ASUS VivoBook S 16: 16” 3K OLED 120Hz Touch, Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 32GB LPDDR5, 1TB SSD $1099.99

WilliamMunny63

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Solid price, hoping to find the same specs in the 14" version for a similar price.

No shipping for me on this one.

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MemorableCrayon539Oct 6, 2025 6:14 PM

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The description says Zenbook, but the product is actually a Vivobook. It's way too expensive for a Vivobook, and the thick border at the bottom of the screen looks unappealing.

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WilliamMunny63

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The description says Zenbook, but the product is actually a Vivobook. It's way too expensive for a Vivobook, and the thick border at the bottom of the screen looks unappealing.

If it is a Vivobook then you are correct nothing amazing.

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The description says Zenbook, but the product is actually a Vivobook. It's way too expensive for a Vivobook, and the thick border at the bottom of the screen looks unappealing.
If it is a Vivobook then you are correct nothing amazing.

Just because it's a VivoBook, it's nothing amazing? 3K OLED 120Hz Touch, nothing amazing? Top of its series processor R9 HX 370, nothing amazing? 32GB RAM, Win 11 Pro, good ports, nothing amazing? Please explain why it's "nothing amazing", and while you're at it, please share with us similar spec'd laptops/deals at this price. Thank you.

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WilliamMunny63

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Just because it's a VivoBook, it's nothing amazing? 3K OLED 120Hz Touch, nothing amazing? Top of its series processor R9 HX 370, nothing amazing? 32GB RAM, Win 11 Pro, good ports, nothing amazing? Please explain why it's "nothing amazing", and while you're at it, please share with us similar spec'd laptops/deals at this price. Thank you.

Good specs, exact computer I am looking for but hopefully in the 14" form and preferably Zenbook model. The screen, CPU, iGPU, battery is awesome but not an amazing price, good but not crazy.

Current "similar" laptop deal:

Costco $999 [costco.com] Note this was down to $899 3 months ago and a free extra 1 year of warranty.
ASUS Vivobook S16 16" OLED Laptop - Intel Core Ultra 9 285 Processor - 32GB RAM - 1TB SSD - 2880 x 1800 WQXGA+ Lumina OLED

Past "similar" laptop deals:

Best Buy $899
ASUS ZenBook 14: 14" FHD+ OLED Touch, Intel Ultra 9 285H, 32GB LPDDR5, 1TB SSD $899.99

Best Buy $999
ASUS Zenbook S16 Laptop: Ryzen AI 9 365, 16" 3K 120Hz OLED Touch, 24GB RAM, 1TB SSD

I know they are not exact but similar, especially if you consider the Intel 285H to be equivalent to the Ryzen HX 370, which they are extremely competitive. So again, good deal but not amazing. You put those specs in a Zenbook body for $1000ish then that would be amazing.

Please keep posting these, I am going to buy one for on or before BF just waiting for that amzing deal.

Last edited by WilliamMunny63 October 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM.

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I think this was $1000 late last year, and it's served me well. Costco has the slightly weaker 365 version.

I seem to recall reading that the Zenbook version had lower performance than the Vivobook version with the same HX 370 chip when I was searching through reviews. On rechecking, I found:

This Notebookcheck review [notebookcheck.net] saying the Vivobook S14 benched higher than the Zenbook S16, due to a higher TDP (54W vs 28W). Different sizes, but I'd be surprised if the Vivobook S16 is tuned lower than the smaller S14.
This Reddit post [reddit.com] claiming the Zenbook S16's TDP was lowered further to 20W by a BIOS update last year in response to thermal issues, based on their own head-to-head testing against a Vivobook S16.

Regarding AI capability, AMD just added ROCm preview support [amd.com] for the 370 and 365 [amd.com] a couple weeks ago. (Basically their version of Nvidia's CUDA.) Now you can run Stable Diffusion models on GPU without converting to onnx format, or being limited to Amuse's [amuse-ai.com] curated selection and built-in filtering. They have instructions for installing the preview driver and library [amd.com], and then installing ComfyUI [amd.com]. Generating takes like a minute per picture (or 30 minutes for the first one at a given resolution, due to some kind of initial compiling). Assigning more RAM to GPU [theverge.com] enables larger pics.

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Quote from MemorableCrayon539

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The description says Zenbook, but the product is actually a Vivobook. It's way too expensive for a Vivobook, and the thick border at the bottom of the screen looks unappealing.

Microcenter's product pics actually show the wrong model with a much bigger bottom bezel, now that you mention it; I think it's the 15-inch version [asus.com]. The 16-inch version looks like this [asus.com] (or see attached pic below). I'm typing on the one I got from Microcenter right now.

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Solid price, hoping to find the same specs in the 14" version for a similar price.No shipping for me on this one.

the 14 inch version with essentially all the same specs is 999 at BB, but the key difference is 60hz display on it sadly. if that doesn't bother you, though, that may be what you're after

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MemorableCrayon539

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Quote from WilliamMunny63

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Quote from MemorableCrayon539

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The description says Zenbook, but the product is actually a Vivobook. It's way too expensive for a Vivobook, and the thick border at the bottom of the screen looks unappealing.
If it is a Vivobook then you are correct nothing amazing.
Just because it's a VivoBook, it's nothing amazing? 3K OLED 120Hz Touch, nothing amazing? Top of its series processor R9 HX 370, nothing amazing? 32GB RAM, Win 11 Pro, good ports, nothing amazing? Please explain why it's "nothing amazing", and while you're at it, please share with us similar spec'd laptops/deals at this price. Thank you.

Some of us prioritize build quality, and the ZenBook stands out as a premium option.

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