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Unboxing the fresh new ASUS ZenBook Pro 14 Duo. This thing has an abnormal, crazy useful, multitask, future vibe. Check it out!
we have today in front of us one of the
most interesting and innovative laptop
designs on the market and it has been
refined for the latest generation in
front of me here in search of incredible
i have the new zen book pro 14 duo oled
we have more than one display here some
available specifications on this
particular model intel 12th gen intel
core i9 up to 32 gigs of memory up to
two terabytes of storage pci e4.0
up to 6500 megabytes per second transfer
speed you have thunderbolt four times
two you have geforce rtx but the studio
drivers of course this device targeted
at the creative types although you throw
a couple of games on there too we have a
16 by 10 display 93
screen to body ratio it’s got an oled
touch screen on it 120 hertz high
resolution 14.5 inch display so this
just launched and you just watched the
live stream but i’m actually getting my
hands on this device before that live
stream even happens so this will be
discovery for me and my first
interaction with this there aren’t too
many form factors like this so it’s hard
to even cross shop if you decide you
want something that looks incredibly
futuristic and you can make use of that
secondary display this is probably the
device you’re gonna end up looking
free sleeve nice
you always enjoy
having a couple of extras in any type of
unboxing experience you’d have to buy
this after the fact wouldn’t you that’s
slim too you have a pen holder because
it’s a touch screen but it also supports
pen input now you get a sense for how
slim
and tiny and portable the zen book is
itself
and unboxing experience which highlights
the unique hinge mechanism which enables
that secondary display
this gives you a little preview of how
that’s going to work on the box itself
zenbook pro 14 duo oled world’s first
14.5 inch 2.8 k see that’s what i said
that’s a lot of pixels for a 14 and a
half inch display 120 hertz oled you can
have it all you can have every single
spec you’re looking for from a display
perspective
in one place and then of course you’ve
also got that secondary display below
2880 by 1800 on the main display the
second display is 2880 by 864. so same
horizontal resolution just coming in
below that ice cool plus 85 watt ultra
performance cooling with dual fans
geforce rtx 3050 ti gpu which they fit
it into a slim little form factor dolby
vision 76 watt hour battery inside of
that 14.5
inch laptop footprint from the outside
this looks like a typical 14-inch laptop
a little bit of paperwork oh wow
ergo lift stand willy doo is a huge fan
of these things you stick to the bottom
of the laptop providing an even greater
angle as you can see here a couple of
bonuses in here the case and then that
this one’s no joke that says 180 watts
on it that is a pretty serious power
brick oh oh we also got the pen sick
this is the pen 2.0 but i don’t
understand because
the touchscreen is the we’ll figure this
out this pen has 4096
pressure sensitivity levels usb c cable
a couple of extra nubs for the pen ah
nice size cool you lift up this little
section here you have your usbc charge
port then it’s hidden when you come down
like this couple of buttons on there
also on to the main attraction
the whole thing feels
solid metallic
oh
all right here we go
you can see a set of tools that would be
available on the screen pad plus quick
adjustments for things like brightness
and other settings
nice this is the magic this bottom
display matte finish top display glossy
now you can see what happens with your
angles you see how this center portion
just pokes up pops up and creates this
channel for airflow to move through all
of a sudden you have this enhanced
cooling taking place yeah you can see
the fans in there you’ve got like almost
an inch of clearance now where the fan
location is now the other thing that’s
interesting about this design is because
you have this display up here it pushes
your keyboard down here and it pushes
your track pad over to the right hand
side and you’re probably looking at it
thinking wait that trackpad is in
portrait mode it is it actually maps
accordingly you kind of don’t even
notice the fact that it isn’t the same
aspect ratio as the display keyboard is
chiclet style but there is a little bit
of key travel there i like the large
font that they’ve put on the keyboard on
the right hand side we have our analog
audio jack on the back we have a micro
sd card slot as well as our power port
full size hdmi out to a monitor
television or otherwise and then over on
the other side two thunderbolt 4 ports a
couple of leds and one usb a port it is
a fairly aggressive screen to body ratio
as mentioned 93
still we’re able to fit a front-facing
camera and variety of other sensors
microphones into
the top section nice i mean oled is oled
that’s the type of pop that you want for
the moment this is the most pleasing
thing for me to look at especially we’re
talking about multimedia and content
consumption there’s no other technology
that’s doing what oled is doing as far
as the deep blacks the rich colors they
remind you right on the main wallpaper
as well they’re like hey this is oled
quick guide so touch screen down here
get the most out of your screen pad plus
