The stated 2.9mm width of the side bezel is the distance between the edge of the non-active screen display area and the inside edge of the case. If the case width is included, the side bezel width is 4.4mm. Measured based on standard (anti-glare) display configuration. The top bezel width is 6.5mm and the bottom bezel width is 12.9mm. Getting stuff done on the go is effortless with the elegant and lightweight ZenBook 13. Its small size and big capabilities will make it your go-to device for productivity and inspiration, whether you’re inside or outside, working or relaxing, alone or collaborating. The compact, thin and ultralight all-metal design of ZenBook 13 makes it the ideal traveling companion. It’s also the world’s thinnest 13-inch laptop to feature a full set of I/O ports1 — including HDMI and USB Type-A — so you can enjoy versatile connectivity wherever you are. ZenBook 13 redefines what’s possible in an ultrathin laptop to give you a full complement of I/O ports, including full-size HDMI and USB Type-A ports. The power of Thunderbolt™ 4 is also at your disposal, with two Thunderbolt™ 4 USB-C® ports that support fast charging, 4K UHD external displays and up to 40Gbps data transfers. For easy transfers of data from your mobile devices, there’s also a microSD card reader.

Testing done on discrete parts, using soda-lime glass as comparative reference. Figures and tests provided by Corning. Charging performance test with laptop powered-off. Actual charging time may vary in real world conditions. The beautiful new ZenBook 13 OLED brings you visuals like you’ve never experienced before. It’s also more portable than ever, weighing only 1.14 kg with a 13.9 mm-thin profile. Even though It’s thinner, lighter, and incredibly compact, it includes HDMI, Thunderbolt™ 4 USB-C®, USB Type-A and a microSD card reader for unrivaled versatility. Built to deliver powerful performance and true-to-life visuals, ZenBook 13 OLED is your perfect choice for an effortless on-the-go lifestyle. Great picture deserves great sound to go with it. The ZenBook 13 features premium audio by Harman Kardon, so you can enjoy your shows to the fullest.

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Before I joined the tech-journalism ranks, I wrote on topics as diverse as Borneo's rain forests, Middle Eastern airlines, and Big Data's role in presidential elections. A graduate of Middlebury College, I also have a master's degree in journalism and French Studies from New York University. The audio system of ZenBook 13 OLED is certified by audio specialists Harman Kardon to ensure immersive, crystal-clear sound for communications or entertainment. The ZenBook 13 is one of the first production laptops we’ve tested with Intel’s Tiger Lake CPUs. The Intel Core i7-1165G7 has four cores, eight threads, and a base frequency of 2.8GHz. It also uses Intel’s latest Iris Xe Graphics processor. This integrated graphics engine offers performance approaching that of an entry-level gaming laptop with a discrete GPU, and is a boon to people who prefer an ultraportable laptop but occasionally want to play games on it. With ZenBook 13’s amazing 18-hour battery life4, traveling without a charger isn’t a big deal. When you do need to top up, its fast-charge feature can restore the battery to a 60% charge level in just 49 minutes, so you’ll be ready to go in no time.

At maximum volume, the ZenBook 13’s speakers are easily powerful enough to fill a midsize living room. This is thanks in part to what Asus calls a “smart” amplifier, which the company says is designed to allow the maximum possible volume without damaging the speaker coils. The emphasis is clearly on volume over quality, though, as music played at the maximum level sounds slightly tinny and distorted. Your shows will look their best on the crisp, high-resolution OLED screen. It delivers amazing colours and super-sharp contrast, so that nature documentary will look fantastic. What's more, the thin bezels mean more screen on such a compact laptop.

ZenBook 13 has a bright and clear four-sided NanoEdge display, with slim bezels that create an 88% screen-to-body ratio for a more immersive viewing experience. The low-power 1-watt display6 delivers an incredible 450nits of brightness, while maximizing battery life.

The ZenBook 13 takes the lead on our image editing benchmark, in which we apply a series of 10 complex filters and effects to a standard JPEG test image using Adobe Photoshop. We time each operation and, at the end, add up the total execution time. With ZenBook 13 OLED’s amazing 13-hour battery life, traveling without a charger isn’t a big deal. When you do need to top up, its fast-charge feature can restore the battery to a 60% charge level in just 49 minutes, so you’ll be ready to go in no time. Compared to average LCD displays in the market, measuring energy emission of blue light in between 415-455 nm wavelength. Rounding out its set of performance skills, the ZenBook 13 has an impressively large 67-watt-hour battery. It posted a time of just over 13 hours on our battery rundown test, which isn’t quite as good as the 15-plus hours that the XPS 13 and MacBook Air can manage on this test, but still suggests that the ZenBook 13 will last through a full day of light work without needing to be plugged in. The performance of the ZenBook 13’s 1TB SSD as measured by the PCMark 8 storage subtest is also excellent, though not appreciably different from other SSD-based laptops, all of which score around 5,000 points on this test.The latest 11th Generation Intel® Core™ processors in ZenBook 13 OLED make light work of multitasking, productivity and entertainment, and they’re complemented by the new Intel Iris® Xe integrated graphics for superb all-round performance. ZenBook 13 OLED also features ultrafast PCIe® 3.0 x2 SSDs and the latest Intel WiFi 6 with Gig+ (802.11ax) for superb all-round performance.