Carrying around a laptop that’s impressively thin, lightweight and yet packs a punch seems to bring about a feeling of confidence on most days. Knowing that a powerful tool is in your backpack or briefcase is reassuring; even more so when that tool doesn’t cost a couple thousand dollars.
Take the new ZenBook 13 as an example: this ultra-portable laptop packs Intel’s latest Core i5 processor, an Nvidia GPU and is more affordably priced than Apple’s MacBook Pro or HP’s latest Spectre 13. Heck, it’s priced the same as Dell’s XPS 13, but with slightly better hardware inside that we’ll get into in a bit.
Price and availability
If you’re in the market for the latest ZenBook 13, you won’t have any options to customize internals in the US. The $999 ( £899, about AU$1,320), price tag gets you the modestly configured laptop you see here.
In the UK, the same model we tested is £899, with a more powerful model featuring a an Intel Core i7 and double the storage will set you back £1,299.
Comparatively, a similarly spec’d HP Spectre 13 starts at $1,149 in the US, or in the UK the Spectre …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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