@Cleisthenes607 thanks yes I have heard that as well! Such a shame tbh as it feels really well made and looks great with the Oled screen. Looking forward to trying the new Asus A14 when it's available!
Have you updated the Asus drivers. It will improve performance and lower heat. Also this is not a creator laptop they have the Pro Art series with a higher powered 370 and dedicated graphics card. This is a thin and light portable laptop that can do most basic tasks well along with basic video editing and gaming. great screen ,keyboard, sound, build quality, decent battery life 10 to 11 hours doing office. also excellent ports. But not made for the type of tasks you need a max MacBook Pro for.
@@leonardwise5807 very good points thank you! Yes all fully updated and I couldn't even get it to run basic timelines on Adobe premier pro smoothly but I get your point! It surely should be able to handle a simple basic edit for £1700 just seems to be very expensive! Also Asus are marketing these laptops as high performance on their website. I've got a Microsoft surface 7 in at the moment with an ARM CPU and that handles it better. The Ryzen CPU also gets hot during everyday tasks which I was not expecting at all! Just my honest opinions from using the laptop for a month that's all 🙂
@@ohwhatworld5851 yeah I did wonder that but if you dig a little deeper there are quite a few reviews who found the same as me. A lot of the main ones are sponsored by Asus... I am more than happy to be proved wrong though as I don't like having to give a bad review on anything!
@ After further searching and reading I've found some things out. That article you link is for the lower end 365 chip, the reviews I've seen are for the 370. It does appear there was a heating issue, so Asus reduced the TDP on standard mode down to 20w but kept the TDP at 28w for Performance mode. Not entirely sure if that addressed the heating issue but it brings me to my next point. I am sure you did run your tests on Performance Mode, but I want to double check, as the Standard mode has a much lower TDP
@ohwhatworld5851 interesting thank you! I played around with most of the settings they even have a way of changing the fan speed on the Asus app and the Ryzen you can customise the performance and power on it. No matter what I did it ran incredibly hot. If you put the fan on full speed which was really loud it did help a bit. I've been trying the Microsoft Surface 7 and I find that much better have you looked at that?
@@Techintherealworld Hmmm ok I just watched a video from JustJoshTech and it seems Because of thermal issues, Via a BIOS update Asus has now reduced the maximum TDP to 28w on Performance Mode (a reduction of 5w) and I believe 20w on Standard Mode (a reduction of 7w). So all of the reviews I'm seeing from before the BIOS update have 33w which is probably why their performance is much better than your machine.
It is apparently near impossible to upgrade the SSD on this without getting BSOD, that combined with the heat means this is a pass.
@Cleisthenes607 thanks yes I have heard that as well! Such a shame tbh as it feels really well made and looks great with the Oled screen. Looking forward to trying the new Asus A14 when it's available!
I have downloaded ghelper and have turned off cpu booster runs a lot cooler!
@mermio good to hear thanks for letting me know and I hope you enjoy the laptop!
Have you updated the Asus drivers. It will improve performance and lower heat. Also this is not a creator laptop they have the Pro Art series with a higher powered 370 and dedicated graphics card. This is a thin and light portable laptop that can do most basic tasks well along with basic video editing and gaming. great screen ,keyboard, sound, build quality, decent battery life 10 to 11 hours doing office. also excellent ports. But not made for the type of tasks you need a max MacBook Pro for.
@@leonardwise5807 very good points thank you! Yes all fully updated and I couldn't even get it to run basic timelines on Adobe premier pro smoothly but I get your point! It surely should be able to handle a simple basic edit for £1700 just seems to be very expensive! Also Asus are marketing these laptops as high performance on their website. I've got a Microsoft surface 7 in at the moment with an ARM CPU and that handles it better. The Ryzen CPU also gets hot during everyday tasks which I was not expecting at all! Just my honest opinions from using the laptop for a month that's all 🙂
Maybe you just got a faulty one? I must have seen over a dozen reviews of this laptop and they all say it performs great.
@@ohwhatworld5851 yeah I did wonder that but if you dig a little deeper there are quite a few reviews who found the same as me. A lot of the main ones are sponsored by Asus... I am more than happy to be proved wrong though as I don't like having to give a bad review on anything!
@@ohwhatworld5851 www.pcworld.com/article/2423335/asus-zenbook-s-16-review.html
@ After further searching and reading I've found some things out. That article you link is for the lower end 365 chip, the reviews I've seen are for the 370. It does appear there was a heating issue, so Asus reduced the TDP on standard mode down to 20w but kept the TDP at 28w for Performance mode. Not entirely sure if that addressed the heating issue but it brings me to my next point. I am sure you did run your tests on Performance Mode, but I want to double check, as the Standard mode has a much lower TDP
@ohwhatworld5851 interesting thank you! I played around with most of the settings they even have a way of changing the fan speed on the Asus app and the Ryzen you can customise the performance and power on it. No matter what I did it ran incredibly hot. If you put the fan on full speed which was really loud it did help a bit. I've been trying the Microsoft Surface 7 and I find that much better have you looked at that?
@@Techintherealworld Hmmm ok I just watched a video from JustJoshTech and it seems Because of thermal issues, Via a BIOS update Asus has now reduced the maximum TDP to 28w on Performance Mode (a reduction of 5w) and I believe 20w on Standard Mode (a reduction of 7w). So all of the reviews I'm seeing from before the BIOS update have 33w which is probably why their performance is much better than your machine.