ASUS Creator Series Vivobook Pro 16 OLED 2023, Intel Core i5-13500H 13th Gen, 16.0-inch 3.2K 120Hz, Laptop (16GB/512GB SSD/NVIDIA GeForce RTX…

Have gone through multiple sources, reviews, to zero in onto this.
I5 13gen and i9 13gen h series doesn’t have much difference in single core performance, so you can have this one, this is far more well priced than i9, you wont see much performance jump as per cost difference.
There are less detailed review about this model. Mostly links to reviews you will get on asus product page.
2 review videos are in Vietnamese, which are elaborated. ( turn on auto translate English subtitles and go through it )

Apart from that, I was skeptical about keyboard (is it too mushy ), battery backup, and color choice ( blue and silver)

Laptop COLOR : I went to chroma and saw the blue one which look very cheap ( didn’t liked the black keys and blue surface color combination , it looks odd) I thought silver one would look fakely cheap. But it turned out so good. If you are minimalist. You will surely enjoy this. Also fingerprints would be less on this silver color.

⌨️KEYBOARD: surprisingly decent travel and tactile compared to cheap vivobook models.

🔋BATTERY: This is really good. I come from laptop which would last only 1.5 to 2 hours at max. This lasts me atleast 5-6 hours browsing the internet, watching videos, doing some casual work.
Average power discharge is around 15watts+/per hour. To get maximum backup, reduce screen brightness, off keyboard back-lit, power saving mode, it will last 6hours+
Also I noticed through HWinfo software, chrome sucks battery alot(30watts consumption average) Switching to edge was really big save ( never imagined in life I would switch to ms edge, buts it’s now really good , especially giving me good battery life – sucking 15W average )
( and ofcourse you can’t expect good battery life with heavy tasks in any laptop : havent tested but it should last around 2.5hrs max)

📺DISPLAY: It’s really amazing, deepest blacks and contrast. You will enjoy working on it. 16:10 really gives nice working space. Eye Candy 🍭

RAM: it uses 8gb soldered ram, and 8 gb samsung ddr5 4800mhz ram cl40 ( checked on cpu-z), would be replacing this with 16gb. ( product pages says it expandable to 24gb total)
(Edit: I upgraded the ram via 32GB single stick crucial, removing old 8gb removable ram, making it total 40GB RAM , though it says up to 24gigs, you can upgrade it even more )
SSD: ssd is tricky. It uses micron 2400 512gb ssd. It has super low 150 TBW. It’s gen 4 4500mbps Reads ( okay enough but I’m not happy, I would be making this secondary drive and adding 2tb sn850x as primary ) it has one spare m.2 slot.

🪶Weight: awesomely balanced weight, been 1.9kg, it’s really feels light enough.
Most of my friends have legion series which comes with super heavy charger. This laptop, is breeze. Though it has 150w charger, built is really light and I’m really relieved that I don’t have to carry much weight been 16inch laptop.

Overall package laptop + charger is 2.4kg

Also you can charge with type c charger Also, so if you have decent powerbank with higher power delivery, this opens up new doors for you to be portable. You don’t have to be tethered with power outlet.

Also played forza horizon 5 at 3.2k resolution @ultra settings giving 45-50fps max. Turning down resolution and settings to high it will pump 80+fps

Other than that, feel free to buy this laptop. Much recommended. You can also check xflow16, New 2023 model is not here, and that model is around 1.5l. But would be more functional as it has touch screen and multiple screen modes.

If you are on fence for 14 inch portable laptops and less power consumption ( like asus g14) you can buy this model instead. It’s gives more screen and power consumption is surprisingly less. Thanks to new 13gen cpu and 4000 gpu.

Hope you found review helpful. 🥂🥳

The key hilight is the 16inch 16:10 near 4k (3.2k) 120hz Display, the rich colour volume it has with shades of 10bit and OLED inky blacks with infinite contrast making a great realism with support of DOLBY VISION even enhanced it with supported content…HDR performance is good in 600 nits of brightness..

It got i5 13th gen which equals last gen i9 12th, but at this price point of 1.20lakhs giving i5 13th gen is not good as other models released this year which had i7 13th gen with more powdered RTX 40 series GPUs but some of them had poor display tech, even all compared to this vivobook OLED display they doesn’t match it in anyway near…

It’s not pure gaming centric but better than other laptops under 1lakh as it got 6gb dedicated vram with mux switch for good gaming….Anyway gaming in OLED is stellar, with increased fps other laptops make up good experience but OLED with good impactful HDR and contrast takes the immersion to next level while gaming AAA titles.

It has massive 6cell battery ⭐, a fhd cam and laptop weighing 2kg only with slim design …(use keyboard and mouse) while gaming or even in casual use so that it gives life to the build of the touch pad and keys…
This model had fair RTX 4050 6gb but not that high powered as other models achieving more fps.

For now Asus tuff with last gen i7 12th having high powered RTX 4070 8gb of 140w is a better value in the aspect of performance…

This vivobook OLED had Dolby Atmos for headphones and given to speakers also but speakers sound okaish they don’t sound super loud like Zephyrus below 1 lakh which sound excellent with more speakers of added loudness and the same Dolby Atmos it has…and it would been better and complete if given hires audio support as other tuff, Zephyrus models had….

Unlike YouTube, OTT platforms quality, original High quality video content (4k Blu-ray movies) makes it to next level and complete experience…

Do this for enhanced quality media playback:( better detail,colour output than VLC and default media players)
—Download Klite codec pack (Mega version) of mpc-hc media player install it and enable MAD VR in output renderr settings with enabling RTX 4050 in renderer settings by choosing MPC hc to high performance in windows display graphics settings finally enable audio normalisation for more sound output volume
Finally …
Don’t forget to enable HDR in windows display settings while watching HDR content,,otherwise turn it off for SDR content(any non HDR content even it’s 4k and ensure whether YouTube videos are HDR or not every time)
If HDR is on with SDR content it makes sdr content pale,(colourless) and ofcourse entire windows interface, apps and everything look dull including wallpaper as they won’t support HDR..
Turn it when viewing HDR only……..

For standalone Dolby vision file playback use movies and tv , windows media player..above MPC hc may not play it instead gives purple-green picture

Enable mux switch while gaming it gives full potential of the gpu..

If you had plans to buy later:
BETTER WAIT FOR spectacle less, glass less 3D display model of this varient might releasing this or next year..if they priced at this it would be fine..

Need RAM upgrade out of the box.

All pros-
Like everything about it super lightning processor i5 13th gen H series.
Super fast SSD (gen 4.0) upgradable via m.2 slots
Superfast Ram (DDR5) Upgradable
Super crisp OLED (3.2k) resolution with 120hz refresh rate with Dolby vision capabilities.
Very useful full sized chiclet backlit keyboard with numpad .
4-6hrs battery backup with 120w fast charging.
Super crisp sound with Dolby Atmos from speakers tuned by harmon kardon .
Super performance from RTX 4050 GPU with tgp of 115w perfect for vedios editing and rendering

Only con is
it heats up rapidly since it’s a H series processor it’s obvious