Asus Zenbook A16 Laptop Review - X2 Elite Extreme & 48 GB RAM for $1599

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coolasacurtain@reddit

No, you're asking (real people), that's smart

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shpongolian@reddit

Also audio production and a bunch of other things. 48GB is overkill for the average person but there’s tons of pro software and workflows that use more than that

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Beginning_Ticket_774@reddit

1600$ and no numpad...lol...soldered ram...lol

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shawman123@reddit

70wh battery is a huge miss. Should have put in a 99wh. I wonder if we would ever get SiC batteries in laptops so that 99wh wont take as much space.

That said this laptop is about peak performance. Would make amazing dev laptop running AI loads. to get 48GB ram in MBP you have to pay lot more.

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Not a single benchmark that contains a comparison with Ryzen HX 370. Why are they hiding it? If I manually add it in the CPU Performance Rating, the HX 370 in ASUS S 16 is 18% better than X2E. Why would they hide a better performing CPU in their tests?! It make them look like they're being paid by QCOM!

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RoninSzaky@reddit

Does it matter? People will come in and say the Apple chips are a bazillion times better at everything.

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zerGoot@reddit

because they are?

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CalmSpinach2140@reddit

But Apple CPUs like the M5 Pro/Max are better for CPUs intensive tasks, this also applies to real world applications. 😅

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Aggressive_Piece919@reddit

They are 😂 snowflake

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vlakreeh@reddit

The reason that the hx 370 is ahead is due to the overall CPU performance rating including old versions of cinebench that aren't running natively on ARM, quite frankly they shouldn't have that in the general CPU performance rating if they're going to compare across architecture.

I'd ignore the cinebench results or check other reviews that include the hx 370 for a more realistic summary of performance, although I'd bet that the Qualcomm chip is going to beat AMD and Intel's best in most use-cases by just having so many cores while being general faster core-fore-cord.

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DerpSenpai@reddit

That is emulating, the X2EE is faster than The HX370 in everything, the X2EE is faster than Strix Halo too

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T1beriu@reddit

X2EE is faster than The HX370 in everything

You're embarrassing yourself on the internet by making such statements.

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TheBraveOne86@reddit

It’s a Qualcomm chip. It doesn’t outperform intel except synthetically.

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GHz-Man@reddit

What makes you think benchmarks are inaccurate? The rest of the industry doesn't feel that way.

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GenericUser1983@reddit

The price on the title is incorrect, Asus bumped it up by $100.

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AreYouAWiiizard@reddit

56min battery life at max load, what?

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basedIITian@reddit

That's surprising exactly why? The devices burns ~65 Watts at load and the battery is rated at 70Wh, so obviously you'll get around an hour on full load. The A14 runs 35 Watts at load and hence it gets roughly double the battery life at full load.

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MizunoZui@reddit

Yeah, a 65 Wattage in a 1.2 kg body means the thermal design must be quite impressive. It's so hard for people to think straight about battery life which is simply battery capacity / Wattage. I'd like my device to handle daily tasks at 5-10W while also has a Wattage ceiling as high as possible, the two are not mutually exclusive.

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basedIITian@reddit

And this is exactly what A16 does, based on Hardware Canuck's testing for different workloads (mixed use, web browsing, online and offline media consumption), while in gaming it pushes to the maximum wattage prioritising performance.

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DerpSenpai@reddit

And you can power limit the A16 to 30W too if you want which is best of both worlds.

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basedIITian@reddit

And still get perfomance that no x86 device can touch.

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DerpSenpai@reddit

yeah, notebookcheck emulated performance is also kind of nuts. Between Zen 4 and Zen 5 in ST. Almost Strix Point performance in MT

Now the only thing needed (in gaming) is fix emulation stutters that some games have like CS2 and ofc, better drivers and AI upscaling support.

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basedIITian@reddit

Getting downvoted for pointing this out

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/s/UD9rWJyyrX

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steve09089@reddit

Am I stupid, or is the battery shorter gen-on-gen?

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CumAssault@reddit

I think this is the only review I’ve seen with poor battery performance. Not sure what caused it

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trololololo2137@reddit

2x higher idle power draw than it should have. either qcom screwed up or asus (extremely likely)

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torpedospurs@reddit

Greater idle power draw than the S16 with AMD Strix Point refresh and the same display? Hmm...maybe there is higher frequency PWM which may require more power?

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horatiobanz@reddit

In the Shortcircuit review of this laptop they found out it has a flexible display:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fb8zd7m9pxwtg1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D960%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dd65caeac860d808a2d5a7cb70a9e9514871240c6

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ThielDisciple@reddit

Worst year to buy a laptop.

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