expiredDr.W posted Nov 20, 2023 12:45 PM
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Item 1 of 4
expiredDr.W posted Nov 20, 2023 12:45 PM
ASUS Vivobook 15 Laptop: Ryzen 5 7530U, 15.6" FHD OLED, 8GB DDR4, 512GB SSD
w/ Zip Checkout + Free S&H$406
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- Backlit chicklet keyboard
- Barrel connector charging
- Memory seems soldered in, but has 1 additional available slot
This chip is faster than the 12th gen i5, but slower than the 13th gen, while being better on power. I really wish this had USB C charging.
RAM: ASUS official page even says 1 available SDRAM slot. Maybe it's on the hidden side of the mainboard. I've come across that design a couple of times in the past.
HDMI: 1.4 is a bit disappointing, but if you're not light gaming, you won't hit this wall.
Weight: 3.7 lbs,... just a tad heavy, but not
Display: ...and 600 nits OLED?! <drool... .> on-battery duration will suffer but imho, well worth the trade-off.
Ports: 3.1 is insufferable if accustomed to 3.2 or faster. However, in my experience, substantial dependency on attached storage is not typical use.
CPU & Storage: both reasonably snappy. Combine with 16GB, you're good for 3+ years easy for typical use.
Charge Method: Imho, the barrel connector charge is just not that big of a liability given this price-for-performance. That's what we're accustomed to anyway.
All that said, I remain baffled: why so little love?
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consumers really need to pay more attention to 3rd party sellers...
* Good chassis stiffness, adequate screen stiffness
* Light for this size class
* Easily accessible DDR4 SO-DIMM slot (10 visible Phillips screws, then pry from the corner with a plastic pick, use 3200 RAM)
* Excellent tactility to the keyboard, three backlighting levels
* Annoyingly offset touchpad that rattles a bit with taps
* Lots of Asus crapware to disable-- 8 or 10 services and various notifications
* Speakers are mediocre, but get quite loud
* Case picks up fingerprints immediately
* 50 Wh battery
* 850 Mb/s on my wifi
This is UserBenchmark with the "Balanced" Windows power profile and "Balanced" Asus fan profile:
http://www.userbenchma
The screen is a monster. Before you do anything, turn on Windows HDR (including when on battery; it's a separate section in Settings) and run the Windows HDR Calibration app (settings: 0 dark, 520 peak, 520 fullscreen, 0% oversaturation). That brings the Windows desktop from over-saturated native gamut to a well-calibrated sRGB and allows Chrome to set HDR automatically.
Compared with my Macbook Pro 14 on YT HDR videos, it's almost a tossup. This OLED has slightly better color gamut, a bit more shadow detail, and a slight contrast edge in small bright highlights on pure black. The MBP is noticeably sharper and has much brighter peak highlights for content mastered to use them (but only for those isolated highlights; the rest of the content has the same brightness) and better contrast in those scenes. For most content most of the time, they look the same with very similar contrast and color-rendering. Both are miles and miles beyond any other non-OLED laptop screen.
Pure office use would favor a 1440p or 4K screen. While this OLED doesn't have the weird cross-hatching I've seen on a lot of other OLED laptops, text on webpages at the standard 125% Windows scaling is a touch grainy. It's acceptable, you won't hate it, but if you're spoiled by 4K IPS, it's a noticeable step down.
Subpixel layout:
https://i.imgur.com/CH2oMN3.jpg
For $400, if you don't need to game (or can stream the games over Steam), it's a steal.
* Good chassis stiffness, adequate screen stiffness
* Light for this size class
* Easily accessible DDR4 SO-DIMM slot (10 visible Phillips screws, then pry from the corner with a plastic pick, use 3200 RAM)
* Excellent tactility to the keyboard, three backlighting levels
* Annoyingly offset touchpad that rattles a bit with taps
* Lots of Asus crapware to disable-- 8 or 10 services and various notifications
* Speakers are mediocre, but get quite loud
* Case picks up fingerprints immediately
* 50 Wh battery
* 850 Mb/s on my wifi
This is UserBenchmark with the "Balanced" Windows power profile and "Balanced" Asus fan profile:
http://www.userbenchma
The screen is a monster. Before you do anything, turn on Windows HDR (including when on battery; it's a separate section in Settings) and run the Windows HDR Calibration app (settings: 0 dark, 520 peak, 520 fullscreen, 0% oversaturation). That brings the Windows desktop from over-saturated native gamut to a well-calibrated sRGB and allows Chrome to set HDR automatically.
Compared with my Macbook Pro 14 on YT HDR videos, it's almost a tossup. This OLED has slightly better color gamut, a bit more shadow detail, and a slight contrast edge in small bright highlights on pure black. The MBP is noticeably sharper and has much brighter peak highlights for content mastered to use them (but only for those isolated highlights; the rest of the content has the same brightness) and better contrast in those scenes. For most content most of the time, they look the same with very similar contrast and color-rendering. Both are miles and miles beyond any other non-OLED laptop screen.
Pure office use would favor a 1440p or 4K screen. While this OLED doesn't have the weird cross-hatching I've seen on a lot of other OLED laptops, text on webpages at the standard 125% Windows scaling is a touch grainy. It's acceptable, you won't hate it, but if you're spoiled by 4K IPS, it's a noticeable step down.
Subpixel layout:
https://i.imgur.com/CH2oMN3.jpg
For $400, if you don't need to game (or can stream the games over Steam), it's a steal.
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And in amazon, they sell crucial RAM 8, 16, 32 gb ddr4 3200 MHz. I can use these, right?
except for 8 gb ram, looks really good.
Thanks for all the good info. I also received mine and got it set up last night, it really is a nice unit - unfortunate that usb-c port doesn't support DP-alt, but not the end of the world. Still a great deal IMO.
With more extended testing, I wasn't totally satisfied with SDR color rendering with HDR mode on. I create a profile with my Color Munki that's an improvement and replaces the Microsoft calibration. I'll link it when I can pull it off the machine if anyone wants it.
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With more extended testing, I wasn't totally satisfied with SDR color rendering with HDR mode on. I create a profile with my Color Munki that's an improvement and replaces the Microsoft calibration. I'll link it when I can pull it off the machine if anyone wants it.
I wonder if it's possible to reduce the brightness when running programs coded in DOS such as memtest? I tried using the program to test the ram but didn't want to let it runing continuously as required since the screen would remain in a largely static image for several hours and was concerned about burn in.
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