ASUS VivoBook 15 OLED Review
Two physical cores and four threads with a base speed of three gigahertz and a max speed of 4.1 gigahertz it's paired with 8 gigabytes ram but one slot is upgradable so you can extend this to at least 12 gigabytes because the other four gig is solar there's also space for 2.5 inch saturday hdd if the 512 gigs is not enough for you so the first thing i want to talk about is the older display there's no way of putting it this is a great older display especially for the price you're getting it if you're like me who's fed up with subpar windows laptop display it's finally ending with this laptop it's bright capable of 400 nets but in person i honestly think.
It's more than that when i'm outside my brightness level is usually between 70 to 80 i can go up to 100 obviously but it's really surprising to see here that i don't need to go max out and drain the battery just to see the graphics and letters in the screen this is using a glossy finish so the biggest enemy here is the reflections however it's a trade-off i'm willing to make over any lcd out there now since we're talking about ole display it's only a matter of time until it serves burn-in or a permanent mark left in the display that can't be remedied unless.
Your media entertainment
you replace the entire panel however the built-in my ac software has a couple of features to prolong the life of the panel but if you really want to maximize the lifespan of the panel i recommend setting a keyboard shortcut that turns off the screen or make the screen timeout after one to two minutes inside my asus you can also set it to automatically hide.
The task mark when you don't need it it'll require some getting used to which is another practice i need to do in my case i put the taskbar on the left side so i don't have to accidentally bring up the taskbar whenever switching tabs in browsers you can also make the colors more vivid but it's overkill at this point having.
The screen set to standard is good enough since oled naturally delivers color proof picture quality overall i am in love with this oled laptop like if you've been looking for an older display to up your media entertainment experience this laptop is more than enough to replace the expensive ole tablets from samsung now did i encounter an issue with the display during my time with the laptop i did and there are a couple of them however.
I think these issues that i'm about to mention have something to do with the drivers of the integrated uhd gpu more than the physical display itself so first off i get these weird glitches when coming out from apostate in videos it happens when i'm streaming on youtube as well as when locally playing a video using a vlc media play however the issue is more apparent.
The screen kind
when editing videos on premiere pro as well as the rendered output of premiere pro more than that later the second issue which happened once only is this i literally left the laptop for a few seconds just assumed the video but after a while the screen went bonkers all parts of the laptop were working but the screen made it unusable but before i did a restart the screen kind of went back to normal.
But the largest and the edges of the graphics were a bit blurred with purple outlines since then i have not encountered the issue again i'm really hoping intel pushes out an update for the uhd to fix these issues but if not there's still a chance that it's something hardware related which is something you don't want on a new laptop there's one more thing i noticed with the display not all users will probably notice.
Consistently get 45 hours
this but for those with sensitive eyes you may notice some kind of slight flickering between 40 to 50 brightness it's weird that it goes away in lower end brightness levels but then again the flicker is really so i actually didn't notice it at first not until when i was actively looking for a problem i don't think this is a serious issue but it's still worth pointing out although.
The display also supports hdr hdrs and windows laptops is not that easy to deal with unlike on smartphones you have to turn on hdr in the settings doing so makes the color of the screen flatter or less saturated to the point where it looks kinda off to the eyes and once you play an hdr video on youtube you'll immediately notice how blown out the highlights are there's a slider in the settings that lets you balance the shadows and highlights of hdr videos but no matter what i do i still end up with the garbage looking output.
The only time hdr worked for me is when i stream videos on netflix in the end i switched off hdr since oled in sdr looks so great already so that's about it for the display when it comes to performance i feel like i3 models and laptops have come a long way this is me coming from an acer swift 3 with a 7 gen i3 laptop the battery has stayed the same as i consistently get 45 hours of usage in better battery mode with browsing as my main activity but for the actual performance i was actually able to edit 4k raw sony footage on premiere pro as well as play some select games but obviously you have to set your expectations right before you make this laptop like a budget video editing or gaming machine alternative i mean if we're talking about light workloads like researching and online conferencing.
Processing process requires
It can handle that but when it comes to heavier workloads it's not something i would use every day well i was able to edit a few 4k videos here it's not without hickos video playback and premiere pro was choppy so i needed to create proxies to make it smoother and processing process requires a significant amount of time with this laptop although rendering an 8 minute 4k 30 megabit sony video with minimal graphical text took me less than 30 minutes to render.
There were glitches in some parts of the rendered video due to the software of the integrated gpu what's even worse is that premiere pro forced shutdown a few times although my bet is because of the 8 gigabytes ram i don't have enough evidence since i wasn't able to upgrade this model the fan inside isn't too loud once it starts spinning.
But it's audible at best it definitely won't harm someone sitting beside you in a coffee shop or library however to get the best sustained performance out of the 28 watt cpu the laptop has to be connected to an outlet you can actually see the fan profile inside my asus app which will guide you when it comes to fan and overall performance.
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