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Asus VivoBook S16 Laptop: 16" 3.2K OLED, Core Ultra 9, 16GB LPDDR5X, 1TB SSD

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$900

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Staples has Asus VivoBook S16 Laptop (S5606MA-DS96) on sale for $899.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member Suryasis for sharing this deal.

Specs:
  • 16" 3200x2000 OLED 120Hz 400-nits Glossy Display
  • Core Ultra 9 185H 2.3 GHz
  • 16GB LPDDR5X 7467 MHz RAM
  • 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen 4 Solid State Drive
  • Intel Arc Graphics
  • Single Zone RGB Backlit Chiclet Keyboard
  • 1080p IR Webcam w/ Windows Hello & Privacy Shutter
  • Wi-Fi 6E 2x2 + Bluetooth 5.3
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Ports:
    • 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
    • 2x USB-C Thunderbolt 4
    • 1x HDMI
    • 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
    • 1x Micro SD card reader
  • 90W USB-C Power Adapter
  • 4 Cell 75 WHr Li-Ion battery
  • 3.31 lbs

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Staples has Asus VivoBook S16 Laptop (S5606MA-DS96) on sale for $899.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member Suryasis for sharing this deal.

Specs:
  • 16" 3200x2000 OLED 120Hz 400-nits Glossy Display
  • Core Ultra 9 185H 2.3 GHz
  • 16GB LPDDR5X 7467 MHz RAM
  • 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen 4 Solid State Drive
  • Intel Arc Graphics
  • Single Zone RGB Backlit Chiclet Keyboard
  • 1080p IR Webcam w/ Windows Hello & Privacy Shutter
  • Wi-Fi 6E 2x2 + Bluetooth 5.3
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Ports:
    • 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
    • 2x USB-C Thunderbolt 4
    • 1x HDMI
    • 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
    • 1x Micro SD card reader
  • 90W USB-C Power Adapter
  • 4 Cell 75 WHr Li-Ion battery
  • 3.31 lbs

Editor's Notes

Written by johnny_miller | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this deal is $200 less (~18% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $1099.99 at the time of this posting.
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
    • Get 1%-5% cash back on deals like this with a cash back credit card. Compare the available cash back credit cards here.
  • About this store:
    • View Staple's return policy here.

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Model: ASUS Vivobook S 16 OLED 16" 3.2K 120Hz, Ultra 9-185H, 16GB, 1TB SSD, W11H, Black

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I'll probably still go with AMD and Intel as of now. Although AQualcom has been claiming big performance and efficiency gains over x86 counterparts, there is not a single thrid-party review and all is coming from Qualcomm. On top of that. all the benhmarks Qualcomm is showing synthetic benchmarks like Geekbench and Cinebench which are extremely optimized for ARM architecture. There are a lot of skepticism among the tech enthusiasts about Qualcomm's claims and I can guess why.
If you have good idea about omputer Sccience then you need to understand the parent arcchiteccture of x86 and ARm respectively. ARM is based on Reduced Instruction Set Computer architecture or RISC whereas x86 is based IS or Complex Instruction Set Architecture. Now RISC can be very efficient for executing instructions, has lower latency but they need extremely low level integration with the Operating System and the OS you're planning to use, unlike CICS proccessors like x86 which can run on varios platforms far easily. Qualcommay be coming with a very beefy ARM based PU but unless Microsoft and the Software vendors optimize their software exclusively for that specific architecture, you never gonna see full performance and it will take a long time as in Windows Platform, now both Microsoft and Software vendors need to optimize their architecture for three different type of CPUs.
For Apple, it was easy as they are using their tailor made Processor, own OS, and software library which needs to be optimized for a single architecture.
Pretty incredible deal for the specs - Ultra 9, 120Hz OLED, 7467 RAM .. Glad laptops are going in reverse inflation.
Pretty decent price for the specs. It would have been perfect if it came with 32GB RAM, even at $100 more. Surprisingly light for a 16" that is not an LG Gram.