cool so this is a scenario in which you
would have a browser open on the top
main display but then you’ve also got a
map in the bottom left section you’re
actually using the bottom screen as a
dual display possibly your calendar and
they’ve even fit the weather in here
this is completely configurable by you
if you’ve ever used any type of dual
display setup then you know you can just
drag whichever windows you want to keep
there frequently this could be social
media it could be your calendar it could
be your email client wherever you’re
kind of constantly glancing you could
leave that down there oh here’s another
example in this scenario we’re doing
some editing you can see a little bit of
a timeline down here on the bottom and
then you have your bigger display up top
so you’re getting just way more
information and i mean that in the sense
of pixels like there’s just extra pixels
down here of course you could have a
bigger laptop display but then that
comes with a much bigger form factor
this is still aiming to be compact and
fit into a bag and all the rest of it at
14.5 inches please select the topic you
would like to learn more about control
center flick windows and organizer let’s
go ahead and go with control center
first we’re going to open the launcher
now this is going to let us very quickly
launch into whatever
common applications we use with the
secondary display things like
handwriting maybe a number key maybe you
want to have spotify living down here as
you’re getting your work done you want
to quickly be able to interact on your
secondary display with whatever you’re
listening to and this is configurable as
you can see i can create my own set
quick buttons in this section down here
just by creating a new group oh i can
move it so if i preferred this to be on
the bottom that could be on the bottom
as well all right so the next uh
potential functionality here they’re
calling it flick windows let’s go ahead
and click on that this is moving a
window to screen pad plus oh cool i can
just flick this way or that way nice and
last up we have organizer here so this
is like quickly allowing you to adjust
window size just by dragging it and then
pinning it to one side of the secondary
display so there’s three separate
locations i can place it and i can see
them identified by this like little
white line over here also i can just
maximize it or send it to display one or
two all based on touch so i go up to one
and then i slam the browser up to the
top multiple options for inputs you can
use your finger touch screen across both
displays obviously you can use the pen
which has been included in this case for
pen input over 4 000 levels of pressure
sensitivity or you can just go ahead and
utilize your mouse as well do it the
old-fashioned way track pad or mouse we
also have this flip button which is
that’s a quick way of just moving an
application browser window from one spot
to the next that’s actually probably the
fastest what’s nice about this little
snap feature is that you’re going to be
able to quickly arrange what you want
down here it’s going to be perfectly
divided and actually the touch based
input on the smaller display here feels
very natural because of the angle that
this is placed at you kind of just you
feel like reaching up
okay
yeah
i just been getting yelled at i’m
discovering the speakers right now you
better do a little piano in the
background tell you what full screen
hang on i just need to comment on the
audio real quick it is uh sounds way
better than i expected way better
format like this you think it’s small
and how big could the speakers be are
they just firing there am i hearing it
out of this uh chamber here thank you to
everybody joining here today this is an
absolute blast this is
this is good this is fun
this is tech you didn’t think that you
were gonna need this form factor and
then you see something like this you’re
like i can’t do that on my laptop is
some serious level of multitasking
keeping tabs on a variety of things
without opening and closing as many
windows as frequently i think that’s how
i would use it you might have a podcast
playing down here and then you might be
doing some work up above they mesh
together in a sort of seamless way
because by the time you have it lifted
up because of the angle goes up to fill
the remainder of the bezel around the
display up top so they’re kind of
perfectly placed for a dual screen setup
you know when you have a dual screen
setup you try to minimize the effect of
the bezel around the screen well this
angle does that but let’s go ahead and
see how this video looks on the upper
display
i mean that’s a that’s a really nice
i mean obviously this is yours that’s
where you’re gonna you really want to
get immersed in an episode of lou later
that’s where you’re gonna do it but it
is a long show and if you’re into
podcasts and things like that the bottom
display you get a little work done no
need for a secondary monitor anywhere
else kind of into it this is the type of
thing where you would have this laptop
and you would learn all kinds of ways in
which you started to take advantage of
this secondary display you become more
proficient at it requires a little bit
of a retraining you’re not used to it
you’ve had this laptop form factor in
front of you so many times and there’s
never been a second display slammed in
there i probably need to make the laptop
