Asus revealed its refresh of the Zenbook 14 OLED which in response to the producer, improves on the burden and chassis measurement, show, battery life, and audio, and provides within the model new AI-powered Intel Core Extremely 9 CPU.

Intel formally launched its Core Extremely collection of processors, its long-anticipated Meteor Lake chips. They’re Intel’s first chips to characteristic a neural processing unit (NPU). Because of this these processors energy AI functions, like ChatGPT and Midjourney, to massively improve efficiency and productiveness.

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The brand new Zenbook 14 OLED additionally incorporates a 3K Asus Lumina OLED show, which improves on the 2023 mannequin’s 2.8K (2880×1800) 120Hz OLED display, although each nonetheless preserve a most of 600 nits of brightness. Its chassis might simply place it among the many greatest skinny and lightweight laptops, because of it now weighing a mere 1.2 kg with a 14.9 mm profile.

It comes with built-in Intel Arc graphics, in addition to as much as 1TB SSD storage, 32GB RAM, WiFi 6E, and a well-balanced port number of two Thunderbolt Four ports, a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Sort-A port, an HDMI 2.1 (TMDS) port, and a 3.5 mm audio jack.

Asus and Acer taking swings at Apple, because of Intel 

Asus’s new laptop computer isn’t the one one to characteristic Core Extremely CPUs both, with Acer additionally saying its personal laptop computer powered by the brand new processor – the Acer Swift Go 14. Not solely does it characteristic a comparable OLED display and skinny and lightweight chassis however, just like the Zenbook 14 OLED being fabricated from 50% post-consumer recycled (PCR) supplies, Acer’s laptop computer comes with a touchpad comprised of recycled ocean-bound plastic.

What’s extra attention-grabbing is that the Swift Go 14 is clearly competing with the MacBook Air, which it might presumably pull off attributable to it being an Intel Evo-certified laptop computer that includes instantaneous wake-up instances, sooner cost time, and a claimed battery lifetime of 12.5 hours. 

Asus having the the flagship Core Extremely 9 CPU energy the brand new Zenbook 14 OLED would imply that it will even be in line to compete with Apple’s MacBook line, together with the Professional collection. And actually, all this competitors could be an excellent factor.

Apple has confirmed itself to be greater than a succesful chip producer because of the big success of its M-series silicon. However with the Intel Core Extremely now accessible, laptop computer producers like Acer and Asus are getting the facility up they should stand as much as the superb MacBook line.