Asus Zenbook Duo 2024 review: A near-perfect dual screen laptop

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The newest iteration of the Asus Zenbook Duo (2024) is right for content material creation due to its double display. The further display permits you to increase your workspace whereas nonetheless having a full-size keyboard. It’s the very best of each worlds, actually. It’s just like the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i when it comes to idea, nevertheless it’s greater and extra highly effective. It has additionally been high quality stamped with the MIL-STD-810H sturdiness check, which suggests it’s greater than able to dealing with the every day abuses of life. It’s not unreasonably heavy both, particularly when in comparison with different highly effective 2-in-1’s. While the design is slightly too angular for our liking, total it’s a reasonably good machine. Read on to be taught extra.

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Asus Zenbook Duo 2024: Work all day

It additionally has extra battery energy in-built, with a strong runtime of eight to 12 hours of blended use throughout a workday, or as much as 15 hours when working low. Heavy duties like video rendering and 3D modelling can drain the battery sooner. It’s good that the pc comes with a minimal charger, the smallest and lightest 65-watt adapter I’ve ever seen.

The keyboard is full-size, with each keyboard and separate mouse pad, the place Lenovo’s solely has a half-height keyboard and makes use of the display as a mouse pad. So, the Zenbook Duo is each thicker and heavier, because it folds up with the keyboard half on.

Asus’ keyboard resolution has clear benefits. You know the place you could have the keyboard, and an actual mouse pad offers significantly better mouse management. Everything in regards to the keyboard feels like every high quality laptop computer to work on and use. There’s even loads of journey within the well-built keys, for a laptop computer anyway, and you may activate backlighting within the keyboard.

The solely factor I miss is the fingerprint reader, however you possibly can log in with IR-supported facial recognition, a separate digicam for which sits subsequent to a well-approved 1080p webcam. As the Zenbook Duo is provided with Intel’s new Core Ultra processor, Core Ultra 7 155H to be precise, it has entry to inbuilt NPU and the brand new AI options that elevate the standard and performance of the webcam, computerized background blurring, eye contact filter, and dynamic framing of your face. You additionally get good noise cancelation for the microphone.

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Asus Zenbook Duo 2024: CPU can deal with most duties

There’s a noticeable increase in efficiency from earlier generations of Intel processors, not least due to built-in Arc graphics that give it loads of computing energy in lots of packages, and even make it potential to play easy video games. As lengthy as you stick to 1 display, set it to 1080p mode, and don’t have excessive body price necessities.

But no, that’s not the aim of the pc, however flexibility, productiveness, and creativity are paramount. The methods you possibly can fold and arrange the pc are many. On its aspect like a folded-up e-book, flat on the desk to work with the included lively stylus, or upright with two screens on the top and the keyboard in entrance. The solely factor lacking for full flexibility is the 360-degree flip display. You can’t set it up as a double photograph body.

Despite brisk efficiency, the pc isn’t overly sizzling or has intense cooling. In efficiency mode, a setting that may be activated within the My Asus management software program, the followers are at their loudest and even then they’re not more than reasonably loud. However, the pc shouldn’t be fully silent even when the followers are stationary. There’s a definite whirring and clicking from the electronics, which generally is a potential supply of irritation.

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Asus Zenbook Duo 2024: Smooth inking expertise

The pen has a snug grip and gives good management with good stress sensitivity and tilt, so long as you employ the appropriate drawing program to take advantage of it, it turns into actually skilled. You additionally get a choice of totally different pen suggestions that present totally different quantities of paper really feel to make use of. The pen must be charged through USB-C earlier than pairing with Bluetooth. Unlike the sleek keyboard, which costs and communicates with floor contact when it’s in place.

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With high-quality screens, 1800p decision, full OLED distinction and dynamics, and modes for SRGB, this is a wonderful pc for every kind of media creation. Setting up the Zenbook Duo and modifying video on twin screens is one thing I might shortly turn out to be hooked on… if I can afford it.

The pc prices $1,499.99. It’s not precisely a price range selection, nevertheless it’s completely cheap for what you get and nicely well worth the funding if you happen to’re an bold creator who doesn’t really feel the necessity to optimize weight. If you purchase it straight from Asus, they throw in a useful backpack. A easy carrying case can be all the time included within the bundle. You’ll additionally discover an attachment for the pen, which in any other case has a sure danger of being misplaced, as there’s no approach to connect it to the pc.

This evaluation was translated from Swedish to English and initially appeared on pcforalla.se.