Asus Vivobook Pro 16X OLED review: Almost a Studiobook

A laptop with impressive specs and a gorgeous OLED screen, the Asus Vivobook Pro 16X is a laptop that can be used almost anywhere. Its CPU and GPU are the most powerful currently on the market, and whether it’s gaming, image editing, content creation or any other work that involves heavy number crunching, this laptop will rise to the challenge. The Asus Vivobook Pro 16X OLED is the second laptop I’ve reviewed recently that has a sticker on its lid declaring it the “best Asus OLED laptop for creators” , the other being the ProArt Studiobook OLED. The Vivobook has similar specs to the ProArt, but lacks the physical knob on the trackpad, and is a few hundred pounds cheaper. Laptops this big are usually bought as desktop replacement machines and don’t see much lap time, so in order to make them the best laptops for graphic design possible, things like long battery life and cool running are ignored in favor of sheer processing power and graphics performance, which are the Vivobook’s two big strengths.

The main highlight on the outside of the laptop’s shell is the screen, a 3.2K HDR OLED with a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz. It’s not a touchscreen, but it has everything you’d expect from an OLED panel in 2023 – bright, sharp, colorful, its color accuracy is Pantone-validated, and it can display 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut. It also has a 16:10 aspect ratio, which is slightly taller than the more common 16:9 widescreens and better suited to working with multiple documents and windows. There’s a trackpad, offset to the left, decently sized, and marked by the presence (or rather absence) of the Asus dial we saw on the Studiobook Pro. Here, a circle punctuates one corner of the trackpad, inviting you to twirl your fingertips here, mimicking the turning of a dial.

The island-style keyboard comes with a soft backlight, full-size keys, and 1.4mm of travel. It feels very good to type on, with a soft feel under your fingers . The number pad is small and squeezed into the side, while at the top of the screen, the webcam is joined by a privacy shutter, with a sliding switch to cover it. Connectivity on the Vivobook is very good, with a pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports for connecting to a monitor or charging the laptop, plus a full-size HDMI 2.1 socket, USB-A and a combo headphone socket on one side, and an SD card reader, USB 3.2 Type-A port, Ethernet and a dedicated charging connection (which it prefers you use) on the other. Wi-Fi is type 6E, which allows for the latest wireless transmission technology, and there’s a Bluetooth 5.3 radio, which should work well for wireless keyboards and headphones. Performance For the components inside the Vivobook 16X OLED, you’d expect a decent level of performance, and we weren’t disappointed. You’ll get great performance in Photoshop, Lightroom, Blender and Baldur’s Gate 3 from this laptop.

The CPU is a 24-core chip from Intel’s Raptor Lake architecture – the latest at the time of writing. It has a maximum turbo speed of 5.6GHz, which wouldn’t be out of place in a desktop workstation. However, we note that its multi-core Geekbench score is higher than that of the Asus ProArt Studiobook, which is a laptop from the same manufacturer that uses the same components and should therefore provide roughly similar scores. We can only speculate what the difference is – perhaps a change in the cooling system, or that the ProArt needs to return to the Creative Bloq benchmarker for another test.The Asus Vivobook Pro 16X OLED laptop battery life is just what you’d expect from a laptop with this level of computing power. Only the MacBook really stands out in this regard, with its more energy-efficient silicon architecture under its aluminum shell. Our 

Asus Vivobook  batterylife result of only about five and a half hours, using a test that keeps the screen permanently on and runs an office workload including video calls and spreadsheets, is about what you’d expect from a 2023 creative workstation laptop – the Vivobook It’s portable, but you won’t want to use it for long periods away from a wall socket, especially if you’re hammering the chip harder than in our test.It gets hot underneath, too. The heat is isolated in two specific places – the center of the back below the vents, and the center right of the base, which provides some clues as to where the CPU and GPU are located inside.

This is a computer that’s best left on a desk, and the weight highlights that. Should I buy the Asus Vivobook Pro 16X OLED? . The Asus Vivobook Pro 16X OLED is packed with a ton of quality components, but it’s up against a lot of high- end machines (some of which are from Asus itself) that will compete with it in terms of processing power. That said, there’s really nothing wrong with the Vivobook – its OLED screen looks beautiful, it doesn’t run too hot, and there are plenty of ports to connect it to other devices and use it as a desktop replacement. It’s versatile, and while it may lack a specific focus, it’s a good choice if you just want to have one laptop at a time. It’s a bit overkill for web browsing and basic office tasks, but you’ll appreciate the investment when you fire up creative applications.

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