Zenbook Duo with two 14-inch OLED Shows

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 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 Book 9i, Razer’s Valerie, and Apple’s Sidecar). Now, it’s time for Asus to exhibit 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 definitely wished it to be extra interesting to these used to traditional notebooks however who dare to attempt one thing new, not the opposite approach 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 attainable to make use of two screens in vertical mode. In contrast, an reasonably priced model of the laptop computer is supplied with two 2K 60Hz OLED screens.

On the efficiency facet of issues, the Asus Zenbook Duo (UX8406) is predicated 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 and as much as 10.5 hours on two screens of video playback), Asus outfitted 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 obtainable. In the meantime, because the firm has disclosed all of the specs, we now have each purpose to consider the pocket book shall be obtainable sooner slightly than later. As for the value, that is an modern premium pocket book in order that it is going to be priced accordingly. Apparently, so as to add worth to the laptop computer, Asus plans to incorporate a backpack and stylus in some international locations’ product bundles.