Stretch the Touch Bar of Apple’s MacBook Pro up to nearly half of the keyboard area, the result is what you can see in the all-new Asus ZenBook Pro Duo laptop.
Mostly focused on content creators as well as gamers, Asus’ two new ZenBook Pro Duo laptop — the Asus ZenBook Pro Duo UX481 and Asus ZenBook Duo UX581 — has been launched in Nepal by Nagmani International, while other variants could make their way to the market as well in the future. Well, for now, let’s have a closer look at both of these.
Asus ZenBook Duo UX481
The Asus ZenBook Duo UX481 comprises a 14-inch FHD IPS primary display with 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution and a 12.6-inch FHD secondary touch display with the same 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution count. It comes in two different CPU variants — a 1.6GHz Intel Core i5-10210U and a 1.8GHz Intel Core i7-10510U, while the Nvidia GeForce MX250 takes care of all graphical processing and comes with a 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM.
Clearly, a laptop for multitaskers but with minimal computation power and graphics, the MX250 in this case that can surely handle multitasking and all the other normal to moderately high computing but still not as good as the other ZenBook Duo model, aka, the ZenBook Pro Duo UX581 in this list.
To summon all these up, let’s have a quick overview of the device’s specifications.
ZenBook Duo UX481 Specs Highlight
- CPU: Intel Core i7-10510U or Intel Core i5-10210U
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce MX250, 2GB GDDR5 VRAM
- Display: 14-inch FHD IPS (1080 x 1920), 12.6-inch FHD touch display (1080 x 1920)
- Storage: 256GB/512GB/1TB PCIe SSD
- RAM: 8GB/16GB/LPDDR3
- M.2 Slot: 1x 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4
- OS: Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10, Windows 10 Home
- Battery: 70Wh, 4-cell
- Weight: 1.5kg
- Ports: 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C, 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A, 1 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A, HDMI, headphone/microphone jack, microSD card reader
- Price in Nepal: NPR 195,000
Asus ZenBook Pro Duo UX581
The Asus ZenBooks Pro Duo UX581 boasts a 4K OLED primary touch screen and a similar 4K touch secondary screen. The display supports 100% DCI-P3 and 133% sRGB colors. Similarly, it runs on an Intel Core i9 (i9-9980HK), an overclockable one. While it comes in another CPU variant – the Intel Core i7 (i7-9750H). Regarding the launch, the variant getting introduced is still skeptical as of now.
The ZenBook Pro Duo UX581 carries an Nvidia RTX2060 graphical unit along with an nVME Gen 3 X4 SSD. Furthermore, with the laptop, you get a stylus, which Asus calls the ‘Asus-pen’. And you can use it in both the primary as well as the secondary panels.
Be it your favorite photo editing tools or the video editing ones, the ZenBook Pro Duo UX581 seems a perfect fit allowing you to be productive and get your job done with active multitasking.
ZenBook Pro Duo UX581 Specs Highlight
- CPU: Intel Core i7-9750H or Intel Core i9-9980HK; 2.4GHz
- GPU:Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060, 6GB GDDR6 VRAM
- Display: 15.6-inch UHD OLED (2160 x 3840), 14.0-inch UHD touch display (2160 x 3840)
- Storage: 256GB/512GB/1TB PCIe SSD
- RAM: 8GB/16GB/32GB DDR4
- OS: Windows 10 Pro
- Battery: 71Wh, 8-cell
- Weight: 2.5kg
- Ports: 1 x Thunderbolt 3(USB-C), 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A, HDMI 2.0, headphone/microphone jack
- Price in Nepal: NPR 3,59,000
