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Review on ASUS VivoBook Pro 16X OLED Slim Laptop, 16” WQUXGA 16:10 Display, Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Windows 11 Pro, 0° Black, M7600QE-XB99 by Mateusz Sobczyk ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Satisfied with the product, I recommend it to everyone.

I was looking for the right laptop for a very long time: I wanted a diagonal of 16, 32 RAM, no OS, 4K, matte screen. As a result, this almost completely fit the needs. I handed over the first such laptop and took another one instead: I hoped to solve the color display problem. But the second one has the same problem. I noticed the problem by accident: the monitor tests did not show anything unusual (I checked it in PassMark MonitorTest from the boot disk). Best seen in Ubuntu when setting the terminal background color (on color codes 061114 or 171421) and screen brightness to about 1/5 or 1/6 of maximum. It can be seen that the color on the screen is uneven: somewhere lighter, somewhere darker, as a result, the monitor is spotty. The problem on Windows 10 can be seen by setting the dark theme in FireFox and going to github (there is a background color more or less close to the problem in this case). And also unscrew the brightness to a minimum or at least 1/6. I won’t hand over the laptop again: the color problem doesn’t worry me much yet (if it bothers me, I’ll hand it over under warranty). And there is simply no alternative in terms of price and equipment. I heard that OLED displays can burn out over time due to static images. But, there is not a word about this in the documentation, if there are problems, I will simply file a claim with the seller during the service life. In the near future I plan to take a matte film on the monitor: the gloss makes you often adjust the color and brightness (I like to work in a dark theme, during the day I have to use a light one to avoid glare). But it’s hard to find a matte film for a monitor: the nearest 17-inch option fits in width, and you have to cut the height. At one time I had an iMAC 2022 with a nano screen coating and automatic brightness adjustment. This was a bomb: eye candy - set it up once and forget it. It doesn't matter how the lighting changes. I wish laptops would appear in the future with the same technology and at affordable prices (now there are basically none of these - even Apple, although Apple has auto-brightness) Wi-Fi started in Ubuntu after kernel ate to 52022.0-25

Pros
  • 2 years warranty, 3 years lifetime rich colors (OLED display) excellent performance keyboard backlight (useful for not fully touch typing yet) fairly quiet under moderate loads
Cons
  • USB 3 is not highlighted in blue, I had to understand the documentation. It turned out that it was installed on the right side (and this is the only USB connector on the right) - they usually turn on the mouse there. The engineers did not guess to put it on the left. The warranty period is determined by the sticker on the bottom of the laptop. This is the first time I've seen such stupidity. If it peels off, it is difficult to prove how much the guarantee is on it. RAM upgrade not possible Part of the hardware does not work (side key block with numbers - neither on Windows 10 nor on Ubuntu 212022) Problem with some colors Glossy screen (reflective) The screen shows the picture unevenly when the display is tilted back and forth: alternating "waves" of warmer and colder tones (yellowish and bluish - especially visible on white) it is difficult to find a matte film to the screen immediately in size On Windows 10, the keyboard backlight does not initially work (I don’t know if the issue can be resolved). And the Fn button doesn't help either.