Asus puts the outrageous dual-screen ROG Zephyrus Duo on the shelf at an eye-watering price
The ROG Zephyrus Duo returns with two full 16-inch ROG Nebula HDR OLED touchscreens, 21+ inches of combined display space, Intel Core Ultra 9 386H, up to RTX 5090 Laptop GPU at 135W,
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The ROG Zephyrus Duo isn't just a gaming laptop with two screens, it's the company’s most serious attempt yet to add more ambition to a "portable workstation" that’s capable of gaming.
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Asus has decided that one screen isn’t simply enough on a laptop. The ROG Zephyrus Duo has returned to the market with two screens, with pre-orders now live for what the company is calling the world’s first 16-inch dual-screen gaming laptop.
Starting at $4,499.99 and going up to $5,499.99 for the top configuration, this is undoubtedly a machine that is built for people measuring their laptops with ambition, either for innovation or the desire to game on a dual-screen laptop.
What are you actually getting for $4,499.99?
Two full 16-inch ROG Nebula OLED touchscreens, which give you a combined diagonal display space of over 21 inches. Both panels feature a 3K resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, and 0.2ms response time. Further, they also hit 1,100 nits of peak HDR brightness and cover 100 of the DCI-P3 color space.
The primary screen supports Nvidia G-Sync, but the secondary doesn’t. Powering the dual-screen laptop is an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H (16-core) CPU, paired with either an RTX 5070 Ti or RTX 5090 laptop GPU, both running at 135W TGP.
The 1TB PCIe 5.0 SSD and 32GB of soldered LPDDR5X RAM round up the spec sheet that is designed for delivering top-tier performance, whether it is for AI workloads or gaming. Complementing the hardware is a redesigned cooling system that features a larger capor chamber, dual fans, and a graphite sheet over 100% of the CPU and GPU.
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How many ways can you actually use the dual-screen laptop?
You can use the ROG Zephyrus Duo in five ways (officially). The dual-screen laptop supports the usual Laptop Mode, a Dual Screen Mode (with the kickstand deployed, keyboard detached), a Sharing Mode (wherein the screen lies flat at 180°), a Book Mode (with portrait orientation), and a Tent Mode (for two-player face-off gaming).
The magnetic keyboard provided with the laptop connects wirelessly via Bluetooth and detaches entirely when needed. Connectivity options on the machine include Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth v6.0, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI 2.1, and a UHS-II SD card reader, rounding things out.
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