APRIL 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 31work–think Apple’s MacBook Pro Touch Bar on
steroids– butthatbringswithit designchangesand
compromisesthat you’re likely to either love or hate.
Price
It should probably come as no surprise that the
ZenBook Pro Duo isn’t exactly cheap. There are two
models available, which differ in processor, RAM and
storage.Thecheapermodelhasa Corei7,512TB
SSDand 16GB of RAM, and is available for £2,499.
Jump up to a Core i9, 1TB storage and 32GB RAM
and the price will also shoot up to £2,999. That’ll be
overkill for most people, but then the whole laptop is
overkill really, and the extra processing power and RAM
could make the difference for serious creatives. Both
models feature the same RTX 2060 GPU at least.
Asusitselfalsosoldanothermodelthatdropped
theRAM way down to 8GB and the storage to 256GB,
but this is sold out on the company’s own site and I
haven’t seen it for sale elsewhere – and with those
specsis likelytobeunattractivetomostpotential
ProDuo buyers in any case.
It’s worth noting that there’s also a cheaper 14in
model – the ZenBook Duo – which drops the ‘Pro’
moniker but boasts roughly the same design. Beyond
the smaller screen it caps out at an i7 processor, 512GB
storage, and 16GB RAM, but more importantly drops
down to HD on the display and an MX250 GPU.
Displays
Here’s a choice you didn’t used to have to make when
buying a new laptop: how many displays do you want it