Asus ZenBook 13 OLED review (UM325SA – AMD Ryzen 7 5800U Cezanne)

13 Comments

  1. John SMith

    May 19, 2021 at 7:24 am

    Uhhhh, where are the screen metrics like brightness and brightness distribution???

    • Andrei Girbea

      May 19, 2021 at 9:41 am

      Why don't you just read the article… ?

  2. John

    May 19, 2021 at 10:57 pm

    Why wouldn't you recommend ryzen 7 for theses laptops? And why is ryzen 5600U better?

    Thanks

    • Andrei Girbea

      May 20, 2021 at 10:04 am

      I thought that was pretty clear from the article, but the reason is that the Ryzen 7 models don't deliver their best in this sort of an ultracompact chassis, and the Ryzen 5 models are cheaper and closer to their potential

  3. Kurt

    May 20, 2021 at 2:56 am

    Any issues with OLED screen-door effect with grainy static images or fuzzy text looking at the screen up close?

    • Andrei Girbea

      May 20, 2021 at 10:09 am

      not to my eyes, but I found the whole screen experience to be subjective. Like I said, OLED might not be for everyone and I'd recommend checking them in person and decide if they're OK for you or not. I'm rather concerned about gray-bending and black crushing, plus burning, but I haven't had any issue with the texts looking fuzzy on the OLEDs that I've tried.

      • Kurt

        May 20, 2021 at 11:49 am

        Thanks that's very good to know, even though I'm interested in the Asus Vivobook Pro with OLED.

      • Andrei Girbea

        May 20, 2021 at 12:19 pm

        Is that available in stores? I know it's been announced a while ago, but I haven't touched it yet

  4. Negative Ghostrider

    May 21, 2021 at 11:37 am

    So would you recommend paying the premium for the 5800u on a machine to be used for Lightroom/PS, some light video work, and music production (Ableton), or would a Ryzen 5 or Intel model be a better value? Resolve/Premiere and Ableton are going to love the multithreading but if heat throttling kills the potential extra performance, why bother spending more?

    • Andrei Girbea

      May 21, 2021 at 11:41 am

      I'd say probably not, but that depends on whether you can get the 5600U with 16 GB of RAM (which is what I consider the best value config on this unit) and the price difference between 5600 and 5800. If you can't get 16 GB with the Ryzen 5 then the 5800U upgrade is a must. And then if the Ryzen 7 model is just a little bit more expensive (~100 USD/EUR), I'd also get the Ryzen 7.

  5. O635789

    June 4, 2021 at 2:48 pm

    I'm in the U.S. but considering to buy a Zenbook in Europe since it seems ASUS doesn't want to ship their best products over here. May I ask what keyboard layout are they selling in Europe? The particular model I'm interested in is UM425QA-KI007T, they are listing different model UM425QA-PURE3 in Scandinavia, I guess some of them would have localized keyboard.

    • Andrei Girbea

      June 4, 2021 at 3:00 pm

      Tricky. As far as I know, they use localized keyboards for most of the different European countries. I don't think you can tell much about the included keyboard based on that code number, you'd have to check with the store and ask about it