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0:01Jeffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a
0:0314th century collection of stories told
0:05by a group of pilgrims making their way
0:07to Canterbury Cathedral. It begins with
0:10a pilgrimage, a bunch of strangers on
0:12the road, each telling stories to pass
0:14the time. Knights, millers, clerks,
0:17everyone had a tale, each one revealing
0:19more about them than the road ahead. And
0:21believe it or not, laptops are kind of
0:23the same. Each year, another parade of
0:25machines make their way from factories
0:26to our homes. Each swearing they'll go
0:29the distance. One claims speed. Another
0:31brags about stamina. A third promises
0:34wisdom through AI. And like Chaucer's
0:36Pilgrims, half the fun is figuring out
0:39who's telling the truth and who's just
0:40spinning a yarn. And that's where this
0:42one comes in. The ASUS Vivobook 14 flip
0:46carrying Intel's Core Ultra 5226V.
0:49It's a traveler with a bold claim. OLED
0:52Beauty, a 70watthour pack, and a chip
0:55that was supposed to mark Intel's return
0:57to form in mobile client. So, today I'm
1:00not just reviewing a laptop. I'm
1:01listening to a tale to see whether this
1:03Pilgrim is a companion worth keeping or
1:05just another noisy traveler on the road.
1:13[Music]
1:15So, the marquee question, what exactly
1:17is the Vivo Book 14 Flip? Well, at its
1:20core, this is ASUS's mid-range twoin-
1:23one, a convertible notebook built for
1:25students, commuters, and anyone who
1:27needs something light enough to carry,
1:29but flexible enough to take notes,
1:30sketch ideas, or binge a show in tablet
1:33mode. It's got a 14-in OLED display, a
1:36sturdy 360° hinge, and Intel's
1:39pedestrian chip offering, the Core Ultra
1:415 226V, part of the short-lived Lunar
1:44Lake generation. This was Intel's first
1:47striking design win after the hoham
1:49release of Meteor Lake. It's a very bold
1:52design and it was a new design
1:55philosophy, focusing less on brute power
1:57and more on efficiency and of course AI
2:00acceleration. We'll get into silicon
2:02specifics later, but right now it's
2:04important to note that this chip choice
2:06is one that defines this product's
2:08ranking in ASUS's portfolio. Asus
2:11clearly sees this model as a kind of
2:13crossroads machine. Something not as
2:15premium as their Zenbook line, but
2:17smarter than the smattering of basic and
2:19anemic student laptops out there. You're
2:21getting features that still feel rare at
2:23this price. Wi-Fi 7, a 70watth battery,
2:27Thunderbolt 4, and that gorgeous OLED
2:29touchscreen with pen support. Basically,
2:32it's a laptop that wants to do
2:34everything and maybe not perfectly, but
2:36at least gracefully. But before I go
2:39further, quick transparency notice. ASUS
2:42did send me this unit for review and
2:43some testing I've been planning. No
2:45money changed hands. They will not get
2:47to review the script and they won't see
2:49the video before it goes live.
2:51Everything you'll hear comes from my own
2:53testing and experience. The design is
2:55where the Vivobook 14 Flip starts to
2:57show its personality. On first glance,
3:00it looks like every other understated
3:02Asus machine. minimal branding, squared
3:05edges, clean lines, but the closer you
3:07look, the more you realize it's walking
3:09a fine line between practicality and
3:12prefuncter polish. The lid is made of
3:14aluminum, and it gives the laptop a very
3:17nice touch of premium feel, right where
3:19it matters most, that first tactile
3:21moment when you open it up. The rest of
3:23the chassis though, the keyboard deck
3:26and bottom shell are a high quality
3:27plastic and normally that would sound
3:30like a downgrade, but here it's actually
3:32a pretty good choice. The deck has a
3:34slightly textured treated surface that
3:36resists fingerprints incredibly well. On
3:38darker laptops especially, you usually
3:41get those greasy palm smudges within the
3:43first 5 minutes of use. Not here,
3:45though. It stays looking clean even
3:47after a long workday. Compared to my
3:50all- metal S14, this is a noticeable
3:54improvement. And for once, I think I
3:56actually prefer the plastic. The hinge
3:58feels sturdy, too. Smooth enough for
4:00quick flips to the tent or tablet mode,
4:02but firm enough that it doesn't wobble
4:04when you just tap the screen with your
4:06finger. You can really feel that ASUS
4:07has been making convertibles for a while
4:09now. There's a subtle confidence to the
4:12hinge design that some competitors still
4:14struggle to get right. The only catch is
4:16the weight. have three pounds and 6.3
4:19ounces. It's just a bit heftier than I'd
4:21like for a 14inch twoin one. It's not
4:24heavy, but it's noticeably denser when
4:26you pick it up or hold it in tablet mode
4:28for a while. And to be fair, that's
4:31partly the trade-off of the 70watth
4:33battery and aluminum lid. Most
4:35convertibles in this class hover around
4:38the three lb mark, so it's not unusual.
