INSANE Dual Screen Laptop! - ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo First Look #Helpful Post

eople are always trying to change the

laptop for some reason razor went and

put a touchscreen under their touchpad

like six years ago moved it off to the

right

Apple took away the function keys on

their professional notebooks and replace

them with the much-maligned touch bar

like here's the thing guys if it ain't

broke don't freakin fix it is what I

would have said before today right here

in front of me is the Asus Zenbook duo

and Zen book Pro duo and I think these

might make me eat my words because this

appears to be far more than just another

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jump right into it with the Zen Book Pro

duo it comes with this wrist rest it's

got kind of a little magnetic thing

that's gonna help align it but there's

there's no actual functionality here

other than improving the ergonomics

because Asus knows from their experience

with their gaming lineup that moving the

keyboard down does tend to have a bit of

a detrimental impact on economics now

what they also learned from their

Zephyrus lineup of gaming laptops is

that a surefire way to pack more

performance into a notebook is to lift

it up off the table a little bit so that

gives us a slight angle here in terms of

our economics and also more room for the

laptop to breathe so they're calling

this their ergo lift hinge or something

like that

and essentially what it does is it

allows them to pack an eight-core HK

series processor and an RT X 2060 into a

shockingly compact little device here in

terms of i/o we've got Thunderbolt three

microphone headphone full-sized USB a

then we've got HDMI another USB a and

more ventilation as well as a power in

over here that is a freaking lot of

performance and they say that unlike the

original Zenbook pro they are not going

to be experiencing any thermal

slow down so I'm going to hold them to

that now let's go ahead and talk about

the star of the show here which is the

secondary 4k but to be clear not Ultra

HD because it's actually 38 40 by 1100

pixels secondary display so the way that

it works

unlike previous implementations where

we've relied on kind of janky software

is it just another display in Windows

that's right below your main one so if

you want to move the tab in between them

all you do is grab your touchpad and

boom drag a window it is actually that

simple

so the multitasking potential for this

is absolutely incredible and they have

actually built some software tools

specifically for it that honestly

allowed to do some pretty cool stuff so

over here on the left hand side they've

got a little thing that you can either

touch with your finger or activate with

the mouse that allows you to set up a

few of your presets so let's say I

wanted to book a trip for example I

could have my hotel website up on the

top my calendar and a Maps application

on the bottom and who knows I might want

to throw a calculator down there to see

how much this whole thing's gonna cost

me or if I'm more of a creative type I

can fire up my creation software on my

main screen browse for files on the

bottom left here and then control my

music over on the right hand side and

managing windows down here is actually

surprisingly easy so you can either have

it be a full window down at the bottom

you can have two side by side and it

works exactly the same way as your

traditional Aero snap so you just pull

it over on to the side and beep D pop

key there you go there's a different one

over there or a suits built a custom

thing where you can drag it up to a

little bar on the top and you can have

three things down on the bottom if you

decide okay you know what really I'd

rather focus on YouTube right now all

you do is hit this button right here and

boom my youtube and my musics up here

and now I am browsing the web down here

honestly as a writer I could see myself

using this all the freaking time because

now I'm having the typewriter experience

down here I've got what I'm working on

right below me and then up here I can

have whatever you know article or like

reviewers guide or whatever it is that

I'm referencing because honestly I don't

need to see that much of a document that

I'm working on now one thing I haven't

mentioned from a usability standpoint is

oh yeah that right hand side touchpad

that I have not been a fan of in the

past but honestly for the extra

productivity that I'm gonna get out of

this screen I could overlook that with

one small improvement I'd like to see a

couple of the keys over here be able to

be rebound to left and right click so

that I can operate it two-handed then I

just honestly don't see a reason why

this can't be my next notebook I

certainly hope it could be now one thing

that's not finalized is the panel

technology the one I'm looking at right

now is a 4k OLED up here and it's a

glossy display and then it's that 38 40

by 1100 LCD with a matte display down

here that's to give you a better feel on

your stylus and prevent reflections from

the top display from interfering with

the image but it could be that depending

on the region you're gonna end up with

an implementation on the pro that's more

like this Zen book duo sample so here

we've had the display downgraded to

1080p but something you might have

noticed especially if I were to open up

here we go a web page that I can scroll

through here is that they match a lot

better so in this case not only are they

both matte but they're both LCD so that

a you're gonna have a much cleaner

experience as you scroll through a page

like this look at that isn't that

freakin cool and be a su says that on

the pro model in some regions they're

aiming for LCD because they can achieve

better Delta ease for content creators

and they really want people to be able

to get real work done on these things as

opposed to just watch youtube videos and

browse the news so this one is a smaller

screen it's a lower end processor up to

core i7 what was it you series so that's

up to a quad core it's got a little bit

less i/o but it does get significantly

better Portability and it still has

dedicated graphics with a geforce MX 250

in it so I want to hear from you guys

cuz last year

PTX we showed their dual screen notebook

concept and my big thing was like guys

you're never getting rid of the keyboard

but this this I could get behind

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