Asus Vivobook S 16 OLED

It's hard to be sensible without coming across as dull.

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What's the story?

But the Vivobook S 16 OLED manages it, partly through being slinky enough to look much more expensive than it actually is.

Making a premium laptop that's also affordable often entails replacing plastic with the odd bit of aluminium, but Asus has gone further here. Most notably, you can change the colour of the keyboard's backlight in a way that doesn't feel like the first step on the way to joining the 'PC Master Race' subreddit. The laptop's metal lid also looks elegant rather than plain, and the front edge gently curves.

Is it any good?

An Intel Core Ultra 7 155H is teamed up with 16GB of RAM and a nippy 1TB SSD, which makes it ideal for general work duties, delivering a solid, quiet Windows experience; but if you want to play some games you'll need to get acquainted with the beefier of the four power modes (accessed by hitting F12). As long as you're happy with middling graphics settings and 30fps performance that may wobble during tricky sections, this thing will play Cyberpunk just fine at Full HD; but that's certainly not its comfort zone.

In its default mode, you should be able to get around 7.5hrs out of the Vivobook's battery, which is close enough to a full day's work if you give it a lunch break but a bit short of what you might expect considering the specs.