Thunderbolt 4 means you can plug in an external GPU, but I doubt any serious gamers would buy this laptop anyway.Īsus Zenbook 14 OLED vs M1 Macbook Air - Photographers’ Edition Of course, with Intel’s own 96 EU Iris Xe GPU on board, it’s not quite a gaming machine, but other reviewers have mentioned that you can get some amount of casual gaming done at good frame rates. The fast RAM and storage mean that you can juggle a number of Chrome tabs, Photoshop, a 4K YouTube video, and MS Office, and the machine doesn’t break a sweat. The laptop boots up quickly (although the few-seconds lag between pressing the fingerprint sensor equipped power button and the boot process commencing takes some getting used to), programs open quickly, webpages load fast, and even Lightroom and Photoshop run fast. Everything is as zippy as you’re likely to encounter. There’s really only one word to describe this laptop’s performance – and that’s fast.

Essentially these chips are meant for laptops designed to deliver near workstation performance in a thin and light form factor.Īnd the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED fits that description to a T.

The Core i7-1260P is a part of Intel’s new P-series of chips, slotting in between the old U-series chips for ultra-light laptops, and the H-series chips for workstations. If you’re in a quiet room, you can happily watch Netflix on these speakers without reaching for headphones. These may not be the best speakers I’ve heard on a laptop, but they’re definitely in the ‘very good’ category. The speakers are loud and full, with the Dolby Access app providing you the ability to tune the EQ a little bit. My one small gripe is that it’s a glossy screen, and I wish that in future iterations, they apply some sort of anti-reflective coating to tame the reflections a little bit. There’s really no substitute for inky OLED blacks and the perfect contrast you can get on these screens. Watching YouTube and Netflix on the laptop is a sheer joy. Perfect OLED contrast combined with excellent brightness and a 100 percent DCI-P3 colour gamut means everything looks gloriously crisp and vivid with accurate colours. In non-technical terms, it’s simply a stunning screen. The 2.8K 16:10 OLED screen is a 10-bit panel with 550 nits of peak brightness and a 90Hz refresh rate. At 1.39 kg, it weighs about par for the category and it feels good in the hand (yes, the lid opens with one hand). If I had a choice, I’d get the pale green-ish “Aqua Celadon” colour that is the alternative. The dark “Ponder Blue” colour I have shows up smudges very easily though, and it’s not long before you’re itching to wipe it down with a cloth. The design is handsome and distinctive, with the matte finished lid featuring contrast lines slashing across the surface, and the Asus Zenbook branding in barely visible text in a corner. The body of the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED is made out of aluminium alloy and feels quite premium.

Asus has pulled out all stops when it comes to hardware. The publicity material accompanying the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED describes it as the “crown jewel” of Asus’s laptop lineup and it’s easy to see why. Apart from the chipsets, the configurations are virtually identical with both models sporting 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD, and the name-worthy OLED screen. The one that I have with me, running the Core i7-1260P, sells for Rs 1,04,990. The base configuration costs Rs 89,990 and comes with the Core i5-1240P. I must mention that the original review unit that I received was defective, with some battery and thermal issues, but the replacement unit I received worked flawlessly.Īsus has launched a number of laptops with 12th generation Intel chips but this particular model, the Zenbook 14 OLED, comes only in two configurations. I’ve used it extensively over the past couple of weeks and even had the opportunity to briefly compare it with the M1 Macbook Air, so read on to find out how it fared.

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