In addition to the new Zenbooks with 16:10 OLED screens with a speed of up to 120 Hertz, Asus also presented the new VivoBook Pro and S as part of the “The Pinnacle of Performance” event in the evening. This series also changes from 90 to initially exclusively 120 Hz fast OLED displays and new CPUs from Intel or mostly alternatively AMD.
Vivobook Pro OLED
The spearhead in the VivoBook portfolio is the Pro series with an OLED display in three diagonal sizes: 16.0, 15.6 and 14.5 inches. In the future, all variants will offer a 120 instead of 90 Hertz fast OLED display. Interestingly, the 15-inch model stays at 16:9, while the VivoBook Pro 16X and 14X offer 16:10 like last generation. 14.5 and 15.6 inches come with “2.8K” (2,880×1,800 or 2,880×1,620 pixels), 16.0 inches with “3.2K” (there is actually no such thing as 16:10). Alternatively, there is a UHD OLED display with a brightness of up to 600 cd/m² with 60 Hertz – the material provided also did not reveal in advance whether it was in all three models. The product pages for the Vivobook Pro 15X and Vivobook Pro 14X are now online, but not yet for the Vivobook Pro 16X.
Vivobook Pro 16X & 15X: Ryzen 6000 or 12th Gen Core
According to the press release, the series basically offers customers the choice between CPUs from Intel (up to Core i9-12900H (test)) or AMD (up to Ryzen 9 6900HX (test)) and GPUs up to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti laptop GPU, with the maximum available configuration depends on the series. The current generation offers a maximum of one significantly slower GeForce RTX 3050 Ti laptop GPU (test), which is also independent of the configured TDP. Buyers can configure up to 32 GB DDR5 and 2 TB SSD storage space.
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The Asus VivoBook Pro 16X (N7601/M7601) (Image: Asus)
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The Asus Vivobook Pro 16X (N7601/M7601 ) 
The Asus VivoBook Pro 16X (N7601/M7601) 
The Asus Vivobook Pro 16X (N7601/M7601) 
The Asus Vivobook Pro 16X (N7601/M7601) 
The Asus Vivobook Pro 16X (N7601/M7601) 
The Asus Vivobook Pro 16X (N7601/M7601) For the German market, Asus has announced the CPU option for the time being only for VivoBook Pro 16X (Intel: 7601/AMD: M7601) and 15X (Intel: K6501/AMD: M6501), while the VivoBook Pro 15, 14X and 14 will only be available with Intel CPUs. That was different in the last generation.
Intel models with a performance leap
The Intel variants are significantly upgraded with the change to Intel Alder Lake aka 12th generation Core, because up to now AMD had the choice up to the Ryzen 9 5900HX, but Intel only had the Tiger Lake H35 four- Core chip Core i7-11370H (test).
The new generation Vivobook Pro is scheduled to be launched in the third quarter of 2022. Prices, Asus has not even mentioned the starting price.
Vivobook S
The situation is different with the VivoBook S series, which should be available in stores in the second quarter and thus by the end of June. In this case, Asus names a price (“from 1,299 euros”) and again announces each model as an AMD and Intel variant.
Vivobook S 16X OLED (Intel: S5602/AMD: M5602), Vivobook S 14X OLED (Intel: S5402/AMD: M5402), Vivobook S 15 OLED (Intel: K3502/AMD: M3502) and VivoBook S 14 OLED (Intel: K3402/AMD: M3402) are optionally available like the VivoBook Pro with Ryzen 9 6900HX, while Intel “only” offers the Core i7-12700H (test). – which only clocks a little lower, but otherwise has the same configuration as the Core i9. With up to 16 GB DDR5 and up to 1 TB SSD storage space, Asus grants the VivoBook S less than the VivoBook Pro in these respects.
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