Not again...... 2024 ASUS Zenbook S16 (Ryzen AI HX)

Both the s16 and s14 felt like the track pad was super stiff to press

This laptop looks hella gay…g16 4 life muhhh fukkas 😂

Dolby vision screen ?

Thank you. You saved me from buying this laptop I hate screen door effect. It is really ridiculous why they produce such crap.

I almost didn't buy one because of this review. Best Buy has a good deal (on one model) right now so I took a chance. Mine has the Ryzen AI 9 365 and I'm not having any heating issues nor fan noise, though I haven't gamed on it nor bench tested. I have the touchscreen and see no signs of the screen door effect and the 16" OLED screen is really nice. My older Asus Zenbook had Windows 10 and I had Classic Shell, so one of the first things I did with this one was install Open Shell and running it in the Windows 7 look. Very happy with the premium look, sound, and feel of this laptop and would definitely buy it again.

Suggest visiting manufacturers sites and looking at whatever laptop you're going to review because the Ceraluminum coating is not plastic nor poly-resin. It's ceramic and aluminum and it's a main design feature of this model.

what game is it you're playing? And also looks like it runs pretty good.

Weird. Maybe my eyes aren't as sensitive, but I have no qualms with my display. I notice some colour tinting on white backgrounds (but that's par for the course with any OLED screen, even on phones), but I don't mind it.
I previously owned a Surface Laptop 4 so this a huge upgrade for me, except maybe for the build quality.

Thank you so much!

Hello 😁Can he run guild wars 2 on ultra setting ? I didnt saw anything about batterie ? How mamy time in casual mode ? And do you think i can play guild wars on médium setting in like 3 hours on battery ? Thank you !!

I've got it a few weeks ago. I really love it! I didn't notice the screen issue you mentioned, maybe a defective unit?

Thanks for the review, keep it up

Terrible terrible sound from the mouth. Please fix the sound.. it's a classicissue and easily fixed. can't listen to you againuntil that's fixed

You're the only person who talks about the screen door effect.

Bought one yesterday and returned it today, had flickering screen issues and it got stuck in UEFI LOL. Thing also got hot from just downloading (not installing) updates….

Must be just your unit or you are very sensitive to the screen reflections because when played with the demo at Best Buy it seemed all normal to me. Screen is gorgeous.

Looks like just about everyone has a tech review channel now. Wtf is this shit

I have the same laptop for a few months now. No door screen effect. The OLED screen is very good. Maybe you can see the grid of the touch screen layer?

bought mine today from bestbuy and returning it asap. this have a grainy display. its like rainbow mesh all over the screen. reminds me of my wife's 2010 touch laptop. not usable in any bright colors. returning the unit and wont bother replacing it.

this laptop is all about screen it should be perfect something is wrong

i have seen so many complaints saying that it runs hot under light to medium load . some say it hits easy 80 degrees and keyboard runs hot as well . can you see any difference in temp after bios and driver update . i am planning to purchase this laptop as it has healthy amount of ram. or the alternative is lenovo aura . but have to live with less multi core performance

mine runs hot as hell, even when doing just ordinary stuff. And i didn't find a way to drop the temp down

You should return the unit. It's a 3k high res OLED display without a touchscreen digitizer. No other review has mentioned this effect and I'm looking at the exact same screen right now, no issues. No screen door effect or else I would've returned it immediately.

I think im fairly certain now that these screen door effects are caused by touch layers. I haven't seen them on non touch.. Also don't buy the vivobook S 14, at least not the price I paid the other day (1250 euros), it was so flimsy, lid not closing flush, mushy keyboard no feedback, touchpad was the worst and not smooth and 35 minutes of fullscreen YT video playback on max brightness cost 11% battery. And max brightness isn't even very bright on asus OLEDs.

Here are my opinions regarding the ultrabook market: In a few weeks, the M4 MB Air will be the best choice for a discounted MB Pro 14 M4. If you are buying Windows, you should choose either Intel or Qualcomm, depending on whether WOA is compatible with your workflow. However, most should choose Intel for its better battery life than AMD. For those needing performance, wait for the upcoming Arrow Lake and AMD with dGPUs. These ultrabooks are for light and medium loads due to their designs.

The one major flaw with my 2024 Asus Zenbook S16 is that the curser jumps all over the place, every day all day. Hinders productivity in a big way. Small but majorly annoying aspect. Everything else is great.

Well, this is typical ASUS and NOT the AMD thing.
The APU is great but the overall product manufacturing is different thing.

ASUS product is a RED FLAG for me personally.

not support Linux :(

Ngl love your soft spoken voice. You should get into asmr lmao

Is the effect related to it being touch screen?

Bizarrely the screen doesn't bother me, it's just the thermals. The fan placement especially means if you put it on your lap and do anything vaguely demanding it'll potentially reboot itself due to overheating. The lower power modes just seem to turn the fans off and not actually help the issues.

None of this is a deal breaker though, I'm keeping mine. Hope Windows ARM improves in the future, I thought this was going to be the saviour of low power x86, not so much.

Vs slim 7i aura which are best screen

Avoid hp, dell and asus

Um, you're examination of the lid tells me you read absolutely nothing about the machine before examining it.

i wonder if you had bad units ive had one but no screen door effect but they did send out a new bios for the heat and performance

at first i wanted this one, but when i read review about fan, thermal and screen reflective problems i went for the thinkpad p1 gen 7... omg i don't regret it even if it's more builker, i an 100% satisfied with the quality of the product

The Zenbook I got rid of had screen door effect and it stuttered constantly due to thermal throttling and latency with Raptor lake due to the way the p cores and e cores were packaged on the die

Asus calls that material ceraluminum😅

Isn't that supposed to be OLED? That's not looking like OLED at all. I think you got a model with problems.

Just bought lenovo g7+ with ai 365. 3,2k ips screen. Except not working track pad in current Ubuntu (probably fixed in 25.04) its great for its $1000

Does it run Qubes OS ?