"At CES, I did what you're not supposed to do: I brought a pre-production laptop to use as my primary workhorse during a hectic event. The unproven rifle in question is the new Arm-based Asus Zenbook A16. It's a 16-inch laptop that weighs less than a 13-inch MacBook Air and comes with a high-end Snapdragon X2 processor. Going into CES with a Windows on Arm laptop running an unreleased processor sounds like a recipe for disaster."
"The Zenbook A16 that Asus sent me for early testing has a Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E-94-100 chip. It's one of the flagship chips from Qualcomm's upcoming X2 processor family, sporting 18 cores - six performance and 12 efficiency. In the A16, it's paired with a massive 48GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD, and a nice 2880 x 1800 / 120Hz OLED display."
A pre-production Asus Zenbook A16 uses a high-end Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E-94-100 chip with 18 cores (six performance, twelve efficiency). The laptop is a 16-inch model that weighs less than a 13-inch MacBook Air and features 48GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD, and a 2880×1800 120Hz OLED display. The unit is not ready for benchmark testing and exhibited pre-production hardware glitches, including Windows Hello face unlocking failures. Estimated retail pricing may be around $1,599.99 to $1,699.99, positioning it near higher-spec 15-inch M4 MacBook Air and entry-level 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro.
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