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it looks perfectly normal but watch this there's a little kickstand under here

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then okay I can take the keyboard off and boom second display that's right

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guys ASUS sponsored this video and brought CES 20124 here to our studio to

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show off the brand new Zenbook Duo that

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considering the dual screen laptops we've seen in the past has had a

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shocking amount of thought put into it I guess it kind of makes sense though this

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is far from ASUS's first run at this concept first they put a screen in a

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trackpad which was of questionable utility then they moved the keyboard

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down and put a screen above it which was pretty sweet for video editors and only

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video editors then last year they released the Zenbook 17 fold which was

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pretty cool but had an eyew watering

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$3500 reserved purely for those with more money than brains well that's where

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the new Zenbook Duo comes in by issuing

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sci-fi screen technology and instead going for a simple hinge ASUS was able

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to fold the starting price in half

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putting this thing in reach of middle managers rather than just those in the

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sea suite and ASUS actually identified this need when their own marketing

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department asked for it this is what I'm talking about laptops have gotten so

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powerful that many companies just don't bother issuing desktops anymore and this

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is the weapon of choice for many staffers at isus and actually here for

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that matter it's pretty solid you drag your reference materials up here work on

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your presentation down here but then shoot it's time to run to a meeting and

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well I hope you didn't need your second screen meanwhile with the duo you can

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pack the whole thing up and take it with you in exactly that amount of time

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arrive at the meeting set up your battle station and uh God willing get some

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actual work done while other people talk about stuff that has nothing to do with

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your kpis for the panels on these machines you get either dual full HD

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oleds on the base model or on the premium ones you can get dual 3K oleds

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running at 120 HZ and isus advertises

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four different operating modes for the machine laptop mode desktop mode sharing

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mode or dual screen mode though I suspect most people are primarily going

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to be switching between laptop and dual screen modes which worked surprisingly

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well especially given that this is pre-production hardware like just look

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at this boom laptop mode Let's

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go like that that's pretty darn seamless

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one mode I was hoping for that we didn't get is Battleship mode which I guess

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you'd normally call tent mode on a flip laptop uh yeah that's as far as it goes

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as Su said that they decided against it because a hinge that goes more than 180°

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that also is large enough to accommodate the keyboard in the middle would have

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been expensive and very heavy as it is

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without the keyboard the Zenbook Duo comes in at just 1.35 kilos and with the

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keyboard 1.65 k kilos with most of that weight being the displays themselves

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which doesn't really surprise me like this thing feels flipping dense to help

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counteract some of that the entire chassis is made out of magnesium alloy

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uh side note by the way if you're wondering about the durability of the hinge ASUS says that with the keyboard

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removed you can put up to 25 kg on top

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of a closed shell before things start to go bad oh yeah that's ooh that would be

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really important to know should I be doing this on the pre-production one

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yeah you can sit on it on that note another advantage of the approach ASUS

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took with this device is durability foldables super cool and I'm on the

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record kind of loving them but they can't use Gorilla Glass and in a device

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that's going to have stuff on top of the screen all the time by Design there's a

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lot to be said for using a scratch resistant glass but the real Special

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Sauce here isn't the displays it's actually the keyboard isus told us that

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it was incredibly difficult to develop a keyboard controller that's able to

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seamlessly handle going between a wired connection through these Pogo pins down

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here and a Bluetooth one and then when you attach the keyboard it uses 14

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magnets that ensure proper alignment with the Pogo pins and boom now it's

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using a wired connection the other Big Challenge was building something this

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thin that still manages to feel pretty

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decent that's 14 magnets for you it

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really does feel pretty decent doesn't it it's kind of like if you didn't have

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a keyboard at all and there was just a keyboard embedded in the surface of the

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table in front of you it's uh pretty cool 1.4 mm of travel

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which how much of the entire thickness of this thing is that we can check yeah

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we should check I love that Alex keeps a pair of calipers in his backpack 3 and

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1/2 4 mm thick something like that so then that's about a third of it is key

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travel wow and we haven't even talked about the possibility of still using a

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third Monitor and then just moving this to wherever is most ergonomic for you

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now you got three displays the overall concept of this machine is similar to a

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folding one that I've been daily driving recently you know seamlessly switching

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between I've just got to type a couple of emails mode and productivity monster

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mode but something that I have sorely missed on my machine is decent IO and

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this this is a big Improvement I've got a

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usba a dual Thunderbolt ports HDMI and a

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32 mm audio jack I mean it's not the same as a gaming PC but it is more than

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enough for the typical Road Warrior these are Thunderbolt 4 too which I

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guess makes sense this is running on the latest core Ultra 9 185h processor has

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up to 32 gigs of lpddr 5x memory at a

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wild 7467 megatrans per second this is

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thanks to how close the RAM is to the CPU something ASUS worked on with Intel

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last year it's got one SSD slot which

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it's technically upgradeable but is underneath the main board so accessing

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it won't be for the faint of heart only those in possession of the upcoming

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Precision Screwdriver from LTT Store.com and it has a

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75w battery that's a lot considering its

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size and they're expecting it to be enough for 13 1/2 hours on one screen 10

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hours on two screens though that isn't Final in designing the the cooling

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solution ASUS said the difficult part wasn't keeping the processor cooled

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they've done that hundreds of times at this point the hard part was keeping the

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screen cool because OLED really doesn't

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like high heat so they had to put a heat spreader behind the OLED panel maintain

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a slim air gap between the CPU and the display and put a graphite sheet on the

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bottom cover to ensure the display is always under 45° another way to manage

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heat is running the displays dimmer and ASUS's solution to that is surprisingly

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flexible screen expert allows you to not only adjust the displays but decouple

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them if you've got a background noise when show running on one of them and you

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want to save some battery on that screen but want to see what you're doing on the

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other one you can share a flipped image between them you can lock in rotation

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there's a bunch of other cool stuff in screen expert but my personal favorite

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is the task groups task groups allow you

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to position all of your applications exactly how you want across both

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displays and then just click to open them all at once to the exact locations

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you want I don't know about you guys but I hate arriving at work to find my

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computer restarted overnight and all my Windows are messed up and I just have to

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move them all around hey this is the solution I mean if you don't feel like

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using power toys which is also a solution to that which brings us to the

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end of the really cool stuff about this laptop and the beginning of the stuff

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that I reluctantly talk about because ASUS really wants us too like the a

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virtual

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keyboard it's supposed to be six right six fingers

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yeah nice oh did it nice it works really

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well really good feature there it is everything else

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about this machine is really cool and appears to solve real world problems

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this is horrible but I mean I don't know

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okay what if I forgot my keyboard and every other keyboard was consumed by the

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great keyboard fire

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yeah maybe pricing is expected to start

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at around $1,500 and depending on your region it could come with a pen oh we

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have those we have those we have them oh oh okay wow thanks

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Alex pen wow carrying case wow backpack

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neat and you might get them or you might

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not if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out our other asuc CES coverage

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where we looked at they updated gaming machines okay

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they look pretty sick