At a look
Professional’s Score
Professionals
- Nice efficiency
- Appropriate for normal use or gaming
- Good show, regardless of no OLED
- Comparatively light-weight
Cons
- Mediocre battery life
- Low-cost-feeling construct
- Some outdated specs
Our Verdict
With high-end efficiency, a formidable show and efficient cooling, the Vivobook 16X will get you a large number in your cash. However battery life is a key weak spot.
Value When Reviewed
$1,499.99
Finest Costs At this time: Asus Vivobook 16X (K3605ZC)
$1,356.00
For those who search the net for the mannequin variety of this laptop computer, put together for confusion. Its full title is Asus Vivobook 16X OLED, and that’s what it’s known as on the Asus web site. You’ll generally even discover an OLED label on the machine itself, however that doesn’t essentially imply you’re getting an OLED display.
Because it seems, there are numerous completely different configurations to select from, solely two of that are OLED. I’m testing one with an IPS LCD panel as a substitute right here, however that definitely doesn’t imply you need to rule it out.
Show & audio
Regardless of no OLED show, there are many causes to love the Vivobook 16X mannequin I examined: it’s well-built, highly effective and inexpensive.
It’s definitely not a foul display, both, particularly at this value level. Asus claims full protection of the sRGB color gamut, and it performs effectively in a wide range of eventualities.
Mattias Inghe
The default Regular mode appears to keep up excessive color accuracy, however switching to Vivid mode provides much more punchy colors – particularly in purple tones.
Distinction is typical of an IPS show, with imperfect blacks and a few blooming round brilliant pixels, however I’ll fortunately put up with this in trade for the silky-smooth 120Hz refresh fee.
A most brightness of simply 300 nits means I keep away from out of doors use, or a minimum of hunt down a shady nook if I’m working within the open. A matte floor with first rate anti-glare safety helps considerably in that case, but it surely’s not magic.
It doesn’t appear to be the show helps HDR, however the mixture of a high-quality show and well-balanced audio system means you’ll nonetheless get movie expertise more often than not. Somewhat extra fullness within the mid-range and bass would have been good, although.
However there’s no points for voice-based content material, whereas a satisfactory 720p webcam and first rate microphones means the video calling expertise is strong.
Specs, efficiency & ports
The Vivobook 16X has the {hardware} of a fundamental gaming laptop computer, with a strong Intel H-type processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card.
Nevertheless, don’t be fooled into considering it might deal with correct gaming. It’s supposed to be used as a productiveness machine, with the discrete GPU designed for a efficiency increase throughout extra demanding duties corresponding to video enhancing. There’s no typical gaming design, no RGB lighting or G-Sync help for the show.
Different gaming-related options corresponding to Asus’ Armoury Crate app (used to watch and tweak efficiency) should not current. Nevertheless, related choices can be found within the MyAsus and ProArt Creator Hub apps, plus the common Home windows 11 Settings menu.
Nevertheless, it’s price noting that the processor and graphics of the mannequin examined aren’t the newest, even on the time of overview. It means a Twelfth- reasonably than Thirteenth-gen Intel processor and RTX 3050, the most cost effective graphics card within the 2022 vary. To ensure that video games to run easily, you’ll need to compromise on some particular results and ray tracing.
Mattias Inghe
However in most different conditions, the RTX 3050 does a wonderful job. It nonetheless delivers round 4 instances the efficiency of the standard built-in Intel Iris Xe graphics, dashing up the likes of video rendering and 3D modelling. Six of the ten cores within the Core i7-12650H chip are centered on efficiency (reasonably than effectivity), so it’s additionally nice for multitasking.
The mannequin I examined consists of 16GB of RAM, which is pretty typical of 15- and 16-inch laptops at this value level. A 512GB SSD must be lots for most individuals, however there’s a spare M.2 slot for enlargement and SD card for shortly transferring information on and off the machine.
If you wish to insert an exterior SSD through USB, there are three ports for that: one Kind-C and two Kind-A. Many different computer systems on this class have one other USB-C, however the Vivobook 16X doesn’t use them as the principle charging methodology, regardless of it being potential.
As a substitute, the the included charged connects utilizing a normal spherical plug on the facet of the laptop computer.
Keyboard, trackpad & battery life
The keyboard has a effectively thought-out design with clear backlighting and enormous buttons, regardless of the separate quantity pad making issues a bit crowded.
For the reason that energy button is positioned on the prime of the quantity pad as a substitute of the the common keyboard, there’s much less probability of unintentionally clicking it and turning off the display. In any other case, I might’ve complained about it.
Mattias Inghe
The keys themselves really feel fairly plasticky and journey isn’t the most effective, however neither of those must be dealbreakers. Until you spent a number of hours every day typing on a laptop computer, it gained’t be a significant difficulty.
Beneath, the matte glass keyboard is comfy to make use of and provides good management. It even features a fingerprint sensor within the top-right nook, making logging in with out a PIN or password simple.
Nevertheless, with highly effective efficiency, gaming-level graphics and a 120Hz show, battery life isn’t the most effective. Throughout testing, I used to be getting between two and 6 hours of utilization on a single cost, relying on what number of demanding duties I used to be doing. At its absolute restrict, when changing a big video file, it lasted simply over an hour.
An excessive power-saving mode can stretch battery life to a full working day, but it surely turns into troublesome to work when efficiency is far more restricted. Maintain the charger useful always.
Specs
Product title: Asus Vivobook 16X K3605ZC-N1131W
Processor: Intel Core i7-12650H, 6pcs Efficiency as much as 4.7 GHz + 4pcs Environment friendly as much as 3.5 GHz
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050
Reminiscence: 16 GB DDR4
Storage: 512 GB SSD, slot for SD card enlargement
Show: 16-inch IPS LCD, 1920×1200, 120Hz
Webcam: 720p
Connections: 1x USB 3.1 Kind-C, 2x USB 3.1 Kind-A, HDMI, 3.5mm audio jack
Wi-fi: Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.0
Working system: Home windows 11 House
Different: Fingerprint reader, backlit keyboard, numeric keypad
Noise degree: 0-37 dBa
Battery life: 1h 15 min (excessive load), 8h 10 min (low load)
Measurement: 35.9 x 24.9 x 1.9 cm
Weight: 1.8 kg
This text was initially revealed in Swedish on PC för Alla.