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3 days agoThe Asus Zenbook 16 Delivers Great Performance in an Otherwise Mediocre Laptop
The Asus laptop with Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme offers exceptional performance but sacrifices battery life and build quality.
At CES, I did what you're not supposed to do: I brought a pre-production laptop to use as my primary workhorse during a hectic event. The unproven rifle in question is the new Arm-based Asus Zenbook A16. It's a 16-inch laptop that weighs less than a 13-inch MacBook Air and comes with a high-end Snapdragon X2 processor. Going into CES with a Windows on Arm laptop running an unreleased processor sounds like a recipe for disaster.