aware of the fact that this pen is here
yeah check it out this is even better
precision no fingerprints you know the
thing is you might be looking at this
thinking okay that’s a narrow display
down there but realize the angle here
and how solid this mechanism they were
able to build from a hardware
perspective like let me see if i go here
and i go to handwriting so smooth
so smooth and so solid all right so the
pen is charging up right now and i’m
gonna use it i’m gonna use it in a real
world scenario actually i’m gonna use
dual display in a real world scenario mo
came up with the idea why don’t we just
edit the thumbnail for this video on
this particular laptop to see how it
might enhance our laptop photo editing
experience so we’ve got photoshop on
here there’s a little thumbnail station
over there we’ll go shoot the thumbnail
bring the image back onto the zen book
here and then configure photoshop in
order to have a dual display scenario
and maybe i’ll use the pen maybe i’ll
use the trackpad maybe i’ll get a mouse
try to find the optimal scenario for
image editing on this particular device
new workspace i’m gonna call it duo okay
so this is pretty cool we have a preset
in here for common functions in a number
of applications you have this nice
overlay for frequently used functions
you want to reach up and touch look at
like layer opacity you can see the brush
size adjusting up there but you also get
a bigger representation over there layer
zoom in zoom out and all touch based
interface and then if i had the pen even
more precision brush flow smoothing
hardness brush opacity undo redo flip
it’s actually pretty nice looking it’s
almost like as if what you end up with
is a hardware style interface like as if
you had an external interface but
instead you’re using this real estate as
a touch screen for that purpose so it’s
called pro art creator hub and what you
can see is i can configure this thing
like crazy and select what i want in
each section we can add a new section
like here you see there’s no button
there at all oh
you can even put system things in here
like system brightness let’s try it look
now i have system brightness let’s see
what happens 100
this the way this dial works is like an
actual like a scroll wheel and flip
back to there it’s kind of fun it can
really be whatever you want you can make
it as minimal and simple as you want or
as complex with whatever your frequently
used functions happen to be but it’s it
really gets your mind moving about the
real estate you have available okay 14
and a half inch laptop maybe i could
carry around some kind of external
hardware device that would be similar to
this but otherwise this would be taking
up way too much of my screen on a laptop
this size if i had this overlay with
these tools up here this is a bonus
having this in here and of course my pen
i can tap here still undo redo but then
i can also go up here and i still have
this input method if i want to just
reach up and touch the screen or use the
mouse or use the trackpad it’s
versatility this is nice to draw on like
this screen right here is kind of nice
to draw on it’s it’s endless you can do
what they were suggesting with the pro
art setup and you have all your
touch-based controls down here and
you’re mostly working up here you could
have a mouse bring your entire project
your actual image onto the bottom
display i mean of course there’s touch
sensitivity on the top display but this
is just a very comfortable place to draw
and the angle of it means that your hand
is kind of up off of your keyboard you
can have a keyboard lock as well let’s
say i just wanted to like brighten up
the eyes for example i could just select
over here come in here like you just see
what i’m talking about and you have the
precision of a pen input the stability
is what’s key like this hinge this thing
is so solid that you really feel like
you’re drawing on something substantial
the thing about our thumbnails is like
they’re kind of more or less figured out
there’s just a few touch-ups here and
there when we’re working on it but this
obviously enhances certain aspects of it
a pen does give you some level of
control that a mouse i mean you could
still get really good with a mouse but
like when i had that on the secondary
display here a little bit more precision
for me if i’m just gonna go in and
highlight a specific area i can imagine
that over time i would become even more
familiar with this dual screen scenario
and i would find even better ways to
find efficiency in the different types
of work and the different types of
software that i would utilize this is a
very unique laptop honestly there’s not
a lot out there like it if at all and
i’m glad that it exists because it’s
just exciting when you have this
alternative form factor when i saw the
first version i was like wow look what
they figured out but then there was part
of me that was wondering how successful
it would be and it was going to hang
around and here we are on the latest
version it turns out that i’m not the
only one that finds this to be
interesting and innovative so there it
is the latest
zenbook duo with oled 120 hertz
secondary display
rtx graphics studio drivers
touch screen pen input i mean you can do
a lot with this thing and it’s all in a
very slim and trim package
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