Asus’ new Zenbook 14X is the latest 14-inch laptop with an OLED display

Asus Zenbooks are known to be quite light and quite affordable. But the company is adding another calling card to the lineup: OLED display technology.

The new 14-inch Zenbook 14X OLED will be available with either a 4K OLED HDR display or a 2.8K OLED 90Hz display. Considering these resolutions, either should be a significant improvement in image quality over the Zenbook 13 OLED, Asus’ ultraportable OLED model released earlier this year. This device has an FHD OLED display (which was still quite vivid and bright in our testing).

The Zenbook 14X OLED will cover 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut and a response time of 0.2ms. Asus claims that it will emit “70% less harmful blue light than a normal LCD screen.”

Aside from the screen, the 14X weighs 3.09 pounds and is 0.67 inches thick – decently portable, although there are thinner and lighter 14 inches. It can be configured with 11th generation Intel processors up to a Core i7, as well as 16GB of memory and 1TB of storage. The port selection includes Thunderbolt 4, HDMI 2.0, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A and a microSD reader.

It all sounds good, but the big question mark is battery life. A high resolution screen in a thin and light laptop can sometimes be a recipe for disaster, as we have seen time and time again. The Zenbook 13 OLED lasted over 11 hours in our testing, which is great, but this display has far fewer pixels to power.

The Zenbook 14X OLED starts at $ 1,399.99, which is significantly more than the Zenbook 13 OLED, which starts at $ 799. That’s not necessarily surprising, given the 14-inch’s larger, higher-resolution screen.

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There is also a convertible version of the 14X – the Zenbook 14 Flip OLED. This model has the same resolution options and its touchscreen supports a “4096 pressure level stylus”.

The new version follows Samsung’s announcement in January that the company would start mass-producing 14-inch 90Hz OLED panels this year. The new Zenbook could be the first of many 14-inch OLED laptops to hit shelves over the next few months; Samsung did not publish a list of partners at the time of its announcement.