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    Never svelte better

    Jul 08, 2019 7 minutes

    BEST FOR CREATIVE PROS

    Asus ZenBook Pro 14

     Price R33 500 / asus.com/za

    What’s the story?

    So a certain fancy fruit-flavoured laptop has a few OLED shortcut keys? That’s minor league compared to the ZenBook Pro 14: it gets an entire second screen instead of a boring old touchpad. Think having an in-situ smartphone at your fingertips, complete with its own built-in apps to simplify typical desktop duties.

    This isn’t a one-trick wonder either. The all-metal build feels sufficiently premium, the colour scheme of deep blue with gold accents is more on trend than a beauty blogger’s winter wardrobe, and the hardware can keep pace with much more expensive machines thanks to a dedicated Nvidia GTX 1050 graphics chip. It’ll be more Rocket League than Rage 2 when it comes to gaming unless you drop the details, but will be great for speeding up video rendering and other creative tasks.

    Is it any good?

    The 14in display could be a little brighter, even if it does get the nod from colour experts Pantone for its accuracy, and 1080p might not be high enough for serious photo and video

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