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Very tempting price, but note Staples only has a 15 day return policy. The ARM laptops come out on the 20th of May. I'm holding off until then.

Here's the 8945 HS version for 100$ more pre order.

https://xoticpc.com/products/asus...20Warranty
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Quote from KeithK2933 :
Very tempting price, but note Staples only has a 15 day return policy. The ARM laptops come out on the 20th of May. I'm holding off until then.

Here's the 8945 HS version for 100$ more pre order.

https://xoticpc.com/products/asus...20Warranty
What is ARM?
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What is ARM?
https://wccftech.com/snapdragon-x...plus-leak/

ARM is a different CPU type, as opposed to the current X86/X64 CPUs. The newer Macs with M processors have arm chips as well as most phones.

The advantages of ARM are lower power consumption, but I have doubts about compatibility on Windows.
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What is ARM?
Another CPU for laptops to compete against Intel/AMD
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Is the chassis material aluminum or plastic?
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Pretty decent price for the specs. It would have been perfect if it came with 32GB RAM, even at $100 more. Surprisingly light for a 16" that is not an LG Gram.
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Is the chassis material aluminum or plastic?
It is unibody Aluminum-magnesim alloy built.
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Very tempting price, but note Staples only has a 15 day return policy. The ARM laptops come out on the 20th of May. I'm holding off until then.

Here's the 8945 HS version for 100$ more pre order.

https://xoticpc.com/products/asus...20Warranty [xoticpc.com]
I'll probably still go with AMD and Intel as of now. Although AQualcom has been claiming big performance and efficiency gains over x86 counterparts, there is not a single thrid-party review and all is coming from Qualcomm. On top of that. all the benhmarks Qualcomm is showing synthetic benchmarks like Geekbench and Cinebench which are extremely optimized for ARM architecture. There are a lot of skepticism among the tech enthusiasts about Qualcomm's claims and I can guess why.
If you have good idea about omputer Sccience then you need to understand the parent arcchiteccture of x86 and ARm respectively. ARM is based on Reduced Instruction Set Computer architecture or RISC whereas x86 is based IS or Complex Instruction Set Architecture. Now RISC can be very efficient for executing instructions, has lower latency but they need extremely low level integration with the Operating System and the OS you're planning to use, unlike CICS proccessors like x86 which can run on varios platforms far easily. Qualcommay be coming with a very beefy ARM based PU but unless Microsoft and the Software vendors optimize their software exclusively for that specific architecture, you never gonna see full performance and it will take a long time as in Windows Platform, now both Microsoft and Software vendors need to optimize their architecture for three different type of CPUs.
For Apple, it was easy as they are using their tailor made Processor, own OS, and software library which needs to be optimized for a single architecture.
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Quote from Suryasis :
I'll probably still go with AMD and Intel as of now. Although AQualcom has been claiming big performance and efficiency gains over x86 counterparts, there is not a single thrid-party review and all is coming from Qualcomm. On top of that. all the benhmarks Qualcomm is showing synthetic benchmarks like Geekbench and Cinebench which are extremely optimized for ARM architecture. There are a lot of skepticism among the tech enthusiasts about Qualcomm's claims and I can guess why.
If you have good idea about omputer Sccience then you need to understand the parent arcchiteccture of x86 and ARm respectively. ARM is based on Reduced Instruction Set Computer architecture or RISC whereas x86 is based IS or Complex Instruction Set Architecture. Now RISC can be very efficient for executing instructions, has lower latency but they need extremely low level integration with the Operating System and the OS you're planning to use, unlike CICS proccessors like x86 which can run on varios platforms far easily. Qualcommay be coming with a very beefy ARM based PU but unless Microsoft and the Software vendors optimize their software exclusively for that specific architecture, you never gonna see full performance and it will take a long time as in Windows Platform, now both Microsoft and Software vendors need to optimize their architecture for three different type of CPUs.
For Apple, it was easy as they are using their tailor made Processor, own OS, and software library which needs to be optimized for a single architecture.
Plenty of third party benchmarks since Qualcomm sent out test units and the benchmarks are completely standard even if synthetic.

