ASUS made a head-turning announcement when they launched its newest Zenbook Pro ultrabooks, the ZenBook Pro 14 and 15, at Computex 2018. The larger variant has been available in the country for quite some time now but the smaller one just recently became available in the country.
The ZenBook Pro 15 has a 15.6-inch 4k touchscreen or Full HD IPS non-touch display, either an Intel Core i9-8950HK or a Core i7-8750HQ CPU, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM, and up to a 1TB PCIe x4 SSD.
What made them special is the implementation of the ScreenPad feature. This serves as an extension of the main display, or as an additional screen for multitasking with its own app ecosystem. It can be activated by pressing the F6 key.
ASUS ZenBook Pro 14 (UX480) key specifications
- 14-inch Full HD touchscreen display @ 1920 x 1080 resolution
- 8th generation Intel Core i7 quad-core processor
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q GPU
- up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM
- up to a 1TB PCIe x4 SSD
- IR Camera
- 322 x 225 x 17.9mm
- 1.6kg
- Deep Dive Blue with rose gold deco bar
ASUS ZenBook Pro 15 (UX580) specifications
- 15.6-inch IPS 4K UHD touchscreen display @ 3840 x 2160 resolution
- 15.6-inch IPS FHD non-touch display @ 1920 x 1080 resolution
- Intel Core i9-8950HK 2.9GHz (4.8GHz max turbo) six-core processor
- Intel Core i7-8750HQ 2.2GHz (4.10GHz max turbo) six-core processor
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU
- up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM
- up to 1TB PCIe x4 SSD
- Dual-band 2×2 802.11ac gigabit-class WiFi
- Bluetooth 5.0
- Fingerprint scanner
- 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A
- 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C, with Thunderbolt 3 support
- 1 x Audio combo jack
- 1 x HDMI 1.4
- 1 x MicroSD card reader
- 1 x DC jack
- 365 x 241 x 18.9mm
- 1.88kg
- Deep Dive Blue
The ASUS Zenbook Pro 14 is priced at Php99,995 and Php109,995 (i7 processor, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and GTX 1050 GPU) while the ASUS ZenBook Pro 15 is priced at Php 119,995 (i7 processor, 16GB RAM, 1TB storage, GTX 1050 Ti GPU). Availability is yet to be announced.
No laptop is worth P100K.