Review ASUS ZenBook Duo 14 UX482E

ASUS ZenBook Duo 14 UX482E - As technology develops, the need for multi-tasking is growing rapidly. What's more, if you are an innovative industry actor, of course you need a laptop that is not only powerful but has a monitor that really supports productivity. The ASUS ZenBook Duet 14 UX482E is the best laptop in this regard.

This laptop series hints that he was indeed imported with 2 monitors at once. The first monitor was a 14-inch primary monitor that most laptops have, then there is a secondary monitor placed at the bottom, named ScreenPad™ Plus.

ASUS makes this laptop with a number of good features that can help users complete tasks more quickly, concisely, and comfortably. This laptop powered by an Intel CPU of the eleventh generation ensures that anyone doesn't have to wait long when rendering video, copying data, and playing heavy games.

In addition to offering onboard VGA in the form of Intel Irislah Xe Graphics, you can also experience high graphics performance due to the addition of a discrete GPU in the form of NVIDIA GeForce MX450. Intel Irislah Xe Graphics itself is actually a high-performance VGA that has high competitiveness, even being able to beat discrete VGA in the 'entry-level' class.

Not only winning in terms of performance, this laptop with a double monitor boasts a strong, concise, and premium body design. Coming with a high SSD capability, the speed in copying data or booting the operating mechanism is definitely unquestionable.

This time, Cari Signal got the opportunity to use it while doing a review on the ASUS ZenBook Duet 14 UX482E. Starting from the quality of the monitor, CPU, GPU performance, to battery life, we will review everything thoroughly.

Details of ASUS ZenBook Duet 14 UX482E

Monitor: 14" (16:9) LED-backlit FHD (1920 x 1080) 60 Hz touchscreen
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 / Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7
Graphic Card: Intel® Irislah Xe graphics, NVIDIA® GeForce® MX450, with 2 GB GDDR6
RAM: 8GB / 16GB 4266MHz LPDDR4x
Storage: 512 GB / 1 TB M.2 NVMe™ PCIe® 3.0 Performance SSD
Optical Drives:-
Connection: Intel® WiFi 6 with Gig+ performance (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0
Ports: 2 x Thunderbolt™ 4 USB-C®, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen, 1 Type-A1 x HDMI 1.4, 1 x Audio combo jack 1 x MicroSD card reader
Battery: 70 Wh, 4-cell Li-ion

Body Design and Port Availability

We were really amazed the first time we saw the formation of the body form factor on this laptop. Remember the idea that it brought as a double sailing laptop, the shape has also been made as good as possible to be able to contain a secondary monitor, keyboard, and touchpad at the same time.

The color variation or finish on the ASUS ZenBook Duet 14 UX482E is Celestial Blue, which is a dark blue color that at first glance looks like black. Remember this is a laptop in the premium price class, of course the materials it uses are no longer polycarbonate plastic, but metal magnesium aluminum alloy.

This kind of metal material does have several advantages. In addition to giving the impression of being expensive, it is the strongest material without risking in terms of weight. Sure enough, this laptop only weighs around 1.6 kg.

To be able to gain weight this easily, of course ASUS requires an "all-out" effort. The problem is this laptop has brought in a secondary monitor and a discrete VGA. Automatic, our hope: of course this laptop will be very heavy. Apparently the reality is not like that. Another encouraging achievement from ASUS.

The length of this 14-inch laptop is only 12.7 inches or equal to 32.4 cm. And in width and thickness, it has a size of 8.74 inches and a thickness of 0.66 inches. Once again, this is a laptop that comes with an additional monitor and VGA, so to achieve a thickness of 0.66 inches really deserves a lot of appreciation.

As a difference, the author uses the Zyrex Sky 360 Touchscreen laptop daily driver in his daily life. The laptop is only 0.5 inches (1.29 cm) thin, as it was designed to focus on portability rather than performance (no discrete VGA).

Apparently, apart from the presence of a second monitor and an additional VGA, the ASUS ZenBook Duet 14 UX482E only has a 0.1 inch difference from the Zyrex laptop. Let that sink in.

This laptop that comes with two monitors has a superior connection in its price class. This can be seen in the availability of 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports, located on the left body coincides with the HDMI 1.41 port. In other words, laptop performance can be increased again by plugging an eGPU into one of the Thunderbolt ports.

Continue on the right, you are treated to a MicroSD card reader, a 3.5 mm audio jack connector, and a USB Type-A port. Nach, it's a shame there's only one USB Type-A available.

