CES 2022: Asus unveils the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED, a laptop with a large folding screen – 01net.com

Will 2022 be the year of folding screen laptops? Asus seems to think so and has just presented the first 17-inch model with an OLED screen at CES.

Once opened, the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED becomes a 2.5K touchscreen, or a giant 17.3-inch tablet with a 4: 3 aspect ratio. Folded, you have two 12.5-inch Full HD 1920 x 1080 pixel displays. Its design is very reminiscent of the Lenovo ThinkPad Fold X1, a computer that did not really convince us during its test! The lower screen can serve as a virtual keyboard, but Asus has also provided a physical wireless Bluetooth keyboard, as shown in the image below.

The machine measures 287.6 x 189.3 x 17.4mm when folded.

The Zenbook 17 Fold OLED benefits from Pantone certification and embeds Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Audio technologies for optimal rendering of image and sound. The latter is provided by four loudspeakers certified by Harman Kardon.

To design its laptop PC, Asus has teamed up with Intel. Thus, the Zenbook 17 Fold meets the specifications Intel Evo and embeds a Core i7 U-Series processor of 12th generation, with an Intel Iris Xe GPU. It has two Thunderbolt 4 ports and Intel’s new Visual Sensing Controller chip. According to Intel, this offers new security functions thanks to artificial intelligence, for example the detection of the user’s presence. The PC has a 5 megapixel webcam, but also an infrared HD camera that works with Windows Hello.

Asus says the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED will be available in mid-2022, but hasn’t given a specific date or price.

Source : Asus