ASUS Vivobook S15 M5506W 15.6" 3K 120Hz OLED Laptop (AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Processor, 32GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, UK Layout RGB Backlit Keyboard with Co-Pilot Key, Windows 11 Home)

Absolute beast of a laptop. It is the best laptop I ever owned. Build quality is amazing and the case is full aluminium. The CNC logo on the lid adds a nice touch. It looks great closed or open. The OLED screen is second to none, and it is great to type on. The touchpad is also quite nice. The battery life is great for such a powerful CPU. It plays many games that you would not expect an iGPU to be able to play. The ratio of the display is the old fashioned 16:9 which is very good for media consumption and gaming, as it does not have to display black bars like on 16:10 or 3:2 displays. The CPU and GPU generate a bit of heat but the cooling system is very adequate. 10/10 for the price

It's early days yet but this is looking good. This review is probably of limited value to most people as I don't use MS Windows. I installed openSUSE Linux, which is very fast on this laptop. I need to do photo editing, so the 32GB of RAM are mandatory as is the 1TB SSD. The OLED screen is very good with an excellent gamut - again necessary for photos. The GPU is pretty good as well. I have yet to see how well the battery lasts but there is no excessive heat build up so it's looking promising.

Very very disappointing. Not at all fast,despite installing the most recent drivers & bios it remains slow,it takes me back to the days of Intel 386 CPU speeds Very well made,and the screen is top class,these are the only plus points I can give this Laptop. An update on the above !!!! When connected to charger and the default fan speed is increased to performance,the laptop becomes a different machine.It's fast responsive and the fan is only noticeable when running a program like Adobe Premier or a similar graphics intensive program.I now reate this to 4 stars and change the title to Competent Laptop.

Very nice laptop, lightweight, extremely fast, amazing screen and audio. Not listed as a 'Gaming' PC, but the on board video is enough to play my steam games better than my steam deck! (Bioshock Remastered, it takes 2, split fiction). Nothing bad so far, though not sure just how long the battery does last, I need to use the laptop a bit more to confirm. Confusing advert, all documentation listed for 15.6" screen, but ordering options only for S14 or S16 version. I can confirm that I received the 15.6" screen on the S14 option.

This was a difficult buy for me after reading the reviews for this laptop, however I decided to base my eventual decision to buy it on the reported specs. I have only been using it for one week or so but this is without a doubt the most amazing laptop of this quality for this price. I see now that it is about £100 cheaper than when I ordered it which really only bolsters my review. It isn’t a gaming laptop but it runs games as large as Warzone without over heating or glitching. It comes with a free three months of game pass. It hasn’t crashed even though I have nearly maxed out the hard drive’s storage. A dynamic OLED screen. It has a nice mature aesthetic and is inexplicably light. When it got delivered I thought they had left out the laptop or something because of how light the parcel was. I don’t know if I have been able to debunk all the negative comments and convince you to buy this but I definitely don’t regret this purchase and if you are a stand up person who uses computers sensibly and not aggressively I think you will enjoy this purchase just as I have. Once again 10/10.

Let's start with the positives. It's a good-looking laptop, which is thin and light. Screen is excellent, with rich realistic colours. The AMD AI 9 365 processor, with 32 GB of RAM, is very snappy, and more than capable of running video editing software programs such as DaVinci Resolve, and light gaming. On battery, it's virtually silent when running light programs. It also runs very cool. The negatives. It claims to have up to 14 hours of battery life, however, this is based on things like watching a video with the Wi-Fi turned off, at its lowest screen brightness. In reality, 6 to 8 hours, is a more realistic figure when doing normal light tasks. When the laptop is connected to a power source, the fans spin up, even when just using a web browser. Is not noisy by any means, but you can definitely hear it. I suspect it's something the do with fast charge, which creates too much heat. When the screen is set to 120 Hz, which is the default setting when it's plugged into the mains, the screen occasionally blinks/flickers. This problem was improved via a BIOS and graphics card update, however, these updates created even more problems. The laptop then constantly crashed, i.e. the blue screen of death, especially when running demanding programs. I've also read another review, stating that the laptop constantly crashes, therefore it may not be an isolated problem, but either a hardware or software problem with this particular laptop. In the end, I had to return the laptop. It's a shame, because it's got great specs, at a reasonable price.

Overall I'm very happy with the laptop. It got the Ryzen AI 9 365 skew. It's fantastic to use, it's got an amazing screen with brilliant resolution and it's an absolute beast in terms of laptop performance. My only issue is Windows 11 which I'm not into although I noticed it has the whole new Recall feature built in if you're into the sort of thing. Was easy to install Ubuntu 25 on and works like a dream. The build quality is solid and I really like having such a large and responsive trackpad. Only negative might be that the keyword isn't the easiest to type on, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. Overall so much better than any laptop I've owned before and honestly can't see what more I could want that would justify the over 2K price tag of more premium laptops.

Dent in one of the USB ports, had to return. Box also damaged. New laptop and already had damage to it.