![]() ![]() Its thin and light design hasn't resulted in a bulky and cumbersome device – and, to Asus’ credit, it’s continued to work hard to make the ScreenPad Plus a useful tool, rather than a gimmick. Overall, the Asus ZenBook Duo 14 UX482E is a premium laptop that delivers excellent performance and superb battery life. This is an Intel Evo-certified laptop, so not only does it pack the latest Intel Core 11th-generation processors, it also wakes up from sleep quickly, and its battery lasted almost 12 hours in our test – pretty impressive for such a powerful laptop. The rest of the performance of the ZenBook Duo 14 UX482E is excellent thanks to a series of powerful, modern mobile components. You can now also easily configure it to work with apps that don’t have included support, and with a bit of tweaking you can get the second screen to behave the way you want it to. Nevertheless, Asus has worked hard to make the ScreenPad Plus more useful, with an increasing number of third-party apps now supporting the screen. It means you’ll probably want to use a wrist-rest when typing, which will lead you to having to use the laptop on a table or desk. This may in fact prove the most contentious aspect of the ZenBook Duo 14 UX482E’s design, since it takes a bit of getting used to. The position of the second screen does mean that the keyboard has been moved down to the front of the bottom-half of the laptop. Thanks to the thin bezels around the screen, moving between the top and bottom displays feels pretty seamless, plus it’s large enough to present windows such as email clients. The second screen – or ScreenPad Plus – is the most noticeable feature of the design, adding a 12.65-inch touchscreen with a 1,920 x 515 resolution below the main 14-inch 1080p screen. This looks and feels like a premium laptop. The design is impressively svelte, and the ZenBook Duo 14 UX482E boasts the kind of build quality we’ve come to expect from the company. It also has a downward-shining light for conveying Alexa status that gives it an extra edge of cool.As far as that second screen is concerned, Asus has also done a superb job of ensuring it hasn't resulted in a bulky laptop. ![]() Given how thick it is, it's also disappointing that it lacks a wired Ethernet jack. ![]() Not an anchor, but not the thin-and-light devices a lot of people want. While a lot of Asus's ZenBooks are light and thin, this one has more in common with the company's Republic of Gamers gaming laptops. Asus' recommended brightness when working on battery is 40%, which is definitely too dim. Consider my results a work in progress.) I think it uses the same touch overlay as the HP Spectre x360, because it has the same grainy look up close, and like that system it supports Windows HDR for everything. (It's listed as DisplayHDR 500 True Black compliant, so I'm not entirely confident of my peak brightness result of 416 nits for a 10% window. It's slightly dimmer than the others at a peak full-screen brightness of about 356 nits, but offers the same full P3 gamut coverage - only 93% of Adobe RGB, though. The OLED screen is Pantone Validated - it comes with two undocumented software profiles - and uses the same Samsung panel as all the current models. On the other hand, it's nice for the occasional digital signature. It's not so much for artistry as for annotation and notetaking, but I still found it a little awkwardly placed for that. The secondary display supports basic pressure-sensitivity, 1,024 levels, and comes bundled with a battery-driven stylus. Like the HP's, Asus' Screen Pad Plus works much like a standalone second display, and both of the displays have touchscreens, which is nice. These small screens like the half-height one on the ZenBook and the tiny one on the HP Omen X 2S aren't quite as nice as having a big second screen - except when you don't have room for a full-size monitor. You're not constantly juggling windows, and you can put boring meetings to the side while you keep working on more interesting stuff. It's like moving from a tiny apartment to a house. Having multiple monitors makes working and playing so much more pleasant. ![]()
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