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expiredinnovisn posted Aug 4, 2022 7:13 PM
Sam's Club Members: ASUS VivoBook 15.6" Laptop: i7-1165G7, 1080p OLED, 16GB, 1TB SSD
$599
$999
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Sam's Club has for its Members: ASUS VivoBook 15 OLED Laptop (Indie Black, K513EA-UH78) on sale for $599. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member innovisn for finding this deal.
Note: Max 2 per order.
Specs:
Thanks to Community Member innovisn for finding this deal.
Note: Max 2 per order.
Specs:
- 15.6" 1080p OLED HDR True Black 600 Display
- Intel Core i7-1165G7 Processor 2.8 GHz (12M Cache, up to 4.7 GHz, 4 cores)
- Intel Iris Xe Graphics
- 16GB DDR4 RAM
- 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
- Backlit Keyboard
- 720p HD Webcam
- Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax + Bluetooth 5.0 2x2
- Windows 11 Home 64 Bit
- 3-Cell 42 WHr Battery
- Weight: 3.97 lbs
- Ports:
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C
- 2x USB 2.0 Type-A
- 1x HDMI 1.4
Editor's Notes
Written by StrawMan86 | Staff- About this deal:
- Sale valid 8/6 only.
- This deal price is $400 less than the $999 list price.
- Please refer to the forum thread for additional details & discussion. -StrawMan86
- About this store:
- View Sam's Club return policy here.
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Sam's Club has for its Members: ASUS VivoBook 15 OLED Laptop (Indie Black, K513EA-UH78) on sale for $599. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member innovisn for finding this deal.
Note: Max 2 per order.
Specs:
Thanks to Community Member innovisn for finding this deal.
Note: Max 2 per order.
Specs:
- 15.6" 1080p OLED HDR True Black 600 Display
- Intel Core i7-1165G7 Processor 2.8 GHz (12M Cache, up to 4.7 GHz, 4 cores)
- Intel Iris Xe Graphics
- 16GB DDR4 RAM
- 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
- Backlit Keyboard
- 720p HD Webcam
- Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax + Bluetooth 5.0 2x2
- Windows 11 Home 64 Bit
- 3-Cell 42 WHr Battery
- Weight: 3.97 lbs
- Ports:
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C
- 2x USB 2.0 Type-A
- 1x HDMI 1.4
Editor's Notes
Written by StrawMan86 | Staff- About this deal:
- Sale valid 8/6 only.
- This deal price is $400 less than the $999 list price.
- Please refer to the forum thread for additional details & discussion. -StrawMan86
- About this store:
- View Sam's Club return policy here.
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It's a different story for video editing. If you do a lot of video compression, for example encoding in HEVC x265, then the Ryzen trounces this CPU. This matters to me since I am converting a lot of old videos to x265 to save space. Some videos are 8-10 hrs long and take 2-5+ hours to compress. That's when speed really matters and you'll notice a difference between the Intel and Ryzen. So if you plan on saving your videos in x265 to save space (and you should!), or do other extensive video manipulation, then the Ryzen might be a better choice. Same goes for other mathematically-intensive tasks like 3D modeling, etc. I bought a Ryzen 4700U notebook on eBay for about $379 just for video editing.
Overall, this is a great notebook for photo and video editing unless speed is an issue. For minor editing and short TikTok videos, it probably wouldn't matter. On the plus side, you're getting an OLED screen and 16gb of RAM, which I've never seen at this price. My 4700U notebook, for example, only has 8gb. That can make difference if you're editing large videos. Basically, the more video you can put into RAM, the less the computer needs to access the video on a slower hard drive/SSD. RAM is much faster than any hard drive or SSD.
As for the OLED screen, I've never even considered getting an OLED notebook because the screen is normally so expensive. My guess is that the screen makes up half the price of this notebook. With OLED, you'll get incredible contrast and colors will really pop out. That can matter if you're doing precise photo and video touchups, but it also contributes to a wonderful viewing experience. This is especially true if several people are watching the screen. OLED screens have better viewing angles, where watching from the sides won't affect picture quality as much as that on an LCD screen, where colors fade.
