ASUS Announces ZenBook Duo 14, World’s Thinnest & Lightest 14" laptop with a Secondary Display & Revolutionary Tilting ScreenPad Plus

 

ASUS Announces ZenBook Duo 14, World’s Thinnest and Lightest 14" laptop with a Secondary Display and Revolutionary Tilting ScreenPad Plus

CES 2021 Innovation Award winner – the master multitasker ZenBook Duo 14 (UX482)

• Two Seamless Displays: 14" FHD NanoEdge display and 12.6" tilting ScreenPad Plus, for an immersive viewing experience.
• New Tilting ScreenPad^™ Plus: A 12.6" full-width secondary touchscreens with auto-tilt mechanism that reduces glare and reflections for improved readability.
• ScreenXpert 2 software with new built-in apps and Control Panel creative tool that boost productivity.
• 11th Gen Intel Core CPU in a smaller form factor for effortless portability.

 

KUALA LUMPUR, March 12, 2021 — ASUS today announced the latest flagship premium laptop from its ZenBook series, the 14-inch ASUS ZenBook Duo 14 (UX482), a distinguished recipient of the prestigious 2021 CES^® Innovation Awards. This new two-screen model introduce the tilting ASUS ScreenPad^™ Plus, a full-width secondary touchscreen with a new auto-tilt mechanism that improves readability, aids cooling, and works seamlessly with the main display for effortless multitasking and creativity.

The ultimate mobile productivity: ASUS ZenBook Duo 14

The lightweight ZenBook Duo 14 (UX482) lets you get things done in style – calmly, efficiently, and with zero fuss. It is a powerful and elegant next-level companion for on-the-go productivity and creativity, featuring a ScreenPad™ Plus secondary display with a brand-new tilting design that offers effortless ergonomics and seamless workflows.

The ZenBook Duo 14 (UX482) is powered by up-to latest 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 processor, and paired with up-to 16 GB RAM to make light work of cross-screen workflows using the 12.6-inch ScreenPad Plus and the main display. There’s also an ultrafast 512GB PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD storage to ensure fast boot times and rapid app loads – that helps accelerate any workflow and optimize productivity.

With its discrete NVIDIA GeForce MX450 graphics, the ZenBook Duo 14 delivers silky-smooth visuals for multitasking users, supercharging a user’s work in photo and video-editing tasks. Casual content creators will love the effortless on-the-go visual power that ZenBook Duo 14 provides.

The ZenBook Duo 14 also features ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology, which works with the 11^th Gen Intel processors to intelligently boost performance. Using Performance mode, users can enjoy a performance boost of up to 40%[i][ii][iii] compared to a similar standard laptop. ZenBook Duo 14 also incorporates the AAS Plus thermal system that optimizes cooling performance, and also allows a 3 mm-slimmer chassis due to the reduced need for empty internal cooling space.

For easy connections to peripherals, ZenBook Duo 14 has comprehensive high-performance I/O capabilities including a pair of the latest Thunderbolt^™ 4 USB-C ports. These support Power Delivery and DisplayPort and the 40 Gbps bandwidth lets users connect an external 8K display or two 4K UHD displays. ZenBook Duo 14 also includes Intel WiFi 6 enhanced with ASUS WiFi Master Premium technology.

 

Tilting ScreenPad Plus

ASUS ZenBook Duo 14 introduce a new tilting ScreenPad Plus design that adds a new dimension to on-the-go computing. This full-width secondary touchscreen — which has a resolution of 1920 x 515 and a higher brightness of 400 nits — automatically tilts upwards by up to 7°, reducing glare and reflections for improved readability. It makes working with the main four-sided frameless NanoEdge display even more seamless, with endless ways to optimize and personalize workflows.

When the laptops are placed on the supplied Duo Stand, the tilted display sits at a stylus-friendly angle, and both displays support the latest 4096-pressure-level devices including the bundled ASUS Pen[iv].

