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Asus Zenbook Duo 2024

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Re: Asus Zenbook Duo 2024

#11
Congrats to Asus. I would love to have a laptop as a laptop when I need the portability but also a screen on a stand + wireless keyboard and touchpad when I want the ergonomics.

Are there other products on the market right now that lets us detach the screen off the laptop and still use the keyboard and the touchpad wirelessly?

Re: Asus Zenbook Duo 2024

#13

This is gonna be such a big deal when Apple invents it in 5 years. Can't wait for the MacBook Pro Duo.

There have been various rumblings about a "foldable MacBook" in development, I really hope it works a lot like this and not like a foldable phone with a giant crease.

Re: Asus Zenbook Duo 2024

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post #13

This is gonna be such a big deal when Apple invents it in 5 years. Can't wait for the MacBook Pro Duo.

There have been various rumblings about a "foldable MacBook" in development, I really hope it works a lot like this and not like a foldable phone with a giant crease.

Apple is known to experiment internally with a crazy ammount of concepts, out of which very few make it into actual products for sale.

They're pretty conservative on the types of products they launch and careful enough to not pollute their existing line-up with whacky products that don't fit with their vision of how a product should be used or if it would cannibalize their other products.

Their MacBooks still don't have a touchscreen even though they could easily add a touch digitizer for almost no cost at all but they just don't want to mix touch with laptops for some reason, unlike the PC laptop makers who seem to have no issue adding that.

Re: Asus Zenbook Duo 2024

#17
post #8

This is gonna be such a big deal when Apple invents it in 5 years. Can't wait for the MacBook Pro Duo.

Right, I posted yesterday about using an iPad as a 2nd monitor for nomads [1]. I understand a cheaper alternative is using a USB-C external display. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38957035

I’ve used the pair of a 16” MBP and 12.9” iPad running Sidecar while traveling to great success. It’s a surprisingly good approximation of my dual 27” desk setup at home.

Re: Asus Zenbook Duo 2024

#19
post #6

Why does ASUS hate GPUs? They got rid of anything above a 4070 in the 2024 models of the G series. And this is a dual 120Hz OLED screen device powered by an Intel ARC integrated GPU?!

Top end GPUs are too hot and power hungry to be practical for anything more portable than 3 inch thick “luggables”, which these days is a pretty niche category. Nvidia is gonna have to do better in the efficiency department.

Re: Asus Zenbook Duo 2024

#20
I didn't see answers to this on the page, does anyone know if it can close with the keyboard on?

Also, does the keyboard charge automatically when connected? Or does it have to be charged separately?

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