Just make sure to peel off all those stickers on the armrest. It does look alright, though, with clean aesthetics and minimal branding. Still, this is not a premium design by any means. The materials have a matte finishing and feel grippy to the touch, as well as seem quite robust and don’t flex in any noticeable way. It’s also built fairly well, with a thick aluminum piece used for lid, but plastic for the main chassis, underside, and bezels.
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It’s also not the slimmest of laptops, at 20 mm thick, which allows space inside for the internals, the thermal module, and a fair-sized battery, as well as space on the sides for a fair selection of ports. It’s averagely sized, as you can tell from the bezels around the 16:9 display, and that leaves room for a full-keyboard and clickpad, as well as a spacious clickpad.
#MACBOOK PRO VEGA 20 SCREEN FLICKERING SERIES#
This VivoBook Pro 15 series is a balanced mid-tier design that checks most of the right boxes, without really excelling at any particular aspect. There are also 14-inch variants of these laptops, the VivoBook Pro 14 M3400 series with AMD hardware, up to GTX 1650 graphics, and either OLED/IPS screens.
#MACBOOK PRO VEGA 20 SCREEN FLICKERING BLUETOOTH#
Wireless 6 (Mediatek MT7921), Bluetooth 5.0Ģx USB-A 3.1 gen1, 1x USB-A 2.0, 1x USB-C gen1 with data, HDMI 1.4b, microSD card reader, audio jackĦ3 Wh, 120W barrel-plug charger with quick-chargingģ60 mm or 14.19” (w) x 235 mm or 9.26” (d) x 19.9 mm or 0.78” (h)ģ.7 lbs (1.68 kg)+.
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Specs as reviewed – Asus VivoBook Pro 15 OLED M3500Īsus VivoBook Pro 15 M3500QC and M3500QA modelsġ5.6 inch, FHD 1920 x 1080 px, 60 Hz, OLED, glossy, non-touch, 400-nits, Samsung SDC4161 panelĪMD Radeon Vega + Nvidia GeForce GTX 3050 4GB (35-50W) – on Pro 15 M3500QAġx M.2 PCIe x4 SSD (Samsung PM9A1), single M.2 2280 slot
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We’ll also cover the Intel-based VivoBook Pro 15 series in a separate article, but for now, let’s find out what this AMD model is all about. Our test unit is the M3500QC model that pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor with 16 GB of RAM and an Nvidia RTX 3050 dGPU, but we’ll also discuss the M3500QA variants in this article, which run on either Ryzen 5 5600H or Ryzen 7 5800H processors with Raden Vega iGPUs, as well as the top Ryzen 9 5900HX configuration, in case you’re considering any of those.
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All these start from around 700 EUR for the base configurations over here in Europe at the time of this article.Īsus offers the VivoBook Pro 15 series in a couple of different configurations, and this here is the AMD-based Pro 15 M3500 subseries. It’s a nice-looking and well-built design with good inputs and IO and competent hardware in this AMD variant tested here, paired with a large battery and an OLED display with punchy colors, excellent contrast, and good brightness.