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ASUS ZENBOOK 14X REVIEW A COOL, BUT REAL-WORLD LAPTOP

ASUS ZENBOOK

Zenbooks this big are generally an identical package — if you’ve had one, you’ve tried all of them. Two characteristics try in making the Zenbook 14X which is scheduled to be released in 2022, a standout. One characteristic is an OLED display that is one of the first 90 Hz OLED panels to be released on the market in large quantities.

The second reason is that the touchpad can also be an LCD. In other words, it’s the size of a touchscreen. You can place windows on the screen and navigate them as you would on every other device with touchscreens.

A little spoiler This is to say that both of these features are nice, but they’re not as exciting as they sound, particularly when you consider their effect on the battery’s life. In the end, if Zenbook is something that you’re interested in, then you’re better off buying more expensive models like Vivobook Pro 14 OLED, which has the identical OLED screen. 

Still, it has an eight-core processor and higher-quality GPU but is less than a hundred dollars. The target market for the Zenbook is primarily people who are looking for something unique and will pay for it.

GOOD STUFF

  • The Touchpad can also be used as a touchscreen.
  • 90Hz OLED display
  • More power than the majority of people will require
  • There is no fan or heat.
  • Decent port selection

BAD STUFF

  • A terrible endurance of a battery for ultraportables.
  • The webcam is mediocre
  • The audio isn’t the best.

To start using the OLED screen. It’s amazing. It’s 16:10, 2880 x 1800, and it’s a leap in terms of visual quality from the standard display of 1920 x 1200 pixels. The colors are vibrant, and blacks, the signature that is the hallmark of OLED technology, appear extremely intensely black. 

This makes text slightly more attractive, which is a pleasure since I write and read throughout the day. It’s almost as bright as our colorimeter, which covers 100 % of the sRGB spectrum and 99.99 percent of Adobe RGB, and 100 percent of P3. It can reach 395 Nits of brightness. 

There is some glare in bright offices; however, nothing that causes interference with work. Its 90-Hz rate of refresh pleases. The scrolling experience is noticeably smoother, but I’m not certain about the impact of battery life. (More about that in a minute). This is the best laptop for music production under $300.

The touchscreen touchpad is the second. It’s akin to the Asus Zenbook Duo, Zephyrus Duo 15, and various other dual-screen laptops the company has experimented with. The touchpad is an external display, and it allows you to drag windows between it and the main panel.

If there’s no window open on your touchscreen and you’re not making use of it for a touchscreen, It’s a secondary desktop that has an array of applications and shortcuts. 

It also lets you open an arithmetic pad or calculator (which is also possible using the screenless touchpad of the Vivobook, but it’s not like the one you’re using). There are shortcuts to launch Voice Recorder, Solitaire, and other similar apps on the main display (and you can also add your own apps and websites of preference). 

Handwriting is an app that you can use. You can scribble your thoughts on it then the text will be displayed in the form of text where you place your cursor (email or Slack messages, whatever). This would be the best laptop for drawing.

The technology is quite cool as well. Asus has done a great job in making the interface attractive and simple to use. It’s also true that I haven’t yet come up with a reason to use it. In the past, I even tried putting Slack or Twitter there to glance at each time I was working.  Both were not usable with such a small screen. This touchpad is exactly the same size as a smartphone.

The Handwriting app is amazing. It can interpret my handwriting with precision. However, it is important to know that this app is a recognition of text but not a complete note-taking program. You aren’t able to draw diagrams or drawings and expect Zenbook to reproduce them. Zenbook to recreate these. 

(And it didn’t recognize Chinese or Korean characters that I did write, at least not when my language is changed in English.) As a pure handwriting-recognition tool, it is fun, but it does seem mostly to be fun — I’m not sure who actually needs something like this for their job (and folks that do can get fine Wacom tablets for under $100).

As I mentioned earlier that the most intriguing feature to me of the touchpad’s touchscreen is the ability to group and Numpad, particularly considering that the calculator function and the Numpad are also available on other laptops from Asus. 

It also appeared to confuse my external display — the windows I took over were typically too large by default and required resizing manually. I’m assuming that the Zenbook is interpreting that the touchscreen is an extension to the main screen (rather than an additional screen) which is changing its sizing. It’s not an issue. However, it’s something I’m hoping Asus will be able to resolve before the Zenbook ships.

GREE to continue: ASUS ZENBOOK 14X OLED

Every device today requires that you agree to certain conditions and terms before you are able to use it. They’re contracts that no one has the time to read. It’s not possible for us to go through and study each and every one of these contracts. 

However, we began counting precisely the number of times you need to press “agree” in order to utilize the devices while reviewing them since these are agreements that the majority of people do not read and cannot negotiate.

Like similar Windows 10 computers, the Zenbook 14X from Asus provides you with a variety of options you can choose to accept or reject when you set up the device. The obligatory policies for which the need for an agreement are:

  • A request to determine the region and layout of your keyboard
  • Microsoft Software License Terms and Microsoft Software License Terms and

Additionally, there’s an assortment of other things to be agreed to:

  • Connect to Wi-Fi networks
  • Log in using a Microsoft login (if you don’t want to sign in, then you’ll need to create a username as well as a password to create an account that is offline)
  • Privacy settings for devices such as Locate My Device inking and typing advertising ID, location Data, Diagnostics, and personalized experiences
  • Allow Microsoft to gather information (including your location and history, contact information and voice inputs, handwriting patterns and speech and typing history and search history, details about your calendar Content and communication information from Microsoft services messaging and apps and Microsoft Edge browse history) for Cortana to offer customized experiences and suggest relevant ideas
  • Please enter your name, address, region, and email address for saving your device and fill in the Asus member registration form within the MyAsus app
  • Make use of your given name, address as well as your email to sign up for a McAfee account. You will receive periodic emails of special offers, subscriptions as well as security news from McAfee
  • Update to Windows 11

About the author

Amelia R.Waters

From 2021, Amelia R.Waters has been in charge of thelaptopsguide.com's writer, editorial, and production. Amelia R.Waters has been a programmer for several LAPTOP benchmarks. This includes the LAPTOP Battery Test. Amelia R.Waters holds a master's in English from NYU.

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