Taiwanese electronics company Asus recently unveiled their ‘ZenBook 14 Air’ measuring just 11mm thin and weighting close to 1100 grams. So, here let’s take a quick peek at the new ultrabook, its specs, features, and expected price in Nepal. 

Asus Zenbook 14 Air Overview

Design and Display 

The primary focus of the new Zenbook is on the ‘Air ’ness of the overall package. As I said earlier, the laptop is just around 1.1 cm thick and weighs just a little more than a kg. It’s got a sleek-looking design with a unibody metallic build and artistic lines on the lid. And to top if off, both the ‘Snow White’ and ‘Mountain Gray’ look equally as stunning and sophisticated.  On the front, you are greeted with a gorgeous OLED screen with all the goodies of Asus’ Lumina branding. That means accurate colors out of the box, fast response, and less harmful blue light. Specifically, you are getting a 120Hz 2.8k screen with 10-bit colors, 100% DCI P3 coverage, and a peak brightness of 600 nits.

Processor and Memory

Given the slim form factor, Intel’s new Lunar Lake Core Ultra 7 258V chipset makes a lot of sense for the Zenbook 14 Air. This efficient chip brings improved battery life, newer graphics, and a dedicated Neural Processing Unit for AI-related tasks. Asus says the overall AI prowess is over 115 TOPS but that includes the CPU, GPU, and NPU. The latter pushes 47 TOPS on its own which sits in between the competition like AMD’s Hawk Point and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite offerings.  As for the memory, the RAM is of course soldered to the system board but you can get up to 32GB of it and pair it with a 1TB NVME Gen 4 SSD. To keep things in check, there are two fans and some vapor chambers inside. Given that the overall system draw is just 28W, those cooling solutions should suffice in most scenarios and as such Asus claims the ultrabook operates below 25dB for light workloads.

Battery and Ports

For a such a light and compact machine, the ZenBook 14 surprises with its relatively big 72Wh Lithium battery and claims of up to a ridiculous 22 hours of endurance. There are lots of ports too, a full sized HDMI 2.1, a type-A, and two Thunderbolt 4 ports. There’s also a 3.5mm jack for your audio needs alongside integrated WiFi 7 capabilities.

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Asus Zenbook 14 Air Specifications:

• Design & Build: Metal build, 1.15 kg, Slimmer 1.1cm
• Color Options: Snow White and Mountain Gray
• Display:
  •  14″ 2.8K Lumina OLED panel, 120Hz, 600 nits HDR peak brightness, 100% DCI-P3, True Black 600
• Keyboard: Chiclet-style backlit keyboard, 1.4mm Key-travel
• Trackpad: ErgoSense Touchpad
• Processor:
  • 14th Gen Meteor Lake Core Ultra Processors
    • Core Ultra 7 258V (4P/4LPE,  up to 4.8 GHz)
• Graphics: Intel Arc Graphics 140V
• RAM: Up to 32GB LPDDR5X on-board
• Storage: Up to 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD
• Audio: Stereo Harman Kardon speakers with Dolby Atmos
• Battery: 75 Wh battery
• Power Supply: 65W USB-C AC power adapter
• Webcam: 1080p Full HD
• Connectivity: Dual-band WiFi 802.11be , Bluetooth 5.4
• I/O Ports: 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, 2x Thunderbolt 4, 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack

Asus ZenBook 14 Air Price in Nepal and Availability 

The new ZenBook is now available for pre-order in China for CNY 8,999. If it makes it here, we expect the Asus ZenBook 14 Air price in Nepal to start from NPR 199,999. 

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