The lid shows off a single diagonal line across with the ROG eye on one side, both beautifully embossed with a stunning purple and blue colour scheme, and around the edges are the I/O ports and various cooling vents.Īs you open the ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 you are greeted with the enchanting machinations of the dual-screen display, as the 14” slowly lifts and raises towards the main display, revealing an epic logo bar. The Duo is striking in a chic aesthetic sort of way, one that doesn’t so much scream at you for attention but rather bats its eyes and walks swiftly away as you gawk in awe. The ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 design remains fairly minimal, disguising its incredibly powerful innards with a sleek design that gives nothing away.
ASUS ZEPHYRUS DUO PORTABLE
Sure, it still doesn’t beat a full-sized TV but as far as portable content consumption goes, the Duo is top-tier. For example, watching Stranger Things on Netflix using the ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 was an incredible experience as opposed to watching it on another device. This isn’t to say that games didn’t look beautiful because they absolutely did but games typically aren’t meant to utilise these kinds of panels so this wasn’t the panel underperforming in any way.Ĭontent consumption though was pretty stellar especially if you have access to 4K HDR or Dolby Vision content at your disposal. I will say that while the display offers something unparalleled in terms of editing photos and videos, or any sort of editing work really, I didn’t see anything particularly spectacular when it came to gaming. The panel offers a magnificent view into the virtual world whether you are gaming, consuming content or creating it.
ASUS ZEPHYRUS DUO FULL
Dubbed the ROG Nebula Display, the main panel also boasts a 3ms response time, Pantone Validation, FreeSync Premium and full Dolby Vision HDR support. Other models also offer a QHD+ display with a 165Hz refresh rate, still in the 16:10 aspect ratio. Moving back up to the main display, the ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 comes equipped with a stunning UHD+ 120Hz panel in the superior 16:10 aspect ratio, or you could opt for an FHD+ 240Hz panel instead. For Discord, the secondary screen made muting channels and managing who was coming on and off seamless, especially in games that support Discord overlay. It did take some time to get used to but once I got the hang of it, it was super helpful being to start and stop recordings, manage scene transitions and even manage audio levels in real-time.
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Surprisingly, despite the small screen size, using secondary programmes was actually quite easy.
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By all means, the same ease came into play with the Zephyrus Duo 16 as it handled editing tasks with incredible ease but since this was a gaming notebook, I wanted to see how practical using the second screen for Discord and OBS really was. Being able to position the audio and video tracks to the second screen makes scrubbing through footage, editing clips and even adding effects much simpler and more intuitive. Looking at the ZenBook range of dual-screen notebooks, the second screen’s use was quite similar, being particularly helpful for processes like video editing. The secondary panel is a fully interactive, touch panel and the idea, at least according to ASUS, is that it can be used to display secondary programmes while gaming such as Discord, TeamSpeak, Spotify or if you are streaming/recording, programmes like OBS Studio or Streamlabs OBS. The ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 offers users a smaller 14” Mini-LED panel underneath the main 16” display just as it is in the ZenBook Duo range. Their latest entry which branches into their gaming range, is the ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 which is not only practical but seems to bring that science fiction technology a little closer to our time.
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ASUS ZEPHYRUS DUO PRO
In the words of Howard Stark, “I am limited by the technology of my time”.ĪSUS initially brought this concept to life with the introduction of their ZenBook Pro Duo and it seems they continue to refine the platform. We have seen so many add-ons to notebooks to turn them into dual-screen hybrids but combining a second screen to a single notebook just seemed like science fiction. The introduction of the dual-screen notebook was something that not only seemed arbitrary but just impossible to be actually functional.