Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I can’t go back 🥲”.
When our friends over at ASUS, hit me up and said, “, Hey, we’ve got this brand new laptop we’re launching at CES.. Can you take a look at it? Can we sponsor a video ?”? I said “ Hell, yeah brother.”, Because when you see what’s inside this box, not only is it dope, it’s actually priced reasonably, unlike a lot of the wonderful things that get announced at CES every year, which are astronomically expensive and ship after, like a year., This thing Is going on sale shortly and it is, I will say, actually reasonable. Standard caveats. This is a pre-production unit, so I’m gon na have to be a little bit careful with it.. I don’t have at this moment the exact release date, but this is the new ZenBook Duo.. The idea is that this is a laptop which essentially is very similar in form factor to a normal laptop, except that it has a detachable keyboard and two completely separate OLED displays., Oh snap.. Oh I knew this was coming.. I knew I was gon na be able to play with this before CES, which is when you’re watching this video, but I’ve been waiting to get my hands on it. So from the outside. This might look like a standard laptop., But when you open it up, what you’re gon na see is that we have a beautiful 14-inch, OLED and a detachable keyboard with a second OLED inside..
So the advantage to something like this is that you have two full-sized 14-inch displays in the laptop form factor and there are a ton of different modes of how you can actually use this. The kicker. It costs $ 1,500..
Now, yes, that is a lot of money. When you consider that other dual-screen laptops are $ 2,000 plus, and these foldable laptops can go to be four or $ 5,000. In some cases, the fact that this is only a little bit more expensive than an equivalent ZenBook and has two whole displays on it. ( clicks tongue, ) man..
There should also be a number of accessories, because this is well. This is a real special laptop. Yeah. I don’t know why it comes with a backpack..
I’Ll, be honest. That seems a little excessive.. It’S a nice backpack.. While it boots up, it does have ….
Oh it’s already logged in. Ha ha. I knew that. ( ethereal music, ) Wow, wait! That’S neat.! Let’S go on a journey of discovery, shall we So this is the ZenBook Duo running in what I would call traditional laptop mode.? So I’ve got my keyboard. I’Ve got my track. Pad.
Everything seems to be completely normal. When it’s running in this configuration. The bottom display is off, and this keyboard and track pad are attached via these pogo pins and magnets right. So you don’t have to charge anything like that..
If I want, I can take off the keyboard and then it switches over to wireless mode, and then the second display turns on as well. It will charge via the device or it does have a USB-C.. So technically you could actually plug this in wired, connect it via wireless or drop it straight on.. So it’s a lot of different modes for the keyboard specifically.
And then, if I pull out the kickstand which is built onto the bottom, I have myself a huge amount of screen real estate.. And then I have a wireless keyboard and track pad, which literally just feels like the bottom of a laptop. Yeah. It is completely flawless.
And the other thing that makes this cool is that these displays are OLED., So you’ve got dual 2.8K 120 Hertz OLED panels.. So inside this is running the new Intel Core 7 Ultra 155H, which means it is a proper H-series processor.. It has the Arc graphics.
This one’s outfitted with 32-gigabytes of RAM.. So while this doesn’t have a dedicated GPU, you still have the neural processing with the NPU. That’S built in.
And again it is the H-series of these processors, which is not what you might expect from a thin and light sort of laptop with dual displays.. So, while you’re not gon na, probably want to game on it, or would you Wait wait? Can I do vertical gaming? How cool is this? On top of that? There is a mode and I don’t know how it works, but you can put this on its side.. Oh, you rotate it., That’s how it goes on its side.. Now. The only thing is, I don’t know how it stands. [ Ken ].
You don’t need the stand., You don’t need the stand.. Oh, it literally stands up by itself. [ Ken ] Yeah yeah.. Now let me actually see there’s a bunch of other stuff that I know is included here., So we’ve got ourselves. The power adapter, but also included, is the ASUS Pen.. So, of course, both displays are full touchscreens., And on top of that, I’m not gon na personally.
Do this, but if you wanted to you, could just take the keyboard and get rid of it and you actually can. I think it’s six fingers. Yeah. So this is a little bit strange, but look you can if you want turn on a software keyboard and touch pad.? I don’t fully know why you would wan na do this, if I’m honest with you, because you have a very nice keyboard and touch pad that are included in the box..
