Asus has unveiled two new laptops both betting on OLED display technology: the ZenBook 13S and ZenBook Pro 15 Flip.
Faithful to its commitment to multiply the PC portables equipped with OLED screens, Asus announced two new products this week: the ZenBook 13S and ZenBook Pro 15 Flip. The first is a 13-inch ultraportable powered by an AMD Ryzen 6000 chip; the second a 15-inch machine armed by Intel both in terms of CPU and GPU, thanks to an Alder Lake processor (12th generation) coupled to a graphics card Intel Arc.
Let’s start with the ZenBook 13S. The device uses a design quite close to the ZenBook 13 OLED launched last year, with a thick frame of about 1.5 cm for just under 1 kg on the scale, but spices it up with more original colors: Ponder Blue, Aqua Celadon, Refined White, and Vestige Beige (visible above). Another novelty in terms of design: a change of logo. The brand trades its big “Asus” acronym for a stylized “A”. A novelty that should logically be found on other models of the brand in 2022.
Two top-of-the-range machines… at a steep price
In terms of specifications, the device relies on the best with a 2.8K OLED touch screen in 16:10 format. OLED obliges this panel is very reactive (0.2 ms of response time announced), but also benefits from a generous luminance: 550 cd / m2 maximum according to Asus. The device’s connectivity includes three USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 ports supporting power and display, but also a headphone jack. A priori, however, you have to ignore a USB-A port.
Under the hood of this ZenBook 13S OLED is installed a latest generation AMD Ryzen processor. We can choose between a Ryzen 5 6600U and a Ryzen 7 6800U, coupled with a maximum of 32 GB of RAM (LPDDR5). The storage can be extended up to 1 TB in SSD.
For now, Asus has not yet announced a specific launch date for this new product. We also do not know what its price will be, but the current ZenBook S (without OLED screen) is trading at around 1500 euros in starting price.
More efficient, but also a little more bulky, the Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED is aimed at advanced users and possibly creative people. It relies on a latest generation Intel configuration, combining a Core i7-12700H and a dedicated Intel Arc A370M graphics card as much as possible. There is for the rest up to 16 GB of RAM “only” and 1 TB of SSD storage.
On the display side, Asus gratifies us with a 15.6-inch 2.8K OLED panel (2880 x 1620 pixels) here too, capable of going up to 120 Hz. This screen is however limited to a somewhat outdated 16:9 ratio in 2022, when 16:10 and 3:2 formats abound.
Asus has not announced a launch window or price for this Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED either. However, the device should cost between 1500 and 2000 euros depending on the configuration chosen. We contacted Asus France to try to find out more.
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