Asus VIVOBOOK 13 Slate OLED Review - CHEAP OLED TABLET PC!

[@anonneymous9949]

Power isnt everything. I have ROG and Macbook laptop for the grunts. But i also have a cheap, very thin laptop with a great IPS displau and battery life from Chuwi which powered by mere N4100. Guess which one is use the most during travels and simple task or media consumption? My ipad and android tablet has its place. This thing also has its place. With the price, it cant be beat really. Just manage your expectation

[@fuxart1224]

Sorry but at some point you make dumb considerations: it's obvious that a 3xtimes the price you get better performance! I just ordered one today after researching and for my needs it's perfect (tablet and office pc). You can streamline windows which is far more versatile and longlasting than android (you get what, 2 years of updates?). No oled tab on the 13-14 inch category for this price (chf 540=gbp 490) with oled screen, dolby, battery and this weight. Lenovo tab extreme or samsung tab ultra cost 2-3 times, + version with 12.4 twice. Other slates around this price have even more compromises/downsides.

[@danielguzman2029]

This with a Qualcomm SoC would be the best thing ever

[@Christopher__MP]

Hello, I use the earlier version of this as a small desktop, I have the 4GB intel n6000 version as it was available for around €330, at this price I got a good OLED screen for monitoring messages or consuming video in addition to the two large screen monitors that I employ using the KVM switch. My primary app is remote desktop or Windows 365 to access local and remote computers anywhere in the world, as there are no local apps or files stored on the ASUS Slate and windows RDP and windows 365 apps do not require significant system resources. It made more sense for me than a small NUC size PC without a screen. I can easily pull the USB-C connection and plug it into another computer as needed. This slate will drive two 1080p monitors something that an iPad or galaxy tab can’t do.

[@tsung-hanlin6150]

they should just fit a ryzen APU like on the ROG Ally, 16G ram and under $1000, this will sell like crazy.

[@AntonyJojo9876]

Very concise and informative. This really helped me choosing between dell xps and Asus slate👍

[@RedBeardedRabbit]

Nice latency tests! Well presented. Also interesting OLED behavior. Do other OLEDs do this? Especially interested in the slew of new ~16 inch OLED panels in various laptops

[@oscararauco]

I bought this a few days ago because I am a teacher and it is important for me to have a secondary computer with a touch pen, and since it is for classes the raw power is not so important. I use "one note" as a whiteboard. I hope this help me

[@tsung-hanlin6150]

I got the last year model like mid 2023. The processor isn't as slow as youtuber early units. I am even writing code on vscode (remote ssh), and writing papers with overleaf, watching youtube, browsing, it is adequate as a terminal interface device. I"m guessing they must optimize the chip performance after few updates. best thing when comparing to a mac is I can take handwritten notes in class :)

[@FairyKid64]

Thanks for your video. Could you make a follow-up video with a touch Linux distro installed?

[@8lec_R]

If the latency was not this bad, this would have been a good drawing tablet. They should have ditched the keyboard and shipped with a slightly better cpu. A better pen with more pressure levels and 500hz polling rate would be nice.

[@redphantom2670]

but what is a better option in this price point? do you have any suggestion? i can get an older surface but the pen experience is similiar to this one and it doesnt even come with pen and keyboard and the display is definetly not as good. or i can get a samsung s6 lite but that one is only 10 inch and not oled. i don't know what to do.

[@8lec_R]

@@redphantom2670 if you just wanna draw on the go, I hate to say this but its probably your best bet to get an ipad with pen support. Find a sale on a slightly older model. That's all I know about drawing tablets/devices that support pen inputs. Unless you don't really care about portability. Then you can probably get a dedicated drawing tablet. With or without a screen.

[@ruperstars]

How would this be for a general college laptop? Just to take notes in class and to take tests. I don't need a lot of computing power.

[@FairyKid64]

Thanks for you honest review! Is this the new 2023 T3304 model?

[@Wistbacka]

I really hope Asus can offer a beefier version of this tablet with a better cpu. I dont need any other requirement. Just give me a better cpu. Skip the keyboard for all I care to keep the price down. It's almost offensive that such a nice OLED display is wasted on a device this weak.

