Best Buy via eBay has
ASUS Vivobook S 14 Laptop (Q423SA-U5512) for
$649.99.
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Best Buy has
ASUS Vivobook S 14 Laptop (Q423SA-U5512) for
$649.99.
Shipping is free, otherwise free store pickup is available where stock permits.
Best Buy also has
ASUS Vivobook S 14 Open-Box Laptops (Various Conditions) as listed below.
Note: Availability varies.
- Excellent $539.99
- Good $520.99
- Fair $500.99
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Specs- Intel Core Ultra 5 226V Processor
- 14" 1920x1200 WUXGA OLED, 16:10 aspect ratio, 0.2ms, 400nits, 100% DCI-P3
- 16GB LPDDR5X 8533 MHz Memory
- 512GB PCIe Gen4 PCIe 4.0 SSD
- Intel Arc Graphics
- RGB Backlit Keyboard
- Wi-Fi 7(BE201) (Dual band) 2*2 + Bluetooth 5.4
- 75Wh Battery
- 2.87-Lbs
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 2x Thunderbolt 4
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 1x HDMI 2.1
- 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
- Micro SD card reader
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I am so far very happy with it. I value screen quality, battery life and portability. It replaces my 15in LG gram. I don't have performance concern with my use case.
Pros:
I am impressed with the screen quality, I like it more than the screen on my wife's 15in MacBook Air.
The other thing I like is the battery life. This is the first time I experience Apple laptop battery life on a Windows machine.
Built quality is better than expected. Not thinkpad X or P series quality but exceed my expectation for its $650 price tag. It doesn't feel cheap at all.
Cons:
Not much yet.
It attracts fingerprints easily.
It is just nitpicking. I wish one of the USB type A ports is on the left hand side.
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Anyone confirm? Thanks.
Wondering why they miss in such important aspect
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If this had 32GB RAM and 120Hz refresh screen, it'd be the perfect cheap Windows ultrabook. You'd need to pay double the price with those specs though.
Still a great deal with 16GB and 60Hz OLED.
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Battery Life: Heavy Gaming expect around 4-5 hours of battery life at medium brightness. Web browsing and productivity I would say about 10.5 hours at Medium brightness
Screen Resolution and Quality of the Display is pretty good, the only downside I would say is I prefer a 3:2 aspect ratio more
Trackpad: I would say it is a soft click where the trackpad needs to dive a little register the click. Obviously a haptic trackpad would feel much better but most laptops that have a haptic trackpad are $1K+
Fan Noise: At normal settings expect some whisper of air. Far quieter than any Intel predecessor. At the efficient power settings there is no fan noise
Asus Pre-Installed Apps: Not too much
1. Storybook: Not sure what this was.. I think it was for pictures but can easily be removed
2. MyAsus: In charge of software updates, battery health. I keep this as it maintains a power profile of a 80% chance battery for longevity, backlit keyboard
3. Windows: McAfee + One Drive + Xbox + Edge
To sum things up I feel this laptop is true bang for the buck quality. I would say it performs very close to the Snapdragon laptop that was on sale $599 so the extra fifty dollars gives you piece of mind of any software incompatibility issues. This is probably the biggest jump Intel has ever made in terms of efficiency and performance so if you're coming from an older Intel laptop you won't be disappointed.
OLED HDR is amazing
But SSD is QLC and 3rd party tests show this version is incredibly slow after 40% filled
CPU is kind of slow, not too snappy, but
Actual battery life is very very long, especially low sleep drain, but displayed battery left is all over the place, suddenly 3 hrs, then 11 hrs, then 4 hrs, etc., indicating high variance on CPU power profile
Physical shutter on the camera for privacy, but
Once shutter is covering camera, even though it doesn't cover the IR camera, Windows Hello also stops working, so basically the shutter can never be covering the camera
Camera based Windows Hello is not that good, slow and unreliable, need to look straight on, anything in the way doesn't work; fingerprint reader would have been better
Wake from sleep takes 3 seconds on lid open, that's slower than normal, and gets to be annoying. That's to turn on the screen, then more time to unlock.
Keyboard chassis is solid metal, but screen chassis is flexing, so kind of half reliable body, and screen side also leaves a gap with the keyboard. I can see the screen cracking if the device is pressed.
This has been $650 for long stretches in November before, through, and after Black Friday and now back again. It seems they aren't selling as expected. The main things that make it a great value are OLED and long battery life, light weight. Other than that it's just your typical sub-$500 laptop. In a different post I say it's an $800 laptop, so $650 is still a good price.
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If you got more money you're probably looking at AMD R9 AI 370 with 32GB RAM. If you have less money you're looking at AMD 8840HS with slightly worse battery life and GPU performance but better CPU performance.
This year the competition is heated (AMD's 8840H and Qualcomm's chip plus Apple finally went 16GB). This chip basically kills the Qualcomm chip with the same performance and battery life but much better compatibility.
Make sure you mess with the color profile. I think mine is P3 in the MyAsus app.
The keyboard is fine. The 'Windows Hello' camera simply does not work reliably. (My older ASUS OLED's fingerprint scanner was perfect.)
16GB is fine for most people. The laptop runs super cool and quiet. It barely even gets to lukewarm when resting on a blanket.
My older ASUS (1240p CPU) would be blasting its fan and hot to the touch in the same situation.
Make sure you change the keyboard color from the awful "dollar store blue LED" that it comes standard with. (Customize -> dynamic lighting).
Other than that, Wireless is BLAZING fast. I can get over 135 MB/s over WiFi 7 with MLO. Internet connectivity consistently clocks in at gigabit down, 800 up. (FiOS 940/840 plan). It could likely cap out the "1200 Mb" (and piddling 35 up) plan from Xfinity/Scumcast.
Make sure you turn off SMPS and enable throughput booster in device management, disable PCIE power management in the power plan as well.
For some reason, this is the only laptop I use where I'm *constantly* zooming in and out while using it. I had to disable pinch to zoom in the settings.
As far as build quality, mine lives in my bedroom from when I took it out of the box. Yesterday, a piece of the cheap plastic for the antennas broke off after less than a month of use and *literally* (not like.. oh once I took it to… literally not once) having been anywhere other than the box, my bed, or in my nightstand.
Overall: 8/10, minor improvements needed.
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