My Asus N550JK - audio jack failure after 8 months of use (on no other laptop I have ever encountered such a problem). Moreover, for some buyers, audio jack failures went consistently with an interval of 2-3 months, I know such cases from the forums. After 2 years and 1 month, the screen panel burns out.
4 years ago I bought a Vivobook Pro 17. It was my first laptop. It died after 2 and a half years, MB defective. The laptop just stopped working, all I did was to shut it down in one night. The laptop was running the latest bios because the SSD died 6 months prior but replaced under warranty. So all being said I would not recommend an ASUS laptop, especially one with ram soldered like the one reviewed here.
Good that some manufacturers are start taking silent operation into consideration. Lets have the objective of 0 (zero) noise for office, seeing movies, listening to music, mail work.
The VivoBook doesn't exactly come with the newest hardware (Alder Lake, Ampere), but it does score points for other reasons: The Asus laptop has a bright 16-inch screen (2,560 x 1,600 pixels) in 16:10 format which has a high refresh rate (120 Hz) and great color space coverage (DCI-P3).