ASUS Vivobook 16 M1605: What Real Users Actually Think

Ryzen 7 can mean a lot of things when unspecified. If you want more portability, and a better display, then the second one, if you want to save money, take the first. Edit: If battery life isn't an issue, look for something with a dedicated GPU. It'll make rendering videos much faster.

Both laptops have the same CPU, same RAM, same storage, same color. The difference is display size and panel type. The second one has an OLED screen which makes it notably better for photo editing and creative work.

asus vivobooks was excellent series before, but now asus putting inside their new notebooks only cheapest hardware (usb ports, controllers, etc) and almost never updating drivers.

It's a U series laptop. Try getting a H or HX series laptop. These will provide more performance. If you're gonna do python, you most likely gonna try ML model training as well but in those cases I would recommend getting an egpu model, it will get most of your work done.

I currently have the new vivobook and imo it's great for its price (got a few hundred off during a school sale)! The storage is great, the processor always keeps up with my billion open tabs even when I have programming software open (like R, SAS and Stata), the screen has a great resolution which I'm really happy with! The speaker system isn't perfect sure but idrc about that so it was a perfectly fine tradeoff.

I do think it would be solid. I was in Best Buy USA, and I thought Vivobooks (as well as zenbooks) looked nice. The keyboard, screen, mouse pad looked good for the price. I subscribe to Consumer Report the US consumer magazine that does a reader survey on cars, vacuums, laptops, cell providers etc each year. It seemed Asus and lenovo both had a bit higher rating than Dell and HP.

Looks like they're both Zen 3 (7730U). Go with the cheaper one. If you're gonna spend more than that, get a Zen 4 (3rd digit in the CPU designates it; look for something like a 7840HS, 7840U, 8845HS, etc). The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED with the 8840HS has been on sale recently for less than the M1505 you've posted here.

The variants in your link for the Philippines is under M1605YA. That means up to 1TB max of PCIe 3.0 NVMe storage, and an additional 8GB DDR4 SODIMM for the empty slot to max out at 16GB DDR4 RAM.

I have a very low-spec ASUS VivoBook 15 X540BA with an AMD A6-9225 Radeon R4 (5 compute cores, 2C+3G, 2.60 GHz), 4GB of RAM, and an AMD Radeon R4 Graphics card. I run it non-stop for 16 hours every single day, even forcing it render videos in Adobe After Effects when it's practically dying! But it's still kicking since 2021. This thing is a BEAST!

I bought an Asus X550L in January 2014 and it's still going strong, not one problem with it the entire time and I use it literally every single day, it's been to hell and back and keeps on kicking.

I recently bought the Intel Arc one and it gets hot just watching youtube videos. The built quality is really cheap. Keyboard really squishy and cheap plastic touch pad you need full power to get a click. Only good thing was the oled screen. Changed it for a HP Envy 2-1 ryzen 5 and I couldn't be happier.

Honestly man neither. If you made the OLED 16:10 I'd say that all day. But one has the better aspect, one has the better screen tech. I'd say get the $600 one. After using 16:10, 16:9 feels like I'm looking through a narrow slit.

I wouldn't prefer you to buy this vivobook series laptops because the heat pipe in this laptops are terrible and screen is shit and many more problems. Wait for their new laptops or go with other brands.

The thing is, in description they say that 8gb ddr5 ram is soldered onto motherboard and there is an additional slot with 8gb more. With that being said, the slot can be upgraded even though I don't know how performant or good it is for your laptop to have 8gb soldered and let's say you want to add another 16 or 32 to the available slot.

This is may be why they offer you option with 24gb and 40gb. They just added 16gb to the slot and eventually 32 to it and they totally made 24 and 40. 8gb that is soldered is still there. Crazy price change tbh.

I have a very similar laptop with the AMD Ryzen 7 7730U in it and no way am I getting 10 hours of light usage. I think realistically 3 to 6 hours of battery depending on how you use it.

Any gaming will be hugely power demanding and should really be done with the laptop plugged in. I do recall watching Netflix for a good 5 or 6 hours without it being plugged in one time and it still had battery left after that. But that was with brightness at low as it was night time in a dark room.

Just bought one of these for one of my parents as it was in the feature-price goldilocks zone (Asus Vivobook 16, latest model with the Ryzen AI 7 350). Decided to benchmark it before handing over. Did tests both fresh out the box and again with more apps, antivirus and usual suite of software installed. I also added an extra 16 GB of DDR5 out of the box and updated everything possible including BIOS.

If you read again you'll see that it has a Ryzen 7 AI 350 CPU - there are different models of Vivobook 16.

I would go second one with oled, I really like OLED screens that asus use.

OLED panels differ from one another and it's true that they are susceptible to burn in issues, but the tech has matured a lot since its conception and I believe longevity is far less of a concern than let's say 8 years ago. Vivobooks have software built in to extend the life of the display, and as long as you're not using it to display static images 24/7 on max brightness, I don't think you should worry about it.

