ASUS ZenBook 14 dual-screen review: a walking 20-inch monitor!

Currently there are only a few manufacturers dedicated to exploring new forms of notebook computers, and ASUS is one of them. ASUS has been working hard for the past ten years to allow users to smoothly transition from traditional notebooks to dual-screen notebooks. They not only launch dual-screen notebooks in various forms, but also continuously optimize product interaction and deeply explore the actual value of multi-screen notebooks.

In 2024, ASUS launched the ASUS Lingyao 14 dual-screen notebook, equipped with the world's first dual 14-inch OLED 120Hz high refresh rate screen. To me, this laptop represents the future of dual-screen laptops.

Two 2.8K OLED 120Hz high refresh screens of the same size and proportion bring an almost perfect dual-screen experience; in dual-screen mode, the actual display area Close to a 20-inch monitor.

It comes with a magnetic Bluetooth keyboard, which can be used normally like a traditional notebook. Coupled with the super-performance Core Ultra 9 processor, it completely breaks the notebook's performance limitations.

Of course, its domestic initial price is also 15,999 yuan... Although the price is not very beautiful, can the product attract everyone? Please read below.

The familiar laptop form factor brings a nearly 20-inch large screen and 5 extraordinary experiences!

1. Laptop mode:

When I first saw the ASUS ZenBook 14 dual-screen notebook, I would never associate it with dual-screen - its form is no different from a traditional notebook, regardless of the Whether it’s appearance, weight or feel, it also has a full-size keyboard and full-size touchpad.

#The appearance and texture are indeed excellent. The body adopts an elegant streamlined design. The fine sandblasting process of the metal material feels great and is not easy to leave fingerprints. The matte black is very "weighty" and looks very high-end.

Its essence lies in its innovative dual-screen design. When we remove the C-side magnetic keyboard, the ASUS ZenBook 14 dual-screen immediately reveals a "prototype" and transforms into a dual-screen "complete state".

↑Detachable Bluetooth keyboard, detachable and can be automatically charged after magnetic attraction

The two screens are connected by a 180-degree rotating axis, matching the body The foldable hinge stand allows the machine to stand stably on various desktops. The two independent screens can be displayed in front of us at a natural viewing angle, thus forming a large-screen viewing experience of about 20 inches.

When two equally high-quality 14-inch 2.8K OLED screens are displayed in front of us, the gorgeous, transparent and super large The picture was shining like a "BlingBling", and even my colleagues who once thought that the notebook market could not make waves were surprised: "AU! I'm awesome!"

The appearance of the whole machine has also climbed from 90 points to 99 points (it would be perfect if the connection between the two screens could be almost infinite).

It does make people’s eyes brighter, but is it practical? As a copy editor who needs to open multiple documents, web pages, and chat windows at the same time, I think it is terrifyingly practical.

What attracts me most is the five usage modes derived from the ASUS ZenBook 14 dual screen. In addition to notebook mode, it also includes virtual keyboard mode, waterfall mode, portrait mode, and sharing mode. It can cope with Various usage scenarios. Thanks to the dual-screen interaction optimization accumulated by ASUS over the years, the actual use experience can indeed beat other notebooks of the same grade.

2. Virtual keyboard mode:

# ASUS Lingyao 14 dual screen has made a unique innovation in this regard, projecting the keyboard to the second screen to form a virtual full keyboard. At the same time, the first home screen remains undisturbed and always displays the main content. It can be helpful for special situations where the Bluetooth keyboard is temporarily inconvenient but requires typing.

In addition, both screens support the ASUS Pen 2.0 stylus, which can perform 4096 levels of pressure-sensitive calligraphy and painting, so you can graffiti creatively at any time. limit.

3. Waterfall mode:

Long-term work or study tasks can easily make people mentally exhausted. This mode can be regarded as a good way to relax. When playing games at home, play games in full screen on one screen, and watch live broadcast replays or chat with your girlfriend on the other screen. This way you embrace your ideals without delaying your relationship. Your happiness can be doubled. People around you are not allowed to talk about your life. Like a hook?