Another plus is that OLED screens can extend battery life. LCD screens are back (or side) lit. Generally speaking, that means the LEDs backlighting the screen are on full brightness, regardless of how bright the image is. What you see is how much light is allowed through the LCD crystals, not how bright the backlight LEDs actually are. A good analogy is the blinds in your bedroom. What your neighbor sees is how much light you let through the blinds, not how much light is actually in your room. That means a totally blank (black) screen will use just as much energy as a bright white image. Not so with OLED. Each pixel is it's own LED (actually 3 LEDs: red, green and blue to produce colors). The more pixels you turn on, the more energy is used. The darker the image, the less energy you use. A totally black screen has no lit pixels so it uses no energy. This can matter if you plan on being battery powered a lot.
The only downside is burn-in. People who do a lot of wordprocessing or spreadsheet work often have the same image on the screen for long stretches of time. For example, the formatting bar (bold, italic, underline, etc) on top of a wordprocessor remains the same as you type away. That leads to burn-in, where a faint image of that formatting bar will stay permanently on the screen even when you're using another app. The secret to fighting burn-in is to change the screen image frequently. A screensaver may help, but that only works when you're not using the computer. There are apps for phones that shift the screen by a few pixels at regular intervals. Because the shift is so small, it may not be noticeable. However, I don't know if such apps exist for Windows. Your best bet is to not use a single app with a single image for long stretches of time. But if your primary apps (e.g. wordprocessing) have a lot of static areas where the image doesn't change, then an OLED screen might not be the best choice.
In summary, this is great computer for photo and video editing, and especially for watching videos. But if speed matters, then a 4700U notebook might be better. However, the 16gb RAM might offset the slower CPU. So I'd say grab one if you can find it.
PS - oh wow, this post got way longer than I had intended! I'm writing on a phone so I had no idea what the final results were.
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It's a different story for video editing. If you do a lot of video compression, for example encoding in HEVC x265, then the Ryzen trounces this CPU. This matters to me since I am converting a lot of old videos to x265 to save space. Some videos are 8-10 hrs long and take 2-5+ hours to compress. That's when speed really matters and you'll notice a difference between the Intel and Ryzen. So if you plan on saving your videos in x265 to save space (and you should!), or do other extensive video manipulation, then the Ryzen might be a better choice. Same goes for other mathematically-intensive tasks like 3D modeling, etc. I bought a Ryzen 4700U notebook on eBay for about $379 just for video editing.
Overall, this is a great notebook for photo and video editing unless speed is an issue. For minor editing and short TikTok videos, it probably wouldn't matter. On the plus side, you're getting an OLED screen and 16gb of RAM, which I've never seen at this price. My 4700U notebook, for example, only has 8gb. That can make difference if you're editing large videos. Basically, the more video you can put into RAM, the less the computer needs to access the video on a slower hard drive/SSD. RAM is much faster than any hard drive or SSD.
As for the OLED screen, I've never even considered getting an OLED notebook because the screen is normally so expensive. My guess is that the screen makes up half the price of this notebook. With OLED, you'll get incredible contrast and colors will really pop out. That can matter if you're doing precise photo and video touchups, but it also contributes to a wonderful viewing experience. This is especially true if several people are watching the screen. OLED screens have better viewing angles, where watching from the sides won't affect picture quality as much as that on an LCD screen, where colors fade.
Another plus is that OLED screens can extend battery life. LCD screens are back (or side) lit. Generally speaking, that means the LEDs backlighting the screen are on full brightness, regardless of how bright the image is. What you see is how much light is allowed through the LCD crystals, not how bright the backlight LEDs actually are. A good analogy is the blinds in your bedroom. What your neighbor sees is how much light you let through the blinds, not how much light is actually in your room. That means a totally blank (black) screen will use just as much energy as a bright white image. Not so with OLED. Each pixel is it's own LED (actually 3 LEDs: red, green and blue to produce colors). The more pixels you turn on, the more energy is used. The darker the image, the less energy you use. A totally black screen has no lit pixels so it uses no energy. This can matter if you plan on being battery powered a lot.
The only downside is burn-in. People who do a lot of wordprocessing or spreadsheet work often have the same image on the screen for long stretches of time. For example, the formatting bar (bold, italic, underline, etc) on top of a wordprocessor remains the same as you type away. That leads to burn-in, where a faint image of that formatting bar will stay permanently on the screen even when you're using another app. The secret to fighting burn-in is to change the screen image frequently. A screensaver may help, but that only works when you're not using the computer. There are apps for phones that shift the screen by a few pixels at regular intervals. Because the shift is so small, it may not be noticeable. However, I don't know if such apps exist for Windows. Your best bet is to not use a single app with a single image for long stretches of time. But if your primary apps (e.g. wordprocessing) have a lot of static areas where the image doesn't change, then an OLED screen might not be the best choice.
