Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3405)

Despite the aggressive price, this premium laptop has power, battery life and style to spare

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICE Core 7 Ultra, £1,083 (£1,299 inc VAT) from uk.store.asus.com When it comes to laptops, the truism “you get what you pay for” still holds true. There are great machines in our group test of sub-£1,000 laptops (see p78), but by breaking into four figures you step up in almost every key area: speed, design and build quality. I tested the Core 7 Ultra version of the latest Zenbook 14, but prices start at £1,100 for the Core Ultra 5 machine. That won’t finish core-hungry tasks as quickly – it has four P-cores rather than six and is clocked slightly lower – but it won’t be far off. For example, where the 155H pushed this laptop to 12,386 in Geekbench 6’s multicore test, I’d expect the 125H-powered system to return around 11,500.…

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