It is also very suitable for reading books. You can read books on one screen and take notes on the other screen. Even if you watch "One Hundred Years of Solitude" for the first time, you will not be confused.

When you go to work in the company, you can use ASUS's intelligent window management and task segmentation to form a waterfall-style vertical view of the two OLED screens, which is very suitable for table making, web browsing, etc. Tasks consistent with vertical browsing habits.

4. Portrait screen mode:

The fuselage has a built-in gyroscope sensor. When we turn the fuselage upside down, the screen can automatically switch to portrait mode. show.

In portrait mode, the two screens are displayed vertically, which is very suitable for tasks such as reading documents, modifying PDFs, and writing manuscripts.

The 14-inch 2-in-1 large screen display area of ​​nearly 20 inches, coupled with the vertical screen mode, greatly improves the immersion and comfort of reading. You can read ten lines at a time without having to turn pages back and forth or slide the pulley, which is great news for wordsmiths!

The more natural way of splitting the screen left and right and scrolling up and down makes reading books on a large screen more immersive. In terms of picture quality, the dark part of the OLED screen is Pure black color greatly improves users' concentration when reading quietly.

5. Share mode:

This mode is best for sharing computer screen content with others. For example, when giving a presentation in a conference room, you can tile the ASUS ZenBook 14 dual screen on the desktop by rotating it 180 degrees, and then turn on the sharing mode so that the people opposite can clearly see the same screen. Such a cool display method will definitely leave a deep impression on customers!

# If you hold a temporary meeting, you don’t have to worry about setting up the conference system.

The window task management function of ASUS ZenBook 14 dual-screen is very good, which can maximize and efficiently utilize dual-screen resources. When opening multiple programs and documents, they can be reasonably allocated on the two screens for easy switching, greatly improving work efficiency. ScreenXpert 3.1 provides dual-screen interactive operations that are convenient and consistent with normal human intuition:

↑The screen brightness can be adjusted by default, or you can Adjust individually through the software

For example, dragging the window can display a quick attachment toolbar, which facilitates the layout of the task window at a designated position on the screen.

Use six fingers to wake up the virtual keyboard, use three fingers to summon the virtual touchpad, use five fingers to open the waterfall screen...

ControlPane control panel under different applications There are also different functions, such as adjusting the brush size in PS.

Let’s continue talking about the dual-screen OLED display of ASUS ZenBook 14.

↑IPS on the left, OLED on the right

As we all know, OLED screens are of excellent quality. The biggest feature is that the black luminosity can be zero, showing pure Black, which means the picture will have infinite dynamic range and contrast, the picture levels will be delicate and full, and the colors will be bright and vivid.

The dual OLED screens also have a high resolution of 2880*1800 and are arranged in RGB pixels. There is no resolution loss. The overall picture looks very clear and does not appear. The "big fruit" look and feel of other OLED screens, plus support for 100% P3 wide color gamut, color accuracy Δ E

## We watch 4K blockbusters on streaming websites, or For playing games and watching live broadcasts, this screen brings us as much shock as the commercially available high-end OLED TVs priced at RMB 10,000.

##↑Supports Dolby Vision & Dolby Atmos

In addition, the OLED screen supports HDR high dynamic range display, The peak brightness of 550 nits is much higher than that of ordinary LCD screens. It supports HDR content creation and playback. The high peak brightness provides better dynamic range and layered detail expression for professional video post-processing and realistic games. There is also hardware low blue light screen protection, which is definitely ideal for creative workers.

ASUS has also carefully optimized the OLED screen of this notebook. In addition to adopting Samsung’s patented pixel-level compensation technology, which effectively delays the aging of OLED screen burn-in, it also has multiple anti-burn-in functions, so you don’t have to worry about it. The display effect will become worse after a year.

