ZenBook 14 UX431FN-IH74 Review

On the off chance that you like the possibility of the Zenbook S13 yet don't have that sort of spending plan, think about the Zenbook 14, which duplicates a significant part of the S13's structure and style yet cuts the cost down a few hundred dollars. You'll make a couple of trade offs to arrive, so we should make a plunge and check whether they're justified, despite all the trouble.

Design

The brushed aluminum surfaces and unibody configuration continue from the S13 to the 14, however certain twists on the S13 are missing here, giving the 14 a progressively mechanical look. For instance, two speaker grilles flank the console on the 14, some portion of an utilitarian enhancement for the S13 that incorporates four upward-terminating speakers, giving the 14 a significantly more dominant sound framework. The 14 doesn't have the amazingly slim bezels of the S13 — it's normal as bezels go — and isn't exactly as ultralight: 19 millimeters thick and 3 pounds in weight, an observable downsize. The 14 keeps the imaginative hing plan that raises the console, however.

Features

The ZenBook 14 has the equivalent 13.9-inch and 1,920 by 1,080-pixels show as the S13, however it's fundamentally dimmer and less noteworthy as a result of the thick bezels. The keyboard is backlit and includes a fingerprint reader, and keeps the illogical placement of the power button in the top right corner.

Specs

The 14 incorporates a 1.8 GHz Core i7-8565U (eighth era) CPU – once more, unprecedented in a 14-inch workstation – a 512 GB SSD, a Nvidia GeForce MX150 designs processor and 16 GB of RAM (a redesign from the S13's 8 GB). With no dongle and a thicker edge, the Zenbook 14 incorporates a larger number of ports than the S13: one USB-C, two full-measure USB (one 3.1, one 2.0), a full-estimate HDMI and a full-estimate SD card space. The charger utilizes a different power jack.

Performance

By and large, the Zenbook 14 beat the S13, because of its 8 GB favorable position in RAM, however just scarcely. Similarly as with the S13, the Zenbook 14 offers solid general application execution (those undertakings incorporate site page rendering, business efficiency applications and computerized media creation work) and acceptable designs execution. It's no gaming PC, however the Zenbook 14 can deal with most titles at lower goals and quality settings.

Battery

The marvelous battery life of the S13 (almost 10 hours) endures a shot down to six hours and one moment in my full screen video playback test. That is adequate, yet certainly not a factor that would draw in clients searching for aces and not cons.

Conclusion

The ZenBook 14 begins around only $800 with its base setup (workstation costs can shift incredibly relying upon arrangement, retailer, season and different components), however the model I tried retails for around $1,150. So you'll spare somewhere in the range of $200 to $600 from the S13, however penance a brilliant screen, astonishing battery life, drag around more weight and size and see no distinction in execution.