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ASUS Zenbook A14 review: A lightweight in every sense

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The Zenbook A14 is astonishingly light and feels like a high-end notebook, but it’s held back by its slow Snapdragon X processor.

It's an ideal machine for writing on the go, since you can travel with it effortlessly and it offers a whopping 18 hours and 16 minutes of battery life.

The A14 's sluggish gaming chops may actually boost your productivity.

The Snapdragon X X1 is an eight -core system on a chip meant for ultra-slim and low-power devices.

In benchmarks and general usage, it's clearly a much slower solution than the X Elite and X Plus chips that graced the Surface Pro and other Copilot+ systems.

The Zenbook A14 handled my basic productivity workflow just fine.

It's a wonderful machine to grab when you just want to focus on writing, clearing out e-mail.

Perhaps one day , with future revisions and more capable hardware, ASUS could finally deliver a powerful near- two-pound laptop. For now, though, you’re better off waiting for a discount so the A14 can serve as a secondary PC..

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