{"id":544677,"date":"2026-07-26T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/544677\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T11:01:09","slug":"asus-latest-zenbook-puts-a-seriously-bright-oled-screen-inside-an-impossibly-slim-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/544677\/","title":{"rendered":"Asus\u2019 latest Zenbook puts a seriously bright OLED screen inside an impossibly slim body"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asus<\/a> has introduced a new AMD-powered version of the Zenbook 14 Air 2026, combining a bright OLED display and a large battery inside an 11mm-thick chassis. It weighs 1.19kg, keeping it firmly in ultraportable territory despite the 77Wh battery inside.<\/p>\n

The Zenbook 14 Air 2026<\/a> itself is not entirely new. Asus launched an Intel configuration powered by the Core Ultra 9 386H in China back in January. The latest version switches to AMD\u2019s Ryzen AI 7 H 445 and is priced at CNY 9,999, or around $1,477. (via Notebookcheck<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The OLED screen is easily the highlight<\/p>\n

The 14-inch OLED panel has a 2880 x 1800 resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate, which should make text, scrolling, and animations look noticeably smoother than on a standard 60Hz laptop. Peak brightness reaches 1,100 nits, while full DCI-P3 coverage and DisplayHDR True Black 1000 certification should help with HDR movies, photo editing, and other colour-sensitive work. Asus also claims a 0.2ms response time.<\/p>\n

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The 77Wh battery is one of the more impressive parts of the design. Asus claims up to around 25 hours of video playback, while USB-C charging can take it from empty to 60% in 49 minutes. However, the endurance test was conducted on a Ryzen AI 9 465 configuration with 32GB of RAM, Wi-Fi switched off, and the display set to 150 nits, so real-world battery life on the Ryzen AI 7 model will vary.<\/p>\n

The processor is the less exciting part<\/p>\n

The Zenbook 14 Air uses AMD\u2019s Ryzen AI 7 H 445 processor, paired with 16GB of LPDDR5X memory and a 1TB SSD. Its Radeon 840M integrated graphics should handle office work, streaming, web browsing, and lighter games, but demanding editing software and modern games will expose its limits.<\/p>\n

Asus has also retained a useful selection of ports despite the thin design<\/a>. The laptop includes two USB4 connections, one USB-A port, HDMI 2.1, and a headphone jack. Other features include Wi-Fi 7 and four speakers with Dolby Atmos.<\/p>\n

Asus has not announced plans to sell the AMD Zenbook 14 Air 2026 outside China. The company already offers the closely related Zenbook 14 UM3406GA globally<\/a>, but that model has a less impressive OLED panel and a slightly smaller 75Wh battery. Many buyers would probably prefer this Chinese version if it ever made its way overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asus has introduced a new AMD-powered version of the Zenbook 14 Air 2026, combining a bright OLED display…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38529,371,761,111,139,69,145,267697],"class_list":["post-544677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-asus","tag-computing","tag-laptop","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-thin-and-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}