Asus Vivobook 16 X1607QA (Snapdragon X) review

14 April 2025
We test one of the first Snapdragon X-based notebooks.

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The OEMs are simply not incentivized enough to take advantage of ARM. I want to see the ultra slim, no fan silent, with true all day battery life, Windows laptop. ARM should be able to deliver that, but the OEMs just keep wasting the hardware.

Intel is worst. Inefficient, hot, poor battery life, yet command premium pricing.

The only hope is AMD. But again, the OEMs just couldn't be interested in making a really great laptop.

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    • Anonymous
    • xjH
    • 14 Apr 2025

    Snapdragon on windows is worse than lunar Lake or ryzen AI chips now. No point going arm on windows.

      Please more laptop reviews 😭😭

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        • yalim
        • iKx
        • 13 Apr 2025

        much more 3rd party software should support the new sdx cipsets but, it is still too early. macOS struggled this on the first 2 years of ARM switch. now it is windows turn. raw performance is nothing unless you are unlimited with productivity.

          Anonymous, 13 Apr 2025I once bought Asus motherboard and it had very bad problems... moreThey got better for a while, but now they're not that good. Still a lot better than last time you bought an Asus product though.

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            • Anonymous
            • qJj
            • 13 Apr 2025

            please add a laptop specs section 😭🙏

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              • Anonymous
              • Ix1
              • 13 Apr 2025

              Asus' product page says the display on this has a 45% NTSC color gamut

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                • Anonymous
                • SqW
                • 13 Apr 2025

                I once bought Asus motherboard and it had very bad problems. Ever since I never buy Asus products anymore.
                Is their hardware quality still as bad as back in the day or did they learn from their mistakes?

                  Thanks for the review. It would indeed make sense if this device was priced at around $500, but since that's not the case, it does not offer anything worthwhile.
                  in terms of laptop reviews, I would also suggest to run some tasks (video playback alongside CPU loads) with LatencyMon active to see how the components hold up where latency is important.
                  Appreciate the battery figures, I'd also suggest a web browsing + office application workload (such as Microsoft Word or a similar software from the LibreOffice or OpenOffice suite), and one with just the office application workload if possible. That would simulate study and business workloads as far as I know, thank you.

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                    • Keeleri Achu
                    • PB7
                    • 13 Apr 2025

                    Asus Vivobook will be a killer laptop series if they made Ryzen 300 series with DDR5 SODIMM with either 32 GB or 64 GB not integrated but with replaceable 2 RAM slots and an extra M.2 slot . With this integrated RAM they are sky rocketing laptop price to out of the space right to Mars.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • 5kb
                      • 13 Apr 2025

                      Anonymous, 13 Apr 2025I want neither a matte 300 nit LCD nor an OLED. I just want... moremacbook air is 500nits, not 600nits.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • LYr
                        • 13 Apr 2025

                        I want neither a matte 300 nit LCD nor an OLED. I just want something like the MacBook Air has: 600 nit IPS LCD, DCI P3, glossy. Perfectly adequate for 99% of use cases. For more expensive models, what the MacBook Pro has: 1000-2000 nit Mini LED IPS LCD with the same P3 and glossy. These are bright enough even for outside use, has good contrast, no burn in and the glossy display with anti reflective coating, which is on 99% of phones, tablets, watches, glasses is better than matte in every way.

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