Asus ZenBook S13 is a member of the Asus ZenBook S series line which has been widely regarded as the company’s flagship business-class laptop over the past few years.
ASUS’ new StudioBook was designed to make workstation-caliber power available to more people, but the refreshed ZenBook S is ambitious in a different way. The company’s S line was always about extreme portability, and that’s still true this year .
The Asus ZenBook S13 comes with big screen, strong body build, excellent keyboard, remarkably svelte body, and reliable battery life for uninterrupted day-to-day usage, you can count on this Laptop from Asus.
Design
The Asus ZenBook S13 sports a functional, remarkably svelte body design with an impressively thin screen bezels with 97% screen-to-body ratio measuring a dimension of 12.4 mm x 5.08 mm x 0.77 mm inches and weighs 2.4 pounds with scant 2.5mm thickness, which enough for ASUS to call the laptop the thinnest machine in the world. The design coupled with the soft-touch coating, which makes it feel surprisingly luxurious at hand.
The keyboard keys are well spread to the edges of the frame and have a key travel of 1.7 millimeters, requiring as little as 68grams of force to effect a press. The Keyboard and touchpad is made of diagonally brushed aluminium which adds to the aesthetical properties of the ultrabook. There’s a fingerprint sensor for Windows Hello authentication built into the touchpad. Despite its thinness, the Asus’ latest Ultrabook still features one full-sized USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A alongside two USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C ports – unfortunately not Thunderbolt 3 – micro SD card slot and a headphone jack.
Display
This 13.9-inch laptop come with a Full HD (1920 x 1080) IPS display which extends fully to the tiny frame of the laptop. The screen comes with a extended frame which also doubles as the “lid opener” which enables users easily lift up the lid when closed.
The surrounding bezels on the laptop’s display measures only 2.5mm, The impressively thin screen comes with a 97% screen-to-body ratio which allows for a clear image view for gaming, video streaming and more.
Keyboard
The T580 comes with a fantastic typing experience. It has a solid keyboard; the keys offer 1.5 millimeters of travel, full-sized standard layout and require 70 grams of force to actuate, meaning key presses feel satisfying and responsive.
Hardware
For hardware options, you get up to the latest 8th generation Intel Whiskey lake processor which can be customize with either a Core i5-8265U or Core i7-8565U CPU accompanied by an integrated Nvidia GeForce MX150 GPU graphics card that will ensure all the power you need for your various business tasks coupled with the memory storage and RAM capacity 16GB (of DDR3 2,133MHz RAM) 1 Terabyte (of PCIe NVMe SSD)for storage.
Battery
The Zenbook S13 is equipped with a 50Whr battery which ASUS claims can supply 15 hours of usage time.
ASUS ZenBook S13 UX392 Key Specs
- Dimension: 31.6 x 12.9 x 1.95 centimetres (12.4 x 5.08 x 0.77 inches)
- Weight: 2.4 pounds
- Display: 13.9-inch Full HD display with 97% screen-to-body ratio
- CPU: 8th-Gen Intel Core i5-8265U or Intel Core i7-8565U processors
- Memory: Up to 16GB DDR3 2,133MHz RAM
- Storage: Up to 1 TB PCIe NVMe SSD storage
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce MX150 GPU
- Battery: 50Whr battery
- Ports: 1 x USB-A 3.1, 2x USB-C, 1 x microSD slot and a headphone jack.
