ASUS Vivobook S14 OLED (12th Gen Intel) review

A $470 OLED ultrabook ticket that spends everything on screen and battery

The Vivobook S14 OLED (12th Gen Intel) from 2022 asks $470 and carries a twelve-core Intel Core i5-12500H with integrated graphics and 16GB of RAM. The strength is the battery: 70Wh, 46% above the general-class median of 48, large band, top quartile. The counterweight is the graphics column: the integrated GPU scores 3.84, 86% below the class median, and the axes that depend on it read low — performance 29, gaming 23, modeling 29, CAD 32 — each named with its number.

What the ticket buys, and what it does not

Office reads 77.24 (high) and portability 68.3 (high): the twelve-core CPU carries browser-and-office work well, and the 14-inch body carries well. The capability sheet is empty — no game or software flag exists to claim — which is the honest reading of an integrated-only configuration. This is a writing-and-browsing machine with an OLED panel and a big cell, priced accordingly.

The low-band axes, read plainly

Performance 29, gaming 23, modeling 29 and CAD 32 all sit in the low band; the class verdict names gaming and GPU-accelerated tasks as the watch-out. Photo design reads 37 (mid) — the screen helps what the silicon cannot. Value at 42.55 (mid) prices the ticket as fair for the screen-and-battery argument and no more.

No depreciation anchor

No launch anchor is attached. The class rate reads 11.94% per year; at four years old the remaining drift is slow, and the purchase case is the panel-plus-battery combination at a budget price.

Where it sits against the shelf

Three bodies share this exact platform at $470 in this batch: the S14 here, the S14X and the S15 — same engine, same memory, same battery, same readings. The choice among them is the body: portability reads 68.3 for this S14, 60.3 for the S14X and 46 for the S15. The catalog reports each as measured; the buyer picks a diagonal and the portability number follows.

Bottom line

At $470 the S14 OLED is the carry seat of its triple: a 70Wh battery 46% above class median, a high-band office reading on twelve cores, and a 68.3 portability index — with the graphics story told honestly through the low-band numbers and an empty flag sheet. For screen-and-battery buyers it is fair value; for any 3D workload the axes have already answered.