Tech Advisor – October 2019

OCTOBER 2019 • TECH ADVISOR 91

BUYING GUIDE

typinganglewhileclearingspacebelowthebody,
improvingboth cooling and audio performance.
The keyboard is comfortable and responsive, with
a surprisingly deep travel, and it sits somewhere in
the middle of the clicky-mushy spectrum. The wide
trackpadis a littlemoreofa letdown,though:it
workswell, but there’s a slight drag to the finish,
a frictioneverytimeyouslideyourfingeracross.
There’salso a fingerprint sensor built into the top-right
corner. This is quick and reliable, though we would
preferit builtintothepowerbuttonorelsewhereon
thebody, rather than taking up trackpad space.
The S13 is also absolutely tiny: at 316x129x19.5mm
and weighing just 1.1kg this is about as portable a
laptop as you’re going to get with what is almost a 14in
display – essentially it’s a 14in laptop in the body of a
(small) 13in one, which is a major achievement.

The tapered design means

that Asus hasn’t had to

compromise on ports