Month: April 2024

The Asus VivoBook S451LA is a relatively affordable machine that comes with a touchscreen, but not much else. Some machines try to have the best of both worlds, forgoing the keyboard dock or going to great lengths for our comfort.

Others, like the $700 Asus VivoBook S451, graft a touchscreen onto a regular laptop chassis and that’s it. While that’s a relatively affordable price, it doesn’t justify the compromises you’ll have to make to make this machine worth your money. Note that, like many Asus laptops , our exact version of the VivoBook S451 may be out of stock at online retailers, and you may find slightly different components and different prices depending on when and where you buy it.

Our review unit came with a 1.6GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 6GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive. The low native screen resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels puts it firmly in the budget range. PC Geekbox Let’s take a step back and look at it: It’s already beautiful, right? It’s a deceptive design, and the brushed metal lid makes it look like a more expensive device. And its height — just 0.97 inches thick — makes it look very portable, the kind of slim device you can throw in your bag. But at 4.8 pounds, the VivoBook S451LA is pretty heavy. This laptop has a 14-inch touchscreen, which looks cool. But when you open it up, you’ll find that it only has 1,366 x 768 pixels of screen real estate, and it’s not very good: Viewing angles are very limited, and colors are inverted and appear washed out with just the slightest change of angle.

I found myself constantly adjusting the hinge, searching for that mythical perfect angle that would allow me to sit comfortably while still seeing clearly — which becomes a problem if you like to move around. It is, however, a touchscreen. It’s responsive and handles gestures confidently, but its hinge isn’t very sturdy, and it would wobble rather annoyingly when I clicked through menus. I’m used to glass or matte touchpads , so the overly glossy touchpad on this VivoBook was a little too slippery for my taste.

Gestures were problematic, and the touchpad was sometimes inaccurate. This problem is exacerbated by the extra finesse required to emulate Windows 8’s touch gestures: Swipe inward from the right edge of the touchpad and you’ll bring up the Charms menu; swipe inward from the left to quickly switch between running apps, and swipe down from the top of the touchpad brings up Windows 8’s context-sensitive menu bar. The speakers can sound a little hollow, despite Asus’s SonicMaster branding and a few equalizer presets. Ports and connections Connectivity, performance, and the Asus VivoBook S451LA battery

The VivoBook’s Core i5-4200U processor falls into the famous “good enough” category. While it lagged behind the competition in every one of CNET’s performance tests, I didn’t have too many troubles with it in day-to-day use. It’s still very fast, with apps loading in reasonable times and running at a steady pace throughout. Booting the machine takes about 12 seconds, which feels a little long, but isn’t exactly a deal breaker — that’s more a credit to the OS than the hardware, as an SSD would certainly improve things. Unfortunately, you can’t do much better: The S451LA can be configured with up to a Core i7-4500U, but there’s no SSD option.

The fastest storage option is a 750GB 7,200rpm hard drive, while the largest is a 1TB 5,400rpm drive. You’ll also find eye-watering prices on the model we tested, though Amazon currently sells it for $669.69 (as of the date of this post). The VivoBook on Intel’s integrated graphics, which means any kind of high-end or midrange gaming is out of the question. Fortunately, there are plenty of games in the Windows 8 store and on the web that run smoothly on this hardware. As for battery life, Asus estimates that the VivoBook will last about five hours on a single charge. We saw 6 hours and 13 minutes on our video playback rundown test. While that’s in line with the performance you can expect at this price point, it’s still not that great if you plan on using it all day.

This Asus VivoBook’s display, keyboard, and touchpad are basically phonebooks, and it’s (relatively) heavy, but it’ll get you around the Internet, play HD movies (though not at full HD resolution), and help you get work done — thanks to a fairly responsive touch screen — for just $700. You’d be hard-pressed to find a true gem at that price. But if you’re willing to spend a little more, you can do better. The larger, nearly identical 15.6-inch Asus VivoBook V551LB weighs a pound and costs about a hundred bucks more, but offers twice the storage, more RAM, a faster CPU, and a discrete Nvidia GPU. You’ll run into many of the same shortcomings, but at least you can get some gaming done, and some photo editing, too.

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Heat, Noise, and MSI GS40 Phantom 6QE Battery LifeThe GS40 Phantom is average in terms of heat and noise output. We’re still talking about a laptop here, so engineers are limited in what they can do to improve cooling performance in a limited space, but the GS40 isn’t the best gaming laptop I’ve seen in this segment.
There are two small fans inside the GS40, connected to a small radiator and heat pipe, to cool the 45W CPU and 75W GPU respectively. Although there are two fans and heatsinks, the two halves of the cooling solution are actually connected by a single heat pipe. There’s only one vent on the CPU side, with air coming out directly from the back, while the GPU side sees air coming out of the back and right side. In both cases, the air intake is only on the bottom, so blocking the bottom of the laptop is not a good idea.
The combined heat load of 120W allows the GS40 to achieve warm but not unreasonable surface temperatures. During sustained gaming sessions, the keyboard temperature did not exceed 41°C, dropping to around 37°C near the left gaming keys, which is about what I would consider the limit of comfortable gaming.
The cooling performance on the bottom of the laptop is not very good. The CPU and GPU have two different hotspots that can easily exceed 60°C during load, and you definitely don’t want to touch either of these if you’re gaming on your lap. Fortunately, this heat is well dissipated through the rest of the case and the cooling solution, so most temperatures on the bottom are at or below 45°C.
Thermal and noise performance are good when idle, with the laptop typically turning off its fans to passively cool the CPU and GPU. With the 45W CPU passively cooled, temperatures are around 36°C or lower across much of the laptop body, but there are a few hot spots and the fans kick in once you try slightly more intensive workloads.
The dual-fan cooler’s noise distribution during load is similar to that of a jet engine, like most gaming laptops with small fans for cooling. In the case of the G40, however, the fans aren’t that loud or annoying, and you can easily hear them through the gaming audio from your laptop speakers. Don’t get me wrong – the cooling solution is certainly noisy, and the laptop’s speakers aren’t particularly powerful – but it doesn’t have the harsh high-pitched whine of competing laptops, which helps reduce the cooler’s annoyance factor.

