With Intel and AMD asserting new processors this week, many PC producers are additionally sharing particulars on their newest laptops. One of these is ASUS, which on Wednesday unveiled its 2022 ZenBook 14 lineup. At first look, probably the most notable distinction concerning the new “ZenBook 14 OLED” is that it options an up to date design that is extra sq. and fewer obtrusively branded. 

ASUS will provide separate variations of the ZenBook 14 OLED with the newest CPUs from Intel and AMD. You’ll have to go for a Twelfth-gen Core H processor if you would like DDR5 RAM and Thunderbolt 4 connectivity. Ryzen fashions will ship with DDR4X reminiscence as an alternative. Either approach, you’ll be able to configure the ZenBook 14 OLED with as much as 16GB of RAM, although you’ll get sooner clock speeds from the DDR5 modules. In addition to as much as 1TB of PCIe storage, there’s an additional M.2 slot accessible when you resolve you want extra space. Powering every thing is a 75Whr cell, and your complete laptop computer weighs lower than three kilos.

The ZenBook 14 OLED comes with loads of ports for an ultraportable, together with two USB-C connections, a single USB-A port, HDMI 2.0, a headphone jack, and a microSD card slot. It additionally comes with WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 help. If you get an Intel CPU, the 2 USB-C ports will provide Thunderbolt 4 connectivity, permitting for knowledge switch speeds of 40Gbps.

However, the spotlight of the ZenBook 14 OLED is with out query its show. On paper, it’s spectacular. It’s a 14-inch OLED panel with 2,880 x 1,800 decision, 16:10 facet ratio and 550-nit peak brightness. Add to that 100% DCI-P3 protection, DisplayHDR 500 True Black certification, a 90Hz refresh price and claimed 0.2 millisecond response time, and you’ve got a show that must be equally nice for productiveness, gaming and video streaming.

ASUS will even promote a “Space Edition” of the ZenBook 14 OLED. It has lots of the identical options as the usual 14-inch mannequin, however you’ll be able to configure it with as much as 32GB of DDR5 RAM. However, your solely possibility on the CPU entrance is an Intel processor. Notably, it additionally comes with a smaller 63 Whr battery. The laptop’s exterior, which features a 3.5-inch OLED show, was impressed by the MIR area station. Morse code throughout the surface of the laptop computer says Ad Astra Per Aspera. Roughly translated from Latin, that’s “through the hardships to the stars.”

There’s no phrase but on pricing for both the ZenBook 14 OLED or ZenBook 14x OLED Space Edition, however ASUS promised to share extra info when the laptops go on sale nearer to the second half of 2022.

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