Asus launches Zenbook 17 Fold, a huge convertible Windows 11 tablet
Miscellaneous / / August 31, 2022
The manufacturer calls it the world's first laptop with a 17-inch foldable OLED display.
Asus officially announced Zenbook 17 Fold, which is a large Windows 11 Pro tablet that folds in half. For the first time its prototype showed back at CES 2022 at the beginning of the year, but the full presentation took place just now.
The screen of the device in the expanded form has a diagonal of 17.3″ - so it can be used in tandem with a plug-in keyboard as a separate PC or a second screen.
If you bend the Zenbook 17 Fold, then one part of its 12.5 ″ display can be used as a normal one. laptop screen, and the second - as a touch keyboard or substrate for a complete Bluetooth keyboard ErgoSense. The latter has a touchpad and comfortable keys with a stroke of 1.4 mm.
The display itself has an OLED matrix with a resolution of 2560 × 1920, a 4:3 aspect ratio, a brightness of up to 500 nits, a response time of 0.2 ms, HDR support and a refresh rate of 60 Hz. Asus engineers claim the ability to bend up to 30,000 times.
Responsible for hybrid performance is an Intel Core i7-1250U processor (10 cores and 12 threads), complemented by 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 1 TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD memory. For battery life - 75 Wh battery with support for charging up to 65 W through USB-C Asus promises 9.5 hours of offline video playback without power.
The Asus Zenbook 17 Fold can also offer support for Wi-Fi 6e and Bluetooth 5.2, a 5MP camera with face recognition, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a 3.5mm audio jack and stereo speakers.
Despite its versatility and large screen size, the device weighs only 1.5 kg without a keyboard and 1.8 kg with it. It is also certified according to the military standard MIL-STD-810H, which can indicate its reliability and durability.
The novelty will go on sale at the end of 2022 at a price of $3,499 (≈212,000 rubles).