Hey everyone! Just dug into ASUS's Computex lineup—and honestly, they're not messing around this year. Alongside those upcoming ProArt P-series laptops running NVIDIA's new RTX Spark processor, Steve Dent at Engadget broke down a genuinely impressive family of Windows machines that covers almost every use case I can think of. What really caught my attention is how ASUS has gone multi-pronged with their Zenbook 14 lineup—offering three different processors *and* two flavors of Windows 11 on the same chassis size, which shows real strategic thinking about who buys what and why.
Breaking down that Zenbook family: you've got a gorgeous Intel/Core Ultra flagship (UX3480AA) with up to an i9 Core Ultra 7 processor 356H hitting all those 2,880x1,800 pixels on its stunning 120Hz OLED display—it's also the spec'd-out version at 2.65 pounds thanks to USB-C Thunderbolt 4 and HDMI 2.1 support for docking setups that actually matter. Then there's an AMD Ryzen AI model (UX3480GA) with a beefy 9 HX chip doing 12 cores, Radeon graphics built right in at up to 60 TOPS, plus another OLED panel but at the standard 60Hz—again weighing just over 2.5 pounds while packing an Arm64 processor variant (UX3480QA) that's actually the lightest Zenbook I've seen come out of Computex so far at a svelte 2.43 pounds on its Snapdragon X Elite platform with Qualcomm Hexagon NPU kicking in all those extra AI compute cycles for creative workflows and productivity tasks alike!
And my personal favorite—the ExpertBook B5 Flip G2—just hits different because it's actually practical: full-on convertible form factor that lets you use the 13.9-inch display like a tablet with dual cameras on both front-facing sides plus MPP 2.0 stylus support, and most importantly this built-in "garage" for storing your pen *and* charging it simultaneously which means fifteen seconds of charge actually gives you sixty minutes (which is insanely useful compared to just dropping the damn thing into a drawer somewhere). Weighing exactly two-point-nine pounds on Intel's latest Core 7 processor with all those integrated graphics capabilities and up through thirty-two gigs RAM plus one terabyte storage, this model arrives Q3 priced around four hundred bucks while matching business-grade MIL-STD-810H durability standards against vibration moisture temperature extremes—that ExpertBook PM5 variant comes later this year at about three-point-o-four pounds.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2184801/asuss-expertbook-b5-flip-g2-is-a-29-pound-360-touchscreen-laptop
Breaking down that Zenbook family: you've got a gorgeous Intel/Core Ultra flagship (UX3480AA) with up to an i9 Core Ultra 7 processor 356H hitting all those 2,880x1,800 pixels on its stunning 120Hz OLED display—it's also the spec'd-out version at 2.65 pounds thanks to USB-C Thunderbolt 4 and HDMI 2.1 support for docking setups that actually matter. Then there's an AMD Ryzen AI model (UX3480GA) with a beefy 9 HX chip doing 12 cores, Radeon graphics built right in at up to 60 TOPS, plus another OLED panel but at the standard 60Hz—again weighing just over 2.5 pounds while packing an Arm64 processor variant (UX3480QA) that's actually the lightest Zenbook I've seen come out of Computex so far at a svelte 2.43 pounds on its Snapdragon X Elite platform with Qualcomm Hexagon NPU kicking in all those extra AI compute cycles for creative workflows and productivity tasks alike!
And my personal favorite—the ExpertBook B5 Flip G2—just hits different because it's actually practical: full-on convertible form factor that lets you use the 13.9-inch display like a tablet with dual cameras on both front-facing sides plus MPP 2.0 stylus support, and most importantly this built-in "garage" for storing your pen *and* charging it simultaneously which means fifteen seconds of charge actually gives you sixty minutes (which is insanely useful compared to just dropping the damn thing into a drawer somewhere). Weighing exactly two-point-nine pounds on Intel's latest Core 7 processor with all those integrated graphics capabilities and up through thirty-two gigs RAM plus one terabyte storage, this model arrives Q3 priced around four hundred bucks while matching business-grade MIL-STD-810H durability standards against vibration moisture temperature extremes—that ExpertBook PM5 variant comes later this year at about three-point-o-four pounds.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2184801/asuss-expertbook-b5-flip-g2-is-a-29-pound-360-touchscreen-laptop