The Most Outrageous Laptop Ever Built...

We have today in front of us

one of the most interesting and innovative laptop designs on the market

and it has been refined for the latest generation in front of me here in search of incredible

I have the new ZenBook Pro 14 Duo OLED. We have more than one display here

Some available specifications on this particular model, Intel 12th gen, Intel Core i9, up to 32 gigs of memory

up to two terabytes of storage, PCIe 4.0, up to 6,500 megabytes per second transfer speed

You have Thunderbolt four times two. You have GeForce RTX, but the studio drivers

of course, this device targeted at the creative types, although you could throw a couple of games on there too

We have a 16 by 10 display, 93% screen to body ratio

It's got an OLED touchscreen on it, 120 hertz, high resolution, 14.5 inch display

So this just launched and you just watched the live stream but I'm actually getting my hands on this device

before that live stream even happens. So this will be discovery for me

and my first interaction with this. There aren't too many form factors like this

So it's hard to even cross shop. If you decide you want something that looks incredibly futuristic

and you can make use of that secondary display, this is probably the device you're gonna end up looking at

Ooh, free sleeve. Nice. You always enjoy having a couple of extras in any type of unboxing experience

You'd have to buy this after the fact, wouldn't you? That's slim, too

You have a pen holder because it's a touchscreen, but it also supports pen input

Now you get a sense for how slim and tiny and portable the ZenBook is itself

and unboxing experience, which highlights the unique hinge mechanism, which enables that secondary display

This gives you a little preview of how that's gonna work on the box itself

ZenBook Pro 14 Duo OLED, world's first 14.5-inch, 2.8K. See, that's what I said

That's a lot of pixels for a 14.5-inch display. 120 Hertz OLED

You can have it all. You can have every single spec you're looking for from a display perspective in one place

And then of course, you've also got that secondary display below. 2880 by 1800 on the main display

The second display is 2880 by 864. So same horizontal resolution just coming in below that

Ice Cool Plus 85 watt ultra performance cooling with dual fans. GeForce RTX 3050 Ti GPU

which they fit it into a slim little form factor. Dolby Vision 76 watt hour battery

inside of that 14.5 inch laptop footprint. From the outside, this looks like a typical 14 inch laptop

A little bit of paperwork. Oh, wow. Ergo lift stand. Willie Do is a huge fan of these things

He stick to the bottom of the laptop, providing an even greater angle, as you can see here

Couple of bonuses in here, the case and then that. This one's no joke. That says 180 watts on it

That is a pretty serious power brick. Oh, oh, we also got the pen. Sick

This is the pen 2.0, but I don't understand because the touchscreen is the, we'll figure this out

This pen has 4,096 pressure sensitivity levels, USB-C cable, couple of extra nubs for the pen

Ah, nice size. Cool, you lift up this little section here, you have your USB-C charge port

then it's hidden when you come down like this. There's a couple of buttons on there also. On to the main attraction

The whole thing feels solid metallic Ooh all right here we go You can see a set of tools that would be available on the ScreenPad Plus

quick adjustments for things like brightness and other settings. Nice. This is the magic, this bottom display, matte finish

top display, glossy. Now you can see what happens with your angles

You see how this center portion just pokes up, pops up, and creates this channel for airflow to move through

All of a sudden you have this enhanced cooling taking place. Yeah, you can see the fans in there

You've got like almost an inch of clearance now where the fan location is

Now the other thing that's interesting about this design is because you have this display up here

it pushes your keyboard down here and it pushes your track pad over to the right-hand side

And you're probably looking at it thinking, wait, that track pad is in portrait mode

It is. It actually maps accordingly. You kind of don't even notice the fact

that it isn't the same aspect ratio as the display. Keyboard is chiclet style

but there is a little bit of key travel there. I like the large font that they've put on the keyboard

On the right-hand side, we have our og audio jack. On the back, we have a micro SD card slot

as well as our power port. Full size HDMI out to a monitor, television or otherwise

And then over on the other side, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a couple of LEDs and one USB-A port

It is a fairly aggressive screen to body ratio, as mentioned, 93%

Still, we're able to fit a front-facing camera and variety of other sensors, microphones

into the top section. Nice. I mean, OLED is OLED. That's the type of pop that you want

