I have tried the Asus Zenbook A14, a laptop of only 980 grams that will give you more than two days of battery

During the past CES 2025 Asus made one of his bets for this year in lighter laptops that I have seen to compete against that common enemy of the world of laptops, the ASUS ZenBook A14.

I could try it in your presentation and I have been using it as a personal and professional laptop for a few weeks to check if, finally, Asus has maintained its commitment to create the best ultralight laptop that maintains the most important characteristics: powerful, light and good battery autonomy.

It is a 14 -inch laptop under the Copilot+denomination, since it has the Snapdragon X (X1 26 100), 32 GB processor of RAM and a Windows 11 adapted for this new era of chips and performance.

ASUS bets are clear: more power in an extremely light team and that for those people who spend half a life outside, working anywhere, can become one of the best work tools. Will you fulfill?

Technical Characteristics Asus ZenBook A14

Nothing is left with a surprising design, connections and a weight below 1 kg

It is obvious that in design the most important of this laptop goes through weight. Asus says that it is the most light co -ilot+ laptop on the market, although not the range of laptops in general, since the LG Gram are very close.

But there is no doubt, This laptop weighs 980 gramsthat in the hand it shows because it appears to be heavier and is to hold it and realize what you are missing. Above everything your back will notice if you are one of the people who spend all day with the computer in tow.

Asus has achieved this weight thanks to a material that calls Ceraluminuman ceramic material that has the properties of lightness and durability of aluminum and the benefits of antiañazos of ceramics. The touch seems plastic, but with a pleasant touch.

The important thing about this material is that it maintains good stability and has some flexibility.

And at the most personal level, I like the design. Not only for having a pleasant touch, it also has a minimal branding on the lid, it shows that it is a well -designed and thought product for people who ask for the best in materials and design.

I do not forget the connectivity. It is curious that PC manufacturers such as ASUS continue to demonstrate that ultraraldelgated laptops can be made maintaining ports as necessary as the HDMI or even a USB-A port.

The Asus Zenbook A14 has everything you may need, such as an HDMI 2.1 Complete port, two USB-C ports with support for USB 4, a USB 3.2 port of type A and a headphones connection. All in a body of only 1.34 cm thick.

The trackpad is great, with a certain rubber feeling, But where the finger passes fast, multitactile, with gestures and easy to use.

It works by pressure, so there are certain parts, such as the lower corners where it sinks. The gestures are your best trick, slide your finger on the left side controls the brightness, on the right side the volume and on the top controls the reproduction of music or video.

The keyboard is generous, extremely comfortable to write long hours With a 1.3 mm key tour. If you are one of the people who like comfortable laptops and with a certain gummose sensation of membrane keyboard, it will be highly pleasant. If you are more mechanical keyboards or longer routes, it may not be the best option.

I personally enjoyed writing with this keyboardexcept for an important detail, Asus has decided to put the Ç above the Enterwhich will cause you to mistake you at first. It didn’t take long to get used to me, but it’s one of those details that I don’t like.

A 14 -inch OLED screen that cannot be reproached for anything

Asus has given this ultralight laptop a 14 -inch screen, not tactile, and with an OLED panel. Taking into account that it costs 1,119 euros, it is quite striking. An laptop so light and thin, with such a good screen, is worth mentioning.

The OLED panel is accompanied by a maximum brightness of 600 nits, a brightness more than enough to be able to use it in very luminosity conditions such as outside, in an office or a room with artificial lighting. Of course, it has a bright finish, so you will have reflexes.

The resolution is more than enough, 1,920 x 1,200 pixels. Although I usually use laptops with more resolution, the truth is that I have not noticed at any time that feeling of seeing pixels or low quality.

Sound is possibly one of the characteristics that Asus must improve. In video calls you can listen without problem to the other person, but in music reproduction it is easy to find a lack of serious and a feeling of canned sound.

A office for office with a battery for two days … or even three!

Asus is committed to the Snapdragon X processor (X1-26-100), the Qualcomm entrance processor with eight nuclei, 3 GHz, 30 MB cache and a 45 tops NPU. It is not a high -end Snapdragon X Elite, but 32 GB of RAM LPDDR5x memory is accompanied.

The performance case is curious, although we see that the programs figures of benchmarks They are inferior to the Snapdragon X Elite, in the day to day I do not notice a substantial difference in any program that is to use in office. Whether Chrome, Photoshop, Excel and Word.

It is the good thing about ARM -based processors. They are very well optimized for daily use programs and that do not require extra performance, such as video or 3D edition.

Gaming? It depends on what kind of games you want to run. Forget games like Cyberpunk 2077 or even Counter Strike 2, where it does not go from 10 fps. Therefore, it may be able to execute older games or where graphic power is not necessary, perhaps opt for retro titles.

But it is clear that it is not a gaming laptop, it is a team designed for mobility and to work with office programs, the browser and the occasional program of a company or study.

The positive part is that the combination of features, such as the processor, OLED screen and a battery of 70 WH, does wonders.

The battery is not that a day of intensive use lasts, you could use it up to two days without problem. Of course, it depends on the use that you give it, but usually for that office use that we usually give to the laptops To work You have two practically assured days.

Moreover, I have noticed that with little use, the loss of autonomy for one day is less than 10%. Energy control is good in Qualcomm chips, something that surely many people who use their laptop to work will like to meet.

A Windows 11 practically clean with the basic tools of AI

Luckily the Asus Zenbook A14 comes with little bloatwarebut he is not free of him. The only pre -installed program that will give you the can is the McAfee Antivirus.

In addition, it includes the A ASUS Glidex and Screenxpert programs for window control. It also comes with Storycube, a multimedia center where you can see photos, videos and audios organized thanks to artificial intelligence.

For the rest, it is a fully standard Windows 11 laptop and with Copilot+tools. As automatically generated subtitles, chamber effects such as brightness and automatic contrast, generative image tools in Paint or the blur of the background or co -pilot call with its special key.

VERDICT: Is the Asus Zenbook A14 worth it?

Asus ZenBook A14 I found one of those ultralight laptops that I feel that they can replace a Macbook Air thanks to good performance, a long autonomy and an OLED screen that looks great.

If you are a person looking for a laptop to work or study, it is undoubtedly an option to take into account, because with a weight of only 980 grams, you forget that dead weight on your back in your backpack or in the bag.

I do not think it is a good option for those who seek performance in more professional programs. Although you can do elementary things in programs such as Photoshop or Illustrator, if you are looking for video, 3D edition or large photography edition, I do not think it gives for those tasks.

In global it is an excellent laptop where size and weight almost compensate any other lack.

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