The hinges are stiff enough as well, but only allow the display to go back to about 130-degrees, which can be limiting in some cases.
#QA WIZARD PRO REVIEWS PORTABLE#
As I said already, this is a well-balanced and portable everyday laptop.įunctionally, the rubber feet on the bottom ensure a good grip on the desk and the screen can be easily adjusted with a single hand. That latter variant does a better job at hiding smudges and finger-oil, but silver white-list keys are not my favorites, and overall I’d stick with this blue version pictured here.Īll these add up to the VivoBook Pro 15 being a fairly lightweight notebook, at 3.7 lbs/1.7 kilos in this configuration, and even less for the QA models that lack the Nvidia dGPU.
#QA WIZARD PRO REVIEWS SERIES#
Asus offers this series in two color variants, Quiet Blue – the darker one that we have here, and Cool Silver, with a silver interior, silver keys, and white lid. 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. 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. 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.
#QA WIZARD PRO REVIEWS 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)+. 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 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. 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.