In summary, this is great computer for photo and video editing, and especially for watching videos. But if speed matters, then a 4700U notebook might be better. However, the 16gb RAM might offset the slower CPU. So I'd say grab one if you can find it.
PS - oh wow, this post got way longer than I had intended! I'm writing on a phone so I had no idea what the final results were.
It's a different story for video editing. If you do a lot of video compression, for example encoding in HEVC x265, then the Ryzen trounces this CPU. This matters to me since I am converting a lot of old videos to x265 to save space. Some videos are 8-10 hrs long and take 2-5+ hours to compress. That's when speed really matters and you'll notice a difference between the Intel and Ryzen. So if you plan on saving your videos in x265 to save space (and you should!), or do other extensive video manipulation, then the Ryzen might be a better choice. Same goes for other mathematically-intensive tasks like 3D modeling, etc. I bought a Ryzen 4700U notebook on eBay for about $379 just for video editing.
Overall, this is a great notebook for photo and video editing unless speed is an issue. For minor editing and short TikTok videos, it probably wouldn't matter. On the plus side, you're getting an OLED screen and 16gb of RAM, which I've never seen at this price. My 4700U notebook, for example, only has 8gb. That can make difference if you're editing large videos. Basically, the more video you can put into RAM, the less the computer needs to access the video on a slower hard drive/SSD. RAM is much faster than any hard drive or SSD.
As for the OLED screen, I've never even considered getting an OLED notebook because the screen is normally so expensive. My guess is that the screen makes up half the price of this notebook. With OLED, you'll get incredible contrast and colors will really pop out. That can matter if you're doing precise photo and video touchups, but it also contributes to a wonderful viewing experience. This is especially true if several people are watching the screen. OLED screens have better viewing angles, where watching from the sides won't affect picture quality as much as that on an LCD screen, where colors fade.
Another plus is that OLED screens can extend battery life. LCD screens are back (or side) lit. Generally speaking, that means the LEDs backlighting the screen are on full brightness, regardless of how bright the image is. What you see is how much light is allowed through the LCD crystals, not how bright the backlight LEDs actually are. A good analogy is the blinds in your bedroom. What your neighbor sees is how much light you let through the blinds, not how much light is actually in your room. That means a totally blank (black) screen will use just as much energy as a bright white image. Not so with OLED. Each pixel is it's own LED (actually 3 LEDs: red, green and blue to produce colors). The more pixels you turn on, the more energy is used. The darker the image, the less energy you use. A totally black screen has no lit pixels so it uses no energy. This can matter if you plan on being battery powered a lot.
The only downside is burn-in. People who do a lot of wordprocessing or spreadsheet work often have the same image on the screen for long stretches of time. For example, the formatting bar (bold, italic, underline, etc) on top of a wordprocessor remains the same as you type away. That leads to burn-in, where a faint image of that formatting bar will stay permanently on the screen even when you're using another app. The secret to fighting burn-in is to change the screen image frequently. A screensaver may help, but that only works when you're not using the computer. It will not help if you're wordprocessing or doing data entry. Your best bet is to not use a single app with a single image for long stretches of time.
In summary, this is great computer for photo and video editing, and especially for watching videos. But if speed matters, then a 4700U notebook might be better. However, the 16gb RAM might offset the slower CPU. So I'd say grab one if you can find it.
PS - oh wow, this post got way longer than I had intended! I'm writing on a phone so I had no idea what the final results were.
4 P cores with HT
8 E cores no HT
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-...Id=6427570 [bestbuy.com]
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Laptop threads on here, quick to dismiss screen quality and brightness, and build quality and vendor support as far less important than they really are for the user and put huge emphasis on cpu cores, ram upgradability and of course the super critical back lit keyboard.
Highlights
Processor: 11th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 Processor
Memory/Storage: 16GB RAM / 1TB SSD
Screen: 15.6" OLED Full HD (1920 x 1080)
Keyboard: Full-size, backlit keyboard with num-key
Graphics: Intel® Iris Xe Graphics
https://www.samsclub.co
Little peeved my 10$ gift card didn't get applied correctly but I was in a bit of a rush thinking this might sell out lol. O well, I'll buy something else from Sams or Walmart eventually.
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