Asus ZenBook Pro 15 (UX580G) review: Performance laptop with two displays

While the technology put into building a perfect laptop has evolved exponentially with time, the innovation has come to a standstill for sometime now with manufacturers upgrading only the specs. A few years ago, Apple did something new by introducing a touch bar on the top of the keyboard and although it was not a runaway success, Macbook fans did like the concept. Asus has now gone a step further by introducing an 'over-sized' touchpad that doubles up as a full 1920x1080 HD touch interface termed 'ScreenPad'.

At 5.5 inches, the ScreenPad functions as a second screen to the 15.6-inch 4K display and has the potential to be your perfect companion if you love watching music videos at work, even as you rack your brains over that ever-boring presentation for the next meeting. The ScreenPad also comes with pre-installed apps like a calendar, a music player and two calculators, and can act independently if needed.

The Zenbook Pro 15 boasts an Intel Core i9-8950 HK CPU (Intel Core i7-8750H processor also available) coupled with 16GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card. Specs that you generally see in a gaming console are bundled into the Zenbook. The six cores and 12 threads make multitasking on this laptop a breezy walk in the park and the laptop has a mere 15-second boot time. I produced videos, edited photos, played Call of Duty and the laptop sailed through anything and everything without breaking a sweat. While the innards are more than enough for almost everything you throw at them, the inner me feels that GTX 1060 GPU would have done more justice to the laptop, given the price point. Read Complete Article

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