ASUS Vivobook 14 Flip 14" TP3407SA Matte Gray

The ASUS Vivobook 14 Flip nails the basics with a beautiful OLED screen, a fast Core Ultra 7 CPU, and a generous 1TB SSD. It's a fantastic media machine and a terrible gaming one. If you can snag it near the $650 mark, it's a steal for the display alone.

The Core Ultra 7 256V is a capable everyday chip, sitting in the upper-middle of our CPU rankings. It chews through browser tabs, Office apps, and light photo editing without breaking a sweat. The 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM is about average for this class, so heavy multitaskers might feel the pinch down the road. The real star is the 1TB SSD, which is well above average for storage speed and capacity. The weak spot is the integrated Intel Arc Graphics. It's fine for driving that 60Hz display, but it's a real letdown for anything 3D, landing in disappointing territory for gaming performance.

Stacked against the competition, the Vivobook carves out a specific niche. The Apple MacBook Pro M4 Pro absolutely destroys it in raw performance and build quality but costs way more and locks you into macOS. The HP OmniBook X Flip 14 is its most direct rival, another 2-in-1 OLED, and you'd need to compare battery life and keyboard feel in person. A wildcard is the Lenovo Legion 5i. It's a completely different beast, a chunky gaming laptop that will run circles around the ASUS in any 3D task, but it's nowhere near as portable. You're trading gaming frames for a slim, flexible design here.

Pricing is a bit of a rollercoaster on this one, with a spread from $650 to $1130 across vendors. At the low end, especially for a refurbished unit, you're getting a killer OLED screen, a fast new Intel chip, and a terabyte of storage for not a lot of cash. That's a genuinely good deal. But if you're staring down the $1100+ price tag, you need to pump the brakes. At that point, you're in the same neighborhood as some much more powerful laptops, and the value proposition starts to crumble.

The ASUS Vivobook 14 Flip TP3407SA is a 2-in-1 that tries to do a bit of everything. It packs Intel's new Core Ultra 7 256V chip, a gorgeous 14-inch OLED touchscreen, and a 360-degree hinge into a 1.57kg package. On paper, it's a versatile machine for students or anyone who wants a laptop that doubles as a tablet for Netflix in bed.

But the scoring tells a more specific story. Our database pegs this as a solid choice for staying compact and portable, and the entertainment score is decent thanks to that OLED panel. Just don't expect it to handle gaming. The integrated Arc Graphics land in the bottom fifth of all laptops we've tested for gaming, so keep your expectations firmly in the "light indie titles and cloud streaming" zone.

Gamers should run for the hills. The integrated graphics are one of the weakest points in our database for 3D performance. If you need to edit 4K video or do any 3D rendering, you'll also want a laptop with a dedicated GPU and more RAM. This isn't a creator workhorse.

This laptop is for the practical person who values a stunning screen and a flexible form factor above all else. If your day is mostly web browsing, document editing, and watching movies in tent mode, the Vivobook 14 Flip is a delightful companion. It's a solid student laptop or a secondary machine for media consumption. Just don't buy it thinking you've found a secret gaming rig, because you haven't.