CES 2020: ASUS Unveils Dual-Screen ZenBook Duo UX481 Notebook - Chia Sẻ Kiến Thức Điện Máy Việt Nam

Last year ASUS introduced its exclusive ZenBook Pro Duo laptops with a secondary display aimed at creative professionals with performance-hungry color critical workloads. At CES 2020, the company revealed a new iteration of its dual-screen notebook — the ZenBook Duo UX481 — designed for road warriors (or creators in budget) and promising to offer decent performance and battery life in addition to the second monitor.

The ASUS ZenBook Duo model UX481 comes in the company’s signature Celestial Blue aluminum unibody and is equipped with a Pantone Validated 14-inch Full HD display with optional touch support and a 12.6-inch auxiliary screen. The latter can be used to run apps designed for the company’s ScreenPad or just extend Windows programs to it and increase useful screen real estate. It will be interesting to find out how significantly will the auxiliary monitor improve performance in productivity applications used by people who work on the go, but at least ASUS believes that this LCD makes sense for the target audience.

Inside the ZenBook Duo machine is Intel’s 10th Generation Comet Lake Core i5-10210U or Core i7-10510U processor (with UHD Graphics) that can be optionally enhanced with NVIDIA’s discrete GeForce MX 250 GPU with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. The system comes with up to 16 GB of soldered-down LPDDR3 DRAM as well as a 256GB/512GB/1 TB PCIe SSD. Connectivity wise, we have a fairly standard 2020 laptop here, so it has Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, USB 3.2 Gen 1/2 with Type-A as well as Type-C connectors, HDMI, microSD, and a combo audio jack.

ASUS equipped its ZenBook Duo with a 70 Wh battery, but it is rather hard to make predictions about actual battery life of the notebook given its second screen and applications developed for it. As for portability, being aimed at road warriors, the ZenBook Duo UX481 is relatively compact and lightweight for an aluminum 14-incher (especially when an additional screen is taken into account): it weighs 1.5 kilograms and is 19.9 mm thick.

The ASUS ZenBook Duo UX481 Laptop

UX481

Primary Display
General
14-inch

Resolution
Color Gamut
1920×1080
?

Features
Pantone Validated
Optional Touchscreen

Secondary Display
Diagonal
12.6-inch with touch

Resolution
?

Viewing Angles
178˚ (?)

CPU Options
Intel Core i7-10510U
Intel Core i5-10210U

Graphics
Integrated
Intel UHD Graphics

Discrete
NVIDIA GeForce MX250 w/ 2 GB GDDR5

RAM
up to 16 GB LPDDR3

Storage
SSD
256 GB PCIe 3.0 x2
512 GB PCIe 3.0 x2
1 TB PCIe 3.0 x4

Wireless
Wi-Fi
Intel Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)

Bluetooth
Bluetooth 5.0

USB
1 × USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C
1 × USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
1 × USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A

Thunderbolt
–

Display Outputs
1

× HDMI

Gigabit Ethernet
none

Card Reader
microSD

Webcam
Windows Hello-capable webcam with IR sensors

Fingerprint Sensor
none

Other I/O
Microphone, stereo speakers, audio jack

Battery
70 Wh Li-Poly

Dimensions
Width
32.3 cm

Depth
22.3 cm

Thickness
19.9 mm

Weight
1.5 kilograms | 3.3 lbs

Price
various

ASUS will start sales of its ZenBook Duo model UX481 sometimes in the first quarter. The company does not announce pricing of its unique laptop, but it is natural that they will be sold at a premium.