Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is one incredible laptop, probably one of the best I've ever owned. I purchased it for $1599 on launch day right before the prices went up same day. I'm impressed with it's performance, weight, battery life and design. Pros - Performance: The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2-94-100 is insanely fast. It is probably the fastest mobile chip on Windows right now. It blows away the overly hyped Intel panther lake chips and AMD. It's not even close. For reference these are the scores that I got in some benchmarks Geekbench 6.6 -> 3821 single, 23070 multi Cinebench 2026 -> 637 single, 7112 multi Speedometer 3.1 -> 45 - Graphics: The graphics has been improved massively over the previous gen which was the main weakpoint. most games are now playable on low to medium settings. I played Cyberpunk 2077 at medium settings I was getting around 64 fps, Shadow of Tomb Raider I got 54 fps - Weight: When I first picked it up, I was blown away by how light weight it felt. I measured it at 1310g and it is probably one of the lightest 16 inch laptops I've ever used. - Display: This is gorgeous, the colors pop and gets crazy bright - 48GB of RAM for this price is insane. It's also super fast 9533 MT/s - Ceraluminum feels really nice to touch, you just feel like you want to touch it often - Battery life is solid though it's not spectacular. On Chrome browser playing Norway 4k on Youtube at 4K resolution at 50% brightness in power efficiency and whisper mode, I got 13 hours - The SSD is easily replacable so that's another bonus - The touchpad while not haptic feels buttery smooth and nice to use. - This Best Buy exclusive version has touch which is great, which makes the display look premium and get rids of those ugly cheap black borders in the nontouch variants - Windows on ARM: There are very minimal compatibility issues now and almost everything works. The performance is great, and quite faster when compared to using regular x86 laptops Cons: - It would have been nice if the battery was slightly higher capacity like 83Wh or maybe even 99Wh for a slight increase in weight would have made it perfect - There is no webcam privacy shutter - There are lot of reflections on the display which can be very distracting when working outdoors. There needs to be some sort of antiglare coating - There is lot of empty space around the keyboard which could have been used to place some upward firing speakers. All the speakers are at bottom

Laptop is great. Very fast. The trackpad is OK, it’s reasonably accurate but not haptic. It’s mid tier. The rest of the machine is fantastic. Display is great, ports are great, cpu is awesome. Wicked fast. Keyboard is great too, better than I was expecting.

Laptop: Very portable and easy to handle. It is powerful and does not heat up at all, and does not make fan noises with simple tasks.

This laptop has a great screen, adequate battery life, and in whisper mode is very quiet. It has great CPU performance. The graphics aren't as good as latest offerings from Intel or AMD but they're good enough. The main pros: 1. Great CPU performance 2. Whisper mode is genuinely quiet 3. I like the feel of the finish, but your mileage may vary. 4. The display is great overall. High refresh rate, decent pixel density. 5. Lots of memory The main problems: 1. Touchpad is wobbly at certain angles. Feels cheap. 2. Windows on Arm still doesn't work with everything. Especially games. 3. Screen is highly reflective. 4. Lightweight comes at expense - the battery is only 70 WHr. Overall I am happy with this laptop, especially considering the price.

I'm coming from a Snapdragon X1 based Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x which I was extremely happy with (now being handed down to my parents). The X2 based Zenbook A16 is an upgrade in every way that matters. Can't get over how cool and quiet this stays even on regular-heavy load. Windows ARM has matured a lot of the last few years and virtually every app is now ARM native and those that aren't still run great. Discord, 30+ VPN providers, Google Drive, Adobe Premiere and much more are all native now when they weren't a few years ago.

Almost perfect. Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Windows on Arm is very mature in 2026. Almost everything runs just fine on it with native code as opposed to Prism emulation. The only programs I had any issues with were various SQL databases (mySQL, Oracle, etc), virtual machines and some games. I do lots of coding in Python and all the tools I use for this task were available. The X2 Elite Extreme is way faster than my other laptop which has an i9 285H in most tasks. The 48 GB of RAM is extremely quick and unified so you can allocate more to the GPU if you wish for LLMs. I kept 32GB as available to the GPU and 16GB for general RAM to run a larger LLM than my desktop with a RTX 5070 is able to do as it only has 12GB of VRAM. Technically a 5070 can process the tokens faster but the model is limited in size due to RAM limitations and I found more use from a larger model. The display is outstanding as a high resolution OLED with no issues whatsoever. The keyboard and trackpad are great, though it would be nice if the trackpad was haptic. You will be amazed how light this thing is. I would have preferred a bit more weight though for a bigger battery. The battery life is outstanding and I got about 14 hours on average, but the inside has a lot of empty space where they could have put a larger battery. Speakers are downward firing and they sound good, but not as good as what you would find from upward speakers like on the Dell XPS, ROG Zephyrus or Macbook series. Games are hit or miss. You can run games at 1080P at 60fps or more in most cases. Some games just wont run due to compatibility. I played Forza Horizon 5, Overwatch 2, and various older games with no issues. My only complaints are minor so I keep the score at 5 stars.

In 20 years, I’ve never gotten more than three hours of battery life out of an x86 laptop. Sure, they can sip power during mundane tasks like streaming, but actual use drains them at roughly 1% a minute. ARM is Windows’ escape from that fate. Make sure you’re installing ARM binaries and you’ll sail past 10 hours. It also has a great display and feels so light it could be hollow. I just wish it had a second NVMe slot and a numeric keypad, since there was plenty of room for both.

Great laptop with great battery life. Fantastic screen