2026 is going to be the year of the laptop, and I just got my first taste of it with the new Asus Vivobook 14 — sporting AMD’s new Ryzen AI 400 series processor. And in short, even the boring notebooks are turning out to be pretty great.
I’m getting serious flashbacks to the Dell 14 Plus when using it. I mean, if laptops had personalities, the Vivobook 14 would be the kind to own exactly one pair of jeans and get way too excited telling you about a trip to buy granola. And with the energy of a calendar reminder, Asus has worked quietly on the fundamentals that make this a solid all-rounder.
