hey guys how's it going so in today's
video we are looking at another thin and
light laptop this is a sous-vide Oberg
15 so this laptop has been available in
Intel configuration for a while but in
today's video we are looking at the AMD
risin 5 configuration so this is a
stylish thin and light laptop and it
sports a rather large 15.6 inch screen
the screen is full HD at 1920 by 1080 P
resolution this is an IPS panel it's LED
backlit and it has a really wide viewing
angle of 178 degrees which means you can
use this laptop at skewed angles and the
image and the text is still going to
look sharp so one interesting thing
about this laptop is that the screen
actually comes with an anti-glare
coating most of the laptops in the
market these days have glossy screen and
the glossy screen makes the laptop very
prone to reflection so if you are using
these laptops next to a bright window or
a light source then it's very irritating
so what asus has done is that they have
put an anti-glare coating on this laptop
and this dramatically reduces the
reflection so this makes it very useful
if you plan to use this laptop in a room
which is very brightly lit or you know
if you have a window or a door which is
open during daytime now the caveat is
that anti-glare coating reduces the
saturation so when you are watching
videos or when you are looking at
pictures the colors don't pop out as
much and if you compare this is screen
next to a glossy screen you will
definitely see that the colors are not
as bright but personally I prefer the
anti-glare screen the reflections are
really irritating and if you have ever
been sitting in a couch with a window
behind you and you know you are getting
the reflection in the screen it's really
irritating so you will not have these
problems and I think overall the
anti-glare coating is a welcome addition
even though vivo Cook has a large 15.6
inch screen it doesn't feel bulky and
this is because Asus has managed to trim
down the bezels on all the four corners
the bezels on this laptop measure at
only 5.7 millimeter so this gives it a
whopping 88% the screen to body ratio
which i think is pretty amazing you have
seen high body ratios in smartphones and
I am glad the PC makers are now
incorporating this thick bustles make
any laptop look really old-school so
this one has a very modern
and the thin bezels all around the four
corners look really nice what is
impressive is that issues managed to put
a HD webcam on the top bezel even though
the bezel is very thin and this HD
webcam because it's situated in the
middle on the top that's the perfect
viewing angle for you know video chat a
lot of the manufacturers especially the
thin enlight laptop makers they tend to
put that cam in the near the keyboard
and that creates a very skewed angle a
very awkward angle and trust me nobody
wants to look at your nose here when
they are doing a video chat with you so
do them a favor and don't use laptops
with that you know skewed video angle
this laptop is really nice it has
perfect that cam placement so I think if
you do Skype video chat or if you do
video conferences will definitely
appreciate the webcam handle so vivo
book weighs about 3.8 pounds and this
includes the battery so this is little
on the heavier side but remember this is
15.6 inch laptop so this is not like a
13 or a 12 inch laptop so for the size I
think 3.8 pounds is not bad
so this laptop comes with a 38 water
battery and it is a 2 cell battery so
asus is claiming an all-day battery life
on vevo book I think that's kind of an
exaggeration now I was able to get about
7 to 8 hours of battery life and in my
testing I kept the screen brightness at
around 75% and so I would say that's not
bad now one good thing which asus has
done is that they have provided fast
charging so the battery is able to
actually charge all the way from 0% to
60% in under 15 minutes now let's talk
about the build quality of the laptop so
the laptop body is made of polycarbonate
you know plastic in simple English it
feels pretty robust in hands with no
perceptible flex so this laptop has a
unique hinge mechanism issues calls this
Argo flex and basically what it does is
when you open the screen and when the
laptop is fully open it tilts the
keyboard slightly by about two degrees
and this is because the hinge lifts the
keyboard by few millimeters and this
gives the keyboard a very nice ergonomic
angle and when I typed on this keyboard
it was definitely it felt better than a
flat keyboard not only does it help with
typing the ergonomics it also actually
lifts the base of the laptop few
millimeters up so this helps in the
cooling because the fans in the laptop
when they are blowing the hot air they
will be able to have more clearance the
keyboard on vevo book is really nice
it's a full size keyboard and it comes
with numerical pad so this is great for
people who do lot of data entry one
bonus is that this keyboard is a backlit
keyboard so this is great for working in
dim lit environments the key travel is
about 1.5 millimeter and this leads to a
very pleasant typing experience the
laptop comes with a large touchpad and
there is a fingerprint sensor built
right on the top right hand corner of
the touchpad and so this is a very nice
welcome addition this is great for
password less entering into your laptop
and since this is fully supported by
Microsoft
you know the Windows 10 operating system
I love this feature and I wish more
laptop makers start incorporating your
fingerprint sensor the touchpad is very
responsive and it comes with Windows 10
precision drivers so it supports all the
multi fingers gestures you know
scrolling with your fingers pinch and
zoom all the typical multi-touch finger
gestures are supported the tactile
feedback on the touchpad is also really
nice so overall I am very happy with the
quality of both the keyboard and the
touchpad okay now let's get into the
hardware specs so this laptop is unique
because instead of using the Intel
processor this is using an AMD Rison 530
500 you processor this is a four core
and eight third processor it's base
clock frequency is 2.1 gigahertz and it
is capable of overclocking to around 3.7
23.8 gigahertz so in the benchmarking
the CPU scores seven thousand nine
hundred thirty six average CPU mark
