Whether for working from home, studying, or leisure, the ASUS Vivobook S16 has won over COMPUTER BILD readers. Its design, display, performance, and battery life were particularly praised. Minor weaknesses were hardly noticeable.
For students it’s really a no-brainer – and I would say, get it. A laptop that lasts the entire day in the classroom, and you can get your assignments, learning module, all that done – it’s a win for that in my books.
The ASUS Vivobook S16 (S3607QA) is a well-balanced ultraportable that manages to deliver on style, portability, performance, and endurance without tipping the scales — literally or figuratively.
Vivobook S16 featuring a grey metal chassis in a lightweight 16-inch body with a thickness of 1.59cm and a weight of 1.7kg. It's powered by the 8-core Snapdragon X X126100 CPU, equipped with a Hexagon NPU offering 45 TOPS of processing power. It can handle multitasking, document editing, image enhancement, basic video editing, and 4K streaming with ease. The built-in 70Wh battery offers up to 24 hours of battery life, making it a high-performance, long-lasting, and portable AI laptop choice.
If your priority is to work all day without a charger and have enough power to run office applications, browse the internet or play media smoothly, a laptop with ARM architecture is definitely the right choice. At the same time, it will delight you with a top-quality display.
The ASUS Vivobook S16 (S3607QA) is a well-rounded laptop that ticks many boxes for today’s users. It offers a big, vibrant display in a slim and portable package, excellent battery life, and future-proof AI hardware all at a reasonable price point.
the Vivobook S16 totally owns its rival with up to 17 hours of real world battery life
When you look at this laptop, it's great. The display is good, the keyboard and trackpad is great.
The Vivobook S16 has the the Snapdragon X processor: which is all about efficiency and also comes with a powerful NPU that enables Copilot+ PC features.
With a 16-inch 2.5K panel, 16GB RAM, and long battery life, this laptop offers a solid balance of power and portability
ASUS Vivobook S16 is a stylish Copilot+ PC with an 18-core Snapdragon® X2 Elite processor, offering long battery life and stunning visuals. Designed for effortless AI experiences, it’s the perfect choice for students, young professionals, and anyone seeking a balanced lifestyle.
ASUS No.1 OLED: GFK and NPD combined retail data in 2021 Q4~2024 Q2, worldwide market.
Feature Highlights
More Intelligent
Up to 80 NPU Tops for AI Multitasking
Snapdragon® X2 Elite processor (18-core)
More Productive
Up to 30+ hours for video streaming1
Enjoy 14+ hours of web browsing on a single charge*
More Secure
AI Camera for instant login
Sensitive data secured by Microsoft Pluton Technology
More Immersive
Immerse yourself in stunning 16:10 WUXGA OLED or 2.5K IPS visuals2
Enjoy vibrant audio that lets you lose track of time
More Portable
Ultra-slim and ultra-light – 1.59 cm thin3 and 1.68 kg4 light
Designed for effortless portability
More Stylish
Chic style, effortless vibe
Everyday companion
Performance
Smarter, More Powerful
Snapdragon® X2 Elite processor (18-core)
Faster content creation
Enhanced web browsing
80+ TOPS NPU for AI-driven productivity
With the latest Snapdragon® X2 Elite processor, the ASUS Vivobook S16 drives powerful and efficient multitasking across resource-intensive workloads for productivity.
CPU
40%
faster*
GPU
130%
faster*
NPU
78%
faster*
Compatibility
Seamless experiences
93%8 of the total app minutes people spend today have native versions based on research from Microsoft. Run your favorite Windows apps smoothly, whether natively or in emulation. Enjoy consistent powerful performance and intelligent efficiency wherever inspiration strikes.
Performance
AI-powered performance
Windows 11 Home
Powered by
Snapdragon® X2 Elite (18 core)
processor
Up to
18 Core
CPU
Up to
80 Tops
NPU
Qualcomm® AI Engine
Memory boost
ASUS Vivobook S16 comes with 16 GB or 32 GB LPDDR5X memory for fast, smooth multitasking and demanding workloads.
Blazing speed
Featuring 512 GB–1 TB ultra-fast M.2 NVMe™ PCIe® 4.0 SSD for rapid data access and smooth performance.
Endless power
ASUS Vivobook S16 is designed to keep up with extended workdays and streaming marathons.1
30+ hrs
Video Playback1
14+ hrs
Web Browsing*
WiFi 7 speedy, and smooth
Featuring the latest WiFi 7, it delivers ultra-fast wireless performance, up to 4.8x faster than the previous generation.
Think smarter, act faster with Copilot+ PCs
Assist
Copilot
Your everyday AI companion
Copilot8 empowers you with AI-driven search, quick summaries, and smart task management — so you can spark ideas, streamline your schedule, and stay focused on what matters most.
