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Finally, while the engineering constraints are clear, the ScreenPad Plus will gain clear versatility if Asus can figure out a way to make its inclination manually adjustable, without hampering its durability. The general texture of the touch panel feels a tad unusual – somewhat of a cross between a regular touch display and the old Amazon Kindle Paperwhite.

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Other improvements include the need for a patch for the ScreenPad Plus app to adjust the second display’s brightness, which keeps disappearing inexplicably.

What this needs here is active background windows, because without it, there’s still the need to switch tabs to keep the cursor active on your writing pad – something that entirely ruins the point of the second display’s great convenience. The issue here is that the moment you scroll on an article loaded on the secondary display, it is this window that gets automatically selected. In a third and future ZenBook Duo, what I’d like to see is an added layer of click and scroll control.

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Pro video creators can assign colour, speed and other creative controls to this panel when editing on Adobe Premiere Pro, and ScreenPad Plus also loads expanded edit timelines that allow video editors to fine-tune small edit irregularities.įor creators, such timeline edit views on the second display is super good to use. The experience isn’t exactly the same, but is still comparable to something like the physical control panel for DaVinci Resolve. Adobe already partially supports this, but there is some usability to programming specific picture control commands to quick-use rotary dials. Asus also lets you select apps that can preload on the second screen, but the Spotify integration that Asus readily advertises is definitely not the best use case for this setup.Īsus’ custom dials panel on ScreenPad Plus is yet another strength. It is this that comes as a surprise – even though you do struggle to get adjusted to the unusually positioned keyboard and trackpad, the convenience of not needing to switch tabs and have access to all the windows you’d want to see is priceless. This left the large (aka normal) display on the ZenBook Duo free to write – I no longer needed to switch tabs to tally data or verify information, and therefore, did not ever need to break my flow of work. I could have, for instance, source articles open on one half of the smaller screen, while on the other, an active RSS feed to track breaking news. With the ScreenPad Plus, I could split the 12.65-in landscape panel into two halves. Having such a screen layout for writing and presentations is a surprisingly massive convenience. With the ZenBook Duo, my entire muscle memory had to be remapped (along with the macOS-Windows switch), but what still had me interested to do it was that I did not need to switch tabs every few seconds. A 13-in Apple MacBook Air serves as my everyday work machine, which is as conventional a keyboard layout as you can find on a laptop. With the Asus ZenBook Duo, you get more screen space than what you may really need. Naturally, this is where our review had to begin. The question, though, is if it is worth buying? Using two displays: Surprisingly convenient

In essence, this pretty much has everything you’d want from a premium Windows laptop, minus a gaming-grade GPU. The range of ports include a USB-A 3.2 Gen 1, two USB-C with Thunderbolt 4, a full-size HDMI 1.4, a microSD card slot and a 3.5mm audio port.

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In terms of specs, the ZenBook Duo has an 11th generation Intel Core i7-1165G7 processor, Iris Xe integrated and Nvidia GeForce MX450 2GB GDDR6 discrete graphics, 16GB LPDDR4x RAM, 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, integrated HD camera, Wi-Fi 6 and pre-installed Windows 10 Home. The keyboard is where the typical palm rest and trackpad would be, and the trackpad is pushed to the right corner. Asus calls it the ScreenPad Plus, which sports a 1920 x 515-pixel resolution. Where your average laptop keyboard would be lies the richest practical second display I’ve used so far.

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You get a 14-inch full HD touch display with Pantone certified colour credentials. But before we delve into how this works in real life, a quick overview – our review variant costs Rs 1,34,990. Naturally, a lot of things can go wrong – accumulation of dust in the crevice below the raised secondary display being at the top. The rule of thumb in the hardware space is that any moving, suspended or unusually placed component on a gadget is a recipe for trouble. I had ample scepticism about the Asus ZenBook Duo when I first saw it.