forum threadDr.W posted Yesterday 05:27 PM
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forum threadDr.W posted Yesterday 05:27 PM
ASUS VivoBook S 16: 16” 3K OLED 120Hz Touch, Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 32GB LPDDR5, 1TB SSD $1099.99
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No shipping for me on this one.
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.
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.
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:
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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