ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED (T3300) review: It is a versatile, detachable laptop!

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Tagged the world’s first 13.3-inch OLED windows detachable laptop, the versatile Vivobook 13 Slate OLED adapts to your needs…
ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate

The recently launched ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED (T3300) is a versatile device that can be a laptop in a minute and a tablet in a twinkle of an eye.

Tagged the world’s first 13.3-inch OLED windows detachable laptop, the versatile Vivobook 13 Slate OLED adapts to your needs. Whatever the usage scenario is; watch, type, draw, write, or just listen — the choice is yours, in either landscape or portrait mode, with or without a keyboard.

How do the specs deliver an ultimate user experience?

Impressive Visual Experience

The ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is equipped with a 13.3-inch 16:9 OLED HDR display with 1920 x 1080 resolution, a peak brightness of 550 nits and 0.0005 nits of deep black brightness, providing a brighter and more detailed viewing experience.

It also offers an ultrawide colour gamut of 100% DCI-P3 with PANTONE® Validation, a standard for the motion-picture industry.  Like other ASUS OLED Display laptops, the Vivobook 13 Slate delivers exceptionally detailed and realistic visuals, with a cinema-grade 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut.

To assure that HDR content will appear vivid and life-like, with accurate colour and contrast reproduction, the display is also certified VESA DisplayHDR™ 500 True Black and Dolby Vision.

ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate

Powering Your Performance

Powered by Windows 11 Home and Intel® Pentium® Silver N6000 Processor 1.1 GHz, it’s not just versatile, it’s powerful! Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is fuelled by a quad-core Intel processor with up to 3.3 GHz and top-class components that let you power through your everyday tasks.

And what’s more, Intel Bridge Technology lets you run any Android app on Windows 11 Home, opening up a whole new world of productivity and entertainment.

Audio Experience that Soothes the Ears

Powered by Dolby Atmos, the ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED features four built-in speakers. Dolby Atmos provides an all-new listening experience that lets users hear music, movies, or podcasts in a detailed aural environment, with perfect clarity and lifelike spatial separation.

With a plethora of equalizer settings, users can use the pre-sets or tune them to their audio tastes.

Type and Touch in Style with the Detachable Keyboard

The ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is bundled with a slim and detachable keyboard. To provide the best typing and productivity experience, the detachable keyboard features full-size keys, a 19.05 mm pitch (the distance between the middle of a key to the middle of its adjacent key), 0.2 mm key-cap dish, and 1.4 mm key travel.

It is securely held onto the tablet section with a set of strong magnets, a pair of guiding slots, and a set of “pogo pin” connectors that ensure an instant connection – so the keyboard is ready to use instantly as soon as it is snapped on.

Better Connections than you can Imagine

You’ll never be short of connections for your gadgets with Vivobook 13 Slate OLED. From a connectivity point of view, the Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is impressive. It features a built-in dual-band Intel Wi-Fi 6 with Gig+, Bluetooth 5.2, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C® ports, which can support data transfer, DisplayPort, and power delivery.

ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate

In addition, the ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED also offers a 3.5mm combo audio jack and a microSD card reader, which could read our SanDisk micro-SD cards at 100 MB per second, and the aforementioned headset jack that combines a microphone and stereo headphones, typical of most laptops.

The USB-C® Easy Charge support means that the ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED can be used with a wide range of standard USB-C chargers (5V-20V).

Users can enjoy ultrafast charging with any PD (Power Delivery) certified charger, including the 65-watt fast-charge adapter supplied with the ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED, or juice up your device on the go with airline chargers or power banks! It’s incredibly convenient when there are no wall sockets available, such as on flights or in vehicles.

Long Battery Life and Fast Charge

The ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is powered by a 50Whr Li-Po battery with 65W fast charging support function that charges the battery from 0% to 60% in about 40 minutes. The device’s 50Whr battery helps to keep you going for longer, providing over 9 hours of battery life on a single charge.

It also features integrated ASUS Battery Health Charging technology (A charge mode setting at MyASUS software) that’s designed to reduce battery expansion during charging to help ensure that the battery stays in good condition, increasing battery longevity.

The All-New ASUS Pen 2.0 Stylus

ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate

Whether you’re retouching pictures, making designs, or just taking notes, you’re sure going to be love everything about this stylus pen. The ASUS Pen 2.0 supports 4096-level pressure sensitivity and as low as 5g of pen tip force for creating those fine details.

It also has 4 interchangeable pen tips (2H, HB, H, and B) for various use case scenarios to meet the user’s writing or drawing preference.

The ASUS Pen 2.0 supports charging via a hidden USB-C port. You can charge up to 100% in just 30min which gets you over 140hours of use. Another feature of ASUS Pen 2.0 is its one-click launch via Bluetooth, allowing you to easily capture a screenshot, jump to the next page of a presentation or launch Microsoft Whiteboard seamlessly.

ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED Specifications
Lid materialAluminium alloy
ProcessorIntel® quad-core Pentium® Silver N6000, up to 3.3 GHz
Operating systemWindows 11 Pro/Windows 11 Home/Window 11 Home S
Display13.3” FHD OLED 1920X1080 (16:9), 550-nit peak brightness 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut
GraphicsIntel® UHD integrated graphics
MemoryUp to 8GB LPDDR4X
StorageUp to 128 GB eMMC Up to 256 GB PCIe® Gen 3.0 x4 SSD
WirelessDual-band 2×2 Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) with Bluetooth® 5.2
Connectivity2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C with display / Power Delivery support 1 x 3.5mm audio combo jack 1 x MicroSD card reader
Battery life50Whr lithium-ion battery with over 9 hours of battery life
CameraFront: 5M Rear: 13M
Detachable KeyboardFull‑size keyboard with 1.4 mm key travel, 19.05 mm key pitch, 0.2mm key-cap dish
StylusASUS Pen 2.0 with MPP2.0 and 4096-level pressure sensitivity supported 5-350g pen tip force, 266 sampling rate USB-C charging design with over 140 hours of battery life
AudioQuad stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos
Size309.9 x 190 x 7.9 mm
WeightTablet: 785 g Keyboard: 335 g Cover stand: 270 g Stylus: 15g
ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate

For what it’s worth if you want a versatile device in a very portable and lightweight laptop, the ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED should be under your consideration.

Learn more about the Vivobook 13 Slate OLED (T3300) here.


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