{"id":10924,"date":"2024-05-09T21:05:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=10924"},"modified":"2024-05-09T21:05:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T21:05:49","slug":"asus-zenbook-duo-2024-review-a-two-screened-laptop-that-nails-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=10924","title":{"rendered":"Asus Zenbook Duo (2024) Review: A Two-Screened Laptop That Nails It"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Conceptually, it\u2019s very close to what Lenovo did last year with the Yoga Book 9i<\/a>, complete with shorthand gestures that help you pull up a virtual keyboard or touchpad, expand the screen to fill both displays or \u201cflick\u201d content from one screen to the other. This is all fairly easy to get the hang of. For the most part, working with the Zenbook Duo is no different than working with two monitors on a standard PC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many prior dual-screen laptops suffered on the performance front, and while the Duo didn\u2019t set any records, it\u2019s perfectly capable across a wide spectrum of benchmarks. Business apps load and run quickly, and graphical capabilities are acceptable despite the lack of a discrete graphics processor. Even AI-oriented performance was reasonably good (again, considering there\u2019s no GPU to boost it). If there\u2019s a downside, it\u2019s battery life. I got just 6 hours and 48 minutes of YouTube run time with one screen active, and that fell to 5 hours and 13 minutes with both live. Neither score is all that great.<\/p>\n

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The muscle behind this is an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU with 32 GB of RAM and a 1-terabyte solid-state drive. The port selection is fine, if a bit limited, featuring two USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports, one USB-A port, and a full-size HDMI output jack.<\/p>\n

The Zenbook Duo is fairly compact given its design, at 25 mm thick with or without the keyboard sandwiched in the middle. The complete package weighs 3.5 pounds, or 2.8 pounds without the keyboard. That\u2019s a bit on the heavy side, which is to be expected, but less than some traditional 14-inch laptops I\u2019ve tested in the past couple of years.<\/p>\n

While the dual-screen concept continues to improve, it\u2019s not without some lingering growing pains. I encountered occasional hiccups where the screens didn\u2019t reorient from portrait to landscape automatically. And the unit had the same problem with third-party chargers that I encountered with Asus\u2019 Zenbook 14 OLED<\/a>, dropping out of plugged-in mode and switching to battery power and back, almost randomly.<\/p>\n

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