Review: ASUS ZenBook 3

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

What we have here is an outlier, a sub portable notebook designed for optimal portability and long battery life but which can also handle some top-level performance thanks to the fact that it has the latest processors and bumped up specs.

ASUS ZenBook 3 is the company’s answer two Apple notebooks. It has the 12-inch form-factor of the ultra-portable Retina MacBook, but boasts processor and specs that can go head-to-head with even the latest MacBook Pro. Here are my impressions of the remarkable new ASUS ZenBook 3.

In case you haven’t noticed, ultra-thin, ultra light notebooks are a definite thing. Apple defined the space with the MacBook Air, Intel’s OEMs followed suit with the Ultrabook class of devices. Apple went insanely portable with the 12-inch Retina MacBook, a true wonder of engineering mired by a low-performance (although fanless and power efficient mobile processor), a single USB-Type C port and innovations like the butterfly keyboard mechanism and solid-state trackpad. Hit jump for the full review.

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ASUS targets Retina MacBook with new ZenBook 3 notebook

ASUS unloaded some impressive new hardware during Computex 2016. The Ultra-sleek and light ZenBook 3 is ASUS' take on the Retina MacBook and even comes in similar gold and silver colours as well as a blue variant. The ZenBook 3 may look like a Retina MacBook, right down to its single USB Type-C port (groan),  12.5-inch display (slightly bigger than the MacBook's 12-inch display), but it improves over the Apple subnotebook in various ways.

The ASUS ZenBook 3 can run up to Core i7 processors more powerful than the MacBook's Core m processor) and it offers 9 hours of battery life. ASUS expects to sell the ZevBook 3 starting at US $999 in the next few months.