Asus Vivobook 14 Flip Laptop Review (2025)

Asus’ Zenbooks and Vivobooks have impressed us greatly over recent years and now, here’s the Asus Vivobook 14 Flip which is a 14-inch ultraportable, convertible tablet that’s designed for demanding consumers. It’s very similar to the high-quality HP OmniBooks (and models from other, rival brands) that we’ve recently reviewed, so it’s got its work cut out to make it to the top of your shopping list. Let’s find out if it succeeds.

Asus Vivobook 14 Flip Specs

Features, Ergonomics & Design

Some of Asus’ laptops are made from elaborate materials and have eye-catching designs, but the ‘Matte Grey’ Vivobook 14 Flip isn’t one of them. It looks and feels grey and plasticy and some creaking in the chassis didn’t quite fill me with the confidence in its sturdiness that its robust siblings have so-often inspired. It doesn’t feel cheap though and the classy moniker on the front adds, at least a modicum, of style.

Opening it up reveals the (very) bright (500-nit peak), glossy, 60Hz, 14-inch, 1,920 x 1,200, HDR OLED screen. It displays a crisp and clear Windows Desktop and, being an OLED, colours are vibrant. The latter translates into multimedia performance where colourful graphics are augmented by excellent contrast and perfect, true-black performance. Both colourful and monochromatic transitions are smooth with no stepping. However, I did notice that details would often go missing in blown-out highlights and dark shadows more often than I’ve seen with rivals.

It’s got a standard, 60Hz refresh rate which means even the fast, OLED-based pixel response time can’t stop fast-moving objects getting blurry. But, this will only affect fast-and-frantic gamers.

Being a convertible tablet, it’s also a touchscreen and it even comes with the Asus Pen 2.0 stylus. It’s responsive to fingerprint-based touch and the stylus (which comes with a short, USB-C charging cable) works well with it. The screen also supports 100 per cent of the tricky DCI-P3 colour space which designers will like.

Below the display is a Scrabble-tile keyboard. As with some other convertibles, this is rather stiff and not ideal for users who type a great deal. We’ve certainly felt worse, though. The (very) squished arrow keys aren’t ideal for those with fat fingers, but at least they’re isolated in the bottom-right corner. An odd gripe here is that, although the chassis and screen are good at banishing fingerprints, the glossy-coated keys can get manky, quickly.

The Vivobook’s trackpad is smooth and accurate and is compatible with Asus’ bespoke gesture enhancements. However, these are something I usually turn off due to them being too easy to accidentally activate.

Above the screen is an excellent, Full HD webcam (with hardware privacy slide) which captures clear, noise-free video, even in low light. It’s augmented by an excellent microphone array which captures a clear voice, even in a noisy environment.

Ports & Connectivity

Inside there’s Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4, so there’s an impressive, current-gen connectivity complement.

Overall, Asus’ Vivobook 14 Flip feels like a high-quality consumer laptop that’s generally good to interact with. It’s not perfect though and the few foibles, like the important keyboard and the screen, stick in the craw somewhat, especially as its predecessors have often led the market.

Features, Ergonomics & Design Score: 3.9 / 5

Performance

The internals of our Asus Vivobook 14 Flip review unit were very similar to those of the HP OmniBook X Flip 14 that we reviewed recently. There’s a Lunar Lake-based Intel Core Ultra 7 (Series 2) 256V processor whose eight cores operate between 2.2 and 4.8GHz. It also features an NPU for Ai-optimised tasks and an octa-core Intel Arc GPU that operates at 1.95GHz. The 256V designation means that it has 16GB of integrated LPDDR5 RAM but models with a 258V variant (which has 32GB) are also available. Our review unit had a 1TB SSD for storage.

As with other recent ultraportables, I won’t dwell too much on benchmark scores, as they mostly underline what common sense says about this, and most other, ultraportable laptops. Nonetheless, the results are all listed below for reference and I’ll highlight anything significant. Our Star-rating system mathematically compares every result to every laptop on the market where one is the slowest and five is the fastest. (For a full description on what our benchmarks mean and how we test laptops, click here.)

General Computing & CPU Tests

The first set of benchmarks focus on the performance of the CPU and the system in general and they underline the fact that the Asus Vivobook 14 Flip is more-than capable when it comes to general office tasks and media consumption. General image editing works well too, but you’ll potentially be waiting a long time if performing heavy rendering workloads.