Copilot Voice
Hey Copilot, your shortcut to staying in flow
Mid-sentence or mid-scroll, Hey Copilot helps you keep moving forward. When you enable Hey Copilot, your voice becomes your shortcut to your thinking partner. Ask questions, bounce ideas, or get guidance from Copilot, whenever you need it.
Copilot Vision
Get help in real-time with Copilot Vision
Copilot Vision sees what you see and responds in real time, analyzing content, guiding you, and answering questions to keep you flowing — whether you’re browsing, working, or creating. You can even ask Copilot to ‘show me how’, and Copilot will highlight on the screen what to do next.9
Gaming Copilot (Beta)
Your game-time sidekick
Built into Game Bar, Gaming Copilot helps you play smarter with voice commands, screen-aware answers, and personalized tips based on your Xbox activity.10
Discover
Recall (in preview)
Stop searching. Start recalling.
Looking for a file, email, or webpage? Simply describe how you remember it, and Recall will find it in seconds.11
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Improved Windows Search
Search smarter, not harder
Use everyday language to find files, settings, or apps in an instant. Just say what you need, and Windows will take care of the rest.
Click to Do (in preview)
Interact effortlessly, stay focused.
Launch an interactive overlay that instantly offers context-sensitive actions for text and images, allowing you to summarize, refine, and even perform basic editing tasks, while staying focused.
Create
Cocreator in Paint
You sketch it. Cocreator creates it.
Let your inner artist thrive with guidance from Cocreator.
Erase in Paint
Remix your art
Use Erase in Paint to instantly take away elements of an image. It’ll be like they were never there.
Image Creator in Photos
Ideas, ideas, ideas
Explore your ideas further with many interpretations of what inspires you.
Restyle Image in Photos
It’s all about style
If you want your art to be more artistic, now you can bring different styles to your images with Restyle Image.12
Relight in Photos
Perfect lighting, every time
Position up to three lights, adjust color and focus, or use one-click presets — Relight makes lighting adjustments simple and creative.
Translate
Live Captions
Translates as you talk
When you never miss a word, you never miss a beat. Get accurate subtitles in real time with Live Captions.13
Enhance
Windows Studio Effects
Perfect your presence
Enhance your video calls with improved lighting, subtle background blur, gaze correction and more, ensuring your presentation stands out when it matters most.
Super Resolution in Photos
Revive every detail
Boost low-resolution photos up to 8x with just a few clicks, revealing crisp clarity and vivid details in every memory.
ASUS AI applications elevate your daily routine with unparalleled convenience. Seamlessly organize your multimedia library with AI-powered categorization, safeguard your privacy with AI assistance, and experience crystal-clear audio with smart noise cancelation. Embrace the future of technology with ASUS, where AI enhances every aspect of your life.
AI for organizing multimedia
StoryCube is an AI-powered digital asset-management tool, which can automatically organize your photos and videos.
ASUS AI Noise Cancelation leverages a massive deep-learning database to reduce background noise in meetings and calls, for crystal-clear audio.
Best online meeting experience
AI camera makes sure that you always look your best during virtual conferences.
Immersive experience
Display
More immersive
ASUS Vivobook S16 now offers two exceptional display options, letting you choose the one that best fits your needs. Whether you prioritize color accuracy and eye comfort or deep contrast and ultrafast response times, there’s a perfect panel for you.
See every detail
The 16:10 FHD OLED display offers deep blacks, vibrant colors, and smooth motion for a stunning visual experience.
1920 x 1200
resolution
89%
screen-to-body ratio14
16:10
aspect ratio
low blue light hardware certified
Witness the smoothness
The 16:10 2.5K IPS display delivers sharp, vibrant visuals with an anti-glare coating for clear, comfortable viewing anywhere — perfect for work, study, and more.
2560 x 1600
resolution
89%
screen-to-body ratio14
100%
sRGB
low blue light hardware certified
Tune into the future, hear every detail
Tune into the future, hear every detail
Tune into the future, hear every detail
ASUS Audio Booster
Smart Amplifier
Intuitive Design
Ease of use
ASUS Vivobook S16 is built for smooth, hassle-free use, with all the essential ports you need — no more dongles or adapters. Its enlarged touchpad, matched to the display’s aspect ratio, offers more comfortable navigation and naturally intuitive gestures.
All the ports you need
All essential ports are built in, delivering fast, seamless connectivity without the hassle of extra dongles, making your setup simpler and more convenient wherever you work.
USB 3.2 Type-A Gen 1
40 Gbps USB4® Type-C
HDMI® 2.1
USB 3.2 Type-A Gen 2
40 Gbps USB4® Type-C
Audio combo jack
Enlarged touchpad
The ErgoSense touchpad supports multitouch gestures in Windows and ASUS Smart Gestures, so you can use one, three- or four-finger shortcuts to launch frequently-used applications or instant media and system controls.
