ASUS VivoBook Pro 14X OLED (M7400) – Top 5 Pros and Cons

Laptop trends are like fashion trends, they just come and go. While for the last few years we have seen laptops being diversified to cover separate niches of the market, the current pandemic makes it so not everyone can afford to buy several laptops for different occasions.

This, coupled with the obvious increase in hardware performance and more accessibility to premium features, gives us notebooks that can serve a variety of purposes, reducing the need for niche laptops. One such device is the ASUS VivoBook Pro 14X OLED (M7400). It features premium build quality, high-performing hardware, and lots of features that are useful in a variety of scenarios.

ASUS VivoBook Pro 14X OLED (M7400): Full Specs / In-depth Review


3 reasons to BUY the ASUS VivoBook Pro 14X OLED (M7400)

1. Design and build quality

The device is 100% built from aluminum, making the body pretty resistant to flex. The design is also very appealing, with sharp edges and corners, thin display bezels, and minimal branding, with the only ASUS logo being a small badge on the right side of the lid. All of that while having a weight of 1.45 kg and a profile of 17.9 mm.

The lid opens easily with one hand, revealing a glossy display, along with the keyboard and touchpad. The keys have an interesting pattern, with an orange escape key. The key travel is relatively long, as long as it can get for a laptop with such dimensions. You also get clicky feedback, which adds to the typing experience.

The touchpad is massive, as it should be, considering it has 1024 pressure levels of sensitivity and has stylus support, which can come in handy if you’re an artist that is short of his graphics tablet. The pad is furthermore covered in a smooth Mylar finish and has a virtual Dial, which can work in a variety of ways, that are configurable through the ProArt app.


2. Display quality

The 14-inch 2.8K OLED display has a 90Hz refresh rate. It has comfortable viewing angles, a max brightness of 400 nits 100% sRGB, and DCI-P3 color coverage. The laptop comes with the ProArt app, which allows for manual color calibration and profiling.

The color accuracy test gives us a dE value of 2.2, which should still be fine for professional work.


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Office Work

Office Work moet vooral worden gebruikt door gebruikers die de meeste tijd besteden aan het bekijken van stukken tekst, tabellen of gewoon surfen. Dit profiel is gericht op het leveren van een betere helderheid en duidelijkheid door het behouden van een vlakke gammacurve (2.20), native kleurtemperatuur en perceptueel accurate kleuren.

Ontwerp en spel

Dit profiel is gericht op ontwerpers die beroepsmatig met kleuren werken, en ook voor games en films. Design and Gaming brengt beeldschermen tot het uiterste en maakt ze zo nauwkeurig mogelijk in de sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standaard voor Web en HDTV, bij witpunt D65.

Health-Guard

Health-Guard elimineert de schadelijke Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) en vermindert het negatieve Blauwe Licht dat onze ogen en ons lichaam aantast. Omdat het op maat is gemaakt voor elk paneel, slaagt het erin de kleuren perceptueel nauwkeurig te houden. Health-Guard simuleert papier zodat de druk op de ogen sterk wordt verminderd.

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3. Battery life

The device has a 63Wh battery unit, which lasts for 10 hours of Web browsing, or 8 hours of video playback. The test is done with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits, and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.


2 reasons NOT to buy the ASUS VivoBook Pro 14X OLED (M7400)

1. Upgradeability

The laptop comes with soldered RAM and only a single M.2 PCIe x4 drive slot. Thankfully, it is configurable with up to 32GB of dual-channel RAM.

Here is our teardown video, which shows how to access the single SSD slot, along with access to the cooling and battery.


2. I/O

While the I/O is surprisingly wide, with a total of three USB Type-A ports, two of them run at 2.0 speeds, which is hard to imagine being the case in 2021, but here we are. The other Type-A port runs are 3.2 speeds. You also get a 3.5 mm audio jack, a MicroSD card reader, a USB Type-C 3.2 (Gen. 1) port, an HDMI connector, and a power plug.


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