Gadget review: The ASUS Vivobook Pro 14X

This laptop is targeted at lifestyle creators, vloggers, and artists.

Design

The design is less minimalistic and traditional than the Zenbook pro, but not as colorful as the regular Vivobooks. They come in Comet Gray OR Cool Silver.

The Comet Gray features a futuristic textured coating on the metal lid, which creates a subtle vibe that’s designed to express the true you. The Cool Silver is a pure silver color with an anodized aluminum texture and a straightforward feel, encouraging you to follow your instincts.

The sleek and tactical high-tech coating looks like fine suede but has a solid and practical feel that’s resistant to fingerprints and smudges. The keyboard has a distinct design, with hints of color coding for different groups of keys. 

The laptop has a unique logo which adds excitement, even before you open the lid. There is a warning-striped Enter key that takes center stage. The ESC key with its bright orange color-blocked design continues the industrial theme, echoing the pioneering attitude of your brave world.    

Battery

The Vivobook 14X OLED, keeps you going for longer. The laptop featured a high-quality 63W battery and has a lifespan that’s 3 times longer than the standard lithium-ion batteries. The fast-charge technology lets you charge a low battery to 60 percent in just 49 minutes.

The integrated ASUS Battery Health Charging Technology also makes for a safer charging experience, with measures designed to decrease the battery expansion rate during charging to help ensure the battery stays in good condition.

Performance

The ASUS Vivobook 14X Pro has the latest powerful Intel® Core™ H Series Mobile Processor, high-speed DDR4 RAM, and a high-capacity battery. The laptop allows you to boost your performance to challenge your limits.

The 11th Gen Intel®  Core H Series Processors for Ultraportable gaming and creation build on the best of what the 11th Gen Intel series processors have already delivered and add more performance to enable this class of Ultraportable systems.

Vivobook Pro 14X OLED is powered by the latest NVIDIA GeForce 3050 graphics. NVIDIA Studio Laptops powered by GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs help bring your creative imaginations to life.

Connectivity

The laptop offers a range of wireless connectivity solutions.

 It has an inbuilt dual-band  Intel® WiFi 6 (802.11ax) wireless network card that offers speeds of up to 2.4 Gbps and provides up to three times higher throughput and 4X the network capacity of Wi‑Fi 5 (802.11ac). The network card also incorporates Bluetooth 5.0 for connection to Bluetooth‑enabled devices.

It is equipped with Wifi Master Premium technology, which not only has an in-built Intel WiFi 6 wireless network for fast wireless transmission performance, and also adds ASUS exclusive WiFi SmartConnect function.

This provides greater distance, stability, and seamless wireless network experiences.  

The WiFi 6 in your Vivobook Pro 14X OLED, allows you to load content online fast, and with the SmartConect, it is able to automatically select the best WiFi source to connect seamlessly to the best WiFi signal and mobile hotspots.

Display

The laptop display experience is beyond compare. With its super bright 600, ultra-high contrast ratio, and ultraslim bezels that give it an 86 percent screen-to-body ratio. The laptop comes with the best-in-class color gamut.

They reproduce color with superb real-life accuracy for professional-grade visuals, and offer ultrafast response times and refresh rates, making them perfect for professional and creative work.

Due to the nature of the special organic light-emitting compounds used, the ASUS Vivobook Pro 14X display can reduce harmful blue light by up to 70 percent as compared to LCD displays. Thus, making them extra gentle on your eyes to reduce the risk of retinal damage.

Operating System and Processors

The ASUS Vivobook Pro 14X has two processors that are the Intel® Core™ i7-11370H Processor 3.3 GHz and the Intel® Core™ i5-11300H Processor 3.1 GHz. While in terms of the operating system, the laptop can use both Windows 10 and 11 for home and business use. It has no preinstalled operating system.

Specifications of the ASUS Vivobook Pro OLED N7400

CPU

Intel® Core™ i7-11370H Processor

Intel® Core™ i5-11300H Processor

Operating System

Windows 10 Pro (ASUS recommends Windows 10 Pro for business) / Windows 10 Home

On Board Memory

8GB / 16GB 3200MHz DDR4

Memory Max

16GB 3200MHz DDR4

Storage

256G/512G/1TB PCIe SSD

Intel® Optane™ Memory H10 with Solid State Storage

(32G Optane™ + 512G SSD

32G Optane™ + 1TB SSD)

Display

14” 2.8K OLED/28800x1800/400nits DCI-P3:100%/DisplayHDR™ 600 True Black

Integrated GPU

Intel® Iris® Plus Graphics

GPU

Nvidia RTX 3050 Graphics

Fingerprint

Fingerprint Combine with Power Key in Keyboard

Wireless

Intel Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) + Bluetooth 5.0

Card reader

MicroSD card reader

Interface

1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C®(Thunderbolt4 Type-C)

1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A

2 x USB 2.0

1 x HDMI

1 x Audio combo jack

1 x MicroSD card reader

Audio

Built-in array microphone

Built-in speaker

Harman Kardon certified audio

Camera

HD camera

Weight

1.45kg (with 3-cell battery)

Dimension

317.4 (W) x 228.5 (D) x 17.9 (H) mm

AC Adapter

120W AC Adapter, Output: 20V DC, 6A, 120W, Input: 100~240V AC 50/60Hz universal

65W AC Adapter. Output 19V DC, 3.42A, 65W, Input: 100~240V AC 50/60Hz universal (for UMA version)

Battery

63Wh 3-cells lithium-polymer battery

Touchpad

Support ASUS DialPad, TouchPad: Intelligent palm rejection,

Precision touchpad (PTP) technology supports up to four-finger smart gestures

Keyboard Type

Illuminated Chiclet Keyboard with backlit

Security

Firmware TPM (fTPM) / Windows Hello, login with Fingerprint

BIOS Booting User Password Protection

If you are looking for a premium and powerful laptop, that can supersede your expectations and make content creation, video editing, or graphic design easy to handle, look no further than the ASUS Vivobook Pro 14X N7400. 

In Kenya, it retails around Ksh.175,748.