The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Powered ASUS Zenbook A14

Putting Battery Life And A Svelte Design Ahead of Performance

The ASUS Zenbook A14 is a mere 980g (2 freedom units) and 1.59 cm (0.6″) at it’s thickest, just deep enough to fit a full sized HDMI port on it but not enough for an ethernet port.  The 14″ 1080p ASUS Lumina OLED panel is both ultra-thin and gorgeous and the body something new called Ceraluminum, which is ASUS’s anti-wear, anti-scratch, and smudge-free material.  The Zenbook A14 will also offer up to 32 hours of battery life with basic usage; pressing the Copilot button will likely drop that time noticeably.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip is the X Elite X1E 78 100, though there is a less expensive second model with the slowest of the family, the X1 26 100,   You will also get 32GB of LPDDR5X and a 1TB Gen4 NVMe drive with a second empty 4x PCIe 4.0 slot for upgrades.  Connectivity, in addition to the HDMI 2.1, includes two USB 4.0 Gen 3 Type-C and a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A as well as a headphone jack; not too shabby for an ultra-thin.  Your network is triple band WiFi 7 (802.11be) and Bluetooth 5.4 which is also good to see.

TweakTown has plenty of pictures and benchmarks for you to check out here.