Asus Zenbook A16

MSRP $1,699.99

“A stylish and comfortable laptop with exceptional battery life, a beautiful display, and solid performance”

Pros

Looks and feels fantastic

Handled every work-based task exceptionally

Able to run a good number of local LLMs

Exceptional battery life

Solid port selection

Shockingly low weight for a laptop of this size

Cons

Large center touchpad can be annoying

Some GPU-intense applications can still hit the battery hard

It feels a little fragile overall

Quick Take

Asus Zenbook A16 is a bit of a step into the future . It features Qualcomm’s new flagship Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip , an 18-core ARM-based processor designed to put Windows PCs on par with Apple Silicon.

The result is a fantastic professional laptop. You get truly exceptional battery life, along with solid performance during pretty much all work-based tasks.…