The ZenBook Flip S is a solid premium convertible laptop, with
fast 11th-gen Intel hardware and a gorgeous 4K OLED screen. great speakers, a
superior stylus, and a keyboard that is comfortable to use in a slim and thin
form factor.
It’s a standout as one of the first Intel Evo
machines, but be prepared to live with slightly thicker bezels than the
competition, and the lack of a headphone jack.
There's no flex to the Flip S, not even when
you're rotating the screen into tent or tablet mode. In the latter, though, the
two halves of the Flip S don't sit completely flat together, so you'll have to
live with a bit of a gap. That's not a deal-breaker for me, but it's a curious
issue in a machine that feels so polished.
The true star of the show is the ZenBook Flip
S's 13.3-inch 4K OLED screen, which makes just about everything look fantastic.
The inky blacks and saturated colors are particularly well-suited to
binge-watching Netflix and YouTube clips. I'm looking forward to the day when
we see OLED screens beyond a 60Hz refresh rate, though. A 120Hz LCD like the
Zephyrus G14’s offers
smoother scrolling for web browsing and office documents, at the cost of
battery life.
The ZenBook Flip S gives the impression of a high-end notebook.
You can feel the immunizes of the laptop the way it has been designed. The
laptop is made of an aluminum alloy and the build is solid. At 1.2Kg, the
ZenBook Flip S is extremely light and I had no issues fitting this laptop in my
backpack or laptop sleeve. The lid is black with Asus signature concentric
circles, and it’s impossible not to get swayed by the notebook.
Being a 2-in-1 convertible laptop, the ZenBook
Flip S lets you swivel the screen a full 360 degree. Apart from using the Flip
S as a standard laptop, you can tilt the screen back or put it in a tent mode.
It can also be converted into a tablet with touch and pen support (Asus stylus
is included in the box) but it’s best to use it as a laptop, sitting on a desk
or lap.
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|
PC Mark 10 |
3DMark (Sky
Diver) |
ATTO (top
reads/writes) |
|
|
ASUS ZenBook Flip
S (Core i7-1165G7, Intel Xe) |
1,429/4,749 |
4,575 |
9,185 |
3.1 GB/s /
1.4GB/s |
|
ASUS ZenBook Duo (Core i7-10510U, NVIDIA GeForce MX250) |
986/3,487 |
4,160 |
9,507 |
1.6 GB/s / 1.62
GB/s |
|
Dell XPS13 (2020, Core i7-1065G7, Iris Plus) |
982/4,659 |
4,005 |
9,502 |
2.7 GB/s / 1 GB/s |
|
Hp Spectre 360
13inch (2019, Core i7-1065G7, Iris
Plus) |
1,101/3,546 |
4,215 |
9,318 |
1 GB/s / 1 GB/ s |
|
Dell XPS13 2-in-1 (2019, Core i7-1065G7, Iris Plus) |
N/A |
4,346 |
N/A |
2.2 GB/s / 1.1
GB/s |
Thanks to that beefy hardware, the ZenBook Flip
S handled my daily workflow like a champ. I juggled dozens of tabs across
multiple browsers; worked on documents on Word and Evernote; edited images;
streamed Netflix and uploaded large files all at once, without any noticeable
slowdown. As for benchmarks, it scored 500 more points in PCMark 10 compared to
the XPS 13 with a 10th-gen Intel CPU, though it ranked lower than that machine
in Geek bench 5.
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