ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED (UM5302) – Top 5 Pros and Cons

LaptopMedia.com Highlights ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED (UM5302) - Top 5 Pros and Cons

From: Severin Kolakov 08 February 2023 / 17:00 0

ZenBooks are some of the best ultrabooks that you can find on the market, offering great security features and fantastic displays. Today we have the S 13 OLED and we’re taking a look at its AMD variant, which is powered by the Ryzen 6000U-series, some very good CPUs with amazing integrated graphics. It’s a premium product so pricing is high, however, everything is so well integrated, from comfort to performance. The competition in the market is fierce, with the Lenovo Yoga 7 Carbon and Dell XPS 13 9320 Plus being pretty hard to beat, so ASUS needs their A-game.

Today we’re presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED (UM5302).

ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED (UM5302): Full Specs / In-depth Review

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ASUS Zenbook S 13

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
VideoCard: AMD Radeon 660M
RAM: 16GB RAM
STORAGE: 1000GB SSD

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ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
VideoCard: AMD Radeon 660M
RAM: 8GB RAM
STORAGE: 512GB SSD

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ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
VideoCard: AMD Radeon 680M
RAM: 16GB RAM
STORAGE: 1000GB SSD

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3 reasons to BUY the ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED (UM5302)

1. Design and build quality

To reach a weight of only one kilogram, ASUS resorted to using a magnesium-aluminum alloy, which is very light, while having good durability as well. This makes the laptop very sturdy, with next to no flex from both the lid and the base. The Zenbook has passed all of the MIL-STD-810H durability tests, which means that the device can survive drops and can even work in more extreme scenarios like humidity, high altitude, and temperatures.

It’s also incredibly thin, at just 14.9 mm. The lid can be opened with one hand, but don’t be surprised if the base lifts off slightly when doing so, due to the very lightweight. Opening the lid shows off the OLED panel, with its thin bezels. On the base, there’s a very large NumberPad, a patented ASUS technology that allows even tiny laptops to have the full functionality of a NumPad. It can be toggled with the touch of a button.

2. Display quality

The 2.8K OLED panel can come with a touchscreen, in which case you do also get a Gorilla Glass display cover. The panel is fantastic, offering excellent viewing angles and a peak brightness of 366 nits, which should be fine even in outdoor use, however, the glass cover will result in some reflections. OLED panels have an infinite contact ratio, resulting in very deep blacks. The display shows amazing color reproduction, with 100% sRGB and 100% DCI-P3 coverage.

The color accuracy doesn’t need much adjusting, as the laptop gives us a dE value of 1.8 without any tinkering in both the sRGB and DCI-P3 gamuts.

However, there is some PWM usage below 92 nits. Thankfully, the MyASUS app includes a Flicker-free dimming toggle, which doesn’t intervene with the accuracy that much, giving it a dE value of 2.1.

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3. Battery life

The laptop is paired with a 67Wh battery life, which lasts for 11 hours and 40 minutes of Web browsing, or 15 hours and 56 minutes of video playback, which is pretty good and results in more than a day’s worth of mixed usage. Now, we conduct the battery tests 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 Zenbook S 13 OLED (UM5302)

1. I/O

The port selection of a 13-inch machine isn’t good (surprised Pikachu). It comes with three USB Type-C 3.2 (Gen. 2) ports and an audio jack. The Type-C ports have Power Delivery and DisplayPort functionality, while inside the box you get a dongle from Type-C to Type-A.

2. Upgradeability

Upgradeability is another sacrifice that’s usually made with smaller machines, offering up to 16GB of soldered LPDDR5 RAM. You can only access the storage through one M.2 PCIe x4 slot for Gen 4 SSDs.