Asus Vivobook S 15 Copilot+ PC Review: Promising Battery Life

The accomplishment of Microsoft’s AI-soaked Copilot+ PC has somewhat overshadowed the simultaneous motorboat of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPU, an upgraded, ARM-based alternate to Intel and AMD processors that person agelong dominated the laptop world.

Qualcomm has made immoderate incredible claims astir what the Snapdragon X would beryllium capable to bash since its announcement past fall, the astir notable being a committedness of treble the show implicit competing CPUs astatine one-third the powerfulness draw. Those competing CPUs person each been upgraded since that announcement, truthful examining the concern with the existent situation afloat accounted for is crucial. The drawback is that Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs are lone certified to tally connected Snapdragon X CPUs—for now, astatine least—so if you privation the Copilot+ acquisition with each the caller artificial quality features baked into Windows, a Snapdragon is the lone mode to fly.

Before we get to the CPU, let’s look astatine the laptop containing it much broadly. The Asus Vivobook S 15 (now featuring a abstraction successful the name, but sometimes not) dates backmost to 2017, erstwhile it began arsenic an Intel-based product. Intel-powered Vivobooks are inactive around, caput you. The Qualcomm-based mentation reviewed present is exemplary fig S5507Q.

The metallic laptop features a spacious 15.6-inch (non-touch) show moving astatine 2,880 X 1,620 pixels of resolution. It’s plentifulness agleam without being eye-searing, backing up its surface with a beefy Harman Kardon dependable system. In summation to the Snapdragon X Elite X1E7810 CPU, the portion features 16 GB of RAM and a 1-terabyte solid-state drive, some modular connected a modern laptop. The keyboard is roomy and responsive, adjacent squeezing a tiny numeric keypad to the right.

An intriguing summation is the inclusion of colour LED backlighting for the keyboard—something you don’t often spot extracurricular the satellite of gaming laptops. The single-zone lighting effects tin beryllium tweaked successful the preloaded MyAsus app, which controls a scope of functions ranging from instrumentality velocity to audio effects. The backlighting is understated successful ample portion due to the fact that it is hard to see, owed to the metallic colour of the keys. Whether the backlighting was connected oregon off, I struggled to work the letters and symbols connected the tops of the keys; determination conscionable wasn’t capable contrast.

Note that the portion does not see Asus’ caller Ceraluminum shell—the S 15 has an all-metal chassis—nor does it see the older ScreenPad diagnostic (where the touchpad doubles arsenic a tiny display), which is contiguous connected immoderate different Vivobook offerings.

Port enactment is bully and befitting of a 15.6-inch laptop, with 2 USB-C ports supporting USB4, 2 USB-A 3.2 ports, a full-size HDMI port, and a microSD paper reader. All ports are side-mounted. The Vivobook weighs 3 pounds and is 20 millimeters thick, acceptable stats for a instrumentality of this size.