PC World - USA (2019-07)

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JULY 2019 PCWorld 41

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  1. ASUS
    ZENBOOK
    PRO DUO
    Laptops with dual
    displays are suddenly
    all the rage, but the
    dazzling Asus
    ZenBook Pro Duo (go.
    pcworld.com/prod) tells
    other contenders to hold
    its beer. This engineering marvel somehow
    manages to jam a 15.6-inch screen and a
    14-inch screen into a 5.5-lb laptop, and
    both—yes, both—hit 3,840 pixels of
    horizontal resolution for 4K-quality visuals.
    (The auxiliary screen is built above the
    keyboard, so its vertical
    pixel count can’t quite
    hit the 4K standard.)
    Don’t be fooled by
    the delicious eye candy,
    though. This laptop’s
    built for power users, so
    Asus outfitted it with
    top-tier hardware,
    including up to an 8-core
    Core i9-9980HK, 32GB
    of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and
    a GeForce RTX 2060, as
    well as Intel’s newest


WiFi-6/802.11ax controller. Hot damn.


  1. THE FUTURE OF THE PC?
    The Zenbook Pro Duo wasn’t the only
    glimpse of a potentially radical future for the
    PC at Computex, though. Intel showed off


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