56 PCWorld DECEMBER 2020REVIEWS ASUS ZENBOOK FLIP 13
our voice. On the ZenBook Flip, the sound of
the siren was magically removed.
We should say, however, that even
though the sound was removed completely,
our voice did suffer greatly with a muffled,
digital warbling sound. The laptop also
offers to remove background noise from
any sound played on the laptop, but we
didn’t find that to be as effective.
The ZenBook Flip 13’s webcam isn’t
particularly wide-angle. That’s bad for those
who want multiple people in a Zoom
conference, but it’s good for those who
want people to focus on your face rather
than the mess in your room. Image quality
was fine, but compared to the HP Elite
Dragonfly, we found the exposure leaned
toward the cold or blue side. The camera
itself is part of the IR camera module, so
Windows Hello face login is supported.PERFORMANCE
While we’ve seen Intel’s impressive
11th-generation Tiger Lake in a thicker and
larger 14-inch laptop, you have to wonder
what happens when you put its newest
10nm chip in a thinner body. The 13-inch
ZenBook Flip 13, is just under 9mm thick in
its bottom half, or about 20 percent thinner
than the Intel reference laptop we used for
our Tiger Lake performance preview (go.
pcworld.com/tgpr). For our test, we used
the stock out-of-box default settings (labeled
as “Default” in chart), and also ran tests usingCinebench R15.038
Multi-core performance
Lenovo Slim 7 Ryzen 7 4800 U
Dell XPS 13 7390Core i7-10710U
Acer Swift 3 Ryzen 7 4700U
HP Envy x360 13Ryzen 5 4500U
Asus ZenBook Flip 13 UX371 Performance Core i7-1165G7
Asus ZenBook Flip 13 UX371 DefaultCore i7-1165G7
Dell XPS 13 9300 DefaultCore i7-1965G7
MSI Prestige 14 DefaultCore i7-10710U
Dell XPS 13 9380Core i7-8565U
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 15”Ryzen 7 3580U
Dell Inspiron 15 7000Core i7-8565U
Acer Swift 3Core i5-1035G1
Acer Spin 5Core i7-8550U
Huawei Matebook X ProCore i7-8550U
LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE1,66 48371,0 617801,10 6782842726
705562695539684529the laptop’s Performance mode (labeled as
“Performance” in chart), which is willing to
push the CPU more for faster results.
First up is Maxon’s older Cinebench R15,
which we use to measure CPU performance
on all cores. The test is based on a 3D
rendering task. It isn’t something you’d
typically do on a thin-and-light laptop, but it
does scale up with the number of CPU cores
in a system.
We didn’t expect the ZenBook Flip to
compete with laptops packing AMD’s Ryzen
4000, but overall, it’s satisfactory. While this
is the first Core i7-1165G7 we’ve seen, we’re