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board as the bar to reach—even entry-level discrete graphics is a step beyond
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leap for integrated graphics, but it doesn’t seem that the ZenBook Flip S will be
the machine to prove it.
Battery rundown test: After fully recharging the laptop, we set up the
machine in power-save mode (as opposed to balanced or high-performance