4:41Just something commuters or students
4:43should keep in mind if they plan to
4:45carry the laptop all day. Of course, I
4:47might just be spoiled. My A14 still
4:50ruins everything else for me when it
4:53comes to travel weight. This thing
4:55practically floats. The Flip isn't quite
4:57that featherweight as a companion, but
4:59it makes up for it with a solid hinge,
5:02premium lid, and a finish that doesn't
5:04need constant wiping down. It's not the
5:06lightest Pilgrim on the road, but it is
5:09one of the cleanest looking. The
5:10keyboard on the Vivobook 14 Flip is
5:12instantly familiar if you've used any
5:14recent Asus laptop. Steady, comfortable,
5:17and refreshingly dramaree. Key travel is
5:21just deep enough to give you that
5:22feedback without feeling mushy. And
5:24there's almost zero deck flex, even
5:27towards the center. It's not a showpiece
5:29keyboard. It's the sword that fades into
5:31the background and lets you focus on
5:33writing, editing, or grading papers in
5:35my case. You still get three-stage white
5:38backlighting, and the lettering remains
5:40crisp even at the lowest level. Nothing
5:42flashy, just reliable execution. The
5:44trackpad deserves a quick mention, too.
5:46It's not glass. Despite feeling smoother
5:49than the usual plastic surface, ASUS
5:51coats it with a hydrophobic PVD
5:54anti-fingerprint finish, which gives it
5:56that low friction glide and keeps it
5:58looking very clean. After like I think
6:01three and a half weeks of use, I didn't
6:04see the usual smudge buildup you get on
6:05cheaper plastic pads. Clicks feel
6:08consistent and quiet, and gesture
6:10recognition was spot-on. It's still a
6:13mechanical pad. No haptics here, but it
6:15feels premium in its own understated
6:17way. And because this is a twoin- one,
6:19keyboard lockout behavior matters. In
6:22tablet mode, ASUS nailed it. The
6:24keyboard and trackpack disable
6:26instantly, and palm rejection works
6:28perfectly. It's a very helpful mode, but
6:31I didn't spend the most time in it
6:32because of how heavy the unit itself is.
6:35In stand mode, where the keys are angled
6:37towards the desk, I was a little bit
6:39more cautious. There's always that tiny
6:41voice worrying about accidental presses
6:43or surface pressure, but in testing, it
6:46held firm. No ghost inputs, no weird
6:48phantom key triggers. The bottom shell
6:51itself is rigid enough that the keys
6:53don't sag or actuate under their own
6:55weight. Now, let's talk about the screen
6:57because on the Vivobook 14 flip, the
6:59display is the experience. This is
7:01another 14in 16x10 OLED touchscreen at
7:051920x 1200 with a refresh rate of 60 Hz.
7:09Out of the box, it looks exactly like
7:11you'd want an OLED to look. Inky blacks,
7:13saturated color, and that painted on
7:16contrast you don't get from IPS. At 14
7:19in, WXGA still looks crisp for text
7:22work. Fonts have clean edges at normal
7:24viewing distances, and the 16x10 aspect
7:27ratio buys you a few extra lines and
7:30docks, your timelines, or for you music
7:33folks, a thicker mixer in your DAW. If
7:36you're coming from a 13.3 in 1080p
7:38panel, this feels like a meaningful step
7:40up in both space and sharpness. Indoors,
7:43brightness is comfortably set it and
7:45forget it. You'll live in the middle of
7:47the slider most of the time. Flip HDR on
7:50in windows and highlights pop in the
7:52ways OLED does best. Specular glints,
7:55neon, starfields without washing out the
7:57midtones. This isn't a reference grade
8:00HDR monitor, of course, but for
8:02streaming and YouTube, it is noticeably
8:04more dynamic than anything SDR.
8:06Subjectively, color lands on the vivid
8:08side of accurate. Again, very OLED.
