[CES 2024] ASUS Announces New Dual-Screen Zenbook, Plus Redesigned Vivobook Lineup

ASUS Announces New Dual-Screen Zenbook, Plus Redesigned Vivobook Lineup

Following the earlier announcement of ROG laptops, ASUS today unveiled its latest family of Zenbook and Vivobook laptops. The highlight of this launch is the new dual-screen Zenbook DUO (yes – capital letters, unlike the old ones) that offers a combined 19.8 inches of active display area.

Starting with the new Zenbook DUO, the engineering side of things is quite different than the Zenbook Duo 14 of old. The keyboard is now detachable and works in a similar principle to the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED foldable laptop – you just place the keyboard on top of the bottom half of the display, and it’ll function as a conventional clamshell laptop. Take that off (and connect via Bluetooth) and you get two separate displays that are identical in specs: 3K 16:10 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, and OLED technology.

In terms of internals, the laptop will come powered by Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, with 32GB LPDDR5X RAM and up to 2TB of SSD. The battery is a 75Wh unit, which is also responsible for charging the detachable keyboard once it’s connected to the main unit via pogo pins located on the edges of the lower display. The entire unit also weighs just 1.35kg, which is typical for a 14-inch laptop.

As an addition to the Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3405) announced last December, the company has announced a second variant (UM3406) of this laptop, which will be powered by AMD Ryzen 8000 Series APUs. There’s a small difference between the two aside from the processor itself – for one, AMD variants will come with USB4 ports instead of Thunderbolt 4 ports, and secondly, the AMD variant will feature a dedicated Windows Copilot key, taking the spot where Right Ctrl resided.

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Meanwhile, the Vivobook lineup is getting a major redesign – the lid is now completely flush with just the wordmark inscribed. The first model of this lineup is the new Vivobook Pro 15 OLED, a creator laptop powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, NVIDIA RTX 4060 GPU (with MUX switch), 24GB DDR5 RAM and 2TB SSD. The laptop can deliver up to a combined 125 watts of TDP across both chips.

As the 15-inch laptop, the display remains on the traditional 16:9 aspect ratio, though you still get 3K resolution out of it, plus the OLED technology with 120Hz refresh rate and 0.2ms response time. You also get the  ASUS DialPad virtual rotary wheel, plus I/O options including Thunderbolt 4, HDMI 2.1, USB-C, USB-A, and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity.

The more mainstream Vivobook S series will now be revamped and offered in three sizing options and two processor brands, including 14-inch, 15.6-inch, and 16-inch variants, powered by either Intel or AMD chips. The Intel variants will come with Intel Evo Edition certification and are powered by the Core Ultra processors, while AMD variants pack the Ryzen 8040 Series (Hawk Point) APUs, both of which come with AI processing capabilities.

Notably, ASUS says these Vivobooks now come with a new memory allocation function that lets users assign up to 8GB of system RAM to the iGPU for gaming or AI use. Our past reviews have pointed out that Vivobooks had traditionally weak iGPU performance due to potential lack of memory assigned to it, so hopefully this will be the feature that finally allows these onboard graphics to properly stretch their legs.

ASUS Malaysia says “selected members” of the laptops announced here will be tentatively launched in Malaysia on January 19, 2024. Watch this space!

Pokdepinion: The new Vivobook laptops sure looked very different from the outside.