For the moment, this is the most pleasing thing for me to look at, especially when we're talking about multimedia

and content consumption. There's no other technology that's doing what OLED is doing

as far as the deep blacks, the rich colors. They remind you right on the main wallpaper as well

They're like, hey, this is OLED. Quick guide. So touchscreen down here

Get the most out of your ScreenPad Plus. Cool. So this is a scenario in which you would have a browser open

on the top main display, but then you've also got a map in the bottom left section

You're actually using the bottom screen as a dual display, possibly your calendar

and they've even fit the weather in here. This is completely configurable by you

If you've ever used any type of dual display setup, then you know you can just drag whichever windows

you wanna keep there frequently. This could be social media, could be your calendar, It could be your email client, wherever you're kind of constantly glancing

You could leave that down there. Ooh, here's another example. In this scenario, we're doing some editing

You can see a little bit of a timeline down here on the bottom, and then you have your

bigger display up top. So you're getting just way more information. And I mean that in the sense of pixels, like there's just extra pixels down here

Of course, you could have a bigger laptop display, but then that comes with a much bigger

form factor. This is still aiming to be compact and fit into a bag and all the rest of it at 14.5 inches

Please select the topic you would like to learn more about. Control center, flick windows, and organizer

Let's go ahead and go with control center first. We're going to open the launcher

Now, this is going to let us very quickly launch into whatever common applications we use with the secondary display

Things like handwriting, maybe a number key. Maybe you want to have Spotify living down here

As you're getting your work done, you want to quickly be able to interact on your secondary

display with whatever you're listening to. And this is configurable. As you can see

I can create my own set quick buttons in this section down here just by creating a new group

Oh, I can move it. So if I preferred this to be on the bottom, that could be on the bottom as well

All right. So the next potential functionality here, they're calling it flick windows. Let's

go ahead and click on that. This is moving a window to screen pad plus. Oh, cool. I can just

and just flick this way or that way. Nice. And last up we have organizer here

So this is like quickly allowing you to adjust window size just by dragging it and then pinning it to one side

of the secondary display So there three separate locations I can place it and I can see them identified by this little white line over here Also I can just maximize it or send it to display one or two all based on touch

So I go up to one and then I slam the browser up to the top multiple options for inputs

You can use your finger touchscreen across both displays Obviously you can use the pen which has been included in this case for pen input over 4,000 levels of pressure sensitivity

or you can just go ahead and utilize your mouse as well

Do it the old fashioned way, trackpad or mouse. We also have this flip button, which is that's a quick way of just moving

an application browser window from one spot to the next. That's actually probably the fastest

What's nice about this little snap feature is that you're gonna be able to quickly arrange

what you want down here. It's gonna be perfectly divided. And actually the touch-based input

on the smaller display here feels very natural because of the angle that this is placed at

You kind of just, you feel like reaching up. Okay. Yeah! I've just been getting yelled at

Well, I'm discovering the speakers right now. Better do a little piano in the background

Tell you what. Full screen here. Hang on. I just need to comment on the audio real quick

It is, uh, sounds way better than I expected. Way better. Format like this

You think it's small and how big could the speakers be? Are they just firing there

Am I hearing it out of this chamber? here. Thank you to everybody joining here today. This is an absolute blast. This is, this is good

This is fun. This is tech. You didn't think that you were going to need this form factor. And then

you see something like this and you're like, I can't do that on my laptop. It is some serious

level of multitasking, keeping tabs on a variety of things without opening and closing as many

windows as frequently. I think that's how I would use it. You might have a podcast playing down here

and then you might be doing some work up above. They mesh together in a sort of seamless way

because by the time you have it lifted up, because of the angle, it goes up to fill the remainder of the bezel

around the display up top. So they're kind of perfectly placed for a dual screen setup

You know, when you have a dual screen setup, you try to minimize the effect of the bezel

around the screen. Well, this angle does that. But let's go ahead and see how this video looks

on the upper display. Oh, damn. I mean, that's a really nice..