8:11ASUS's splendid controls and my ASUS
8:14give you quick gamma clamps if you want
8:16a more neutral sRGB look instead of the
8:19full DCIE P3 punch. If your workflow is
8:23web graphics or classroom slides, I
8:26recommend enabling that sRGB clamp. It
8:28reigns in oversaturation on icons, skin
8:31tones, and solid UI colors while keeping
8:34the ink of OLED blacks. Pixel response
8:37is effectively instant, so there's no
8:39LCD smear when you flick a window
8:40around, but remember, it's still 60 Hz.
8:44Scrolling a long article is smooth
8:46enough, but you won't get that glassy
8:48high refresh feel. For creators, the big
8:51trade-off versus a 1.0 Hz panel is
8:53cursor fluidity in timelines and the
8:56snap of Windows animations. If you value
8:58motion over contrast, you'll notice the
9:01cap. If you value contrast and black
9:03levels, this wins every time. As a
9:06convertible, the screen is covered by a
9:08glossy touch glass. Reflections are the
9:10tax you pay for pen and touch
9:12functionality. In normal rooms, it's
9:14fine. Under harsh overhead lighting,
9:16you'll want to angle the screen or bump
9:18the brightness. The olophobic coating
9:20helps print swipe off easily, but in
9:23tablet mode, you'll still see smudges
9:25accumulate during heavy touch use. I'm
9:28using an aftermarket MPPP 2.0 stylus,
9:30and it works great here. Pressure
9:32sensitivity and tilt both register
9:35smoothly with no noticeable lag, and
9:37palm rejection is solid. What really
9:40surprised me, though, is how natural it
9:42feels in stand mode. And that's when the
9:44keyboard again faces down and the screen
9:46tilts towards you like a drafting table.
9:49It's perfect for note takingaking or
9:50sketching. And while the intended use
9:53case is perfect, the functionality you
9:56actually get is not. The screen wobbles
9:58when you're trying to write or draw at
10:00certain angles. The issue for me is when
10:02you do pen strokes and lift up off the
10:04screen. I do this a ton and it was so
10:07annoying for me. I hope this is
10:09something they can rectify on a
10:11follow-up or harder revision. Tablet
10:13mode technically works just as well, but
10:15the weight and balance make it a little
10:17awkward to hold for long sessions. Now,
10:20it's not bad, just not ideal for
10:22handheld drawing. Stand mode feels far
10:24more ergonomic, almost like working on a
10:27small portable canvas. If you're
10:28sensitive to PWM flickering, well, I'm
10:31sorry to say, but it's of course here.
10:34On my unit, the typical OLED behavior
10:36shows up. No visible issues in day use,
10:39but extremely sensitive users may prefer
10:41keeping the brightness in the medium to
10:43high range. Either way, Asus does
10:46include the usual OLED care tools, pixel
10:49refresh, shift, and static UI
10:51protections, which I recommend leaving
10:53on. But bottom line, compared to a same
10:56price IPS convertible, this OLED is a
10:59clear upgrade. Deeper blacks, richer
11:01color, and better perceived sharpness at
11:03the same resolution. you trade away high
11:06refresh rate and pick up some
11:07reflectivity. But if your day is just
11:10writing, watching, sketching, and
11:12presenting, then the screen carries the
11:15entire design. Now, at the heart of the
11:17system is Intel's Core Ultra 5 226V,
11:21part of their Lunar Lake family,
11:23otherwise known as the second generation
11:24Core Ultra or series 2. The chip is
11:27built on TSMC's N3B process with an
11:31allnew tout architecture. You've got
11:33eight cores total for performance and
11:35for efficiency with a max turbo
11:37frequency of up to 4.5 GHz and a
11:40built-in Intel Arc GPU using seven XE
11:44cores. While Pedestrian even for client
11:47standards, the big story though is the
11:50proposed efficiency. Intel completely
11:52redesigned the platform, new low power
11:54memory on package, an integrated voltage
11:57regulator, and an NPU that can hit up to
11:5940 tops for AI tasks. In short, this was
12:03Intel's first serious step towards
12:05matching the kind of allday endurance
12:07we've seen from Apple silicon and of
12:09course some of AMD's lower-end Ryzen
12:12chips. My unit comes with 16 gigs of
12:14LPDDR5X
12:15clocked at 8,53 megat trans a second
12:19soldered directly onto the substrate.
