Asus VivoBook 18 laptop review: The display monster for just under $1,000

[galdsfta]

I got 14-inch model for 800EUR (D3407HA), included 16GB 5600MHz from Crucial (CT16G56C46S5) for it, and seems like a beast.

I use Linux so had choose laptop which is about AMD fully, so this was one best options for me with only AMD iGPU.

[theblitz707]

16 GB, soldered, one SO-DIMM slot (empty)

Wouldn't get this notebook based on the soldered only 16 GB RAM alone. With 16 GB RAM not even
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could run (quants of GPT-OSS are weird, because this is natively trained in MXFP4 (4-bit), so you do want to use the full "16-bit", which is only 13.8 GB because, again, this is 4-bit in disguise, not true 16-bit, like many other LLMs), let alone
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16GB RAM minus 6 GB to 8 GB reserved for the OS. So 32 GB RAM should be the new 16 GB RAM. And indeed, even Steam news about 32 GB RAM being the majority came out recently (and I doubt many of them run LLMs locally or know that it's possible?).

If the one RAM stick wasn't soldered, one could at least upgrade to 2*16G, 2*24GB or 2*32GB RAM.

Shame on you ASUS for offering soldered RAM (it's not like this is LPDDR5X-8000 MT/s RAM speed, where soldering is (probably?) necessary (so the LPDDR5X chips are as close to the APU as possible)).
Personally, I think 35W are better, unless if power-vs-performance scales linearly.

AMD Ryzen 7 260
AMD R7 260

The Ryzen 7 260 is a fast Hawk Point family chip for laptops that was announced at CES 2025. It features 8 Zen 4 cores (16 threads thanks to SMT support) running at up to 5.1 GHz. The chip is identical to the old Ryzen 7 8845HS and therefore also the Ryzen 7 7840HS

So a rename of a rename of a rename, shame on you AMD for misleading people.

Hi, so If we were to add another 16gb ram, would it not run on dual channel? I am also wondering if the lack of gaming performance is caused by single channel.