Asus’s New Space-Inspired ZenBook Is Beyond Excessive, and I Think I’m In Love

We may have just suffered through theyear the billionaires journey to blank , but Asus wants you to have it off it made it there first , and it ’s immortalise the accomplishment with a laptop that looks like it was design for another planet .

Revealed today atCES 2022 , the ZenBook 14X OLED Space Edition is one of the oddest twist I ’ve seen in late memory , and honestly , I think I ’m in love . Before I describe what ’s run low on with the pattern , I should mention the origin story ( I promise , it stupefy Fantastic Four ) .

It turn out that in 1997 , Asus sent P6300 and P6100 laptop computer to orbit on the Soviet Union - build Mir blank space station , the first modular infinite post and the first inhabited prospicient - term research station in space . Asus claims the laptop live on the entire missionary post without confront defects , so in memorial of this feat , the company plan a especial edition version of its recent extremist - portable laptop .

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On the lid and pack of cards of the ZenBook 14X are etching urge by the space years . The dots on the chapeau are morse code for the Latin “ ad astra per aspera ” ( imply “ through hardships to the stars ” ) while the patterns represent the Mir station and the arced cable symbolise a space ejector seat . To me , the chapeau return off major Star Wars vibes , with the hat drawing somewhat resembling a TIE fighter .

Anyhow , you might be question what ’s going on with that rectangular window on the chapeau . Asus calls it ZenVision , and it ’s patently prompt by the spaceship ’s datasheet . The piddling 3.5 - inch OLED panel has a 256 x 64 solving and can be used to show customizable messages to the people around you . Or you put an interesting computer graphic on the panel or cycle a gif , similar to the acid intercellular substance , or AniME Matrix , on the newZephyrus G14 .

I ’m counting the daylight before I can see this laptop in person , not only to get a closer coup d’oeil at those design elements , but because of the unique color that Asus calls Zero - G Titanium . It looks like a matte taupe to me but the images hint the nuance shifts drastically establish on the inflammation .

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Keeping with the infinite paper , the 2.9 - pound ZenBook 14X passed U.S. Space Systems Command Standard SMC - S-016A examination protocols , which Asus claims are four times more stringent than the stock MIL - social disease testing most laptop seller use to make their product sound perdurable . These acronyms intend the 14X can withstand temperatures between -24 Celsius and 61 Celsius , so feel free to take the ZenBook on that Antarctica misstep you ’ve been planning .

You ’ve probably already made your intellect up about the ZenBook 14X by now , but I ’ll list the primal glasses here anyway . The ZenBook 14X Space Edition has a 14 - column inch , 2880 x 1800 OLED video display at 90Hz with 550 nit of peak brightness . power this automobile is the laptop equivalent of a rocket railway locomotive : up to a 12th - gen Intel Core i9 H - series CPU with Iris Xe graphics , up to 32 GB of DDR5 RAM , and up to a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD .

Asus did n’t break pricing ( ask a very enceinte name ) but allege the ZenBook 14X OLED Space Edition will be available in Q2 of this year .

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Asus ZenBook 14 OLED

If you could do without all the space stuff , Asus also relinquish the new ZenBook 14 OLED , a portable 14 - in laptop power by either an Intel Core i7 P - serial chip or an AMD Ryzen 5000 - series processor ( not the newer Ryzen 6000 , interestingly ) . One of the highlights , besides the sleek design , is a 2.8 K OLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate .

Like the Space Edition , the ZenBook 14 passed durability tests , though these were your typical military - ground level unity . The laptop computer will be usable in Aqua Celadon and Ponder Blue ( on certain manikin ) or Jade Black .

The Zenbook 14 organic light-emitting diode will be available in the coming months ; pricing has not been let on .

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