Asus Zenbook A14
There’s something light at the end of the tunnel
AS YOU SWIPE through this magazine, you’ll often be confronted by bulky amalgamations of metal and whatever the material they make circuit boards out of is. They’re heavy, they have bits that stick out, and they have colored lights and visible cables. They’re PCs meant for rendering polygons or housing large language models—not the sort of thing you can slip in a bag and take with you.
The Asus Zenbook A14 is extremely slippable. It’s remarkably light at just over two pounds, and even though there’s a full-size 14in OLED screen on the front, it feels like it’s smaller, like Apple has re-released its 11in line of MacBook Airs. It’s that market-sector-creating release that the A14 is targeted at. If there’s a Windows machine that can compete with the Air for slimness (the Zenbook is already ahead on weight, as the latest Air weighs 2.7lbs in its 13in form), then it’s this.