The upgraded Screen Xpert 2 software that powers ScreenPad Plus includes a collection of new and updated built-in apps to help boost productivity, such as the new Window Flick feature that allows users to simply flick windows between displays. The popular Task Group app has an updated design, so users can see their Task Groups at a glance, and lock into work modes instantly by launching multiple apps with a single tap.

 

 

ScreenXpert 2 also premieres the exciting new Control Panel, a fully-customizable app that will revolutionize creative workflows. Control Panels gives the user precise and intuitive control in creative apps, with intuitive controls for adjusting brush size, saturation, layer opacity, and much more. Four types of control — Dial, Button, Slider, and Scroll — each work in a different way to give precise and smooth control over parameters. Control Panel currently works with Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Premiere and After Effects, and more compatible apps will be announced in the near future.

 

SPECIFICATIONS[i] ASUS ZenBook Duo 14 (UX482)
Processor	Intel Core i7-1165G7 2.8 GHz (12M Cache, up to 4.7 GHz, 4 cores) Intel Core i5-1135G7 2.4 GHz (8M Cache, up to 4.2 GHz, 4 cores)
Display	Main Display: 14” (16:9) LED-backlit FHD (1920 x 1080) 60 Hz touchscreen 93% screen-to-body ratio PANTONE® Validated ,100% sRGB gamut Anti-glare panel IPS-level wide-view technology 4096-pressure level stylus support   ScreenPad™ Plus: 12.6” FHD touch display 178˚ wide-view technology
Operating System	Windows 10 Home
Graphics	NVIDIA® GeForce® MX450, with 2 GB GDDR6 VRAM
Memory	16 GB LPDDR4x 4266 MHz 8 GB LPDDR4x 4266 MHz
Storage	512 GB M.2 NVMe™ PCIe® 3.0 SSD
Connectivity	Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Bluetooth® 5.0
Cameras	IR webcam with Windows Hello support
Interfaces	2 x Thunderbolt™ 4 USB-C® (up to 40 Gbps) 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A (up to 5 Gbps) 1 x Standard HDMI 1 x Audio combo jack 1 x MicroSD card slot
Audio	Smart amplifier for maximum audio performance Array microphone with Cortana and Alexa voice-recognition support Harman Kardon-certified audio system
Battery	70 Wh 4-cell lithium-polymer battery
AC Adapter	Output: 20 V, 65 W   Input: 100V-240V AC, 50Hz/60Hz
Dimensions	324 x 222 x 16.9 mm
Weight	1.62 kg
Retail Pricing	MYR 6,499 (Core i7-1165G7 + 16GB RAM) MYR 5,499 (Core i5-1135G7 + 8GB RAM)
Local Availability	12 March 2021 onwards (authorized dealers, ASUS e-Stores)

 

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About ASUS

ASUS is a multinational company known for the world’s best motherboards, PCs, monitors, graphics cards and routers, and is ranked by Laptop Mag as the best laptop brand in 2020. Along with an expanding range of superior gaming, content-creation and AIoT solutions, ASUS leads the industry through cutting-edge design and innovations made to create the most ubiquitous, intelligent, heartfelt and joyful smart life for everyone. With a global workforce that includes more than 5,000 R&D professionals, ASUS is driven to become the world’s most admired innovative leading technology enterprise. Inspired by the In Search of Incredible brand spirit, ASUS won more than 11 awards every day in 2019 and ranks as one of Forbes’ World’s Best Regarded Companies and Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies.  

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[i] The 40% performance increase is compared to a 3DMark TimeSpy score of an 11th generation CPU at fixed 15 W TDP. Data is from ASUS internal laboratories.

[ii] Test score may vary according to specifications.

[iii] To enable Performance Mode, please keep the laptop plugged in for the best performance, set the Windows power option as ASUS Recommended Mode, and select Performance Mode in the MyASUS software.

[iv] ASUS Pen is bundled with ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED (UX582) only.

[v] Specifications, content and product availability are all subject to change without notice and may differ from country to country. Actual performance may vary depending on applications, usage, environment and other factors. Full specifications are available at http://www.asus.com