12:21So, no upgrades here. What you buy is
12:24what you live with. Storage comes
12:26courtesy of a 512 GB PCIe 4.0 0 NVME SSD
12:30mounted in a single M.2 2280 slot. You
12:33can swap that drive down the line if you
12:35need more space, which you probably will
12:37because 512 gigs is such a poultry
12:39amount these days. For power, ASUS uses
12:42a 70Wh battery paired with a 65 watt
12:45USBC charger that supports power
12:47delivery. That's a solid capacity for a
12:5014-inch 2 in1 and one of the more
12:52reasons that this model feels a bit
12:54denser in the hand. We'll dig into real
12:56world endurance later, but this size
12:58battery paired with Lunar Lakes
12:59efficiency is what gives ASUS the
13:01confidence to quote multi-day standby
13:04and all day use claims. In terms of
13:07connectivity, ASUS did not cut corners
13:09here. You get one Thunderbolt 4 port,
13:12one additional USBC 20 Gbits per second
13:14port, one USBA 5 Gbits per second port,
13:18HDMI 2.1, a UHS1 SD card slot, and a
13:22combo 3.5 mm headphone and mic jack.
13:26Wireless performance is equally modern.
13:28Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4, so it's ready
13:31for nextG routers and low latency
13:33peripherals. So specwise, this thing is
13:35poised to be quite the little mid-range
13:37machine. There's a ton of things being
13:39done right here, especially in regards
13:40to the IO. We've also got a supposedly
13:43efficient CPU, surprisingly capable R
13:46graphics, fast memory, Thunderbolts, and
13:49a very large battery. It's a very
13:51forward-looking configuration that had
13:53me excited. Well, until we got to
13:56testing, that is. For everyday work, the
13:5814 Flip is very quick. Intel's Core
14:01Ultra 5226V handles every light and
14:04domestic task with ease. Note-taking,
14:06drawing, emails, document work,
14:09multitasking between Chrome and Office
14:11never feels sluggish. In normal use,
14:14this is a very snappy, silent, and
14:17reliable laptop. But push beyond that,
14:19and you start to see the limits of the
14:21configuration, though not in the CPU,
14:24but in the memory. The 226V uses on
14:27package LPDDR5X memory, which means the
14:30RAM is mounted right beside the CPU on
14:32the same substrate. That brings
14:34incredibly low latency and high
14:37bandwidth, but it also means there's
14:39zero upgrade paths. You are locked into
14:42whatever capacity Intel and the OEM
14:44chose for Lunar Lake. That means either
14:4716 gigs or 32 with no middle ground. And
14:51this unit has 16, which in 2025 is
14:55barely enough, I'm finding out. Windows
14:5711 idles at around 10 GB used on a clean
15:00install. that leaves very little
15:02headroom for larger workloads. And what
15:04makes it tricky is that the system
15:05doesn't seem to be aggressive about
15:07freeing memory. You end up seeing a lot
15:09of background swapping to the SSD,
15:12basically using the drive as a scratch
15:13pad, which tanks responsiveness under
15:15heavy load. And that leads us into
15:17gaming performance, which to be fair is
15:20not what this laptop was built for, nor
15:22has ASUS advertised it in this way. So,
15:25the metric should not be a knock against
15:27them, but it's still an interesting
15:28thing to test. The ARC integrated 130V
15:31GPU inside the 226V is technically
15:34impressive for what it is, but it's
15:36definitely GPUbound. Even light titles
15:39can hit limits very quickly when RAM
15:42becomes a choke point. In Indiana Jones
15:44and the Great Circle, I ran 720p lowest
15:47settings with XTSS set to balanced. I
15:50got an average of 25 FPS with 1% lows
15:54around 20. I would not consider this a
15:56playable result. Decent enough for only
15:59using 28 watts of package power, but
16:02still not enjoyable. Though, the real
16:05constraint here again is the memory. 16
16:08GB is just not enough and doesn't leave
16:11much room for texture caching or
16:13streaming. Power World at 720p low
16:16average about 49 FPS with some scenes
16:18actually touching 60. And that is very
16:21respectable considering how heavy this
16:23Unreal Engine 5 title can be. You got
16:26things like constant world streaming,
16:27dense geometry, and dynamic lighting.
16:30It's not a gaming machine, of course,
16:32but it's very impressive how much this
16:34iGPU can handle when it is in star for
16:37RAM. And that's what got me thinking
16:39about the developer side of things. I
16:41don't usually include development
16:43benchmarks in my laptop reviews, but I
16:46always do test UE5. It certainly felt
16:48worth including in this review here. I
16:51loaded up my normal UE5 test scene, the
16:53same one I use for all APU comparisons.
