Asus Vivobook S 16 for a uni student

Nepztar · May 15

Hello LTT Forum,
I am soon graduating from high school and will be looking into buying a laptop for university. I have been looking at different laptops for a good few weeks now and I've come across an Asus vivobook S16 for a very decent price, specifically an OLED model with Ryzen AI 9 365, no dedicated GPU, 24GB LPDDR5X ram and 1TB of ssd storage. While I have been looking for different laptops, I have always been out of the loop when it comes to laptops and what their hardware is like, never knew anything past my dad's old thinkpad back in 2015. I am looking for advice on whether this is good when it comes to specs. The price I can buy it at is 1050 euro, which is so far one of the best priced laptops I have found in my country, but still I am very unfamiliar with how good these specs are, how good the built quality of the vivobook is and in general if the vivobook S16's are even good laptops.
Just for context while I will probably play the occasional game on it, the laptop itself is not something I want to buy for the purpose of gaming, I have my desktop for that, the purpose of the laptop would be so i can have a decent mobile device I can use. If anyone is familiar with things like how good the battery life of this specific model is and other similar details, I will appreciate it greatly
As a last thing to note, this is perhaps the only model of a laptop I found with ram capacity higher than 16GB which I really care about especially when the memory is not sodimm and 1TB of SSD, and lastly while not something I care that much about I did want an oled display as I have only ever tried one or two of them and I really really liked them.
I am sorry if this whole post had any grammatical, typing mistakes or in some cases made no sense, english is not my native language and naturally sometimes I do not make much sense.

jordanbuilds1 · May 15

18 minutes ago, Nepztar said:

Hello LTT Forum,
I am soon graduating from high school and will be looking into buying a laptop for university. I have been looking at different laptops for a good few weeks now and I've come across an Asus vivobook S16 for a very decent price, specifically an OLED model with Ryzen AI 9 365, no dedicated GPU, 24GB LPDDR5X ram and 1TB of ssd storage. While I have been looking for different laptops, I have always been out of the loop when it comes to laptops and what their hardware is like, never knew anything past my dad's old thinkpad back in 2015. I am looking for advice on whether this is good when it comes to specs. The price I can buy it at is 1050 euro, which is so far one of the best priced laptops I have found in my country, but still I am very unfamiliar with how good these specs are, how good the built quality of the vivobook is and in general if the vivobook S16's are even good laptops.
Just for context while I will probably play the occasional game on it, the laptop itself is not something I want to buy for the purpose of gaming, I have my desktop for that, the purpose of the laptop would be so i can have a decent mobile device I can use. If anyone is familiar with things like how good the battery life of this specific model is and other similar details, I will appreciate it greatly
As a last thing to note, this is perhaps the only model of a laptop I found with ram capacity higher than 16GB which I really care about especially when the memory is not sodimm and 1TB of SSD, and lastly while not something I care that much about I did want an oled display as I have only ever tried one or two of them and I really really liked them.
I am sorry if this whole post had any grammatical, typing mistakes or in some cases made no sense, english is not my native language and naturally sometimes I do not make much sense.

It’s fine but overkill if you’re not doing any classes that require the power. If you wanna do light gaming, a 3060 or 3070 laptop will do you good in most games.

Nepztar · May 16

42 minutes ago, jordanbuilds1 said:

It’s fine but overkill if you’re not doing any classes that require the power. If you wanna do light gaming, a 3060 or 3070 laptop will do you good in most games.

I will be going into computer science, problem with 3060/3070 laptop is there are a total of 3 of these and they are all around 3k each, not a big market here sadly. Also my light gaming is things like DBD and some roguelikes so I think I will skip a gpu in any case