The problem is that many PC accessories such as mice and flash drives use USB Type-A. You may not know when you want to install many accessories at once. Using a USB Hub is one way.

Keyboard and Touchpad

At this time we continue on the factors that according to the author have several shortcomings. The keyboard provided by this unit is actually comfortable to use, with a "savory" pressing impression and good responsiveness because the distance between the keys is quite tenuous. Similar to other ASUS laptops in the premium price class, this laptop comes with the ErgoLift design.

Custom Monitor

It's really not worth it if you don't review the monitor in this review. How come? The monitor is one of the special selling points of the ASUS ZenBook Duet 14 UX482E. This ASUS laptop is equipped with an IPS-level monitor with a Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels at a size of 14 inches.

With thin bezels, the monitor has a body-to-monitor ratio of up to 93%. That's why, even though the monitor size is 14 inches, the form factor only has a length of 12.7 inches. The secondary monitor has an ergonomic design style. When the laptop is opened, this 2nd monitor can be moved up to a 7-degree angle to get the right viewing angle.

2nd Monitor (ScreenPad Plus)

In detail, there is nothing to complain about the presence of this ScreenPad Plus. It comes with an IPS-level touchscreen panel measuring 12.65 inches (1920 x 515 pixels) and includes stylus support. Unfortunately, the stylus is not included in the sales box.

In terms of sharpness, text legibility, color, to the point of view, this secondary monitor is not much different from the primary monitor. Same quality, delicious as expected, and witnessed. There will be a toolbar that appears on the left side of the monitor, containing several menus to adjust the use of this ScreenPad Plus.

CPU

ASUS ZenBook Duet 14 UX482E is a multi-functional laptop that can provide support for all needs, such as graphics, programming, or other industries. Therefore, ASUS provides it with a perfect processor in the form of an Intel Core i7 or i5 of the eleventh generation, which has the code name Tiger Lake.

The unit we received was actually an Intel Core i7 1165G7. This processor is made with the 10 nm SuperFin manufacturing process and has a composition of 4 cores and 8 threads. The Intel Core i7 works at a base clock speed of 2.8 GHz with Turbo Boost that can reach 4.7 GHz. This Intel CPU comes with an optimal TDP of 28 W.

VGA

To support activities that require high graphics power such as converting videos and photos, the processor of this laptop carries an on-board or integrated VGA in the form of Intel Irislah Xe Graphics.

Intel Xe Graphics as on-board VGA owned by 11th Generation Intel Core i5 or i7 series processors. Intel itself claims that this VGA has 3D performance that is 2x stronger than the previous generation.

On the other hand, the ASUS ZenBook Duet 14 UX482E is equipped with a discrete VGA in the form of an NVIDIA GeForce MX450. VGA performance can improve laptop performance in innovative work or playing games.

Storage Performance (SSD)

Nowadays, it seems that there are no high end laptops that come with HDD capabilities. Everything has come together to an SSD because it offers quieter sound and faster read and write speeds. ASUS ZenBook Duet UX482E itself comes with 512 GB and 1 TB capability options.

The unit we reviewed came with 1 TB capability on the NVM Express interface type. The SSD brand used is Intel SSDPEKNW010T8 which carries the NVM Lightning 1.3 standard, the form factor is in the form of M.2 and is connected to the PCIe standard.

Battery Life and Charging Speed

Next, we will give the results of the battery endurance experiment on the ASUS ZenBook Duet 14 UX482E. This laptop comes with a charger that uses a USB Type-C connector instead of a DC-In.

We have the opinion that this laptop battery does not last very long in daily use. The problem is that the battery is not only powering one monitor, but two monitors.

The test conditions include using the Better Performance model, brightness at 75, sound volume in the 30-50 range, connected to WiFi, Bluetooth connected to a wireless mouse. The second monitor is left incandescent with almost maximum brightness.

The first time we tested watching Netflix for 3 hours on a dedicated monitor and the second monitor only displayed the desktop wallpaper. It turned out that the battery shrank quite strikingly, the remaining 52% battery.

With this remaining battery, we also did some searching and playing Genshin Impact. The overall duration of time obtained is 1 hour until the battery runs out. So the overall duration of the battery life is 4 hours.

The cheapest variation of the ASUS ZenBook Duet 14 UX482E uses the 11th Generation Intel Core i5, 8 GB RAM, and 512 GB SSD, priced at $1260.26 or around Rp. 19,499,000, -. On the other hand, the unit we used was the highest version with an 11th Generation Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD, priced at $ 1777.32 or around Rp. 27,499,000, -.