The Asus Vivobook 17X sports a large 17.3-inch display and performance that's fine at its lower prices, but not so much at the $1,000 review unit price.
Asus Vivobook 17X MSRP $1,000.00 Score Details “The Asus Vivobook 17X's poor display spoils what would be a solid budget 17-inch laptop.” Pros Cons The largest mainstream machines available today, 17-inch laptops, offer the most screen real estate for multitasking and creative work. They also come with larger chassis.
The muted display When you’re buying a 17-inch laptop, the standout feature is the display. It’s the whole point of buying such a large machine, and its quality has an oversized impact on the computing experience. Unfortunately, the Vivobook 17X display is well below average, certainly compared to midrange and premium laptops and even according to many budget machines we’ve reviewed in the last year or so.
The HP Envy 16 with the same CPU, RAM, and storage but with a much faster Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU and a spectacular higher-resolution OLED display is just $1,400 right now. Yes, that’s more money than my review unit, but it’s also a much faster machine with a display that’s in another league entirely.
If you use applications that can use the GPU, though, like Adobe’s Creative Suite, then you’ll want to spend more money to match performance with display size. I provide both balanced and performance results using the Asus thermal management utility in the table below, but the settings made little difference.
What a budget machine buys you When you’re spending about $700 for a 17-inch laptop, you can’t expect an all-metal build with incredible rigidity. And that’s not what you get from the Vivobook 17X with its aluminum lid and plastic chassis. Instead, you get some bending in the lid and flexing in the keyboard deck. It’s not a cheap build by any means, but as I’ve stressed throughout this review, it’s more suitable at its lower prices.
One interesting design element is the inclusion of Asus’s Antibacterial Guard treatment. The coating is applied to the entire laptop and uses silver ions to restrict bacterial growth by 99%. It doesn’t work against viruses like the ones that cause COVID-19, but it’s effective in keeping the laptop free of potentially disease-causing bacteria.
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