Smart Security
AI-ready security for every moment
Log in with Windows Hello facial recognition, stay protected by Microsoft Pluton’s hardware-to-cloud defenses, and enjoy smarter interactions with Voice Print Technology, which recognizes your unique voice for personalized, precise AI responses, even in a crowd.
Stay in the moment with ASUS AI camera
Elevate your experience with our AI-powered camera. It tracks your presence, automatically dimming when you look away for uninterrupted focus and comfort.
Unlock, instantly
Windows Hello Infrared (IR) camera allows you to unlock your laptop quickly and securely.
Microsoft Pluton
Passkeys are built into the CPU, with sensitive data securely stored on your device.
Software
Truly personalized workflow
ASUS software elevates your experience with smart tools: MyASUS boosts productivity with handy apps, ASUS GlideX expands your workspace with cross-device screen sharing, and ScreenXpert streamlines window management across displays.
MyASUS
MyASUS lets you easy access to ASUS apps that are designed to help you maintain your system and optimize your PC’s performance.
ASUS consumer laptops meet the ultra-demanding MIL-STD 810H military standard16 for reliability and durability, undergoing a punishing test regime that includes extended tests for operation in harsh environments. These factors also help improve the laptops’ longevity and hence their sustainability, so you can work, travel or relax with the confidence that your ASUS laptop is ready for the real world — today, and long into the future.
Environment
Sustaining an incredible future
We always search for the incredible, and we believe that you, too, share our passion for minimizing our environmental impact on the world. Our serious commitment to environment, social, and governance (ESG) issues aims to empower you and everyone else we work with to push forward for a more sustainable future. Let’s become sustainable — together.
Conference calls can be single-presenter or multi-presenter, gathered around a single laptop with voices coming from various directions. With the upgraded system enabled via the MyASUS app, it detects and optimizes audio from either one direction or from all directions — ensuring top conference call audio quality.
Single presenter conference call
Single-presenter conference call mode can filter out noise and other voices, and ensures only the voice in front of laptop can be heard. When you switch on the Target Speaker Tracking mode it can even target and track new talkers within a 180° arc, making the feature ideal for recording large groups as well as for individuals.
Target Speaker Tracking
Target Speaker Tracking
Multi-presenter conference call
Multi-presenter conference call mode filters out ambient noise whilst identifying multiple voices from all directions and distances, so all voices can be heard more clearly.
Multi-presenter Mode
Always look your best
For the best video-call experience, the AI camera with Windows Studio effects ensures you always look your best during virtual conferences.
Blurs the background to protect your privacy while doing video conference calls at home.
Automatically detects your eye movements and adjusts your gaze so you appear to be looking directly at the camera.
Automatically detects and follows your motion for a better webcam experience while you are moving around.
ASUS 3D Noise Reduction (3DNR) Technology significantly upgrades the webcam image clarity for clearer conference calls.
Uncompromised audio
Powered by Snapdragon Sound™ technology, it delivers high-resolution, lossless music streaming over Bluetooth with superior connectivity and ultra-low latency. Whether listening or calling, enjoy wireless audio and spatial sound with stunning clarity15.
Original audio
Lossy audio
Lossless audio (Snapdragon sound)
Type longer. Tire less. Stay in the zone.
Your fingers glide across a full-size layout built for speed and comfort, so you type faster with fewer mistakes and less fatigue. Contoured key caps gently guide your fingertips to the sweet spot, and a responsive, low-effort key travel keeps your rhythm, so long work sessions feel easier, not harder.
We tune the keys so feedback feels consistent and natural, nothing fiddly, just a confident, comfortable typing experience every time.
Optimal click ratio: Engineered to perfection
Multitouch gestures
The ErgoSense touchpad supports multitouch gestures in Windows and ASUS Smart Gestures, so you can use one, three- or four-finger shortcuts to launch frequently-used applications or instant media and system controls.
One-finger smart gestures
With smart gestures just wipe the touchpad edge with one finger for instant volume, brightness, and video playback.
Three-finger gestures: Switch between apps
Swipe up with three fingers to view open windows, down to show the desktop, and left or right to switch apps.
Four-finger gestures: Switch between desktops
Swipe left or right with four fingers on the touchpad.
Smooth, quiet control that keeps you moving.
A larger, silky-smooth touchpad makes navigation effortless, while refined click mechanics and silent-touch tech reduce accidental taps and noisy clicks — perfect for focused work or quiet meetings.
Enhanced click depth
Softer, natural clicks with reduced accidental activations (0.23 mm click depth).
Quiet touchpad
Silent-touch design, quiet clicks, less distraction.
Ultra-smooth touchpad
Ultra-smooth, hydrophobic surface, scroll like it’s silk.
Anti-fingerprint touchpad
Durable, anti-fingerprint coating — easy to clean and stays fresh after heavy use.
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