ASUS VivoBook OLED K513: What Real Users Actually Think

Seems like a pretty good deal if you need it. There's both a Notebookcheck review and an rtings.com review, so you can go into buying this knowing pretty much everything about it. The 8GB is soldered, but there's a RAM slot that should be free so you can add your own to up it to 16GB or more.

I wouldn't use an OLED laptop for heavy coding or school work personally. A couple of years if you are lucky and you'll definitely be seeing some of the windows you have up the most from uneven pixel wear — especially programs like Excel with bright white boxes and black lines. These laptops really are best for someone doing minor browsing and a lot of media consumption.

Just search Iris XE gaming performance on YouTube. It is OK for 720p 30fps I guess — don't expect much beyond that.

Ultrabooks are very thin and light with really good battery life and typically focus on the nice-to-haves like good build quality, good trackpad and keyboard, good screen, etc. This thing is relatively heavy for its class — not really an ultrabook despite the premium display.

The batteries are just not the greatest. Also cycles do not matter if it is plugged in constantly or constantly run to zero.

I mostly used it on battery power and followed a 20-80 charging schedule, and the battery still died after just 2 years and 113 charge cycles. I think most of the K15 OLED have faulty batteries — fully degraded within 2 years. I have seen many other owners having the same problems.

Same laptop here — it just shut off and even when I plug it in, it doesn't start. Looking to find a replacement battery for the K513EA.

Same battery issue here. I'm still using it on the adapter — thinking of buying a new laptop entirely since the display is also broken now.

As an owner of a Gigabyte OLED laptop for two years, I never had a single burn-in issue. The ONE biggest tip I can give is to ensure your taskbar is set to 'hidden' by default. This will remove any burn-in anxiety and is highly recommended.

My friend has an Acer laptop with the same i5-1135G7 CPU — he plays eSport titles comfortably at 1080p 60FPS and AAA games at 720p 60FPS with just 8GB RAM. Your laptop with 16GB will perform much better.

The Asus VivoBook 15 OLED K513 is currently the best screen you can buy at this price point. Notebookcheck has done a review if you're interested — the display quality alone sets it apart from competitors in this budget.

Asus likes to use different names for different regions — the European ASUS store model is essentially the same laptop. The Ryzen OLED variant in particular offers great value for its display quality at this price bracket.

I've used the ThinkBook T-line for years and they've been incredibly durable. I don't have any experience with the VivoBook, but the ThinkBook chassis is significantly more durable — I've dropped a couple of them from 3 feet and had no problems.

Asus is giving the best OLED displays at the lowest prices here. The 14" model with just the integrated Iris has a higher resolution and a higher refresh rate 90Hz panel plus Thunderbolt for eGPU.

I wouldn't use it for heavy university work. Even if you use dark mode, hide the taskbar and take every preventive measure, you'll inevitably have to deal with static UI elements for many hours in a row for weeks or months throughout uni.

My Dell XPS OLED lasted 2 years before noticeable burn-in — I didn't hide my taskbar, had brightness on 100% all the time, and had a static screensaver for about a year. The only burn-in that shows up is the Win10 search thing in the taskbar.

If you experience burn-in, you can buy a new OLED display for less than 100 USD and replace it yourself.

I got a 3-year warranty with burn-in covered. Also planning to use it at around 150 nits, dark mode all the time, autohide taskbar, and enable all the OLED saver methods in the Asus app.

I'd buy a monitor just for when you're back home and use the laptop screen off to the side. A good 24-inch display is around 150 dollars and a lot easier to replace. OLED would then be reserved for multimedia and light gaming — that's how you extend its lifespan.

OLED Zenbooks and VivoBooks have been around for a while. They have their pros and cons — chief among which is the high reflectivity of the display. There should be a solid reason for selecting it over an IPS option, not just the OLED hype.

The Asus has less battery life than the Dell Inspiron 5515 in this comparison. The charger is more compact though. Audio is tuned by Harman Kardon and sounds very good compared to the competition.

The Dell looks a bit smaller and more square. In terms of productivity the keyboard and trackpad would need hands-on testing to confirm comfort — the ASUS looks usable but that would have to be proven.

Avoid laptops with 45% NTSC displays as they are lifeless. Find the cheapest laptop with a good 100% sRGB display — the ASUS VivoBook OLED fits this criteria at this price range.

I just received an OLED laptop for coding in college and I'm trying to find software to help shift static content around or auto-dim static parts of an image. Meantime I set my taskbar to autohide, run Chrome in fullscreen, and set display to high contrast to invert white space.

I'm waiting for a proper 3-5 year burn-in warranty before committing to OLED for desktop use — we just aren't there yet for heavy computer usage unless you are extremely careful about static elements.

My unit bought in November 2021 has only 64 charge cycles but capacity has dropped from 42,067 mWh when new to just 27,349 mWh now — that's a massive degradation even with very few cycles.