14″ 2.8K OLED 120Hz + 12.7 pouces ScreenPad Plus, Alder Lake-H Core i9, RTX 3050 Ti, etc.
New multimedia Ultrabook targeting creators, the Asus Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED UX8402 with 2.8K OLED 16/10th 120Hz DCI-P3 Pantone screen and secondary ScreenPad Plus touch screen runs Windows 11 with an Intel Alder Lake-H processor until Core i9, an NVIDIA Ampere graphics card up to the GeForce RTX 3060 or even Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity.
L’Asus Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED UX8402 is a new Ultrabook which runs Windows 11 (Pro) with a 76Whr Li-Polymer battery.
It stands out for the fact that it offers a ScreenPad Plus secondary touch screen multi-touch 12.7 inch (2880×864) 120Hz 500cd/m² Pantone 100% DCI-P3 supporting the Asus Pen 2.0 stylus (4096 pressure points).
The ScreenPad Plus is intended to assist the main screen to make life easier for creators in particular and allow them to display their creation tools, for example, which is practical under software from the Adobe suite in particular.
It works with the ScreeXpert 3 software facilitating multi-touch with applications like App Switcher and App Navigator, and 4 types of control: Dial, Button, Slider and Scroll.
This laptop PC adopts innovative technology Active Aerodynamic System Ultra – AAS Ultra, mechanism that elevates the secondary ScreenPad Plus touch screen by 20mm and 12° for ease of use and improve cooling.
On the left, the backlit chiclet keyboard accommodates the touchpad, for lack of space below the keyboard since the chassis stops here. No wrist rest is integrated due to the presence of the ScreenPad Plus above the keyboard.
The main screen is a model 14.5 inch 16/10th OLED 2.8K (2880×1800) 120Hz NanoEdge bords fins 550cd/m² 100% DCI-P3 Pantone 0.2ms DisplayHDR True Black 500.
The Asus Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED UX8402 is driven by an Intel processor Alder Lake and more particularly Alder Lake-H Core i5-12500H (12 cores, 4P 2.5GHz, 8E 1.8 GHz), Core i7-12700H (14 cores, 6P 2.3GHz, 8E 1.7 GHz) or Core i9-12900H (14 cores, 6P 2.5GHz, 8E 1.8 GHz) with integrated graphics Iris Xe.
As an option, a dedicated NVIDIA Ampere ray tracing graphics card is provided, either GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 4 GB dedicated GDDR6 or GeForce RTX 3060 6 Go GDDR6.
It measures 323.5 x 224.7 x 17.9 mm and weighs 1.7 Kg with Iris Xe alone and is supplied with a 150W adapter, and 1.75 Kg with dedicated GPU board and 180W adapter.
The heart of this laptop also includes up to 32 GB LPDDR5 4800MHz of soldered-in low-power RAM plus storage SSD M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 with a maximum capacity of 2 TB.
There is also a connection Wi-Fi 6E axBluetooth 5.2, HDMI 2.1, audio combo Casque/Micro, 1 USB 3.2 (Gen2) et 2 USB-C Thunderbolt 4 as well as a microSD Express 7.0 card reader.
Also included are 2 Harman Kardon Dolby Atmos Smart Amp speakers as well as a webcam with option Infrared allowing biometric authentication via Windows Hello technology, by facial recognition.
The whole is cooled by technology IceCool More using 2 IceBlades fans with curved blades, 2 8mm heat pipes as well as air outlets.
According to Asus, this allows the laptop to combine processor and graphics card for a TDP of up to 85W without throttling.
The Asus Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED UX8402 is planned for the 3rd trimester from 2099 euros.