[@8lec_R]

Great overview of the screen Hey please can you tell us next time how much of the rec2020 colour space does the panel cover. Thx

[@nik4520]

I think you should try installing a Linux distribution for tablets on this. I think that could really turn this around. If that works out I'd definitely buy one. Not very interested in touch tbh. A lot of people like me want something good enough for note-taking, a dumb terminal to remote into our servers and whatnot from anywhere and media consumption with good colors under *nix. Maybe some occasional drawing with krita. But we usually have our own mouse and really overpriced minimalist ergonomic keyboards we carry anyway and would never accept that crappy cover thing. I know a lot of people that carry minisforum, NUC or asrock mini PCs or and hack something together with a powerbank and portable monitor. Some use a handheld like a steamdeck or Aya but disable the built in display. A few people have made the jump to the very expensive tablet style "laptops" from Asus and recently Lenovo and abandoned the keyboard part on those in favor of their own preference solution but they're simply extremely expensive, too much so for the majority of us.

[@NGabunchanumbers]

I dont have this tablet and probably wont get it because of performance, but it seems useless to say "well this pc has worse performance than a tablet that costs 3 times as much"... Like, yeah, I would hope it does. It would be more useful if you showed it loading webpages, than just saying "you can get a really fancy ipad for 2,000$ instead of this for 600$" like bro. I could also get an XPS or something. But pricepoint matters.

[@iamtimmy16]

Does it support virtual background without green screen in Zoom Meeting app?

[@trancematics]

Too many deal-breakers regardless of it's low price. Windows 11, abysmal performance and a self-clicking keypad. What a waste of a nice looking screen.

[@ash36230]

Windows 11 isn't a deal breaker, would just downgrade to w10, especially if it comes with junk preloaded. Be nice if companies could stop making ewaste though. Budget laptops/tablets will be 'fine' enough for a year at most. This is ewaste before it even left the factory

[@NCXitlali]

I wish it had thunderbolt

[@MisterPikol]

I just got one purely for multimedia purposes for 270 bucks lol

[@lookitsrain9552]

i3 n300 is exactly what you think it is, its absolute bottom quality silicon with 2 4 core e core clusters and non functional p cores limited to a 7 watt tdp and single channel ram only, its an absolute pile of garbage cpu that makes any device using it automatically ewaste.

[@MisterPikol]

Its an 8 core 3.8ghz processor. How is it garbage ?

[@lookitsrain9552]

@@MisterPikol It will never hit 3.8ghz because of the tdp limit, and its cache starved e cores on single channel ram. Its terrible.

[@Wistbacka]

​@@MisterPikolWhen an oled device costs this little you can bet they skimped somewhere; this CPU is it here. The issue is that they decided to give a CPU that does not live up to the rest of the excellent hardware. For me personally, I would like a better CPU, and then they can skip the keyboard. There is really a lack of decent windows tablets at a budget.

[@MisterPikol]

@@Wistbacka there's also matebook E, but that one doesn't support HDR it seems, which is a dealbreaker for me.

[@pemunte8735]

N6000

[@reddstudiosapps]

Should just downgrade this thing to Windows 10 LTSC since the processor wasn't really designed to run full windows 11 with all the bloatware that ASUS also installs along with the OS that is already bloated. Also, windows behaves differently when installed on portable machines like laptops or tablets maybe due to the power constraints of the system along with the screen, keyboard, accessories, etc. Also 16gb of RAM should've been an option for this (there is no 16gb variant which just limits performance even more) This is such a waste of processing power on the thing it wasn't designed for. I'm still looking forward to the other N300 mini pc that Zotac is making at the end of the year. Maybe there will a performance difference compared to this.

[@louisharkna9464]

This just shows that OLED has just become another buzzword to sell product. This occurs to me to be a CHEAP tablet the likes I've seen sold at Walmart here in the states for $250 or less about 5-6 years ago.

[@andyH_England]

OLED has become the cheap option now for displays and is standard in the industry even for $300 phones. YT creators going wild about OLED and basing value on a product just because it has an OLED panel is no longer reasonable. The rest of the product is now far more relevant.

[@andyH_England]

Windows and tablets are oxymorons, they no longer exist IMHO. I would 100% say buy a great laptop and supplement that with a great tablet rather than compromise with a detachable or 2-in-1 that makes the tablet part sub-par. That is assuming you need both. This is trying to market OLED, where today OLED is too omnipresent to be a massive selling point anymore. In nearly every other metric this tablet sucks and you really do pay for what you get, and you will be regretting this purchase on day one, let alone 2-3 years down the line. Easy pass.

[@redphantom2670]

so what do you recommend? i'm trying to get a tablet at this price point for drawing but there's nothing good tho. this has a great display and packed with keyboard/pen but trash cpu. older surfaces are not that different from this one in case of drawing experience and don't have a display like this. samsung s6 lite also has a pen but average software aswell and small screen, not oled ipads are good but in this price only comes with 64gb and plus 100bucks for the pen. no idea what to do lol