ASUS Vivobook Pro 14 OLED (M3401) review

The $399 OLED ticket with a real graphics card

The 2021 Vivobook Pro 14 OLED (M3401) puts a six-core Ryzen 5 5600H and an RTX 3050 with 4 GB behind a 14-inch OLED panel, at a ticket of $399. Graphics performance measures 63.1 against a class median of 27.24 — well into the top quarter of the catalog. General performance reads 59.12, mid band, and the value index tops out at 86.05.

The one honest trade is memory: 16 GB sits half below the class median of 32, and the verdict block names it as the machine's flagged weakness. Everything else holds level: photo and design 88 top, office 77.19 high, portability 71.3 high.

Receipts on the flag sheet

Overwatch, Grand Theft Auto V, and Rainbow Six Siege clear recommended bars; Photoshop and Visual Studio Code clear minimums. A 3050 at $399 with a full green sheet is the rarest combination on the budget shelf — usually one of the two gives.

Depreciation math

The anchor is 11.13% yearly with no base price attached. Five years in, at $399, the remaining exposure is small in absolute terms — the machine is already priced like a commodity, and the value index says it is priced honestly for what it carries.

Who should buy it

Someone who wants the OLED-and-dGPU experience without the financing. Accept the 16 GB ceiling as the cost of the ticket; the panel, the card, and the green flags are the product.

Bottom line: the columns a budget buyer reads first all clear — graphics 63.1 at more than double the shelf median, photo 88 top, value 86.05 top — and five green flags confirm the card and the tools. The 16 GB memory line and the mid-band performance at 59.12 are the honest scope; at $399 with an OLED panel behind it, the scope is the ticket, not the trap. Five years of depreciation have already been paid by whoever came first; the current buyer purchases the remaining utility, and the value index says there is plenty of it.