The two Thunderbolt 4 ports are not only for charging, but also have dual 40Gbps/s ultra-fast transmission, with enough bandwidth to connect multiple 4K displays and enable high refresh rate RGB color space. The fuselage is also equipped with an HDMI 2.1 TMDS interface with a bandwidth of 18Gbps and supports 4K 60Hz picture output.

Core Ultra super performance, play 3A masterpieces

Dual-screen notebooks don’t want to be reduced to gimmicks, in terms of performance Of course, we have to work harder. This year's super-powerful Core Ultra processor has undoubtedly greatly increased the upper limit of ASUS ZenBook 14 dual-screen usage scenarios. Core Ultra can make thin and light notebooks comparable to gaming notebooks, allowing you to play high-definition 3A masterpieces, and the newly introduced NPU processor is also more suitable for a wider range of AI applications in the future.

ASUS ZenBook 14 Dual Screen is equipped with Core Ultra 9 185H processor, which is the top model in the Core Ultra family. It is a performance monster and is worthy of the flagship status of ASUS ZenBook 14 Dual Screen.

The Core Ultra 9 185H processor adopts 6P 8E 2LPE 16-core 22-thread design, 5.1GHz turbo frequency, 24MB large cache, and the performance improvement directly kills the previous generation products.

We tested it using common performance evaluation software and found that the dual-screen performance of ASUS ZenBook 14 was simply not too strong. Cinebench R23 multi-core score exceeds 15,600 points and single-core score exceeds 1,830 points, surpassing the i7-13700H standard processor on the gaming laptop.

Graphics performance is the strength of the Ultra processor. The 3DMark TimeSpy graphics card score reached an astonishing 3436 points, which is twice as good as the graphics performance of the previous generation Core thin and light laptop. At the same time, the graphics performance surpasses the AMD 780M graphics card.

The PCMark10 comprehensive score of this machine exceeds 7000 points, making it faster and more accurate in both image processing and video editing.

Premiere Pro software plays back 1080P video clips in 4 minutes and 30 seconds without lag, and completes rendering in 1 minute and 30 seconds!

Its powerful performance also allows us to enjoy a happy "salted fish" time, not only playing CS2, DOT2 and other games at 100FPS at 1080P resolution.

In addition to strong basic performance, the new generation Core Ultra processor also has a built-in CPU GPU NPU triple AI acceleration engine, such as photo image processing , AI creation, etc., ASUS Lingyao 14 dual-screen can handle it easily and stress-free. It can run a local large model with 20 billion parameters, and can realize Wensheng text and Wensheng diagram in a few seconds.

Be willful, long battery life, strong power and no need to worry about heat

Dual-screen super processor, everyone must be worried about battery life and heat, ASUS is well prepared , this notebook is equipped with a 75Wh large-capacity long-life battery and a dual-fan dual heat pipe cooling system.

In the PCMark10 comprehensive performance test, ASUS ZenBook 14 Dual Screen can also achieve a long battery life of more than 10 hours in dual-screen mode. There is no need to carry a bulky power bank, and it is a large power bank in itself. It can also quickly charge mobile phones in reverse through the Type-C interface.

In terms of heat generation, the dual-fan dual-heat pipe design coupled with ASUS patents such as vapor chambers, even when the CPU is fully loaded with 35W TDP, the surface temperature of the keyboard area of ​​the fuselage is It can also be controlled below a comfortable 40°C. The temperature is evenly distributed throughout the fuselage, so it won't get hot anywhere.

Summary:

ASUS ZenBook 14 dual-screen ultra-thin notebook integrates the aesthetics of technology and perfectly interprets high-quality fashionable appearance and top-level hardware specifications and scene adaptability.

Delicate and stunning OLED dual screens, powerful and extraordinary processor, rich and changeable form switching, coupled with outstanding battery life and heat dissipation, ASUS Lingyao 14 The dual screen is perfect. It is a comprehensive dual-screen creative AI ultra-thin notebook with no shortcomings.

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