For decades, laptops have maintained the classic design of a B-side screen coupled with a physical keyboard and touchpad on the C-side, with little fundamental change. Sure, they've become thinner, the screen bezels have shrunk, and the aesthetics have improved, but nothing groundbreaking.
However, ASUS has disrupted this status quo. Actively exploring new laptop form factors, ASUS has introduced several distinctive dual-screen designs in recent years, such as the ZenBook Pro Duo series, featuring an additional half-screen on the C-side, creating a unique dual-screen setup that's hard to find elsewhere in the laptop market.
But can they push the envelope further and continue to innovate?
ASUS has indeed achieved just that. A year and a half ago, they released the first true dual-screen laptop - the ZenBook Pro Duo X2, featuring a full-screen layout on the C-side, making it the world's first 17.3-inch dual-screen laptop that folds into a 12.5-inch device.
Now, after a year and a half, ASUS brings us the world's first 14-inch OLED 120Hz high-refresh-rate laptop - the ZenBook 14 Duo.
As the name suggests, it features two 14-inch screens, providing a maximum display area of nearly 20 inches when unfolded, setting a new standard in innovation.
The ASUS Lingyao 14 dual-screen laptop is powered by the latest Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor. This processor boasts a configuration of 6 performance cores (P-Core), 8 efficiency cores (E-Core), and 2 ultra-low-power cores (LP E-Core), totaling 16 cores and 22 threads, with a 24MB L3 cache.
The Core Ultra processor also features the cutting-edge Xe LPG architecture, tailored specifically for mobile devices. This integrated graphics solution, akin to the Xe HPG architecture found in desktops' Arc discrete GPUs, delivers exceptional graphical performance, ensuring that mobile devices can handle demanding graphics tasks with ease.
Furthermore, the Core Ultra processor incorporates a dedicated NPU engine, capable of intelligently managing the involvement of the CPU, GPU, and NPU in various AI workloads. This adaptive coordination ensures a balanced performance-to-power ratio across a range of AI tasks, providing optimal efficiency and power consumption.
As the flagship of dual-screen creative AI ultrabooks, the ASUS Lingyao 14 Dual Screen's standout feature is its B and C sides, both equipped with 14-inch ASUS Lumina OLED touchscreens, combining to create a display area of nearly 20 inches.
Strictly speaking, this is the second product of its kind after the ASUS Lingyao X Fold, which features a foldable full-screen display.
Following the "OLED, ASUS' Excellent Screens" strategy, each ASUS Lumina OLED touchscreen undergoes meticulous factory color calibration, boasting 100% P3 wide color gamut, 10-bit color depth, 1.07 billion colors, 1000000:1 contrast ratio, and peak brightness of 550 nits, making it top-notch in screen quality.
However, the ASUS Lingyao 14 Dual Screen offers a fundamentally different experience from the Lingyao X Fold, with more flexible form factor options.
It can switch between waterfall mode, portrait mode, sharing mode, laptop mode, and virtual keyboard mode, seamlessly integrating innovation with tradition.
Included accessories such as the magnetic keyboard and 4096-pressure-sensitive touch pen enable effortless switching between various modes while prioritizing portability and lightness.
Moreover, the Lingyao 14 Dual Screen boasts top-of-the-line specifications, including 32GB of LPDDR5X-7467 memory, a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and dual Thunderbolt 4 ports with a 40Gbps data transfer rate, leaving no stone unturned.
It's worth noting that this Lingyao 14 Dual Screen has passed Intel Evo's rigorous certification, underscoring its exceptional quality. The next step is to explore its unique features and user experience.