https://www.xda-developers.com/sn...enchmarks/

Your other points are valid, but I'm still waiting for new ARMs to be released. If nothing else they should lower the prices of competition.
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Pretty incredible deal for the specs - Ultra 9, 120Hz OLED, 7467 RAM .. Glad laptops are going in reverse inflation.
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Plenty of third party benchmarks since Qualcomm sent out test units and the benchmarks are completely standard even if synthetic.

https://www.xda-developers.com/sn...enchmarks/ [xda-developers.com]

Your other points are valid, but I'm still waiting for new ARMs to be released. If nothing else they should lower the prices of competition.
Then you just have to wait years for all the software written for Intel to be released for ARM else run in an emulator (like Rosetta for Mac). Not a fun experience.
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Plenty of third party benchmarks since Qualcomm sent out test units and the benchmarks are completely standard even if synthetic.

https://www.xda-developers.com/sn...enchmarks/ [xda-developers.com]

Your other points are valid, but I'm still waiting for new ARMs to be released. If nothing else they should lower the prices of competition.
Read my post again. It is pretty easy to optimize handful of syntheticc benchmarks for a new architecture and Qualcomm just did that. And you probably did not read that article you linked, properly, in the hurry of proving me wrong. That benchmarking run was in the Qualcomm even where visitors were allowed to run Qualcomm provided benchhmarks in the booth, with the presense of their representative. All the other sites where you saw that benchmarks, they ran those on the booth.
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Things do seem to be a bit different this time. For one thing, Qualcomm actually had a laptop benchmarking session at its event, and since the company was kind enough to sponsor our travel to Maui, we were able to test out the Snapdragon X Elite.
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Read my post again. It is pretty easy to optimize handful of syntheticc benchmarks for a new architecture and Qualcomm just did that. And you probably did not read that article you linked, properly, in the hurry of proving me wrong. That benchmarking run was in the Qualcomm even where visitors were allowed to run Qualcomm provided benchhmarks in the booth, with the presense of their representative. All the other sites where you saw that benchmarks, they ran those on the booth.
I guess I missed it. I was sure I saw another article where the reviewer was playing with X on site, but maybe I made it up.

The point I was trying to make is these benchmarks are completely standard despite being synthetic. Intel and AMD can optimize for them just as much as Qualcomm.
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Then you just have to wait years for all the software written for Intel to be released for ARM else run in an emulator (like Rosetta for Mac). Not a fun experience.
I'm waiting for one to run Linux on. All the software I need is already available for ARM.

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I'll probably still go with AMD and Intel as of now. Although AQualcom has been claiming big performance and efficiency gains over x86 counterparts, there is not a single thrid-party review and all is coming from Qualcomm. On top of that. all the benhmarks Qualcomm is showing synthetic benchmarks like Geekbench and Cinebench which are extremely optimized for ARM architecture. There are a lot of skepticism among the tech enthusiasts about Qualcomm's claims and I can guess why.
If you have good idea about omputer Sccience then you need to understand the parent arcchiteccture of x86 and ARm respectively. ARM is based on Reduced Instruction Set Computer architecture or RISC whereas x86 is based IS or Complex Instruction Set Architecture. Now RISC can be very efficient for executing instructions, has lower latency but they need extremely low level integration with the Operating System and the OS you're planning to use, unlike CICS proccessors like x86 which can run on varios platforms far easily. Qualcommay be coming with a very beefy ARM based PU but unless Microsoft and the Software vendors optimize their software exclusively for that specific architecture, you never gonna see full performance and it will take a long time as in Windows Platform, now both Microsoft and Software vendors need to optimize their architecture for three different type of CPUs.
For Apple, it was easy as they are using their tailor made Processor, own OS, and software library which needs to be optimized for a single architecture.
Good point, but I'm still just going to wait this one out.

Theirs a chance, a small one, that these ARM laptops are a leap ahead as the M1 Mac was.