General Use Screen Quality:4.6 The general use screen score is based on the screen technology, contrast ratio, resolution, brightness, color gamut and color accuracy. This score does not take into account specialized display features for specific use cases, such as high refresh rate for gaming.
PerfectRec’s portability rating takes into account the volume and thickness of the laptop as well as its weight.
PerfectRec’s General Use Score takes into account the many different features of the laptop that make it more or less suitable for general productivity, web browsing, streaming, video calls, and running a wide variety of apps and programs.
The most important factors in this score include CPU performance, amount of RAM, screen quality, storage, and battery life.
Keyboard quality, speaker quality, low fan noise, heat management, and to a lesser extent webcam quality are all moderately important factors for this score.
PerfectRec’s Content Creation Score takes into account the many different features of the laptop that make it more or less suitable for photo editing, and video editing work.
In addition to a strong emphasis on overall performance, this score also places very high importance on screen quality. Heat management, storage, keyboard and speaker quality are also incorporated, with fan noise rounding out this score.
The ASUS Vivobook Pro 14 is equipped with a powerful AMD Ryzen 7 processor and an Nvidia RTX 3050 GPU, which together offer the high performance required for engineering and design applications. Its high-resolution OLED screen provides sharp visuals and a wide color gamut, essential for precise design work.
PerfectRec’s Software Development Score takes into account the many different features of the laptop that make it more or less suitable for software development.
In addition to a strong emphasis on overall performance, this score also places very high importance on screen quality. Heat management, storage, keyboard and speaker quality are also incorporated, with fan noise rounding out this score.
PerfectRec’s Battery Life rating is based on hours of battery life in typical usage scenarios.
PerfectRec’s Build Quality Score incorporates case materials, display and keyboard flex, hinge quality, chassis rigidity, and overall reliability.
Our assessment of build quality includes many details that are difficult to quantify.
Our laptop experts use their best judgment to produce the final score.
PerfectRec’s Operating Noise Score is based on fan noise measurements. Laptops with a fanless design, such as Macbooks, receive the maximum score.
The Keyboard Quality score is based on the PerfectRec experts’ assessment of tactile feedback, typing comfort, keyboard reliability and typing noise.
The ASUS Vivobook Pro 14 has the Nvidia RTX 3050 GPU, which provides good gaming and 3D performance, but it's not the top-tier option for the most demanding games and applications. While the screen has a decent refresh rate of 90Hz and an OLED panel with high pixel density and color accuracy, there are laptops with faster refresh rates and better GPUs for those prioritizing the highest gaming or 3D performance.