ASUS - Zenbook A14 14" FHD+ OLED Laptop - Copilot+ PC - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus - 16GB RAM - 512GB SSD - Zabriskie Beige

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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Lightweight companion

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  This has to be one of the lightest laptop ive ever used ! lighter than the macbook air. I been using my old Zenbook OLED for two years which i loved because it was lightweight and had a stunning eye strain free OLED display. When i saw asus announce this laptop, I had to jump the bullet right away and purchase this new zenbook and i am not disappointed. it has a larger display while being lighter. The Only issue i have with this laptop is its snapdragon arm chip. its fast and all but emulating apps slows its performance down unlike apple m chips on macbooks where everything is almost native now. so fi your thinking of running games on this device ? forget it.

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  Posted 1 month ago by MirelurkFish

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Stellar Laptop: More I use it, the more I love it

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  WEIGHT 10/10: It comes in at 2.4 lbs. Making it one of the lightest laptops on the market. Lighter than the MacBook Air 13” and just a bit heavier than the LG Gram. Which is immediately noticeable and for a portable, productivity machine makes way more difference than I would think. For my job I walk all over the place with my laptop. At times standing and having to do work on it. And manipulating this is truly a treat and provides heavy bias on me continuing to use it over my other more powerful and slightly bigger laptop I was using before. Along with it nailing the screen, trackpad, battery life, compact, non-sharp edges, smudge-resistance, and typing. I think you’ll be hard pressed to find a better portable machine than this one. SCREEN 9/10: It comes with a 14” Lumina OLED WUXGA (1920x1200, 16:10), 600-nit peak HDR, 60Hz, Pantone Validated Display. It does NOT have a touch screen. Which translates to a high-quality display. With it being OLED blacks are stellar. Pantone Validation means very accurate colors. I think the DCI-P3 coverage is like 95 – 100%. Which is excellent. That’s the mode I used it on, and everything was a delight to see. HDR looked great. It is not matte, so reflections are noticeable. But you get increased sharpness which I’ll personally take. Overall, excellent display. KEYBOARD 9/10: It comes with a backlit ErgoSense keyboard with smudge-free keycaps. It’s excellent. I think it is a sweet spot for typing, which I do all day at work. The travel is deep enough to be satisfying, with a nice solid tactile bump at the bottom, pops back up quickly and has just the right amount of mild/moderate activation pressure where you aren’t accidentally making presses. Spacing is excellent. Forces you to be very deliberate. They keys are full size (for the most part). I’m getting about 130 – 150 WPM. Backlight for the keyboard is white, comes in three brightness modes, and is mostly uniform. Have the same kind of soft-rubber feel to them that the whole device has. Which I enjoy the feel of. But the best part is they do an excellent job at minimizing smudges. So, the keyboard, where you rest your palm, the trackpad, and laptops body (such as the lid) all appear clean almost all the time. Making it so you don’t have to constantly wipe it down. TRACKPAD 8/10: It comes with an enlarged trackpad with smart gestures. Which includes unique features such as adjust screen brightness on the right side of the trackpad, volume levels on the left side of the trackpad, and across the top to rewind/fast forward. It is a mechanical trackpad. No glass top. Yet, the material they are using is still very smooth and easy to move your finger on. Avoids smudges well, and it is accurate. Click force is mild/moderate with it being easier the closer to the bottom you get. With that said still not as good as Apple’s trackpad or Surface Laptop 7’s precision haptic trackpad. Which I wish all laptops would adopt. SPEAKERS 7/10: It comes with Dual Super Linear Harman/Kardon speakers. They are on the sides of the laptop near the front, down firing. If you have it on a desk or your lap, they sound a lot better than other scenarios. Sound quality can be dramatically different depending on how you have it setup. I could easily understand speech. They got plenty loud. Music listening was enjoyable depending on the surface. More treble focused, mids were adequate, bass was light but present. There is some vibration in the laptop itself from them. Overall, I’m impressed for a laptop this size and weight. BATTERY LIFE 10/10: It comes with a 70Wh battery that they report will last for 32 hours. I was not getting anywhere near that level of battery. I was getting closer to the 12 – 15 hour