 90W USB-C charger. Wanting 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 may simply carry a single high-power USB-PD telephone charger for all of your gadgets for a brief journey as an alternative 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 scorching when the gadget is charging. The floor temperature is larger than even whereas working one thing CPU-demanding on the gadget. In case you are utilizing the gadget whereas charging, your left hand goes to start out feeling it quickly.

Conclusion

The Vivobook S 15 S5507 is a superb gadget for house and workplace customers. It is skinny and lightweight but well-built, has a improbable show, a wide variety of ports, a snug keyboard and trackpad, quiet operation, and an distinctive battery life. The general efficiency for internet shopping, workplace work, internet shopping, and even gentle picture and picture enhancing is greater than enough.

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 side ratio show, and the gaming expertise was largely poor because of a scarcity of native titles and driver help.

In case you are in search of a jack of all trades, this may not be the choice for you and also you may be higher off trying on the new Ryzen AI 300 fashions. However for these doing largely house, workplace, or faculty work with a little bit of media consumption on the facet, the Vivobook S 15 is a extremely compelling possibility that is solely going to get higher with time.

Execs

• Skinny, gentle, and well-built design
• Wonderful show
• Nice total efficiency from the Snapdragon chip
• Good keyboard and trackpad
• Barely audible cooling
• Excellent battery life in gentle utilization
• Good number of ports

Cons

• 16GB not sufficient for productiveness; 32GB has restricted availability
• Poor gaming expertise
• 16:9 side ratio not supreme for productiveness
• Dim keyboard backlight
• Replaces the proper Ctrl key with a pointless Copilot button