But technically I could type like this.. Oh well, yeah, I will say the glass touch pad. Does actually feel kind of cool right, I mean look at this., That’s kind of neat.. Oh, that actually does feel kind of nice.
It does, and if you want, you can press this button and the touch pad is the full size.. Oh, that’s why I would want to use this.. Okay, hear me out, hear me out., Like it’s cool, that you’re doing this on a desk, but here’s the idea. Put that on.
Come join me here.. You know some cafes have those like setups, where they have the couch and then like a coffee table in the middle. You know a little lounge setup. Put that here., Like just the laptop. Nope, no, no, no no.! First of all, we’re in public., Oh oh., Put the laptop here. Laptop here: Yeah, do the kickstand., Kickstand Yep. And now grab your keyboard and lounge back.. Oh, my God. It works. ( Ken laughs, ) Now boom.
Look at this.. I’Ve got myself a dual-screen display that I’m using just as if it was right, here. And honestly, like the tracking and the Bluetooth, everything feels really strong..
Let me spend a little bit of time with this.. I know that there are actually a couple of other modes and a couple of other things that we can do, but man that is so cool. Now that I’ve spent some time with the ZenBook Duo.
I have a lot of thoughts. So first and foremost is the actual spec of this model.. So this is a review unit, so it actually has a slightly different sort of configuration.. So this one is outfitted with the new Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, although you can also outfit it with a Core Ultra 9.. The other thing is the price., So the base model of the ZenBook Duo does start at $ 1,500.. I’Ll talk a little bit more about that in a minute, but there’s one important caveat., So that model has a slightly lower resolution display..
So that starts with a 1200p display, or rather two 1200p displays., Whereas the model I have here has two 1800p displays. Before I tell you about all the great stuff. Let me just give you a couple of the minor trade-offs, because there are some. They’re minor, but there are some. So, first and foremost, there’s actually the weight., As you would expect, adding two displays to a laptop and having a detachable keyboard track pad, as well as A hinge on the back does add some weight., So this weighs 3.6 pounds, which is a little on the hefty side for a productivity laptop without a dedicated GPU..
In fact for context the brand new ROG Zephyrus G14 – that ASUS also make this actually weighs in at only 3.3 pounds., So it’s lighter weight than this and it has a full RTX, 4070 inside.. Although, if I’m being honest, it’s not really a fair comparison, because again, you do have those dual displays. Now when it comes to using it in laptop mode, you’ll notice, the heft right I’ll just be honest, you do notice that it’s a little bit on the heavy Side.
And I can also say the same thing about the kickstand. At first glance – it looks a little bit janky because it is sort of really bolted onto the back.. It’S not really integrated into the back of the laptop, in a way that I would like to see..
That being said, because this is not an optional accessory, this is not like some stands that you have to. You know unfold out of the box.. It is always attached to the back of the laptop..
It means that it is essentially effortless to set the laptop down pop the kickstand out, pull the keyboard off and you are instantly ready to go with that. Dual-Screen action., It is mildly, annoying to feel when it’s on your lap.. But honestly, it’s small enough and it’s not that thick, so it doesn’t really bother. Me. Now you’re probably wondering what’s battery life like on a dual-screen laptop Well, the answer is pretty good or not so great, based ( laughs, ) on how you use it., So ASUS thought ahead and outfitted this with a quite large 75-watt-hour battery.. Now I’ve primarily used it in dual-screen mode with the brightness high and both screens running at 120 Hertz. With that and normal use.
You know not super demanding stuff web browsing. That kind of thing I’m getting about four to five hours of battery life., But the number one way to improve your battery life is a simple one. Put the keyboard on and turn off that second display.. At that point, you’re going to get something closer to probably seven to eight hours, I would say for normal use, which is, in my opinion, enough for most people to get through a pretty solid workday.. Considering the pricing, considering what they’ve been able to do, ASUS have absolutely knocked it out of the park..
I never really thought that a dual-screen laptop or a foldable laptop was all that interesting to me. Personally., Like I’ve always thought that the laptop form factor is terrific, but the cleverness of this design and the way that they’ve engineered it both on the hardware and the software side. ( hands clapping ). Thank you very much for watching this video..
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And, if you’ll excuse me I’ll, be at CES, taking lots of notes on my neat-o dual-screen laptop.. Oh boy, .