I mean, obviously, this is your... That's where you're going to, you really want to get immersed in an episode of Lou later

That's where you're going to do it. But it is a long show. And if you're into podcasts and things like that, the bottom display, you get a little

work done. No need for a secondary monitor anywhere else. Kind of into it

This is the type of thing where you would have this laptop and you would learn all kinds

of ways in which you started to take advantage of the secondary display. You become more proficient at it

It requires a little bit of a retraining. You're not used to it. you've had this laptop form factor in front of you so many times and there's never been a second

display slammed in there i probably need to make the laptop aware of the fact that this pen is here

yeah check it out this is even better precision no fingerprints you know the thing is you might be

looking at this thinking okay that's a narrow display down there but realize the angle here

and how solid this mechanism they were able to build from a hardware perspective like let me

Let me see if I go here and I go to handwriting. So smooth, so smooth and so solid

All right, so the pen is charging up right now and I'm gonna use it. I'm gonna use it in a real world scenario actually

I'm gonna use dual display in a real world scenario. Mo came up with the idea

why don't we just edit the thumbnail for this video on this particular laptop to see how it might enhance

our laptop photo editing experience. So we got Photoshop on here. There's a little thumbnail station over there

We'll go shoot the thumbnail, bring the image back onto the ZenBook here

and then configure Photoshop in order to have a dual display scenario

Maybe I use the pen maybe I use the track pad maybe I get a mouse Try to find the optimal scenario for image editing on this particular device New workspace I gonna call it Duo Okay so this is pretty cool

We have a preset in here for common functions in a number of applications

You have this nice overlay for frequently used functions. You wanna reach up and touch

Look at like layer opacity. You can see the brush size adjusting up there

but you also get a bigger representation over there. Layer zoom in, zoom out, and all touch-based interface

And then if I had the pen, even more precision, brush flow, smoothing, hardness, brush opacity

undo, redo, flip. It's actually pretty nice looking. It's almost like as if what you end up with

is a hardware style interface, like as if you had an external interface

but instead you're using this real estate as a touchscreen for that purpose

So it's called ProArt Creator Hub. And what you can see is I can configure this thing like crazy

and select what I want in each section. We can add a new section like here

You see there's no button there at all. Oh. You can even put system things in here

like system brightness. Let's try it. Look, now I have system brightness. Let's see what happens

100%. This, the way this dial works, it's like an actual, like a scroll wheel

And flip back to there. It's kind of fun. It can really be whatever you want it to be

You can make it as minimal and simple as you want or as complex with whatever your frequently used functions

happen to be. But it really gets your mind moving about the real estate you have available

Like a 14 and a half inch laptop, maybe I could carry around some kind of external hardware device

that would be similar to this. But otherwise, this would be taking up way too much of my screen

on a laptop this size if I had this overlay with these tools up here

This is just a bonus having this in here. And of course, my pen, I can tap here still, undo, redo

But then I can also go up here and I still have this input method if I want to just reach up and touch the screen

or use the mouse or use the trackpad. It's versatility. This is nice to draw on

Like this screen right here is kind of nice to draw on. It's endless

You could do what they were suggesting with the ProArt setup and you have all your touch base controls down here

and you're mostly working up here. You could have a mouse, bring your entire project

your actual image onto the bottom display. I mean, of course there's touch sensitivity

on the top display, but this is just a very comfortable place to draw

And the angle of it means that your hand is kind of up off of your keyboard

You can have a keyboard lock as well. Let's say I just wanted to like brighten up the eyes, for example

I could just select over here, come in here. Like you just see what I'm talking about? And you have the precision of a pen input

The stability is what's key. Like this hinge, this thing is so solid that you really feel like you're drawing on something substantial

The thing about our thumbnails is like they're kind of more or less figured out

There's just a few touch-ups here and there when we're working on it. But this obviously enhances certain aspects of it

a pen does give you some level of control that a mouse

I mean, you could still get really good with a mouse, but like when I had that on the secondary display here

a little bit more precision for me, if I'm just gonna go in and highlight a specific area

I can imagine that over time, I would become even more familiar

with this dual screen scenario, and I would find even better ways to find efficiency

in the different types of work and the different types of software that I would utilize

This is a very unique laptop. Honestly, there's not a lot out there like it, if at all

And I'm glad that it exists because it's just exciting when you have this alternative form factor

When I saw the first version, I was like, wow, look what they figured out. But then there was part of me that was wondering

how successful it would be and if it was gonna hang around. And here we are on the latest version

It turns out that I'm not the only one that finds this to be interesting and innovative

So there it is. The latest ZenBook Duo with OLED 120 Hertz

secondary display, RTX graphics, studio drivers, touchscreen, pen input. I mean, you can do a lot with this thing

and it's all in a very slim and trim package