Since the unveiling of the new Ryzen Strix point laptop CPUs, lots of manufacturers have opted to integrate them into their machines and Asus is no different. We recently covered the Pro Art PX13 with Ryzen AI landing in Nepal and today, it’s the Zenbook’s turn. Let’s quickly go through the Asus Zenbook S 16 (2024) with Ryzen AI 300 chips, including its features, specifications, price in Nepal, and availability. 

Asus Zenbook S 16 Overview: 

Design and Display 

Living up to the Zenbook moniker, the S 16 sports a premium feeling build but with a new twist. Asus has decided to combine ‘Ceramic’ and ‘Aluminium’ to endow the Zenbook with ‘Ceraluminum’ material often used in aerospace and luxury watch space. Asus claims that this material is not just tough, but helps keep the machine light as well. With that in mind, it makes a lot of sense to see the sleek Zenbook S 16 measuring just 11 mm thick and weighing about 1.5 kg while housing a big battery and a beefy processor. Color options for the machine include ‘Zumaia Gray’ and ‘Scandinavian White’.  Moving onto the display side of things, you get a no-compromise OLED screen on the new Zenbook S 16 with Ryzen AI. It’s 16 inches in size (diagonally), 3k in resolution, very fast, super bright, and comes with all sorts of bells and whistles. Things like Pantone Validation for color accuracy, Display HDR certification from VESA, SGS Eye Care, and TUV Rheinland cert.

New Ryzen AI chips

Under the hood, the Zenbook S16 (OLED) is powered by the latest Strix point APUs from AMD. You can configure the Zenbook with either AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 360 or the beefier Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with some extra cores, and a higher clock. Talking of that, the new Ryzen chips bring impressive Neural Processing Units that can reach up to 50 TOPS on their own, and you can get up to 81 TOPS from the entire system. We’ve already covered the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series chips in detail before so skipping the lengthy parts, this is all you need to know: improved CPU, better GPU, onboard AI powers, and very good efficiency.  Touching on the memory, the Ryzen AI chips don’t support SO-DIMMs yet so you are to pick between the 24GB RAM or the 32GB RAM model at the time of purchase. Similarly, there’s an M.2 2280 slot pre-occupied with either a 1TB or 2TB Gen 4 SSD. 

Connectivity and Extras

The 16-inch OLED ultrabook from Asus sports a 10 Gbps Type-A port, two USB 4 Type-C ports with Display Port, and Power Delivery support, an HDMI, an audio jack, and an SD reader. For wireless connectivity, there’s dual stream tri-band WiFi 7 alongside a BT 5.4 wireless card. Fueling the chipset, display, and everything else is a relatively large 78Wh battery that primarily charges at 65W via the included AC adapter. Extras include an FHD webcam with IR and Windows Hello, touch and stylus support for some display configurations, Harmon Kardon tuned speakers, and a MIL-STD 810H rating for durability. Lastly, there are some Asus features like Story Cube, MyAsus, ScreenXpert, and GlideX, but Co-pilot+ features like Recall, and Scribber might take some time to arrive.

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  • Asus Vivobook S 15 with Snapdragon Elite chip is finally available in Nepal

Asus Zenbook S 16 OLED Specifications

• Design and Build: Ceraluminium chassis, MIL-STD-810H certified, 1.5 kg
• Display: 16”, OLED, touch/non-touch, 16:10, 500 nits HDR brightness, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, 120Hz refresh rate, 0.2ms response time
• Resolution: 3K (2,880 x 1,800)
• Processor: up to AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
• Graphics: Integrated Ryzen 880M, 890M
• RAM: up to 32GB, LPDDR5X
• Storage: 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD
• Operating System: Windows 11 Pro
• Webcam: FHD IR Camera (Asus AiSense)
• Audio: Six speakers with Dolby Atmos, Harmon Kardon certification, Smart Amplifier, and Asus Audio Booster
• Keyboard: Backlit Chiclet Keyboard, 1.1mm Key-travel, Precision touchpad, With Copilot key
• Ports: 2x USB4 (Type-C),  1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, 1x HDMI 2.1 TMDS, 1x 3.5mm combo audio jack, 1x SD card reader
• Connectivity: Tri-band WiFi 7 + Bluetooth v5.4
• Battery: 78Wh 3S1P cell with 65W AC Power Adapter
• Colours: Zumaia Gray and Scandinavian White

Asus Zenbook S 16 Price in Nepal and Availablity 

The Zenbook OLED is now available in Nepal through different outlets. The Asus Zenbook S 16 Price in Nepal is NPR 258,900 for the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 variant. You can get it via the Hukut Store.

• Meanwhile, check out our video on the Asus Vivobook S 16 OLED: