Asus Zenbook S 16 (UM5606)

The ceramic-style lid makes this slim laptop stand out, but we question whether it’s worth the high price

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICE £1,417 (£1,700 inc VAT) from uk.store.asus.com While Asus designed the new ProArt laptops (see p50) to extract every last ounce of juice from AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, the Zenbook S 16 takes a different approach. Yes, this super-slim 16in laptop is fast, but with far less room in its 12.9mm-thick chassis for cooling it’s not the best choice for those with demanding workloads. This was made abundantly clear in Cinebench 2024, which lasts at least ten minutes per test. Where the ProArt systems were hitting around 1,200 in the multicore section, the best score I extracted from the Zenbook S 16 was 915. It was a similar story in Geekbench 6’s multicore test, with a 13,239 result paling in comparison to the 15,000+ of its siblings. If the fans…

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