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日本Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 TM420
ASUS has diversified its brand portfolio with laptop offerings for everyone. They have ROG and RUF for the hardcore gamers, ZenBook for the classy and business people, and their newest addition, VivoBook, which they have said is for the youth.
The VivoBook brand strives to bring the premium features of the ZenBook to an attractive price tag that is essential for a device to be popular among students.
Today we are presenting our Top 5 pick about the ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 TM420.
Here you can read our in-depth review of the ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 TM420: https://laptopmedia.com/review/asus-vivobook-flip-14-tm420-review-asus-is-back-with-a-budget-conscious-2-in-1/
You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/asus-vivobook-flip-14-tm420/
3 reasons to BUY the ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 TM420
1. The Upgradeability
Starting off with something important, the upgradability of the device is quite satisfying. Once you remove the 10 Phillips-head screws and pop the bottom panel, you are presented with either 4GB or 8GB of soldered RAM, which is further expandable with the single available SODIMM RAM slot. As for the storage, here things are quite less complicated. There is a single M.2 PCIe x4 drive that is already occupied though, so you’d have to remove it to install a bigger SSD.
2. The Performance
This laptop can be purchased only with AMD CPUs and they bring adequate performance, depending on which CPU you go for. The device comes with either the Ryzen 3 4300U, Ryzen 5 4500U, or the Ryzen 7 4700U, which our unit had. As for graphics, you get the integrated solutions, which are respectively the Radeon RX Vega 5, Radeon RX Vega 6, and the Radeon RX Vega 7.
Below is a comparison between the VivoBook and one of its strongest competitors, the Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5.
Les résultats proviennent du test CPU Cinebench R23 (plus le score est élevé, mieux c'est).
Les résultats sont issus de notre test de référence Photoshop (plus le score est bas, mieux c'est)
Les résultats proviennent du benchmark 3DMark : Time Spy (Graphics) (plus le score est élevé, mieux c'est).
Les résultats proviennent du benchmark 3DMark : Fire Strike (Graphics) (plus le score est élevé, mieux c'est).
Les résultats proviennent du benchmark Unigine Superposition (plus le score est élevé, mieux c'est).
3. The Features
The touchscreen display supports a stylus pen, there is an optional fingerprint reader, and the device supports Wi-Fi 6. There is an optional carrying sleeve, which is a nice touch. The 360-degree hinge makes the device a 2-in-1, which when paired with the aforementioned stylus support would have made the device a great one for designers and creators if it wasn’t for the display, which we will talk about below.
2 reasons NOT to buy the ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 TM420
1. The Battery life
For the bad news, we will start with the battery life. The device’s relatively small 42Wh unit managed to squeeze out nearly 10 hours of Web browsing and 6 hours and 17 minutes of video playback. While we are satisfied with the Web browsing score, we feel like the screen on time in the video playback test is too little.
2. The Display
Continuing on with the display, the Full HD IPS touchscreen panel has comfortable viewing angles, a good contrast ratio, and its backlight is PWM-free when the brightness is above 65 nits. From there on it’s all bad. The display only covers 51% of the sRGB color gamut, which is half the colors on the Internet.
Moving over to the color accuracy, here the laptop doesn’t do well either. We tested the accuracy of the display with 24 commonly used colors. You can check out the results at factory condition and also, with the “Design and Gaming” profile.
Below you can compare the scores of ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 TM420 with the default settings (left), and with the “Gaming and Web design” profile (right).
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Since our profiles are tailored for each display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 TM420 configurations with 14.0″ Chi Mei N140HCA-EAC (CMN14D4) (FHD, 1920 × 1080) IPS panel.
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Travail de bureau
Le travail de bureau devrait être utilisé principalement par les utilisateurs qui passent le plus de temps à regarder des morceaux de texte, des tableaux ou simplement à surfer. Ce profil vise à offrir une meilleure distinction et une meilleure clarté en conservant une courbe gamma plate (2,20), une température de couleur native et des couleurs perceptuellement précises.
Conception et jeux
Ce profil est destiné aux designers qui travaillent avec les couleurs de manière professionnelle, et pour les jeux et les films également. Design and Gaming pousse les panneaux d'affichage à leurs limites, les rendant aussi précis que possible dans la norme sRGB IEC61966-2-1 pour le Web et la TVHD, au point blanc D65.
Santé-Guard
Santé-Guard élimine le modulation de largeur d'impulsion nocive (PWM) et réduit le lumière bleue négative qui affecte nos yeux et notre corps. Comme il est adapté à chaque panneau, il parvient à maintenir la précision perceptive des couleurs. Santé-Guard simule le papier, ce qui réduit considérablement la pression sur les yeux.
