Hands-on with the dual-screen, ultra-premium Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15

4 years ago

The first laptops with Intel Comet Lake H processors and Nvidia RTX Super graphics cards are on the way soon, and we've already gone hands on with a few of them thanks to a recent Asus press event. The star of the show there was the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15, a hyper-modern machine that is the best argument for dual-screen laptops we've seen to date.

Like the Asus Zenbook Pro Duo, a dual-screen laptop released last year, the laptop's 14-inch secondary display sits beneath the main 15-inch screen, offering about the same width and nearly half the height with a resolution of 3840x1100. Unlike that machine though, the secondary screen automatically angles upwards as the lid of the laptop is opened, ensuring that you're not looking at the screen off-axis and allowing a 28.5mm air intake to be exposed.

The mechanism here is robust too; the touch screen didn't shift a millimetre under even the harshest of taps and worked silently even on the pre-production machine we had access to. The transformation is fascinating to watch, the sort of thing you'll want to do just for the joy of it, and that's a rarity on laptops these days.

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