If you’re looking for a device we once described as a “powerful OLED laptop, done right,” you’re in luck. Among the many laptop deals happening at the moment, Amazon has reduced the price of the Asus VivoBook Pro 16X OLED laptop to $800 from $1,450. Yup, that’s very nearly 50% off with a huge $650 taken off the price. The laptop might be over two years old now, but it remains a great option, especially at this price. If you want to know more, we’re here to tell you all about it.
We reviewed the Asus VivoBook Pro 16X OLED laptop back in 2022, and the only real criticism we could come up with was its “boring design” and a “gimmicky” DialPad. Other than that, we loved that it “lasted over 16 hours on a single charge in our light web-browsing test” — something which is impressive given its 16-inch OLED screen. As we’ve seen while analyzing OLED technology, the self-lit pixels that make the screen look so good use up a lot of power, which can be a problem for laptops. Not this one though. A sharper and better looking screen is great for watching movies on the move, but it’s also an all-round more pleasant experience while you work.
This particular Asus VivoBook Pro 16X OLED laptop has an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor, 16GB of memory, and 1TB of SSD storage. It also has an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics card. At this stage we wouldn’t recommend it for gaming, but for light sessions it can work well.
The design “doesn’t have the premium look of some of its competitors” among the best laptops, but it’s “plenty durable.” When it comes to the keyboard, “keypresses feel snappy and the keycaps don’t have too much wobble.” Just as you’d expect from one of the best laptop brands.
As we finished, the Asus VivoBook Pro 16X OLED “fills a wonderful niche in the laptop market” and it continues to do that now, as OLED-based laptops with strong battery life are still fairly limited. That’s even more the case when you consider how cheap the Asus VivoBook Pro 16X is now.
Usually priced at $1,450, the Asus VivoBook Pro 16X is down to $800 right now at Amazon. At this price, it’s unmissable. If I were in the market for a new laptop and needed something sleek and good looking, I’d be strongly considering it.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Google DeepMind's AI world model Genie 4 can now build interactive worlds that you can explore and reshape as they run. It also generates ambient sounds, music, and dialogue that respond to your actions.
The new world model builds on Genie 3 with improved realism, more natural human movement, and better simulations of real-world physics. It could eventually help with everything from game development to training robots.
Apple has an incredible talent for making me admire its products while simultaneously questioning what on earth it's thinking with the pricing. This isn't even something as bizarre as a monitor stand, but the audacity for starting a new laptop lineup from $2,000 doesn't surprise me.
The newly announced 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 is just the latest to showcase this. The funny thing is, I already know that it's going to be a reliable workstation. You get a powerful new 2nm M6 processor, a gorgeous Liquid Retina XDR display, and up to 24 hours of battery life. We were impressed by the M5 MacBook Air, so the high-end M6 powered MacBook Pro definitely won't let us down.