ASUS Zenbook Duo OLED 2024 review: laptop of the year?

Forget 2-in-1s, this is a 1-in-2: a laptop with two OLED touchscreens that allows you incredible flexibility in how you set it up, means you don’t need to carry a portable external monitor around with you, and comes with enough power and storage to make meaningful creative work on the move not only possible but actually enjoyable.

All the laptop’s internals are inside the bottom screen, yet despite this the assembled Zenbook isn’t really any thicker than many of the laptops that come across our desks here. It’s perfectly sized to slip in your bag, yet supplies an experience superior to most laptops when you get where you’re going.

The touchpad is smaller than some, but still a good size given that it’s integrated into a removable panel. It’s entirely possible, when using the Zenbook Duo’s screens in their detached mode, to discard the keyboard and use one of your own choice via Bluetooth or USB. That both screens are touchscreens as well means you might not need to connect a mouse, and it’s possible to put the on-screen keyboard on the bottom screen, though you do lose feedback by doing this.

The latest Cinebench 2024 benchmark test is hard on processors, but the Ultra 9 in the Zenbook Duo OLED puts in a score that’s between theM1 and M1 Max, and on a par with desktop i9 chips from previous generations. In use you’ll hear the fan quite often - just downloading games to the laptop through Steam caused it to spin up - but the experience is a snappy one.

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