DECEMBER 2020 PCWorld 51T
he Asus ZenBook Flip 13 is a
beautiful laptop that offers decent
battery life, very good graphics,
and a lot of pep for most of what
you’d do on a small 13-inch convertible
laptop.
Unfortunately, you probably won’t
remember it for its impressive 11th-gen Intel
Tiger Lake Core i7-1165G7 chip, nor its
drop-dead-gorgeous OLED screen. Nope,
instead you’ll fixate on something it doesn’t
have: a 3.5mm analog audio jack.
COUR AGE OR
COST- CUT TING?
Yes, the same move that Apple claimed as
“courageous” on the iPhone 7, Asus has now
done to a laptop. And just as other
smartphones followed Apple’s lead, we
expect other PC vendors are watching closely
to see how users react to this eviction.
We have no idea why Asus did this. While
Apple did it to save a nickel in production
costs on a $1,000 phone and said it was to
“save space,” Asus has plenty of space on theIMAGE: GORDON MAH UNG
Asus ZenBook
Flip 13: A beautiful
laptop with one
thing missing
Good-bye headset jack, we hardly knew ye.
BY GORDON MAH UNG