ASUS Vivobook S 14 OLED (S5406 / M5406) review

Compute and reliability, without a graphics story

The Vivobook S 14 OLED (S5406 / M5406) from 2024 asks $1,084 and spends the ticket on the CPU side: an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H with 32GB of RAM and no discrete card. The CPU score reads 92.35 — 54% above the ultrabook median, enthusiast band — and reliability reads 92, 80% above class. The graphics column is the honest counterweight: no matched scoring entry exists for the integrated GPU, the graphics score reads zero, and the capability sheet is empty. Gaming reads 19, modeling 28 and CAD 34 — all in the low band, named with their numbers.

What the ticket actually buys

Office work reads 90.31 (top band) and portability 74.3 (high), carried by the enthusiast CPU placing and a body built for carrying. This is a compute-and-endurance ultrabook: long-lived (reliability 92 is top-quartile), fast in single- and multi-thread office work, and quiet about graphics. Buyers whose workload is browser, office suite, code editors and media will use every point of the CPU reading; buyers wanting any 3D workload should read the low-band axes as the verdict.

The graphics zero, read correctly

The zero is a coverage statement — no matched scoring entry for this integrated GPU — but the task axes that depend on graphics land in the low band regardless, and no flag exists to contradict them. The class verdict names gaming and GPU-accelerated tasks as the watch-out, and the sheet supports it without exception. Value reads 57.7 (mid): fair for the compute, with the graphics money unspent.

No depreciation anchor

No launch anchor is attached. The class rate reads 11.29% per year, so a two-year-old ticket at $1,084 drifts moderately. The purchase case is the reliability-plus-CPU combination, not residual value.

Where it sits against the shelf

$1,084 repeats on the premium ultrabook row — the Acer Swift Go 14 AI and the Aspire Spin 14 ASP14-51 share it in this batch. Against the Snapdragon seat, this machine trades the perfect reliability reading for an x86 flag sheet that is, in this case, empty; against the Spin 14 it carries a far stronger CPU. Inside its own line, the ZenBook siblings at $840 sell measured graphics receipts where this body sells compute — the row separates cleanly by what the buyer actually runs.

Bottom line

At $1,084 this is one of the strongest CPU-and-reliability readings in the ultrabook class — 92.35 enthusiast compute, 92 top-quartile longevity, 32GB of RAM — with the graphics story told honestly: no scoring entry, empty flag sheet, gaming 19 / modeling 28 / CAD 34 in the low band. For office-first buyers who never touch 3D, it is fairly priced capability; for everyone else, the low-band axes are the answer, not an asterisk.