ASUS announces latest ZenBook Duo models and tilting ScreenPad Plus at CES 2021

Stockholm, Sweden, January 13, 2021 —ASUS today announced the latest laptops in the premium ZenBook series, headed up by the 15.6-inch ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED (UX582) and the 14-inch ZenBook Duo 14(UX482), which are both recipients of prestigious 2021 CES® Innovation Awards. These new two-screen models introduce the tilting ASUS ScreenPad™ Plus, a full-width secondary touchscreen with a new auto-tilt mechanism that improves readability, aids cooling, and works seamlessly with the main display for effortless multitasking and creativity.

ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED delivers flagship performance, with up to a 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 processor. Equipped with an NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 laptop GPU, it benefits from all the advancements of NVIDIA Studio for creators.

ZenBook Duo 14 offers many of the benefits and features of ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED but with a 12.6-inch ScreenPad Plus and a more compact form factor that's designed to enable the ultimate mobile productivity. The lightweight ZenBook Duo 14 is a mere 16.9 mm thin, is an Intel Evo™-verified laptop powered by 11th Generation Intel Core processors with Intel Iris® Xe graphics and offers up to 17 hours battery life for all-day autonomy.

Another OLED option is the new ultraportable 13.3-inch ZenBook 13 OLED (UX/UM325), which features a single screen and delivers an ultra-vivid visual experience.

With the upcoming generation of Intel and AMD processors, the new convertible 15.6-inch ZenBook Flip 15 (UX564) and ultraslim 14-inch ZenBook 14 (UM425) deliver outstanding performance, enabling users of the new ASUS laptops to achieve more without compromises.

Flagship performance: ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED

ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED is powered by up to a high-performance Intel Core i9 processor, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 laptop GPU and up to 32 GB RAM to make light work of demanding cross-screen workflows using the 14-inch 4K UHD ScreenPad Plus — which now has an improved brightness of 400 nits — and the main display. Ultrafast storage with up to a 1 TB PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD helps accelerate any creative workflow and optimize productivity. ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED is one of the first NVIDIA Studio laptops with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series laptop GPUs — NVIDIA's second-generation RTX architecture that offers GPU acceleration for ray tracing, artificial intelligence, and video encoding that allows artists to create in record time.

For optimum thermal performance, the new Active Aerodynamic System Plus (AAS Plus) uses the ErgoLift hinge mechanism and tilting 14" ScreenPad Plus to increase overall cooling airflow by 36%. For easy connections to peripherals, ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED has comprehensive high-performance I/O capabilities, including two ultrafast Thunderbolt™ 3 USB-C® ports supporting up to 40 Gbps data-transfer rates along with Power Delivery and DisplayPort functionality. These ports allow the user to connect an additional 8K external display or two 4K UHD displays. ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED also includes ultrafast Intel WiFi 6 (802.11ax) for up to 3X-faster wireless connections than WiFi 5.

The 4K OLED HDR NanoEdge touchscreen in ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED has a frameless four-sided slim-bezel design with a 93% scree