ASUS is right now displaying off what it considers to be The Pinnacle of Performance within the type of a complete raft of latest laptops. All of them are getting new, extra refined industrial design and the extra outstanding use of ASUS’ Delta-style brand, in addition to higher thermals. Topping the vary is the brand new Zenbook Pro 16X OLED, a 5.6lb behemoth with a 16-inch, 16:10, 60Hz 4K OLED Dolby Vision and Pantone-validated touchscreen show. Nestled contained in the NVIDIA Studio-rated machine is area for a Twelfth-generation Intel Core CPU, reaching as excessive because the i9-12900H CPU, which could be paired with an RTX 3060 GPU. ASUS is saying that probably the most fascinating side about this new machine isn’t the uncooked brawn on supply, however the truth that it’s now obtained way more endurance. Its new cooling system, officers declare, will allow the system to burn by way of a 140W TDP with out throttling, whereas producing simply 40db in fan noise.

The mannequin which is able to, nevertheless, catch most individuals’s eyes is the brand new, up to date, Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED, the one with that cutsey however surprisingly helpful second display screen. The OLED in its product title refers to a 14.5-inch, 2,8K, 120Hz OLED show up high, which is paired with a 12.7-inch ScreenPad Plus. ASUS says that the ScreenPad Plus is now brighter than its predecessor, with a greater auto-tilt which improves cooling. Inside, you’ll be capable of order a Twelfth-generation Core i9-12900H and pair it with an RTX 3050 Ti GPU.

It’s this machine that I’ve been in a position to play with, briefly, earlier than the announcement, and I’m definitely a fan. The mannequin I used to be utilizing included a Twelfth-generation Core i7-12700H with 16GB RAM, however efficiency gave the impression to be buttery-smooth. Also, and this may sound reductive, however given simply how a lot is crammed into that physique, it is surprisingly mild and small. The solely draw back, like final 12 months’s mannequin, is that the cramped trackpad takes a protracted whereas getting used to, and feels historical in comparison with most fashionable laptops.

As effectively because the headline acts, ASUS can be including OLED shows to quite a lot of its different machines, together with the 15.6-inch Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED, the Zenbook S13 Flip OLED and S13 OLED. You also can now decide up a much bigger Zenbook Pro 17, with a 17.3-inch show and the power to spec for AMD’s Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU paired with an RTX 3050 GPU.

Further down the product line river, the Vivobook collection are additionally getting OLED shows thrown at a number of units. That consists of Vivibook Pro fashions in 14.5-, 15.6- and 16-inch sizes, every packing an OLED show and the choice to spec a Core i9-12900H or Ryzen 8 6900HX, as much as 32GB DDR5 RAM, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and as much as 2TB SSD storage. The Vivobook S collection, in the meantime, will get OLED choices for its 14.5-, 15- and 16-inch fashions, which could be specced with Intel Core i7 fashions paired with Iris Xe or Radeon graphics, relying in your price range and wishes.

The firm can be unloading a Vivobook 13 Slate OLED Artist Edition, variations of its current 2-in-1 with themed equipment and kickstand covers. The artists in query are Philip Colbert (pictured) and Steven Harrington, the previous well-known for his pop-art type imagery, the latter working in what’s described as a “contemporary Californian psychedelic-pop aesthetic.”

Many of those laptops might be accessible at as-yet undetermined dates within the close to future, with costs naturally depending on the various build-to-order choices at hand. The Zenbook Pro 16X OLED, when it does arrive, will set you again a minimal of $2,600, whereas the Zenbook 14 Pro Duo OLED will retail for at least $2,000 when it’s accessible for order.