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The wrist rest is a nice touch, provided you remember to take it with you. I had no qualms with the quality of the actual keyboard, which offers quiet typing with satisfying tactile feedback, but it puts your hands in an uncomfortable position unless you use the included wrist wrest.

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The Asus Pro Duo’s unusual design does create some compromises on the keyboard and trackpad front, but it also creates some new opportunities. Being able to mirror your pen strokes from the smaller screen to the larger one would would make the Asus Pro Duo much more appealing to artists. While you can use the stylus directly on either display, the larger screen sits at an awkward angle for drawing, and the smaller one is too cramped. I only wish Asus had taken the obvious step of letting you use the second screen as a Wacom-style drawing surface for the main screen. (My favorite example: web browser on the main screen, Typora across the lower two-thirds, and Plexamp in the bottom-right third.)

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Jared Newman / IDGĪsus’ software includes a control panel for popular Adobe apps such as Photoshop.īut after a few days, I got the hang of using Asus’ drag-and-drop shortcuts to move windows around, and I set up a few app presets for productivity. I also found the second screen a bit hard to read without increasing its level of display scaling.

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Asus’ various icons and menus aren’t always intuitive, and I had to search online to figure out how to load Asus’ Adobe-optimized control panels.

Quickly flick windows between the two screensĪll of this does involve a learning curve.

Pop open a number pad that occupies the right half of the lower screen.

Use the second screen as a gigantic trackpad.

Use presets to arrange apps in a tiled layout across the two screens.

Set up a panel of touch controls in certain Adobe apps, such as Photoshop.

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By using Asus’ ScreenPad Plus software, you can open up a bunch of new use cases that you won’t get with a second monitor alone. But the Pro Duo is the rare instance in which loaded vendor software is a welcome addition. That alone would make the Pro Duo more interesting than your average laptop.

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Windows 10 recognizes the extra screen as a second monitor that sits beneath the main one. You can give it a taskbar, adjust the display scaling, and drag windows back and forth at will. Putting the screens to useįrom the perspective of Windows 10, the Asus Pro Duo’s lower screen-or ScreenPad Plus, as Asus calls it-is just a second monitor like any other. Stick the ergonomic stand to the laptop’s underside, and you can prop it up at an angle.

The secondary LCD screen has a matte finish, which makes sense when you realize it needs to avoid reflecting overhead lights into your eyes. It’s one of the more vibrant screens you’ll find on a laptop right now, and you can comfortably use it indoors at nowhere near maximum brightness. Jared Newman / IDGĪs for the displays themselves, the main screen is a 440-nit panel that covers 100 percent of the DCI-P3 gamut, according to Asus. I had no problems packing everything into the bag, along with an external mouse, mechanical keyboard, and PlayStation 4 controller. The Pro Duo also ships with a bunch of accessories, including a palm rest that slides up to the laptop’s bottom edge, an ergonomic stand that you can stick on to the laptop’s backside, and a slim backpack. The oversized power brick comes in a fancy box of its own. The design of the Pro Duo’s cardboard box mimics that of the laptop itself, opening like a clamshell and lifting the laptop out of its container. The 240W power brick adds an extra 1.52 pounds to the total package.Īsus is clearly proud of its work here. When you lift the lid, a pair of hinges prop up the rear of the second screen so it’s easier to see and touch. It comes in a greenish-blue color, with an aluminum lid whose swirling pattern extends outward from the off-center Asus logo. While the Zenbook Pro Duo is by no means svelte, its 5.16-pound frame is lighter than you might expect given everything inside. The right side is where you’ll find all the Pro Duo’s USB ports. You can also still find the older UX581, with a 10th-generation Core-i7 CPU and RTX 2060 GPU for AU$3,614). mwave sells a US$2,700 / AU$4,499 version Remove non-product link with an Intel Core i7-10870H processor, and supposedly there’s a version with 16GB of RAM, but we haven’t found that one available for purchase. Port selection is decent, but photo editors might wish for an SD card slot.Ĭonfiguration options are scarce on this laptop.

Weight: 5.16 pounds (1.52-pound power brick).

Right side: USB-A 3.2 Gen 2, 2x USB-C Thunderbolt 3.

Secondary 14-inch 3840x1100 OLED matte display.

Our top-of-the-line Asus Zenbook Pro Duo 15 OLED UX582 review unit includes the following tech specs: