![]() The body and lid are made from metal and the whole assembly is very solid. At £3,299 for the fully-loaded model, it looks almost cheap compared to the Duo 16 but it lacks the gaming credibility of the Windows machines listed above.Īsus ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 review: Design, build quality and key featuresĪs you'd have every right to expect of a laptop costing £4,500 the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 is very well made. The latest Dell XPS 17 may not have the absolute graphics horsepower of the Duo 16 but its Nvidia RTX 3050 GPU is still potent enough for most creative tasks and you can specify a 4K monitor and only pay £2,400 for the privilege.įinally, Apple’s 16in MacBook Pro deserves a look by dint of its lovely display, stellar battery life and all-around desirability. The ROG Strix Scar 15 is a thoroughbred gamer with all the bells and whistles and can be specified with Intel’s monster Core i9-12900H chip for under £4,000, while the ROG Zephyrus M16 is a little less adolescent in design and has a more creator-friendly 16in 16:10 display. ![]() Two of the Duo’s Asus stablemates are worth a look, too, both built around Intel’s new Alder Lake Core i7 processor. The Blade 17 range starts at £2,899 but the top end 4K model is the same price as the 4K Duo 16 £4,499. The Blade 17 is also beautifully made, very powerful and its sound system is excellent. It may have only one screen but it’s large at 17.3in and sharp, too, at 3,840 x 2,160. One obvious choice is the latest Razer Blade 17. However, there are plenty of high-end laptops around that are aimed at both the serious gamer and the serious creator, just like the Zephyrus Duo 16. Given that no other laptop on the market has a trick two-screen mechanism, there aren’t any like-for-like rivals. The all-the-bells-and-whistles model, which comes with an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU, an RTX 3080 Ti GPU and the hybrid resolution screen will set you back £4,499. The cheapest model on sale in the UK is based on an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H CPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU for £2,699. ![]() You can also pick from either a 1,920 x 1,080 a 2,560 x 1,600 (both 165Hz) or a hybrid 4K 120Hz / 2K 240Hz screen. You can choose from an AMD Ryzen 7 or Ryzen 9 CPU and an Nvidia RTX 3060, 3070Ti or 3080Ti GPU. ![]() This being Asus it’s not an easy thing to say exactly which models are available in which territory and for how much. READ NEXT: Our selection of the top gaming laptops available Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 review: Price and competitionĬonfiguration tested: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080Ti GPU, 32GB RAM, 16GB vRAM, 4TB SSD, 16in 3,840 x 2,160 IPS non-touchscreen, 14in 3,840 by 1,110 IPS touchscreen. All this trickery doesn't come cheap but then Duo laptops were never intended to be affordable. Internally, the new Duo 16 also gets the latest Nvidia mobile graphics – up to a GeForce RTX 3080Ti GPU – and the latest 6000-series AMD CPUs, including the eight-core AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, which is unlocked if you fancy a bit of cheeky overclocking. The mechanism behind the innovative second-screen has also been modified in a significant way. Despite the larger screen the Duo 16 is actually fractionally smaller than the Duo 15 and only 100g heavier. Out goes the 15's 15.6in 16:9 panel to be replaced by a 16in 16:10 affair. The main difference between the Zephyrus Duo 15 and 16 is, surprise surprise, the size of the main screen. Now, there’s a new, improved model called the Zephyrus Duo 16.Īsus ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 review: What you need to know The Asus’ ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 was an exception because, although a bit strange, the press liked it and customers bought into the idea. No, of course you don’t, because they were all weird ideas doomed to failure. Do you recall the Lenovo ThinkPad 700ds with its slide-out second screen? The Asus Taichi with a screen on both sides of the lid? Or the Acer Iconia 6120 with a touchscreen where the keyboard should have been? Generally, these don’t work and fade from memory. Some laptop manufacturers seem determined to reinvent the wheel with odd designs and esoteric features nobody asked for.
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