ASUS Unveils Award-Winning ZenBook S (UX391)
Fremont, CA (June 5, 2018) - ASUS today announced the new ZenBook S, a brand-new design to the ZenBook family, featuring a new ErgoLift hinge that increases typing comfort, cooling and audio performance. Despite weighing just 2.3lbs and measuring just 12.9mm in height, the ZenBook S doesn’t make any compromises, featuring up to an 8th-generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor, up to a 4K resolution touchscreen with ultra-thin 5.9mm NanoEdge bezels, ultra-fast PCIe-based storage, up to 13.5 hours of battery life, and Thunderbolt™ ports that support fast-charging, external monitors and GPUs, and other peripherals. The ZenBook S has been honored with both the Best Choice of the Year and Best Choice Golden Award at Computex 2018.
Innovative ErgoLift hinge
New to the ZenBook line is the ASUS ErgoLift hinge. The ASUS Design Center’s Ergonomics team carefully studied user usage habits and considered ISO standards that determine that the ideal typing angles rest between 5 and 12 degrees. After extensive testing, ASUS determined that a 5.5-degree delivers the best combination of benefits. The ErgoLift hinge tilts the ZenBook S’s keyboard at a gentle 5.5-degree angle, helping to reduce discomfort during extended typing sessions.
The ErgoLift hinge also lends a helping hand to keep the ZenBook S cool to the touch by creating additional space between the laptop and the surface below. The ZenBook S takes in cool air through this extra space and expels warm air via the hinge area. For maximum sustained performance, ZenBook S uses an uprated cooling system incorporating state-of-the-art components, including an innovative liquid-crystal-polymer fan impeller with 71 blades — an increase of 40% over previous designs — housed in an advanced 3D-curved aerodynamic shroud that can move 13.4% more air than before. With this cooling system, ZenBook S runs up to 5°C cooler than previous ZenBook models, even with the new and powerful 8th generation quad-core Intel processor!
Finally, the ErgoLift hinge helps to deliver a premium and immersive audio experience, certified by audio experts Harmon Kardon®, delivering cleaner sound and improved bass response thanks to the angled bottom-firing speakers and a smart amplifier that automatically identifies the maximum possible volume to ensure top-notch sound quality over a long life of operation.
Mighty powerful
Despite its ultra-thin and light frame, the ZenBook S packs a powerful punch and is capable of going head to head with many physically larger systems. Helping to deliver that incredible performance is up to an Intel® Core™ i7-8550U processor, featuring four cores and eight threads for a boost across the board enabling quicker photo and video editing and other computationally-heavy workloads. The ZenBook S also comes with up to 16GB of high speed 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory, the best available combination of speed and low-energy usage so that having a powerful laptop doesn’t mean having to constantly re-charge it. Ultra-fast PCIe-based storage in the ZenBook S comes with up to 1TB and delivers snappy performance, making quick work of booting Windows and loading large files.