ASUS isn’t sitting out the push of AI-enhanced Copilot+ PCs, which additionally contains new fashions from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung and, in fact, Microsoft. The “ultra-thin” ASUS Vivobook S 15 has Home windows AI options like reminiscence assistant Recall, the picture generator Cocreator, and several other ASUS-exclusive AI apps.
One of many extra intriguing AI-powered options of the ASUS Vivobook S 15 is its use of the AiSense IR digital camera. ASUS says it may detect your presence and regulate the show accordingly. For those who look away, the show will dim, and it’ll brighten up once more whenever you look again. And should you step away from the pc, it would lock — and unlock whenever you return. Whereas we won’t vouch for its effectiveness earlier than making an attempt it, the characteristic sounds tremendous useful for safety and privateness if it delivers constantly.
One other baked-in AI characteristic is StoryCube, an app that ASUS says can robotically set up RAW photographs and movies. Along with the usual Copilot+ options introduced on Monday, the laptop computer additionally contains Home windows Studio Results, which may automate lighting changes and noise elimination in video calls. It additionally helps Microsoft’s Dwell Captions (real-time, AI-powered subtitles).
On the {hardware} aspect, the Vivobook S 15 runs on the Snapdragon X Elite chip with a built-in Qualcomm Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU), which ASUS claims can course of 45 TOPS (that’s 45 trillion operations per second). The PC ships with a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD and as much as 32GB of 8448 MHz LPDDR5X RAM.
The laptop computer has a 15.6-inch OLED display screen with a 2,880 x 1,620 decision and an 89 p.c screen-to-body ratio. It additionally features a Harmon Kardon-certified audio system with Dolby Atmos sound. ASUS claims its 70 Wh battery can last as long as 18 hours.
One of many Vivobook S 15’s promoting factors is its skinny aluminum physique: Its tapered design has a thickness starting from solely 0.58 to 0.63 inches (14.7 mm to 16 mm). The PC weighs a mere 3.13 lbs (1.4 kg), barely lighter than Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air.
The laptop computer has a wholesome port choice, together with two USB4, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Sort A, HDMI, an audio combo jack and a microSD slot. Its keyboard has customizable single-zone RGB lighting and a Copilot key for fast entry to the ChatGPT-powered assistant.
The ASUS Vivobook S 15 is out there for pre-order now by way of the corporate’s retail companions, beginning at $1,300. The corporate says extra configurations will launch later this yr.
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