The new Asus ZenBook 13 OLED UM325 is a laptop that sort of gives away its most distinctive feature in its name.
It’s a notebook with a 13.3 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel OLED display featuring vivid colors, up to 400 nits of brightness, and 100-percent DCI-P3 color gamut.
But the notebook is also noteworthy because of its compact size: the new ZenBook 13 OLED is an 11.97″ x 7.99″ x 0.55″ notebook with a starting weight of about 2.4 pounds.
Under the hood, the notebook is powered by up to an AMD Ryzen 5 5800U processor featuring AMD’s Zen 3 architecture.
Asus says the notebook will be available with up to 16GB of LPDDR4x memory (soldered to the motherboard), and up to 1TB of PCIe NVMe solid state storage.
The laptop has just a few ports, but one of them is an HDMI 2.0b port, while the others are aUSB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port and USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, and a microSD card reader.
The ZenBook 13 OLED has an IR camera with support for Windows Hello face recognition, a backlit keyboard, and a NumberPad, which allows you to use the touchpad as a numeric keypad.
Asus equips the notebook with a 67Wh battery and it ships with a 65W USB-C power adapter.
The company is also adding a new 14 inch model to its ZenBook family: the new Asus ZenBook 14 UM425 is a 2.7 pound laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5000 series processor, and a 14 inch full HD LCD display with support for up to 400-nits of brightness (there’s also a 250-nit display panel for some models).
Why do the pics look like its a shitty matte display with a recess over the bezels?
I thought oled glass is flat to the edge?
I like it, but I’m curious about pricing. If it’s just another overpriced $1k+ ‘premium’ ‘ultrabook’, I’d rather buy a MacBook Air.
ASUS’s overview and tech specs pages seem to be in disagree: it states up to a Ryzen 7 5800U on the overview page, but it shows just a Ryzen 5 5600U on the tech specs page.
I think there is a typo in the article. The article here states a starting weight of 1.07 pounds which does not agree with the title or listed tech specs.
Thanks, I’ve updated the article (I think I mixed up my kg and lbs when writing 1.07).