![]() ![]() It wasn’t a huge issue, but I thought that I should let you know. The trackpad uses Windows Precision drivers, making it compatible with multi-finger gestures, natural scrolling, and smooth tracking. It was too close to arrow keys, and I ended up pressing the wrong key a lot of times. A major issue that I faced with the keyboard, though, was related to the placement and the size of the right Shift key. The keyboard’s keys have a decent amount of travel, as deep as thin-and-light laptops go. If you want to work comfortably on the ZenBook Duo, I would suggest you use an external mouse and a wrist rest attachment for the keyboard. It is almost impossible to use the narrow trackpad, especially when you’re coming from large landscape-oriented trackpads on other laptops. Plus, the portrait orientation of the already small trackpad is no help either. However, the keyboard is a nightmare to type on due to its placement, towards the bottom edge of the laptop’s base. When you open the lid, the base of the laptop is raised slightly (5.5 degrees) using the ‘ErgoLift Hinge.’ The raised keyboard makes typing slightly easier. Its lid doesn’t open as easily as the MacBook’s, with one finger, but at least it is not too loose, which could end up being a reliability issue in a couple of years. There is close to no flex in the lid or on the keyboard. The laptop’s build quality is really, really good for the price. ASUS bundles the laptop with good quality, soft-touch leatherette laptop cover. The lid still catches a few fingerprints and smudges. The ZenBook Duo looks stylish in its Celestial Blue colorway, with its metallic concentric circle finish. ASUS ZenBook Duo UX481FL Design & Ergonomics The laptop is powered by a 70WHr battery and comes with a 65W power adapter which has a cylindrical connector. Wireless connectivity includes future-proof Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0. ![]() The ZenBook Duo has a full-sized HDMI 2.0 port, a 10Gbps USB Type-A port, a 5Gbps USB Type-A port, a 10Gbps USB Type-C port, a 3.5mm headphone/microphone combo jack, and a microSD card slot. In terms of storage, ASUS is offering 256GB (Gen3 x2), 512GB (Gen3 x2), or 1TB (Gen3 x4) of PCIe NVMe SSD for storage. Only the ZenBook Pro Duo features LPDDR4 RAM. The laptop weirdly uses LPDDR3 RAM, either 8GB or 16GB, depending on the variant. The ZenBook Duo runs Windows 10 and comes in two variants, one with an Intel Core i5 10210U CPU and the other with an Intel Core i7 10510U CPU. The laptop weighs 1.5kg and is just 19.9mm thick. There are Harman Kardon-tuned stereo speakers, an array of microphones for Alexa and Cortana voice recognition, and an IR webcam with Windows Hello support. There’s a backlit chiclet-style keyboard and the trackpad uses Windows Precision drivers. There’s a secondary display with touchscreen, which the company calls ScreenPad Plus, and it is 12.6-inch in size. The ZenBook Duo has a 14-inch IPS LCD edge-to-edge screen with Full HD resolution and 100% sRGB color gamut coverage. We had a chance to test the ASUS ZenBook Duo (UX481L) over the past couple weeks to check whether two screens on a laptop are better than one and does this form factor really help in improving productivity. Intel Core processor, and a 10Gbps USB Type-C port. The ZenBook Duo (UX481), on the other hand, has two Full HD LCD screens, DDR3 RAM, 10th Gen. Intel Core processor, and a Thunderbolt 3 port. The ZenBook Pro Duo (UX581) is priced at Rs 2,09,990, and it has two 4K screens (the main screen being OLED), DDR4 RAM, 9th Gen. Secondary displays on these laptops are placed between the keyboard and the laptop’s hinge, making them comfortable for more flexible use cases. This time though, secondary screens are much bigger, spanning edge-to-edge. During Computex 2019, the company revealed two more laptops-ZenBook Duo and ZenBook Pro Duo-with secondary displays. Its touchscreen-based trackpad could also be used to display mini windows or widgets like a calculator or media player controls. The ZenBook Pro 15 was launched last year. However, the Taiwanese company was the first to launch a dual-screen laptop. Multiple dual-screen laptops have been unveiled over the past year, including the ASUS ZenBook Pro 15, HP Omen X2s, and Microsoft Surface Duo. ![]()
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