Inside the MSI GS40 Phantom 6QE is a 61.25 Wh non-removable lithium-ion battery, coincidentally the same as the one in the Gigabyte P34W v5
TheMSI GS40 Phantom 6QE batteryhas the same size. For a laptop of this size,The MSI GS40 Phantom 6QE battery isn’t particularly large, which doesn’t bode well for battery life.

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The Jumper EZBook X1 is a great laptop, but the Teclast F5 is a better option at a lower price, with a 128GB SSD, twice the RAM, and support for an active stylus . However, the 2-in-1 convertible is stunning to look at. Convertible laptops are now mainstream, and touchscreen functionality is not only popular, but a desirable feature on spec lists. Windows 8 started this trend, but Windows 10 makes multitouch a useful thing rather than a gimmick (like 3D).

Jumper is the latest Chinese manufacturer to try out the style, made popular by Lenovo and its near-legendary Yoga series. The EZBook X1 sent to us has a specific selling point; it’s one of the very few convertibles with a screen smaller than 12 inches diagonally, making it the true successor to the once mighty netbook dynasty. In some ways, the EZBook X1 is better than the design it inspired. It features an all-metal chassis with some plastic parts, making it feel more premium than the Yoga 2 11. The right side of the device houses a host of ports (USB Type C connector, micro USB, micro HDMI), a microSD card slot, two side-firing speakers, and two microphones. Aside from the Intel Gemini Lake CPU powering the Jumper X1, the laptop’s other notable hardware feature is the odd combination of eMMC storage (64GB) with a 64GB removable solid-state drive. Even more surprising is that the OS runs on slower eMMC storage rather than the faster SSD, although this is tinkerable if you know how.

Note that the Jumper EZBook X1 comes with a micro USB Type-C 24W (2A, 12V) power supply unit that can be used to charge some newer smartphones. Alternatively, you can charge your laptop (or trickle charge) using almost any Type- C connector/charger. We tried plugging the Type-C cable into a USB port on another laptop and it worked. The EZBook X1 is a very likeable convertible laptop. The keyboard is surprisingly pleasant considering how small this product actually is. The keys are smaller than expected, but they offer good bounce even if the key travel is a bit too shallow for our liking. The only other issue we encountered was the size of the Enter key: we would have preferred a smaller right Shift key. Considering its price , we weren’t expecting miracles from the 11.6-inch FHD IPS model’s screen. It’s covered in a non-oleophobic glass panel, which glare increases, affects display contrast, and makes it difficult to use in bright sunlight, especially since it’s a fingerprint magnet even with the brightness slider pushed to the max.
When playing a YouTube video using Windows’ optimal performance settings, maximum brightness, and most importantly preventing the system from shutting down, dimming, or turning off the display, the EZBook X1 lasted a disappointing 2 hours and 50 minutes. Somehow, Jumper managed to squeeze the 26.6Whr Jumper EZBook X1 laptop batteryinto a very small space. Not many convertible laptops offer this set of features in this price range. The Lenovo IdeaPad 110S has an even worse hardware setup, with the only standout being the 1-year subscription to Microsoft Office 365.
If you can live with Google’s Chrome OS, Dell’s Inspiron Chromebook 11 2-in-1 convertible laptop is an attractive alternative at $299.99, and more importantly, it’s a rugged device. It can withstand some serious abuse and is equipped with proper full-size ports.

HP is one of the major computer brands that offers more attractive models, and as long as the operating system isn’t an issue, we prefer the $389 HP Chromebook 11 G6 EE. While it has a slower Celeron CPU, it comes with twice the RAM (8GB) and a full array of ports, as well as two years of 100GB Google Drive storage.
The best alternative to the Jumper EZBook X1 remains the Teclast F5. It’s much cheaper at $300 and comes with a 128GB SSD, eliminating the problem of having two separate storage components. It also has twice the memory (8GB) and even a stylus.
Business needsAside from the usual caveats associated with buying products from mainland China (as well as the usual support headaches), the Teclast F5 is actually a better choice thanks to the extra memory, support for an active stylus, Unified storage structure and cheaper price tag.

Given that the EZBook X1 shares the same hardware spec sheet, the EZBook X1 doesn’t have much going for it (it’s not inherently a bad product). This form factor is attractive for those looking for a cheaper alternative to the Microsoft Surface Go tablet with keyboard cover.

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