16:56And right away, you can see the frame
16:58rate sitting below 30 fps on the highest
17:01editor preset. But two things are
17:03important to note. One, this scene has a
17:06ridiculous triangle count. And two, the
17:08GPU in this chip shouldn't even be this
17:11close to handling that. Drop settings to
17:13medium, and the Flip 14 cruise at around
17:1660 fps. This sort of just confirms two
17:19things for me. One being that the ARC
17:21GPU has legitimate headroom left and
17:23that the real limiter on the system
17:25isn't compute power. It's again memory
17:28allocation. Windows 11 tends to hold on
17:30to more RAM than it needs to and once it
17:33starts leaning on the SSD for swap,
17:35things slow down dramatically. You'll
17:37see small stalls when opening up big
17:39programs or switching between heavy
17:41Chrome tabs. It's not catastrophic, just
17:45a reminder that 16 gigs feels very
17:47cramped in 2025. And I do want to note
17:50that unused RAM is wasted RAM. Operating
17:54systems need to use and cache things to
17:56keep access fast and programs running
17:58smooth. It's just that Windows is a
18:00little bit greedy. So overall
18:02performance here depends on what you're
18:04doing. For everyday tasks, it's quick,
18:06cool, and whisper quiet. For heavier
18:08creative work or gaming, that limited
18:11memory becomes a real ceiling. It's a
18:13real shame, too, because the
18:15architecture clearly has potential. The
18:17226V CPU cores and AR graphics both
18:20punch way above their weight. Give this
18:23chip 32 gigabytes of RAM or even 24 and
18:26I suspect it'd be one of the best
18:28balanced ultralight platforms Intel ever
18:30made. And yes, even better than the
18:33venerable Tiger Lake. The 14 Flip is one
18:35of those rare laptops where you almost
18:37forget it even has fans. At idle or
18:40light use, my decibel meter floated
18:42between 38 and 45 dB, which is basically
18:46the ambient noise level of my room. The
18:48fans are technically spinning, but
18:50they're so quiet that the mic cannot
18:52pick them up on the default profile.
18:55Just very well done. As I've been
18:57reviewing more laptops and getting a
18:59better feel for them, I've quickly come
19:01to learn that Asus does not play around
19:03with incessant fan noise and underbuilt
19:06cooling solutions. Not sure about their
19:08gaming division, but if you buy anything
19:10with a mobile chip in it, even their
19:13tough desktop, you can be well assured
19:15that poor cooling and noisy fans are not
19:18part of your experience. This is exactly
19:20what you want for day-to-day work. This
19:23experience makes this kind of laptop the
19:25sort you can take into a library,
19:27classroom, or train commute and never
19:29worry about drawing attention to
19:30yourself. Once you move into a heavier
19:33workloads, gaming, rendering, or
19:34sustained compile, the fans do wake up.
19:37But even then, the noise profile stays
19:40restrained, I would argue. Under full
19:42load, I measured anywhere between 50 and
19:4565 dB, depending on how long the run
19:48lasted. But was the most interesting to
19:50me is how the sound behaves. The fan
19:52placement and vent design seem to
19:55diffuse most of the highfrequency hiss
19:57that you hear on other Vivo books.
19:59Instead of a sharp wine, you get a low
20:01blended whoosh, something closer to
20:04background air than active cooling.
20:06Thermally, the system is just as well
20:08behaved. Temperatures stay comfortably
20:10below 60° C, even during extended
20:13sessions. Most of the time, it hovers in
20:15the mid-50s under heavy load, which is
20:17unusually cool for a convertible
20:19chassis. And that's partly because the
20:21Core Ultra 5 doesn't generate much heat
20:24to begin with, but it's also a testament
20:26to ASUS's dual fan layout, doing double
20:29duty, keeping temperatures low and
20:31muting noise quite well. I don't have an
20:33anooic chamber or lab grade test bench,
20:36but my space gets very quiet when I
20:38power everything down. And in that
20:40silence, you still can't hear the fans.
20:43For most people, that's what matters.
