I purchased this Zenbook to upgrade from my Asus Vivobook E200HA. The Zen will be used as my work computer in my home office. I haven't started to work from home yet so I can't comment on how it handles work tasks.
So far it has been a great little laptop while doing typical web browsing, word processing. I installed bluestacks to see if it could handle some light gaming of my favorite cell phone games and it did well. However battery life is seriously compromised when doing so and it heat up quickly, the fans stayed on. In Zens defense, this is not a gaming laptop, and I am by no means a gamer. I just wanted to see if it was capable.
I'm seeing 7-10 hours of battery life on average. Nothing close to the 14hrs that are advertised. The trackpad is slick and responsive. Way more to than the Vivo.
The one thing I don't like is the right side shift key is super small. I end up hiting the enter key by accident. It's not a huge deal breaker to tick off a star, but annoying.
Will update once the Zen gets some work hours under its belt. For now I am happy with this Prime Day purchase.
Update 8/17/2019
A couple or weeks of work under it's belt and the Zen performs well. Unfortunately, the small shift key and overall squished feeling keyboard led me to return it. I was constantly hitting the enter key in error and the arrow keys lost all functionality for me being crammed where they were.
I went though two Zenbook 14". The first was purchased through a 3rd party and was obviously an open box or refurb, despite not making that clear in their ad. Fingerprints all over the top of the case and it was missing the Ethernet adapter. I got the black screen of death while trying to update windows 10. I had it less than 8 hours and back into the box it went and returned. Pictures I added to this review are of the returned 14" side by side with the 13".
I then purchased the Zen 14" with screenpad and better graphics card....typing on it now...made sure not to purchase from 3rd party. Third time is a charm ! It came brand new, no fingerprints with all accessories. It may only be nominally bigger but it's a world of difference to me. Difference in cost was $322.06. May not be worth it to some but it was to me. I am completely happy with my Zen 14. Don't think I'll really use the screenpad function but it looks cool.
You won't be disappointed in the performance of the Zenbooks. I'm keeping my review at five stars as the laptop performed as it is supposed to. I was not able to get used to the keyboard.
| Standing screen display size | 13.3 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 Pixels |
| Processor | 4.6 GHz apple_ci7 |
| RAM | 16 GB LPDDR3 |
| Memory Speed | 4.6 |
| Hard Drive | 512 GB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Intel HD Graphics 620 |
| Chipset Brand | Intel |
| Card Description | Integrated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 16 GB |
| Wireless Type | Bluetooth, 802.11b/n/ac |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 2 |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 14 Hours |