General Computing & CPU Score: 2.6 / 5

Graphics & Gaming Performance

I started by running the GPU-variant of the UL Procyon Video Editing benchmark which uses Adobe Premiere to encode four different (900MB) 4K video files. Its score of 11,270 means that the longest workload (UHD, H.265, 60fps) took 209 seconds to complete. For comparison, an Nvidia RTX 4070-sporting Creator ultraportable can do it in 90 seconds and a Core Ultra (Series 1) ultraportable laptop can do it in 310 seconds. Weaker ultraportables can take around 10 minutes. So, it’s fine for occasional video work but you wouldn’t want to rely on it as a professional video editor. Score: 1.6 / 5

I also ran the GPU version of the UL Procyon Ai Inference benchmark and it scored 262. I still don’t know what that means. Score: 1.9 / 5

The 3DMark gaming benchmarks underlined the fact that the Asus Vivobook 14 Flip can run basic, Full HD games (even if you need to reduce detail settings and render resolutions) but nothing too strenuous.

I also ran the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 benchmark. Using default settings (chosen by the machine at native resolution) it averaged 67fps with the slowest one per cent (1% Low score) settling at 51fps. Dropping the resolution to Full HD with Minimum Settings, the Vivobook averaged 75fps with a 1% Low score of 57 fps. You might get some stuttering, but this means that CoD is generally playable on this laptop.

Cooling

Under general use, the Asus Vivobook 14 Flip runs cool and silently. However, under load, it can get warm and the fans emit an audible whoosh. It’s certainly not a hot and loud laptop though.

When I ran the 30-minute version of the Cinebench R23 benchmark, the score only dropped by 0.7 per cent, illustrating that there’s no significant thermal-related performance throttling at play.

Graphics & Gaming Score: 1.5 / 5

Portability & Battery Life

The Vivobook 14 Flip weighs 1.54KG which means that it’s not the lightest 14-inch ultraportable convertible on the market… but, it’s not heavy. The cables and power supply add an extra 331g to the mix. You shouldn’t need to carry those around much, though, as the Vivobook 14 Flip ran our PCMark 10 battery life test for a superb 28 hours and 27 minutes – just two minutes behind the OmniBook X.

It also ran the Procyon Office battery life test for 17 hours and 28 minutes although we’re starting to question how consistent this benchmark actually is.

Despite a little creaking in the plastic chassis, it’s still very robust and a military-grade MIL-STD 810H rating gives us faith that it will survive life on the road.

Portability & Battery Life Score: 3.9 / 5

Price, Value & Availability

The availability of new laptops seems to be sporadic across the entire industry. As such, I wasn’t surprised to discover that the exact review SKU of our Asus Vivobook 14 Flip has been unavailable for some time. However, you can buy the near-identical Intel 258V variant (which has 32GB of RAM) for $2,999. That’s not cheap, especially in a market that’s crowded with similar competitors, but it nonetheless represents reasonable value. If you can find it in a sale, it could be a bargain.

Value Score: 3.6 / 5

8 Alternatives To The Asus Vivobook 14 Flip

There are many, high-quality 14-inch ultraportable laptops on the market. The following offer a variety of features and can often be found on sale at bargain prices:

Asus ProArt PX13 – This 13-inch sibling might be smaller, but it’s superior in many ways. It has a powerful AMD processor and Nvidia 4070 graphics. It’s more expensive and has less battery life, though.

Asus Zenbook S 14 – If you don’t need the touchscreen, then this similarly specified laptop is the model to buy. It was our Laptop of the Year in 2024 and is still one of the best laptops you can buy.

MSI Prestige 14 AI Evo C1MG – A less-powerful, business-grade 14-inch laptop that often can be found at half the price of the Vivobook.

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition – Lenovo’s rival is a former Best Laptop. It offers similar performance, some nifty features and is often found on sale for much less money.

HP OmniBook X Flip 14 – Nearly identical to the Vivobook but usually costs almost $500 less.

Acer TravelMate P4 Spin 14 – A convertible, business-grade alternative that also costs less money.

HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 – HP’s luxurious 14-inch, ultraportable convertible costs more, but has almost no weak points.

Venom BlackBook Zero 14 Phantom – A no-nonsense 14-inch business-grade laptop with great green credentials and a seven-year, $500 trade-in guarantee.

Conclusion: Should You Buy The Asus Vivobook 14 Flip?

Asus’ Vivobook 14 Flip is a very good ultraportable, convertible laptop. But, it hasn’t blown me away, like almost every other Zenbook and Vivobook has over the past couple of years. The stiff keyboard and sluggish screen aren’t deal-breakers, but they’re foibles that you’ll need to deal with every day.

Overall, because of its current high price and with there being so many high-quality alternatives on the market, it just misses out on an award. A sale-related price crash could change things, though.

Overall Score: 3.9 / 5

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Last Updated on May 29, 2025 by Nick Ross