#Asus zenbook duo software#
#Asus zenbook duo professional#
#Asus zenbook duo windows#

While the keyboard was sometimes warm, I never felt uncomfortable heat there or on the bottom of the device. I’d have Chrome tabs stacked on top of Zoom calls or YouTube streams with no issues on either screen New logo, by the way. The RTX 3050 Ti isn’t necessarily designed for AAA gaming and is weaker than other laptop GPUs you can get at this price point, but it can certainly make older, lighter titles a possibility. I’d have Chrome tabs stacked on top of Zoom calls or YouTube streams with no issues on either screen. The performance in my general work use cases was as good as you’d expect. Asus says it will cost $1,999.99, which I don’t hate for these specs. My unit also has 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage in addition to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti GPU. The Intel Core i7-12700H inside is a mainstream processor that we’ve mostly seen in high-performance gaming laptops and workstations to date, including Alienware’s X14. I hope Asus is able to make it even the tiniest bit more translucent in the future, but I’m still very happy to see this feature here. And the touchpad interface is opaque, so when you have it pulled up, you can’t see the other content that you have sitting on the ScreenPad. You also are reaching over the keyboard to use it, which is a bit weird (but something I got used to). For one, there’s no clicking mechanism (but tap-to-click does work well). The touchpad works well and is as responsive to all the various gestures as a regular one would be. To turn it back into a ScreenPad, you tap an X in the top-right corner. All you have to do is tap it with three fingers. Touchpad mode allows you to turn the ScreenPad into a giant touchpad. That’s what I was doing here - until I discovered TouchPad mode. On previous models, I’ve just used a stylus for every possible situation. The Duo 14’s touchpad is so tiny as to be basically useless. The other fix I’m very happy about pertains to the touchpad.

#Asus zenbook duo professional#

ScreenXpert 3 looks significantly more professional than previous iterations This is something I use a lot on Duo devices. I remain a fan of the task groups feature (also accessible from this taskbar) which allows you to “save” a configuration of tabs and apps in an arrangement of your choice to open again at a later date. You can also adjust the taskbar’s location by dragging it to the bottom or either side. I was prepared to complain about the questionable utility of some of these, but it turns out that there is some amount of customization you can do in the Control Center Settings panel, which I found after a bit of exploring.

#Asus zenbook duo windows#

There’s a taskbar (like a floating miniature Windows taskbar) with quick buttons for various features like toggling brightness, phone mirroring, opening an app navigation screen, locking the keyboard, and making all the windows on the ScreenPad disappear to display the desktop background. It’s intuitive with a remarkably easy learning curve, which has not always been the case with ScreenXpert software. And while I occasionally had to tap a button a couple times to get something to open, that was the extent of the issues I had. It’s all snappy to use, and windows resized the way they were supposed to. The new version that’s on this device (ScreenXpert 3) looks significantly more professional than previous iterations.

#Asus zenbook duo software#

This software allows the Duo’s two screens to work together and has come a long way from the glitchy and unresponsive mess it once was. If you were having trouble picturing the deck layout, just look here.įor example, ScreenXpert.

Asus has fixed basically everything else. But we’re at the point where that’s really just a preference for keyboard location. Now, does that mean its benefits finally outweigh the compromises required in order to fit a whole second screen onto this laptop? For me, no. Now, I can keep reference materials down there to glance at and read while I work.

On previous models, it’s just been a place to throw distractions like Slack and Twitter while my real work happened on the top half. And there’s a new “anti-glare etching” that keeps it from reflecting ceiling light, which has been a nuisance in the past.įolks, the second screen is… actually useful now. It’s also higher resolution (2880 x 864). For one, it’s brighter than last year’s, now reaching 500 nits. There are other various tweaks that make the secondary screen significantly easier to see from a distance than it has been in the past.