Notebooks shipping with elaborate cooling solutions is exactly the path manufacturers should take so customers actually obtain the performance that they’ve paid a premium for. ASUS Zenbook 16 takes the correct approach to properly cool the extremely powerful Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, and it’s a lesson that Apple could strongly adhere to when introducing its newer MacBook Pro series. Remember, the company’s base M5 MacBook Pro handles all the heat with just a single fan, which is insufficient to tame the SoC. The Zenbook A16 takes it one step further by sporting removable storage, but ASUS still left out some valuable space […]

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Notebooks powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Snapdragon X2 Elite were in a tough position ever since the DRAM shortage began, making Apple’s portable Mac series a far more salivating option for the price. However, ASUS has bucked the ongoing trend where computers are listed at inflated figures because its Zenbook A16, which is powered by Qualcomm’s latest and greatest silicon, is not just available for $1,599.99, but it undercuts the MacBook Pro family by sporting a whopping 48GB RAM and a 1TB SSD as part of its specifications. Zenbook A16 utilizes ASUS’ patented Ceraluminum technology to make the chassis […]

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The library of native titles on macOS is slowly expanding, but the number of games available on the platform is always expected to be less than what Windows supports. However, this disparity didn’t stop ASUS from comparing its Zenbook A16, which is kitted with the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, to the M5, and that too in a gaming comparison surrounding a title that’s not even natively available on Apple’s macOS. Even worse, ASUS’s marketing team doesn’t understand what unified memory bandwidth is and has instead implied that its Zenbook A16 has a higher transfer rate than the M5 MacBook Pro. […]

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