Our opinion on the Asus VivoBook S 14 Flip TN3402YA-KN250W
Convertible into a tablet and suitable for studying, theAsus VivoBook S 14 Flip TN3402YA-KN250W is a 2-in-1 High Definition 2.8K High Fidelity DCI-P3 OLED laptop PC with its 14-inch touchscreen that can be opened 360° with a frequency of 90Hz improving fluidity, which benefits from fast SSD storage with a high capacity of 1 TB enhancing responsiveness, a backlit keyboard and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity. This hybrid laptop with an elegant silver design, compact, thin and light, easy to carry, Windows 11, is suitable for everyday use with its AMD Ryzen 7 7730U Octo Core Barcelo Refresh processor with Radeon Vega 8 graphics solution and its 16 GB of RAM.
Features of the Asus VivoBook S 14 Flip TN3402YA-KN250W
| Screen(s) | 14'' 2.8K OLED 16/10th 100% DCI-P3 multi-touch touch NanoEdge thin edges 90Hz 500cd/m² openable to 360° (2880×1800, glossy) |
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7730U Barcelo Refresh (2.0 GHz, 8 cœurs, TDP 15W) |
| Installed RAM (max) | 16 GB (8 GB soldered + 8 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz, 1 slot (occupied) |
| Graphics card | AMD Radeon Vega 8 integrated into the processor |
| Storage | SSD M.2 de 1 To (NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4) |
| Connections | 1 USB 3.2 (Gen2) + 1 USB 2.0 + 1 USB 3.2 Type-C (Gen2), HDMI 2.1 |
| Network | Wi-Fi 6E ax (2×2), Bluetooth 5.3 |
| Backlit keyboard | Oui (course 1.4mm) |
| Numeric keypad | – |
| Windows Hello | – |
| Audio system | 2 Harman Kardon SmartAmp speakers |
| Operating system | Windows 11 64 bits |
| Announced autonomy / Battery | 8 hours / Li-Ion 3 cells 70Whr (65W adapter) |
| Poids / Dimensions (mm) | 1.5 Kg (with battery) / 313.6 x 227.6 x 18.9 |
The Asus VivoBook S 14 Flip TN3402YA-KN250W faces the competition
The Asus VivoBook S 14 Flip TN3402YA-KN250W is currently showing in promotion chez Asus France and offers an attractive configuration/price ratio for its category where it is one of the least expensive to offer a screen with such faithful colors and such high definition with such a large capacity storage but also a low consumption processor.
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Chassis, connections, screen of the Asus VivoBook S 14 Flip TN3402YA-KN250W
With its light silver compact aluminum design, thin and light, as easy to carry as an Ultrabook and robust due to its compliance with the American military resistance standard MIL-STD-810H, this hybrid laptop PC has an elegant, sober look. and original because it opens 360° to transform into a tablet.
The screen has multi-touch touch technology thanks to which you can control the laptop by simply placing at least one finger on it (or a stylus not supplied) and using pressure/gestures.
The tactile aspect involves a shiny coating which gives punch to the colors but is subject to reflections in a bright environment (e.g. outdoors).
The screen clearly stands out with its above-average 2.8K High Definition. But also its High Fidelity provided by its DCI-P3 OLED specifications providing – in addition to much higher than average colorimetric accuracy – great black depth as well as significant vertical and horizontal viewing angles. Without forgetting low latency providing better fluidity than the 60Hz standard, just like the 90Hz frequency.
The chiclet keyboard is of course equipped with a backlighting system. You can activate it whenever you need to better distinguish your keys.
This 2-in-1 laptop integrates good connectivity with its 2 USB-C, its Wi-Fi 6E ax and Bluetooth 5 wireless modules for connections and communications, its practical HDMI video output to easily connect it to a monitor or a TV for example, its audio port as well as its 2 USBs including 1 USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) ensuring transfers up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 if we plug in a USB 3.0 device.
Performance, range of the Asus VivoBook S 14 Flip TN3402YA-KN250W
The Asus VivoBook S 14 Flip TN3402YA-KN250W is a compact High Definition High Fidelity hybrid laptop PC convertible into a Tablet designed for everyday nomadic use.
As it is as easy to carry as an Ultrabook because it is compact, thin and light. And as a bonus its autonomy is around 8 hours on battery in light use, it may interest some people looking for a student laptop convertible into a tablet.
To offer such autonomy, it relies on energy-efficient components such as the 1000 GB SSD storage, high capacity for installing and storing quantities of software and files.
An SSD is, remember, energy efficient, robust, silent but also fast.
Its presence clearly enhances responsiveness and fluidity, which translates in particular on a daily basis into rapid starts/stops and launches of applications, as well as processing.
Although it is not strictly speaking aimed at creative people, it nevertheless allows you to carry out small multimedia processing taking advantage of RAM and multi-cores, such as light video encoding or photo editing.
Because it is built around 16 GB of RAM and a low-consumption AMD Ryzen 7 7730U processor Octo CoreBarcelo Refresh in which the Radeon Vega 8 graphics module takes place.
These components are perfectly suitable for everyday use, such as office automation and surfing the Internet or even for viewing photos and videos.
Obviously if you have to regularly carry out demanding multimedia processing and/or you need high processor and/or graphics performance, you will benefit from opting for a PC based on a processor equipped with a more powerful processor (recent equipped with a fairly large number of high-performance cores) and/or an appropriate dedicated graphics card.
