Whisper mode is OK for light use, but I’d recommend keeping the laptop on Standard in most cases, to prevent any sluggishness. The webcam on the Zenbook S 13 skews warm. In a well-lit room, my red shirt, which is already quite bright, came off orange, while my skin tone also had a very slight Oompa Loompa tinge that was better when I wasn't next to a window. Is it usable? Sure. Is it great? No. Software and Warranty on the Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED Asus makes use of magnesium-aluminum alloy for the case and the Zenbook comes across as very high-quality. It is also extremely compact and mobile with a weight of just over one kilogram. Our review unit comes in the Ponder Blue color variant and looks very elegant, and the slightly roughened surfaces also feel good. However, the surfaces are also quite fingerprint sensitive. Asus offers other optional color variants, the keyboards of which also change color. In addition to white, the Zenbook S13 is also available in light green and beige. The list is a work in progress, so if you spot any mistake or something that should be in here and is not, please let us know about it in the comments sections down below. Model It was only on behest of Apple demanding better iGPU performance that Intel started their Iris Plus/Pro souped up 48/96 vs. the normal 24EU iGPUs which put 64/128MB of EDRAM on the die carrier to achieve the bandwidth required to make use of the extra GPU cores.

The Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED cleary shows that AMD is the superior choice for compact laptops right now Keep in mind that the availability of the top-specced Ryzen 7 7840U configurations is still limited in most regions, but mid-tier Ryzen 5 7640U and 7535U configurations might be more widely available. Model Other than the UBS-C only IO, there’s little to complain about the daily-use experience and the practicality of this design.While Asus has tuned the stereo sound system in a way that accomplishes incredible volume, it's not as even as I like my music to be.

According to overall laptop weight including battery, as of January 17, 2022 based on internal ASUS market analysis comparing Zenbook S 13 OLED (UM5302) with competing products in its class (laptops with an OLED screen measuring 13.3 inches diagonal) from vendors including Acer, Apple, HP, Huawei, Lenovo, Microsoft and Samsung. Then, in 2022, AMD launched the Rembrandt Ryzen 6000 mobile hardware built on the revised Zen3+ architecture and TSMC’s 6 nm process node. The memory is soldered on the motherboard and Asus offers 16 or 8 GB configurations, all with LPDDR5-6400 memory. Our unit is the 16 GB version. It was pretty awsome to see how that at 90 Watts almost exactly matched the performance of my Iris Plus equipped Skylake i5-6267U dual-core with HT 48EUs, 64MB EDRAM and DDR3-1333 RAM at 28 Watts both in CPU and GPU workloads.

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We also have the Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 7 and its Intel Core i7-1260P. The P series is an Alder Lake addition for laptops of this type, even though there will still be 12th Generation U series chips, too. For 12th Generation processors, U series will max out at 15 watts, while the P series CPUs are configured at 28 watts, like the Ryzen 6000 U series. This has to do with the way Intel has rearranged its hierarchy, naming structure, and architecture for the 12th Generation. Performance these days has become much more complex than simple core and thread counts; you can read more about the Intel P and E cores that influenced this new naming convention, as well as other efficiencies, in our explainer. The Ryzen 7 6800U is AMD's latest and greatest chip from their new Zen 3+ line for ultraportables, while the Intel Core i7-1260P is headlining a number of today's powerful thin and light systems based on the Alder Lake architecture. Please note that all versions of NumberPad only work with the Microsoft Windows operating system. The Refined White version is not available with NumberPad. The Phoenix platform offers Zen4 Cores and Radeon RDNA3 graphics, as well as the latest improvements available with mobile AMD hardware, while the Rembrandt-R hardware is based on Zen3+ Cores and RDNA2 Radeon 680M graphics, as a refresh of the Ryzen 76800U hardware available in 2022-gen devices. For starters, we need to analyze the impact of the sub-25W power limit applied on the AMD hardware with this design, and for that, we compare these scores with our review of the iGPU-only variant of the ROG Flow X13 that allows a 45+W Ryzen 9 6900HS implementation.