I use a Vivobook and it's just a solid laptop all around. Decent performance, decent battery life, very good build quality. Screen could be better but decent for its price. However my use case is mostly for taking down notes and research. It might do light video editing but if you are doing heavy video editing maybe go for a Zenbook instead.

This laptops trash. Had it 2 years and - fans fucked, one side of screen has become unattached, sounds garbage, screen quality poor, opened laptop to try reattach screen and clean fan when noticed a part of hardware was unattached, tried to reattach and the fittings didn't even fit, screen screws have nothing to attach to - assuming the original fittings has disintegrated as they were cheap plastic. Only positives is I liked the keyboard and it ran games reasonably well.

Ya imo it's pretty quiet even with my 4 desktops and billion of stuff open LOL - it's only loud when u heavily block the airflow/fans & have heavy programs open (like when im working in bed and put the laptop on a super fluffy blanket, it gets loud obviously). If ur traumatized by old laptops or Macs that have loud fans, trust me these fans are wayyyyyy better lol

Yes, I did. And I think overall it's a decent laptop. The screen is quite nice and it runs smoothly. The camera quality is okayish and the battery is fine. I think because it's an H processor laptop and has 12 cores, the battery drains quickly. Also the laptop is pretty big and is a bit heavy.

I have the M1605YA and it's perfectly fine for me since I'm a student myself - I can work on it, edit on it (AE, Photoshop) (though it's important to have 16gb ram at least, mine does), and honestly it runs pretty much every game. In AAA games you just have to lower some settings and you're good to go. The only game I probably had problems with to the point it was unplayable was RE4 Remake - it ran very poorly at 20 fps all low.

I got it for $550 in Canada about a month ago and for what I spent on it it's really good. I don't think the cpu being a U variant is a bad thing here. It still packs a punch while not using too much power and it never ever gets even warm. I do some light gaming on it. Nothing is soldered except the base RAM which you can expand.

Laptop is very good for all the tasks I am performing. Can recommend. It's much cheaper in the USA/CA as where I live in the UK it's almost £150 more.

That's a pretty good one for the price, not an issue for college use. Just see if the battery lasts for the time you require.

Check the breakdown video of that laptop. If it shares a heatsink/pipe with the cpu and gpu, and has a fan blowing on it instead of outside, then go find another one. You're gonna have thermal issues like I have now on my Asus Vivobook 15 x512dk.

I just bought one. I'm not a light user but if you're not gaming or doing anything intensive, I put it on full brightness. So YouTube or video playback I get 8.5 hours SOT on battery saver. But it charges fast.

I bought one. If you're just reading it's 10 hours SOT. If you're using excel it's under 8 hours. If you're watching movies like Netflix it's 5.5 hours. If you're gaming (PUBG) 3 hours. So basically for an avg person you'll get 6 hours of SOT.

The battery life on Vivobook 16X OLED (at least with Intel) is a fuckin' joke. I bought it as a travel workstation, but this laptop can barely survive 2-2.5 hours in a PowerPoint at 75% brightness. If I run any kind of even light workload (VS Code, VMWare, Fusion360) it dies about 1.25-1.5 hours!

I'm having the same issues, I don't have the oled version but this one lasts 2h tops at minimum brightness and power saving mode on, just running some webbrowsing and whatsapp or discord, can't even consider running vscode without a power source, its insanely annoying. It's going down 10% every 10 mins even if I don't touch it.

It lasts me 95 minutes while doing homework at max brightness (I use the intel version).

Same - about 1% per minute, give or take. I'll try to reinstall a fresh version of Win11 once I'll have a free afternoon to see maybe some driver update will fix this. But overall I have a feeling that power management and battery on this laptop simply sucks and there is no way around it. It's a shame because otherwise this laptop is quite nice - good performance, gorgeous screen, but battery life just kills any practical use case in field.

My ASUS Vivobook S16 Flip, despite the glowing comments about battery life, at full charge it indicates it will last 3 hours. Overnight in sleep mode (no programs running, no windows open, no background programs except what came on the machine) will drop the power by 15%. It's almost a charge daily laptop.

Lasted 4 hours with first time setup, windows updates, command and conquer generals gaming, no audio, 80% brightness.

For 640€ I'm happy.

Honestly, the Asus Vivobook 16's processor feels super underwhelming. Like, for 2025 standards, it's just way too slow and struggles with multitasking. Even casual gaming feels laggy, and creative tasks? Forget it. With so many laptops killing it in performance at the same price, this one just doesn't compete. Feels like Asus really cut corners here.

A few ppl complained about the lack of fingerprint resistance. I just put a layer of wax on mine and it is fingerprint free and smooth.

Yes very solid laptop.

It's a little overpriced but they are pretty good laptops.