{"id":355786,"date":"2026-01-06T20:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355786\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:45:10","slug":"this-16-inch-laptop-is-so-light-i-can-easily-lift-it-with-three-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355786\/","title":{"rendered":"This 16-inch laptop is so light I can easily lift it with three fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Asus\u2019 Zenbook A14 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/7\/24334174\/asus-zenbook-a14-ces-lightweight-laptop-macbook-price-specs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debuted at last year\u2019s CES<\/a> is now getting a bigger sibling for CES 2026. The new Asus Zenbook A16 is a 16-inch counterpart to refreshed Zenbook A14, both packing Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite processors. The two Zenbook A models are very similar, both sporting OLED displays, two USB 4 ports, one USB-A, 70Whr batteries, and Asus\u2019 Ceraluminum coating in earthy beige and gray tones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The new 16-inch model separates itself with its bigger and better display and a built-in SD card slot. The screen of the A16 is 2880 x 1800 \/ 120Hz to the A14\u2019s 1920 x 1200 \/ 60Hz, and it can hit 1,100 nits of peak brightness to the smaller model\u2019s 600 nits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Both the Zenbook A14 and A16 are incredibly light. In some configurations the A14 weighs under 2.2 pounds \/ 1kg, and the A16 is just shy of 2.65 pounds \/ 1.2kg. The 16-inch is around the weight of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/links\/8836598\/type\/dlg\/https:\/\/www.lg.com\/us\/laptops\/lg-16z90s-h.adb9u1-gram-laptop\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LG Gram 16<\/a>, which is a laptop that\u2019s all about lightness, but the LG doesn\u2019t have an SD card slot. I called the Zenbook A14 Asus\u2019 wannabe MacBook Air when it launched last year, and the A16 seems to want to be the 15-inch MacBook Air alternative. Though, if you\u2019re a photographer like me, that SD card slot seems a nice quality-of-life upgrade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The new Zenbook A14 and A16 are set to launch in early-to-mid Q2 2026, with pricing to be determined later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto \/ The Verge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asus\u2019 Zenbook A14 that debuted at last year\u2019s CES is now getting a bigger sibling for CES 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4774,131726,786,59,10800,696,50,227,86,56,54,55,2869],"class_list":["post-355786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-asus","tag-ces","tag-gadgets","tag-gb","tag-laptops","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}