Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Asus’ revised Zenbook A16 isn’t just a thin sandstone brick in a box. It’s a laptop with a small spark of life that comes in the form of a question. It asks whether you can accept small, chip-based concessions for the sake of such a lightweight and genuinely powerful laptop that comes at a reasonable price, for once. This 16-inch laptop costs $1,700. A year ago, I would not say that was exceptional. The problem is today’s competing laptops are not what anybody should consider cheap. A Dell XPS 14 with an OLED display will cost at least $2,200. That laptop comes with Intel’s midrange Core Ultra X7 358H chip, the same found inside a $,1700 MSI Prestige Flip 14 AI. MSI’s laptop has a relatively dim screen with a less-than-stellar resolution. On Apple’s side of the fence, a 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 chip and 16GB of unified memory costs $1,700. The Zenbook A16 comes with a great touchscreen OLED display and a whopping 48GB of fast LPDDR5X-9600 RAM. Asus originally told Gizmodo the laptop cost $1,600. Less than eigh