It’s beautifully built and, if you really make use of those dual screens, it could be killer. All of which makes the Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED a bit niche. The battery life of under seven hours of video playback, even with the secondary screen disabled, is a bit disappointing too. Either way, we’ve seen that chip run quite a bit quicker in larger laptops. Switch to the high-performance mode and that increases to 3.2GHz and is accompanied by some serious fan noise. At default settings, the 12900H drops down to 2.9GHz under sustained loads. But it’s also somewhat constrained in this chassis, never mind the supposedly heightened airflow. The Intel Core i9-12900H is a beast, no question. Nor, strictly speaking, is the performance. It’s still a nice keyboard, but the ergonomics are hardly ideal. The catch is that the whole design inevitably crushes the keyboard to the bottom of the chassis and pushes the trackpad to the bottom right. For sure, it’s a breeze to arrange windows and swap applications between the two screens using Asus’s software tools.īut the second screen does by far its best work when you load it up with toolbars, timelines, palettes, and content creation control elements. You could use it to host collaborative tools such as Slack or maybe a streaming media client like Spotify. The shape means it’s not much use for web browsing or even for an email client. On the other hand, the shallowness of the secondary screen could be an issue. As you open the lid, the lower screen hinges up to not only provide better viewing but also increased airflow. Do the dual screens actually make sense? The engineering is certainly slick. If that’s the specs in full, arguably the really interesting aspect of this laptop involves ergonomics and usability. You can support the site directly via Paypal donations ☕. TNR earns Amazon affiliate commissions from qualifying purchases.But then it needs to be with all the display hardware to power. The battery is a 76Wh affair, so pretty beefy for a 14-inch laptop. Along with an unexciting 720p webcam, you get a four-array microphone and a speaker system by Harman Kardon. Connectivity is amply covered by WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2. It’s really only the latter that seems a little stingy in an otherwise epic list of specs.įiner details include dual USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 support for uber-fast access to external storage, an SD Express 7.0 card reader, a legacy USB-A port in high-speed 3.2 spec, and an HDMI 2.1 port for 4K output at 120Hz. Rounding out the main features are 32GB of DDR5 memory and a 1TB Samsung PCIe Gen 4 SSD. Both screens are compatible with Microsoft Pen Protocol styluses.ĭoing the heavy lifting is Intel’s mighty Core i9-12900H with six Alder Lake era performance cores and eight efficiency cores, while graphics are via Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 Ti. The secondary screen is IPS rather than OLED and 12.7-inch diagonal, but the same panel width and horizontal resolution of 2,880 pixels. The main 14.5-inch OLED panel rocks 2,880 by 1,800 pixels in a 16:10 aspect arrangement and cranks out 550 nits of brightness and 0.2ms response to go along with the 120Hz refresh. Both panels are also stylus and inking compatible, the connectivity is outstanding, there’s some proper audio and a half-decent GPU, not to mention one of Intel’s finest mobile CPUs. That’s better than most pro-grade content creation monitors can muster. That OLED panel? It only covers fully 100 percent of the demanding DCI-P3 digital cinema color space. Welcome, then, to Asus’s latest masterwork, the Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED.
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