ASUS - Zenbook S 16 16” 3K OLED Touch Screen Laptop - Copilot+ PC - AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 - 24GB Memory - 1TB SSD - Scandinavian White

Crazy good build quality and drop dead gorgeous touchscreen in 3K Resolution OLED. Not ready to get rid of X86 just yet and this laptop is decently power efficient and has a huge battery. Charging every other day for now. Laptop is extremely thin but still manages to include all of the important ports and charges via USB-C. Large trackpad is extremely responsive and a pleasure to use. 24 GB of RAM should be good for a while for this use case and the 1TB SSD is fast enough and plenty of storage. Very happy with the laptop, just wish it was maybe slightly more affordable. Barely runs hot when in balanced mode and performance is not impacted one bit.

To preface, the laptop looks great. Its very lightweight, and has solid battery life. I can easily get around 6-12 hours in a school day light browsing and working with virtual machines. It's a large margin depending on my workload for the day, but to offset that it impressively only requires a 65w charger which most decent power banks will handle allowing for a portable, powerful laptop with a decent enough iGPU for light gaming in a pinch. Now for the bad, the laptop only supports a 1TB NVMe. ASUS support will tell you otherwise and say a 2TB will work, but I personally have tried a 990 Pro 4TB NVMe, a 990 Pro 2TB, a 980 2TB Crucial, and a 980 Pro 1TB. The only one that would work is the 980 Pro 1TB. It would outright fail for larger storage using ASUS Cloud Recovery and cloning the partitions or performing a fresh install of Windows 11 and manually importing the drivers from the original drive's System32/driverstore folder would inevitably have the laptop randomly bluescreening no matter the software used so the device does not support expandable storage whatsoever aside from an SD card. In addition, the paint is very fragile. Just sliding it in and out of my Nomatic backpack's laptop compartment, the felt has stained the sides of the laptop shown in the photos. I was able to remove some of it, but it is still very noticeable. Honestly, it's a shame because I feel like these are huge flaws when you're looking at laptops in this price range there are so many options available to you. The laptop has 24GB RAM, so it's clearly meant to be a light workstation laptop, but it caps you at 1TB storage. I have no clue what ASUS is thinking, they definitely need a BIOS update or revise the model if it's a hardware limitation. Poor design philosophy if its intentional.