20:45keep the fans on their default profile,
20:47and this laptop will stay whisper silent
20:49in classrooms, offices, and study
20:52spaces. Out of the three laptops Asus
20:54has sent me so far, it is definitely one
20:57of the quieter ones, only bested by the
21:00A14, and it does all this without
21:02breaking a sweat. The battery life
21:04benchmarks really surprised me. Not to
21:07get ahead of myself, but I was expecting
21:09more. I ran three sets of battery tests
21:12on the 14 Flip. idle, local video
21:15playback, and gaming. And the results
21:18were quite telling. Not terrible, but
21:21definitely not what I expect from a
21:2270watt hour pack and such a pedestrian
21:25SOC. At idle or light workloads like
21:29document work and emails. And with the
21:31brightness at 20%, the laptop averaged
21:34about 7.1 watts of power draw,
21:37projecting roughly 9 and 12 to 10 hours
21:40of battery life. It's not bad, but not
21:43the all day endurance you'd expect from
21:45a platform built for efficiency. Playing
21:47a local 1080p video, power draw dropped
21:50to about 6 and 12 watts. A little more
21:52efficient, which would translate to 10
21:54to 11 hours if starting from a full
21:56charge. It's a modest gain, not the
21:59dramatic doubling you sometimes see from
22:01highly optimized playback pipelines,
22:03though, and certainly not as good as the
22:0620 plus hours of video playback on the
22:08HX370 Vivo Book. Under heavy gaming
22:11load, power demand shot up to about 30
22:14watts, burning through the entire
22:16battery in under two hours, which is
22:18right on queue for a machine this size.
22:21So, what's the deal here? Why is the
22:23idle and light load drain higher than
22:25they should be? This chip and OLED combo
22:27should be sitting comfortably in the 4
22:29to 5 watt range. And my best hypothesis
22:33again points to memory behavior. Like I
22:36mentioned earlier, Windows keeps around
22:3810 GB of RAM allocated at all times and
22:41is always swapping to the SSD. That
22:44constant background shuffling keeps the
22:45SSD, the memory controller, and the CPU
22:48itself very active. There doesn't seem
22:51to be a true idle state. The machine is
22:53always sipping power all the time, and
22:55it's weird because you don't really feel
22:57it in responsiveness when you like open
22:59programs and click things, but it
23:01definitely does drag the efficiency
23:03down. The 32 GB configuration of the
23:05258V easily performs better here in
23:09every efficiency metric I've seen. So,
23:11battery life is rather hoham. Expect 6
23:15to 8 hours in mixed use, 10 plus for
23:19light tasks or playback if you're lucky,
23:21and definitely under two for games. It's
23:23enough for a school or workday, but I
23:26would not say this is a real showcase
23:29for platform efficiency just yet. The
23:31panel looks great. The chip runs very
23:33cool, but the memory and OS behavior
23:36seem to keep the lights on a little
23:37longer than they should be. At the start
23:39of this review, I compared laptops to
23:42Pilgrims. Each one telling its own story
23:44on the road. And after spending time
23:46with the 14 Flip, I think I've heard
23:49this one very clearly. I would say it's
23:51the story of a traveler that's light on
23:52its feet, humble in power, and
23:54surprisingly graceful at times.
23:57Performance for daily work is excellent.
23:59It does stay silent. It does stay cool
24:02and the display alone makes every note,
24:04lecture, and late night video feel
24:06better than has any right to on a
24:08mid-range machine. But this journey
24:10isn't without detours. That 16 gig
24:13ceiling casts a very long shadow. It
24:16holds back gaming, multitasking, and
24:18even idle battery life in ways you would
24:20not expect. The chip itself is quite
24:23capable. You can see flashes of it in
24:25Unreal tests and AV1 workloads, but it's
24:28boxed in by limited headroom. And it's
24:30like watching a runner sprint in circles
24:33instead of down the road. But still,
24:36this laptop isn't really about raw
24:38performance. It's about experience. It's
24:41about form factor that adapts, a display
24:43that invites you in, and a design that
24:45stays whisper quiet while you work. For
24:48students, commuters, or anyone who
24:49values silence and flexibility over
24:51brute force, this is a great companion.
24:54And on the note of Intel itself, you
24:56know, their comeback isn't a triumphant
24:58return yet. It's a quite a redemption
25:01arc, one that's learning to walk a
25:03little lighter before it learns to run
25:05again. And the Vivobook 14 flip is a
25:07fitting traveler for that stage in their
25:10journey. And it is not perfect, but like
25:13Chaucer's Pilgrims, it is sincere. It
25:16tells its tale honestly, efficiently,
25:19portably, creatively, and just a bit um
25:22well, constrainted, but undeniably
25:26heading somewhere better, I would argue.
25:27I am the Silicon Fox. Thank you all for
25:30watching, and I'll see you on the next
25:33road. But until then, I'm signing off
25:36and saying ciao.
25:40[Music]
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