MacBook competeor – Asus zenbook s16 with AMD Ryzen Ai 7
AMD Ryzen processor has made a different place in the market for thin & light laptops. Asus zenbook s16 comes with a 65W type-c to type-c cable and a laptop pouch to carry the laptop.
Build quality
The weight of the laptop is 1.5 kg and goes upto 1.7 kg with the charger. The design of the laptop is absolutely unique and premium. The thickness of the laptop is 12.9MM and the body is completely metal. Its screen moves upto 110-120 degrees but since this is a touch laptop, the screen should have moved upto 360 degrees.
Specification of Asus zenbook
It has AMD Ryzen Ai 7 350w 8 core 16 thread processor, 24 GB RAM LPDDRX5 with a speed of 8000 MT/s 1TB SSD gen 4 storage. This laptop comes with iGPU AMD Radeon 860M and NPU upto 50TOPS, which means this laptop is copilot+ certified. Meaning its job is to handle low power AI tasks, in which the entire load does not go to the CPU and GPU. It is more usable in thin and laptops, because these require more battery backup, whenever there are AI tasks to be done in the laptop, the NPU gets hit and the CPU and GPU do not work. There is support for Wifi 7 and bluetooth 5.4 in connectivity. MS office 2024 is available free for lifetime and 3 months of Xbox gaming pass is available. It has a 78Wh battery and in battery performance, 7-8 hours of battery backup is available. With its 65W charger, the battery gets fully charged in 1 hour 30 minutes.
Software & Gaming Performance
In this laptop, you can do video editing etc. up to 1080P, you can also do it up to 4K but you will have to reduce the render resolution of the timeline. You can easily do color accuracy tasks in Photoshop but you cannot run software like After Effect in it because it requires a separate GPU which is not there in it. In gaming, you get 140-150 FPS on low in Valorunt, 70-80 FPS on low in CS2, around 50FPS on normal in GTA5. This laptop is fine for gaming.
Ports & keyboard
It has USB 3.2 Gen 2 type -A, full sized SD card reader on its right side and HDMI 2.1, 2 USB 4.0 type – C port, 3.5MM headphone jack on the left side. Its keyboard is smaller than other keyboards and its keys are slightly larger and backlit keyboard. The trackpad is also very smooth and supports multigesture.
Display
It has a 16-inch 3k resolution (2880*1800) display, which has a 16:10 aspect ratio and this is Asus’s Alumia OLED display. It has a response time of 0.2 milliseconds and a refresh rate of 120 Hz. It also supports dynamic refresh rate. There is a Splanded option inside its My Asus application, in which you can change colors etc. like Normal, Vivid and Manual, which targets creators who have to do work like color grading. Its all time brightness is up to 390 nits, and can go up to 500nits while watching any HDR content. Its display is VESA certified display HDR true black 500, pantone validated display, TUV rehinland low blue light certified and also supports dolby vision. It has a touch display and supports multitouch. It has 6 speakers whose voice is quite good and loud, along with this, Dolby Atmos support is also available.
Overall the Asus zenbook s16 is good, the design and build quality of the laptop is good, the size is also small. If your budget is above 1 lakh then you can buy it, otherwise, in comparison to this, Macbook Air M4 chip is also available. If you are an Apple user then you can check Macbook.
