Asus VivoBook 14 Review

Asus VivoBook 14 desigen:-

The VivoBook 14 uses a plastic suspension, yet the plastics are of top notch and feel exceptionally tough. We didn't see any flex in the bodywork, console region, or even the cover. We have the luminous Peacock Blue shading trim, which looks great. The shading shifts among purple and blue contingent upon the point you check out it. The other Asus VivoBook 14 shading choices are Slate Gray and Transparent Silver

The presentation looks enormous, generally because of the thin bezels on three of its sides. The ones on the left and right are simply 5.7mm thick, while the one on the top is somewhat thicker so it can accomodate the webcam. The base bezel is a lot more extensive however you don't see the greater part of it since the cunning pivot instrument conceals the base piece of the top, behind the PC's body. This likewise lifts the lower part of the PC up by two degrees, which offers a superior ergonomic composing position.

The 14-inch show on the Asus VivoBook 14 has a full-HD goal and a 16:9 angle proportion. The board doesn't have the best survey points, and shadings look somewhat muffled because of the tight 45% inclusion of the NTSC shading range. It's a 60Hz board and you get a matte, hostile to glare covering, which is useful when working under a ton of counterfeit lighting.
The console region is a solitary piece of plastic and there isn't any flex in the console even with thorough composing. The keys have agreeable travel, are all around dispersed, and have three degrees of backdrop illumination. The size of the trackpad is genuinely liberal and following is smooth. You get a finger impression sensor in the upper right corner of the trackpad, which functioned admirably for us.
The Asus VivoBook 14 offers a nice determination of ports for a 14-inch PC. You get two standard USB ports (one USB 2.0 and a second USB 3.1 Gen1), a USB Type-C port, a HDMI yield, an earphone/amplifier combo port, and a microSD card opening. The last option is somewhat baffling to see as we would have observed more need for a regular SD card opening. Strangely, even the 15-inch model of this series doesn't have a regular one.
There are two sound system speakers, put at the base, on one or the other side of the PC. You additionally set a couple of air vents here however up to get to the RAM or capacity gadgets, you'll need to eliminate the whole base board as there's no fast access incubate. In the container, the PC ships with a couple of manuals and a 45W charger. The charger is a minuscule, square block which is very compact.

Asus VivoBook 14 specifications and features

The VivoBook 14 is accessible with either a Core i3 or a Core i5 Intel CPU. Our survey unit — the Asus Vivobook 14 X412FA — included an Intel Core i5-8265U eighth era quad-center CPU with 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. In certain business sectors, the VivoBook 14 is additionally accessible with a discretionary 1TB hard circle notwithstanding the SSD, yet Asus has affirmed to Gadgets 360 that it doesn't plan to bring these models, or the one with Core i3 CPUs to India. In any case, you can settle on a model with a Nvidia GeForce MX230 illustrations card, which is as of now being sold in here.

The 8GB of revealed framework memory is a blend of 4GB of bound RAM and a 4GB RAM module (as indicated by CPUz application). You can trade a 8GB module into the sole opening, which will build the complete framework RAM to a limit of 12GB. Remote network on the Asus VivoBook 14 comes as double band Wi-Fi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.2.
This Asus VivoBook 14 boats with Windows 10 Home 64-cycle, and notwithstanding a portion of the pre-introduced Windows Store applications, you likewise get a preliminary form of McAfee LiveSafe antivirus and some applications from Asus. Asus Sync allows you to get warnings of calls and SMS notices from your telephone on your PC, like Dell's Mobile Connect. It likewise allows you to make and send SMS messages. The MyAsus application is your all in one resource for refreshing drivers, changing the showcase's shading profile, changing battery charging settings, and tidying up garbage documents. The application is all around planned and simple to utilize.

Asus VivoBook 14 execution and battery life

The VivoBook 14 makes for an awesome compact work PC. Its minimized size and low weight make it extremely simple to sneak all through most rucksacks, and the SSD guarantees that Windows rushes to continue from rest at whatever point you really want it. The unique mark sensor adds an additional a layer of comfort, which we appreciate.

The HD camera isn't really awful when utilized inside, and film we took wasn't discernibly grainy even with just faint encompassing lighting. In any case, what truly makes this a decent work PC is that agreeable console. The keys aren't too loud, the backdrop illumination is not difficult to flip on or off, and the great size and situating of the trackpad implies we didn't need to manage undesirable contacts when composing.

For media use, the VivoBook 14 falls somewhat short principally because of the showcase's failure to deliver exceptionally energetic tones. Brilliance is above and beyond yet the board just doesn't have a wide unique reach, so colors will more often than not look dull and blacks are not unmistakable enough. This isn't ideal when watching films or TV shows with prevalently dull scenes.

Vertical viewing angles are narrow too, and even a slight tilt away from the sweet spot causes colours and contrast to change. We tried Asus's ‘Vivid' colour profile and ‘Tru2Life' video enhancement feature in the MyAsus app, but neither of them made any major difference.

The stereo speakers are quite weak too. Even at full volume, we sometimes had to struggle to hear dialogue in videos or the sounds being played in various apps.

Since we received the model without a dedicated graphics card, we weren't expecting much in terms of gaming performance. Heavy titles such as Shadow of The Tomb Raider struggled to even load, despite turning the resolution and graphics settings down. We had better luck with more casual titles such as Asphalt 9: Legends from the Windows Store. Benchmark numbers aren't stellar, but considering the mid-range CPU and lack of a GPU, that wasn't surprising.

PCMark 10 returned a score of 3,505 points while 3DMark Fire Strike gave us just 1,119 points. The File System benchmark in SiSoft Sandra showed promise thanks to the PCIe NVMe SSD. Both sequential and random read bandwidth were in the Gigabit per second range, while write bandwidth hovered around 930MB/s.

We finally come to battery life, which is a little weak considering that this laptop only has a 2-cell, 37WHr battery. In the stressful Battery Eater Pro benchmark, the VivoBook 14 X412FA lasted for 2 hours and 35 minutes, which is surprisingly decent.

However, with actual day-to-day use, the Asus VivoBook 14 averaged only around 4.5-5 hours with medium to light workloads. This was with the keyboard backlight on, intermittent audio streaming over Bluetooth, and the display brightness set to around 70 percent. We found it tough to stretch a full charge for an entire workday, so at some point, you will need to charge this laptop if you're using it non-stop.