Asus Vivobook S 14 Flip MSRP $690.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “Its display aside, the Asus Vivobook S 14 Flip is a very solid laptop for the price.” Pros Cons Laptops have gotten expensive in recent years, especially with many cheaper models being sold out last year.
Inexpensive doesn’t have to mean cheap Let’s get this one out of the way: The Vivobook S 14 Flip is constructed in part of plastic, specifically the chassis, while the lid is metal. While plastic is sometimes associated with cheap, that’s an unfair characterization. The Vivbook S 14 Flip is solid enough for a budget laptop, with just the slightest bending of the lid and flexing in the keyboard deck. If this were a $1,500 laptop, then I’d have more of an issue with the build quality.
Interestingly, the Vivobook S 14 Flip is one of a handful of Asus laptops that incorporate the company’s Bacterial Guard technology. That’s a coating throughout the laptop that inhibits the growth of 99% of bacteria, making the laptop less likely to spread disease. It doesn’t protect against COVID-19 and other viruses, but for the usual day-to-day bacteria that usually coat electronic devices, it’s welcome. And it’s a nice feature for a budget machine.
The webcam is Full HD, while some newer premium laptops like the Dell XPS 13 Plus are still stuck on 720p. It incorporates Asus’s 3D noise reduction technology and provides a great image with plenty of detail in all kinds of lighting conditions. The resolution alone, though, is excellent for a laptop of this price. A physical shutter, meanwhile, provides peace of mind regarding privacy.
In our benchmarks, the Vivobook S 14 Flip does well against the slower Vivobook Flip 14 AMD and the VAIO Fe 14.1 with a 15-watt Core i7-1255U. It can’t keep up with the 28-watt Core i7-1260P. Interestingly, the Ryzen 5 5600H was fast in Cinebench R23 multi-core while slower in Geekbench 5 and our Handbrake test that encodes a 420MB video as H.265. It also did well in the PCMark 10 Completely benchmark that tests a variety of productivity, multimedia, and creative tasks.
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