mark. That was with mixed usage (watching videos, some demanding tasks, adjusting video brightness from 30 – 100%, backlit keyboard on, balanced profile for battery, outlook, word (white background over black), multiple chrome tabs open, notepad, google chat, and my software for work). Which included me not doing ANYTHING to try and maximize battery life. Which is excellent. But not close to 32 hours. But they report 19.5 hours with mixed usage. Which is closer. To me anything in that 12 – 15 hour mark is stellar. As that will get you through a whole day. Supports 60% in 49 minutes with fast charging. PERFORMANCE 7/10: It comes with a Snapdragon X Plus X1P (8-core, 3.4GHz) processor, 45 NPU TOPS for AI, 16GB LPDDR5X (8533MHz) soldered RAM, Integrated Qualcomm Adreno GPU, Wi-Fi 6E, Fan for cooling, 65W Power Supply, Energy Star Certified, MIL-STD 810H, Copilot+ PC w/ Asus AI Apps (StoryCube, Adaptive Lock & Dimming, AI Noise Cancelling). This scores medium to low high-end on my testing with Cinebench R23 testing and how it feels to use in normal operation compared to my very high-end computers. It does feel noticeably slower than my Snapdragon X Elite laptop, but they are scoring similar in Cinebench R23 which just proves there is more going on behind the scenes than synthetic benchmarks show. But with that said we live in a time where slower is still capable of doing the things most people do on a laptop such as word, emails, video streaming, research, and the ability to run most programs most people will use for work/play without any problems. And this chip is likely at minimum as powerful if not moreso, while also being far more power efficient, than most laptops that are older than 2 years. Making it a very nice upgrade for many. With it being an ARM chip there is some compatibility issues so you’ll want to double check. If you are doing more demanding tasks (video editing, video rendering, gaming, etc.) this isn’t what this laptop was built for. While it may be able to do those things, you’d be better suited going for another laptop. As the cooling for this laptop is limited, as the fan just simply cannot keep up when under extreme load for long periods I can see the processor ramping down to thermal limit. Cinebench R23 Scores: Balanced Battery: Multi-Core: 7832 Single: 1090 Balanced Powered: Multi-Core: 7270 Single: 1111 High Performance Battery: Multi-Core: 7392 Single: 1096 High Performance Powered: Multi-Core: 7344 Single: 1108 (yes balanced and on battery scored higher, I triple checked). I do recommend going into the settings and changing the fan profile from "whisper" to "performance" as my multicore jumped from 5391 to 7832 due to that setting. Single core score was the same. Fan only turned on when stress testing. Otherwise, it was off for normal use. And the fan isn't all that loud and is at the right pitch where it isn't annoying or irksome. It also comes with a quality 512 GB SSD. Actual Gen 4 Speeds. See posted picture for that. RAM is not upgradable. But speedy. 16 GB is a good sweet spot right now. Wi-Fi 6E is slightly behind Wi-Fi 7. Performance showed 1337 down and 1665 up which scores similar to my other Wi-Fi 6E devices but below my 2500/2500 that I’m paying for. BUILD QUALITY/COLOR WAY 10/10: It comes with an EasyLift hinge allowing you to open the laptop with a single finger without lifting up the bottom. Works VERY well. It also stays in place and doesn’t wobble when typing. It is made from Ceraluminum allowing it to be lightweight at 2.4 lbs. The Zabriskie Beige color is attractive. But most importantly help prevent any smudges making the device look clean even under heavy use. This includes the entire laptop (keys and trackpad included). AI FEATURES: Windows is getting more and more AI Features built-in. I think there is great potential here. But also risk. The webcam is improved with this as you have attention features where it will see if you’re looking at the screen, dim it if looking away, or turn off your screen if it notices you walked away and then turn back on when you get near. Also, provides background blur, auto framing, eye-tracking. Webcam quality was solid. Not great, lots of grain, but clear image. As was the microphone. I’d use it for calls. But isn’t premium quality. AI features also include other things like improved search function and all the other features you have seen marketing for with AI. I find the adjustment of battery, screen brightness, camera features, etc. to actually be beneficial. Whereas, the others not as much. But interested to see how this develops over time.

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  Posted 1 month ago by SirGalahad

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  On the go laptop

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  Meets my expectations. Amazed at how light it is. Excellent screen sharpness.

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  Posted 4 days ago by JonathanP