which is a pretty good rating if you
compare this with other processors you
will see that rise in five thirty five
hundred you is in the top tier it's
actually ranked fourth here these are
the top ten common laptop CPUs and it's
only getting beaten by Core i7
processors so overall for the price that
you are paying I think this is a damn
good processor you are getting very good
bang for bugs so kudos to issues for
picking this processor and I'm very
happy that AMD is now
churning out really good processors ok
moving onto the GPU this laptop is using
radeon vega 8 graphics so here is the
benchmark performance of a guide
graphics it's coarse 3085 5 d park so as
you can see here it is actually sitting
ahead of the Radeon HD six eight seven
zero processors and the old-school gtx
560 it's slightly behind the geforce 950
m so this is a pretty good GPU for
casual gaming you will get decent frame
rates but don't expect insane gaming
performance this is after all not a
gaming laptop moving on to the system
ram so this laptop comes with eight
gigabyte configurations so 80 gram is
good enough for the casual use for
internet surfing for social media stuff
for watching videos on youtube you know
netflix and also for casual gaming but
if you intend to do serious work say for
example content creation video editing
running photoshop or if you are into
software development then 8 gigabyte ram
is probably not going to cut it for you
and so i would recommend that you
upgrade the RAM so the ram configuration
is very interesting the existing 8
gigabyte ram that you get in this laptop
that is split into two equal parts four
gigabyte of ram is actually soldered to
the motherboard and the laptop comes
with only one bin slot so this dim slot
is currently populated with 4 gig ram so
your upgrade choices are to basically
replace this 4 gig ram and upgrade it
with either a 8 gig stick or a 16 gig
stick so if you add an 8 gig stick you
will end up with 8 gig plus the 4 gig
solder rams so 12 gig of ram and if you
put a 16 gig stick then you will end up
with a 20k total ram so i will throw a
link in the description of all the
compatible memory modules that are
available on amazon and that work with
this laptop like i said before if you
are a power user then i highly recommend
that you upgrade the system ram to
either 12 gig or 20 gig those are your
only two options
unfortunately there is no ii m slot so
you can't go beyond that so it's not
possible to get like a 32 gigabyte ram
now in order to upgrade the RAM you will
have to open the back of the laptop
there are about one dozen screws at the
back of the laptop so you all you need
is a phillips screwdriver and unscrew
these screws
my recommendation is when you are
unscrewing these screws
remember the location of where you pick
these schools from because these screws
are not identical after you have
the school you need to pry open the back
of the laptop this can be done using a
prying tool or even an old plastic
credit card or a plastic knife is good
enough just find one corner of the
laptop and from that edge write it open
and then once you have your plastic
credit card or the knife and you have
made its way in then just move it across
the length of the laptop you will hear a
lot of clicking sounds these are the
latches which are basically opening up
so gently move it along the four sides
of the laptop and once all the latches
are open then the back of the laptop
will easily come out so once we have
removed the back of the laptop you will
have access to the memory module so as
you can see here there is only one dim
slot and this is the template which will
already have a four gigabyte memory
stick so what you need to do is get rid
of the four gig memory stick and replace
it with either the eight gig or the
sixteen gig memory stick that you have
purchased if you have never installed
memory modules before it's not difficult
all you need to do is make sure that the
notch on your memory stick matches with
the slot the memory module is asymmetric
so there is only one way to put this in
the slot so make sure that your memory
stick the notch is matching with the
slot and gently slide it in at around 45
degree angle
once it is in then you press it gently
down and it will make a very satisfying
click sound when it latches and that's
it your memory has been upgraded now
while you have your laptop open there is
one other upgrade that you can do and
this is the SSD storage now this laptop
comes with only one SSD which is the
PCIe nvme MDOT 2 slot so if you are
planning to upgrade the SSD
unfortunately you cannot add a second
SSD because there is no slot for a
second SSD so you will have to replace
the existing SSD so this laptop comes to
256 gigabyte of SSD if you are
interested I will throw a couple of
links in the description below for a 500
gigabyte SSD and a one terabyte SSD
remember if you are planning to upgrade
the SSD you will have to clone the
operating system so that your windows 10
image along with all your files transfer
them to the new SSD so their sixties
that I have linked in the description
they come with a free software which
will help you
there says these okay now let's talk
about the ports in this laptop it has
one USB type-c port which is good news
but the not so good news is that you
cannot charge the laptop with this USB
type-c port this is only for data
connection so that is kind of a bummer
it also comes with the old school USB
2.0 and USB 3.0 ports in addition you
get an HDMI port you get a headphone
jack with the 3.5 millimeter jack and
you also get a micro SD card slot ok so
here are my final thoughts I think this
is a very good laptop for most of the
folks for a casual use for the casual
gaming for surfing social media watching
videos on YouTube Netflix this is a
great laptop if you are a power user
then I will recommend that you upgrade
the RAM because 8 gig RAM is probably
not going to cut it for serious work but
for the price I think vivo book is a
really good laptop it has a nice 15.6
inch screen it has very thin bezels it's
not very heavy the battery is about 7 to
8 hours and you get fast charging so
overall I think this is a very good
laptop so that's it guys that's it for
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