ASUS VivoBook S13 S330 (13.3-inch, 2018) Reviews & Tests

Small rose. There are countless compact 13.3-inch laptops on the market. This should come as no surprise, since laptops such as the Dell XPS 13 are ideal companions for day-to-day life. With the Asus VivoBook S13 S330UA, we are testing a new model from...

compact, well-made case ; keyboard: good typing experience ; solid touchpad ; significantly better CPU performance than the competition ; cool chassis, even under load ; good battery life despite the low battery capacity ; matte display

worse brightness and color space coverage than competitors ; ports with outdated standards/missing features ; slow microSD card reader ; slow SATA III SSD ; no webcam ; CPU throttling on batteries ; no dGPU option ; odd ANSI-QWERTZ layout

The design of the Dell XPS 13 has changed the laptop world. Now, even some lower-priced laptops are almost as compact as the expensive Dell XPS. The Asus VivoBook S13 S330UA is an example of a heavily XPS-inspired lower-priced laptop that, with its...