The company launched the Asus Zenbook 17 Fold laptop on Wednesday. The laptop sports a 17.3-inch foldable OLED touchscreen with 1,920×2,560 pixel resolution, 4:3 aspect ratio and 0.2ms response time. The company claims that the display is designed to produce a peak brightness of 500 nits. It also gets 100 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut, 1.07 billion colors and 87 percent screen-to-body ratio. The Asus ZenBook 17 Fold is equipped with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD for storage. It is powered by the 12th generation Intel Core i7 processor.
Asus ZenBook 17 Fold Price, Availability
asus zenbook 17 fold The price has been kept at $3,499 (about Rs 2,78,300). The laptop will be available globally in the fourth quarter of this year, according to Asus, It will be sold in a single take black color option. Asus is yet to announce plans to launch the ZenBook 17 Fold in India.
Asus ZenBook 17 Fold Specifications
asus zenbook 17 fold runs on Windows 11, and sports a 17.3-inch folded touchscreen with 1,920×2,560 pixels resolution, 4:3 aspect ratio, and a response time of 0.2ms. The display is a VESA certified HDR True Black 500 screen with 100 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut, 87 percent screen-to-body ratio and Pantone certification. The company claims that the display is designed to produce a peak brightness of 500 nits. The display size can be reduced to 12.5 inches (when folded) with 1,280×1,920 pixel resolution and 3:2 aspect ratio.
The new Asus laptop is powered by the 12th generation Intel Core i7 processor, paired with Intel Iris XE GPU. The ZenBook 17 Fold is equipped with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD for inbuilt storage. It gets two Thunderbolt 4 ports and a 3.5mm combo audio jack. It also has a touchpad. As for optics, it is equipped with a 5-megapixel AI camera with 3D noise reduction and IR function. It gets a quad-speaker setup with Harman Kardon-certified Dolby Atmos sound. There’s also a built-in microphone with Cortana and Alexa voice assistant support.
The Asus ZenBook 17 Fold packs a 75Whr battery, which is claimed to deliver up to 9.5 hours of battery life when the screen is folded and 8.5 hours when unfolded. It also gets a USB Type-C 64W power adapter. When folded, the laptop measures 378.5 x 287.6 x 8.7mm and when unfolded, 287.6 x 189.3 x 17.4mm. According to the company, the laptop weighs around 1.5kg without the Asus ErgoSense Bluetooth keyboard and touchpad, and around 1.8kg with the Bluetooth keyboard on.