Asus Zen Book 14 UX431FA-AN144T Review

Creativity, style, design, these are qualities that defines the elegant ZenBook 14. You’ll appreciate the beauty of its design and it comes in Utopia Blue color.

 It is designed to give you more screen area in less physical design. ZenBook 14 has a super-compact, slim and lightweight metal chassis.

 

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SPECS:

Processor: Intel® Core i7-10510U processor

1.8GHz quad-core with Turbo Boost (up to 4.9GHz) and 8MB cache

Graphics: Integrated Intel® UHD Graphics 620

Display:

14” LED-backlit Full HD (1920 x 1080) 16:9 slim-bezel Nano Edge anti-glare display

Memory:

4GB / 8GB / 16GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 onboard

Storage:

1TB PCIe® x2 SSD + SATA SSD

256/512GB PCIe® x2 SSD

Interfaces:

1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C (USB-C) (10Gbps)

1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A (5Gbps)

Keyboard:

Full-size backlit, with 1.4mm key travel

Touchpad / Number pad

PET film-covered; intelligent palm-rejection

Audio:

Quad-speaker Harman Kardon-certified audio system

Array microphone with Cortana voice-recognition support

3.5mm headphone jack

Wi-Fi:

Dual-band 802.11ac gigabit-class Wi-Fi

Bluetooth 5.0

Battery:

47Wh 2-cell lithium-polymer battery

65W power adapter

Weight:

With anti-glare display: Approx. 1.39kg (3.06 pounds)
With standard display: Approx. 1.45kg (3.19 pounds)

Box includes:

ZenBook 14 (UX431)

Power adaptor with power cord (65W)

Protective sleeve (optional)

Included Software:

ASUS Battery Health Charging

ASUS Splendid

BENEFITS:

ZenBook 14 is powered by a high-capacity battery that won’t let you down. ZenBook 14 is equipped with backlit keyboard that delivers a superb typing experience.

An engineering masterpiece designed to automatically tilt the keyboard to the most comfortable typing position. It gives 86% screen to body ratio.

The ZenBook UX431 also gets a competent set of ports, with USB-A and USB-C ports, full-size HDMI for video output and a full-size card-reader.

DOWNSIDES:

Thunderbolt 3 is not supported, and this most likely cannot charge via USB-C either.

There’s also no LAN port.

VERDICT:

The ZenBook 14 is one of those hybrid professional and general use laptops that found to be a sort of mini trend in the computing world.

The Asus ZenBook 14 takes the best of the ZenBook S and ZenBook Pro that had debuted last year and crams it into a clever little 14-inch laptop that straddles the line between both.

 

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