Trendy higher-end 14 and 16-inch-class notebooks supply efficiency that’s sufficient for the overwhelming majority of productiveness and even content material creation workloads. Consequently, the principle limitation of pocket book’s capabilities in lots of circumstances is their inadequate display screen actual property. Over the previous few years, a number of main PC makers have made quite a few makes an attempt to repair this (e.g., Lenovo’s Yoga E book 9i, Razer’s Valerie, and Apple’s Sidecar). Now, it’s time for Asus to show its imaginative and prescient.
The Asus Zenbook Duo (UX8406) is a dual-screen 14-inch-class laptop computer with a removable keyboard that works as a traditional pocket book with one show, a machine with two touchscreens, a laptop computer with two displays, or a desktop mode. The pocket book takes some pages from Lenovo’s Yoga E book 9i, however Asus actually wished it to be extra interesting to these used to traditional notebooks however who dare to strive one thing new, not the opposite means round.
The Asus Zenbook Duo has a thickness of 1.9 cm (0.75 inches) and weighs 1.4 kilograms (3.09 lbs), thinner and lighter than Apple’s MacBook Professional 14. The premium model of the machine comes with two 3K 120Hz OLED 120Hz screens (with VESA’s True Black 500 badge) and a kickstand to make it doable to make use of two screens in vertical mode. Against this, an inexpensive model of the laptop computer is provided with two 2K 60Hz OLED screens.
On the efficiency aspect of issues, the Asus Zenbook Duo (UX8406) relies on as much as Intel’s Core Extremely 9 185H ‘Meteor Lake’ processor (16 cores, 22 threads) with built-in Arc graphics that may be paired with as much as 32 GB of LPDDR5X reminiscence, and as much as 1 TB of SSD storage with a PCIe 4.0 interface.
As for connectivity, the Asus Zenbook Duo (UX8406) contains a Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth adapter, two Thunderbolt 4 connectors, an HDMI 2.1 show output, a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Kind-A port, and a 3.5-mm audio jack for headsets.
To make sure lengthy battery life (as much as 13.5 hours with one display screen and as much as 10.5 hours on two screens of video playback), Asus geared up its Zenbook Duo with a slightly huge 75Wh battery.
For now, Asus doesn’t disclose the pricing of its Zenbook Duo (UX8406) or when it’s set to be out there. In the meantime, because the firm has disclosed all of the specs, we have now each motive to consider the pocket book can be out there sooner slightly than later. As for the value, that is an progressive premium pocket book in order that it will likely be priced accordingly. Apparently, so as to add worth to the laptop computer, Asus plans to incorporate a backpack and stylus in some nations’ product bundles.
Supply: Asus
