![]() ![]() Given the uncommon form, you may expect that Asus would have had to made some sacrifices in terms of physical connectivity, but luckily, the ZenBook Duo is quite amply equipped. Two hours on the pump will get the battery 90% full, while it takes around two hours and 45 minutes to fully recharge the Asus ZenBook Duo. You’ll get 39% from empty after half an hour, and roughly 65% after an hour. While I never had to worry about battery levels much, it was good to know that the supplied mains adapter will fill you up quickly. Most days, after eight hours working and listening to music, I’d have over 50% battery left. In terms of battery life, the Asus ZenBook Duo lasted a respectable 12 hours and 44 minutes when looping a 720p movie with the brightness locked at 120 nits. Most laptops in this price range this days will give you around 80% Adobe RGB coverage, so this is only just shy of the batting average. This is something that’s mainly of concern to budding photography students or anyone who wants to print out their photos. Not the best result by any means – the Dell XPS 13, for example, gave me 519 nits on full brightness – but anything north of 300 nits gives you about enough punch to let you to work outside on a sunny day.Ĭontrast ratios at zero, 25%, 50%,75% and full brightness were also high (above 1000:1 at every point), and testing also saw display cover 100% of the sRGB (standard RGB) colour space.Ĭoverage of the wider Adobe RGB colour space was lower at 78%. Using a SpyderPro X colorimeter, I recorded a maximum brightness of 347 nits. how many colours the display can accurately reproduce – is high. Brightness, contrast, and colour space coverage – i.e. ![]() Pixel counts aside, the viewing angles here are good, nothing looks terribly odd or discoloured when viewed at acute horizontal or vertical angles, although some slight greying is noticeable at extreme angles, which is to be expected. While that’s a relatively low pixels per inch count (157ppi), when you look at the likes of the MacBook Pro and the Dell XPS 13, it’s also not an outlier as 14in Full HD laptops are fairly common these days. With all of the focus on that ScreenPad, what about the main display? It’s a 14in Full HD (1920 x 1080) LCD touchscreen. Other than that, you use external displays just as you would with any other laptop. They’ll still work, but as you’re divorced from the usual ZenBook Duo vertically aligned dual display set-up, it can be disorientating. I typically use an external monitor (an Iiyama ProLite X82283HS-B3) as a primary display for day-to-day work and was able to connect to Asus ZenBook Duo 14 just as you would a normal monitor.Īnother thing to remember is that certain functions like App Launcher (see below) won’t work as you might expect if you make an external monitor your primary display. This is what you’ll see in the Display page in the Settings:įor the most part, this is not a big deal. To illustrate my point, take a look at the screengrab below. Note that connecting an external display means adding a third monitor, not a second. I set this up on my trusty Huawei Mate 10 Pro, and didn’t find it to be terribly useful as a webcam, and transferring files wasn’t any quicker than it would have been if I’d simply connected the phone to the laptop via USB and used the old drag and drop method. Other features at your fingertips are Link to MyAsus, which lets you link iOS and Android phones to the laptop, so you can do things like make and take calls on the laptop, and use your phone as an ad hoc webcam. I’m sure that a lot of people who initially shunned the Apple Touch Bar felt the same way. Old habits die hard though, and in all honesty, I found that leaning on muscle memory was actually more of a time-saver than trying to get to grips with Quick Key, but maybe with time, I could learn to use this to my advantage. Instead of having to hold down Control, and then hit A, C, and V to select all, copy, and paste something, you can just use the Select All, Copy, and Paste buttons. This is similar to Apple’s Touch Bar in terms of how it maps traditional keyboard shortcuts and functions to touchscreen controls. ZenBook Pro 15 from 2018, also returns here. Quick Key, a feature seen on older Asus laptops like the ![]()
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