Promo €899 Asus Vivobook S 15 S5506UA-DRMA002W, 2.8K High Fidelity OLED multimedia laptop PC Silver 15″ thin light AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS SSD 1 TB

Our opinion on the Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED S5506UA-DRMA002W

Multimedia oriented, the thin and light laptop PC Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED S5506UA-DRMA002W High fidelity with a 15-inch 16:10 DCI-P3 anti-glare OLED screen whose frequency of 120Hz improves fluidity and accelerates processing thanks to the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS Hawk Point processor with Radeon 780M graphics as well as the 16 GB of efficient RAM. But also fast SSD storage with a corresponding capacity of 1 TB reinforcing responsiveness. Elegant with its silver design, this laptop with a battery life of 7 hours under Windows 11 is also equipped with a backlit keyboard, an Infrared webcam for facial biometric authentication as well as Wi-Fi 6E and USB connectivity 4 Type-C.

Features of the Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED S5506UA-DRMA002W

The Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED S5506UA-DRMA002W faces the competition

The Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED S5506UA-DRMA002W is currently displayed in promotion at the house of Darty and the Fnac. It offers a configuration/price ratio attractive for its category where it is one of the cheapest to offer such a powerful and recent processor (AMD) with a screen with such high definitions/frequencies and such faithful colors as well as such large capacity storage.

If this Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED S5506UA-DRMA002W does not meet all your criteria, you will find it in our guide Gaming laptop other configurations to play with a similar budget. For the same budget, choose the model with the most powerful graphics card, it will have the greatest impact on performance.
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Chassis, connectors, screen of the Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED S5506UA-DRMA002W

This multimedia-oriented laptop PC has an elegant and discreet look with its thin and light Cool Silver light silver design certified to the American military robustness standard MIL-STD-810G.

The connectivity integrated into this laptop is good, consisting of 2 USB-C including 1 USB 4, a microSD card reader, Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6E ax wireless modules for communicating and connecting remotely, a practical HDMI video output to easily connect it to a TV or monitor for example, an audio port or even 2 USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) providing transfers of up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 if USB 3.0 devices are plugged into it.

Using the webcam's Windows Hello and Infrared features, you can authenticate yourself using biometric facial recognition.

When the keys are difficult to discern, you can activate the backlighting of the chiclet keyboard.

An undeniable advantage of this configuration, the screen will delight creative people with its beautiful DCI-P3 colorimetric accuracy, especially as it is associated with OLED technology ensuring very deep blacks, significant vertical and horizontal viewing angles as well as minimal latency. This provides better fluidity than a classic 60Hz panel, as does the 120Hz frequency.
As a bonus, the screen benefits from 2.8K High Definition, coupled with a 16/10th format higher than the classic 16/9th to display more information.
OLED involves a glossy treatment which revives the colors but is sensitive to reflections in bright environments (e.g. outdoors).

Performance, battery life of the Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED S5506UA-DRMA002W

The Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED S5506UA-DRMA002W may appeal to those looking for a nomadic 15-inch High Definition High Fidelity laptop with high performance in terms of multimedia-oriented processor.

Demanding users will be delighted with the good overall power provided by this multimedia laptop.
Because it is based on an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS Octo Core Hawk Point processor in which the Radeon 780M graphics module is located, supported by 16 GB of RAM.

Creative people will be particularly delighted that their processing is carried out more quickly with this duo than with a classic Quad/Hexa Core. We clearly feel the difference in areas that are intensive in CPU and RAM resources and take advantage of multi-core, such as video editing or photo editing.

The Radeon 780M is solely responsible for graphics work. We can therefore view photos and videos.
Even play light to modest games with concessions such as a reduction in screen definition. Because playing in 2.8K requires more graphics resources and calculations than playing in Full HD, which results in a lower number of fps.

In any case, you can install and store multiple software and files under this laptop which benefits from a large capacity thanks to its 1000 GB SSD.

In any case, you can install and store multiple software and files under this laptop which benefits from a large capacity thanks to its 1000 GB SSD.

The SSD provides great responsiveness and fluidity on a daily basis thanks to its good speed. It is also quiet, energy efficient and shock resistant.
In practice, thanks to the SSD, multimedia processing is carried out quickly, as are the starts/stops and launches of applications, and we can quickly reach online game cards, for example.

As for the autonomy of this mobile computer, which is as easily transportable as an Ultrabook thanks to its thinness and low weight, count on around 7 hours of battery operation in light use. Some wishing to have a Student laptop multimedia oriented will appreciate.
In any case, expect heat and noise in the event of heavy use (e.g. processing) of this mobile computer which can be coupled if necessary to a ventilated support to limit its temperatures (remember to check the dimensions carefully!).