Elite Thin & Light Laptop For Creators & Professionals - Zenbook 14 OLED 2024 (UX3405)

Asus comes with a lot of laptops in the market like Gaming series i.e. TUF, Strix then Scar series, Then Thin and light series that is Vivo book, And there are so many variants in Vivobook And then there Premium thin and light series i.e. Zenbook And there are a lot of variants in that also Some are touch screen, some are normal, some are touchscreen, dual screen And out of all that, Today we have Zenbook 14, OLED and this has latest Intel Meteor Lake series. It comes with Ai and so we have set

AI wallpaper Now you must be thinking, what is this Ultra series, we have heard Core i5, i3, i7 etc, this is Ultra 3, Ultra 5, Ultra 7, these are their new processors And most of the applications in the market are AI based, to run AI applications, your processor should be AI capable, then only it will be fun in the task, And we will cover the laptop too, after opening the box. So, we will get a box with Asus Zenbook written on it, First of all, we will get a laptop, Then How to activate the offi

ce, My Asus brochure, User guide, And a 65W charger that is a Type-C charger, Power cord, There is something in it, These are laptops for professionals, Professional packing, A pouch, What a quality, It looks like leather, Zenbook is written on it, We will get Velcro here, We can carry the laptop in this pouch, The build quality is very good, And this is the laptop, It looks amazing, Zenbook series have a good thing Its numpad is inside the trackpad, I will show you later. This is the laptop, It

has a nice pattern, The entire laptop is in a metal build, from the back, front and inside as well Due to this, It catches fingerprints very easily So, You have to be careful while using it. There is a sticker inside the MS office, It is Intel Evo certified laptop, I will tell you about it later There is some branding here, The build quality of the laptop is good, Top lid flex is not that much. And if we talk about keyboard flex, We don't get that as well, Build quality is solid. Do you know wh

y it is solid? Because it is a military grade certified laptop, It has a lot of tests like shock test, vibration test, temperature test, You can see all these things on the screen. It passes all these tests, That's why it is certified, So there is no issue if you drop it So, It is a solid laptop. Brother can you drop it once Are you mad And as it is a thin and light series laptop, It weighs 1.28 kgs, And if you include its charger, It weighs around 1.6 kgs. It is a light laptop, So you can easil

y lift it with one hand And the thickness of this laptop is 14.9 mm, So, It is very thin and light, So, It justifies its category. At the bottom, We get the intake vents, The air exhaust vent is on the left, And some are below the screen also the weight distribution of the laptop is good, The lid opens with one hand, And as we open it more than 90 degrees, The laptop lifts from the bottom for better air intake. There is this much screen wobble, Which is not too much and not too less. And the lid

of this laptop goes up to 180 degrees. So, It is a touch laptop, So, We can use it like a tablet. It goes up to 180 degrees, It doesn't go up to 360 degrees that becomes a tablet on the left side, We get a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port, other ports are on the right side, We get a HDMI 2.1 port, A headphone-mic jack combo, 2 Type-C Thunderbolt 4 ports, And notification LEDs. And as we get Thunderbolt 4 ports, We get power delivery, You can charge this laptop through Type-C. You can use a 65W charge

r or any other PD charger to charge it And this Type-C port supports display output as well. You can get 4K 120Hz output from their Type-C port. 2 outputs are through Type-C ports, 1 through HDMI port and a laptop display you will get 4 displays from this laptop. Full Harshad Mehta vibes, So you can run stock market on a big screen. This laptop comes with ErgoSense keyboard, ErgoSense ASUS says that it is very comfortable in typing. I was using it and its typing experience is very good. Key trav

el is good due to which typing experience is good it has a single color backlit keyboard, It comes with white color light. You can adjust the brightness by pressing Fn plus F4 or you can even turn it off as it is a 14 inches laptop, We won't get a numpad. The numpad is inside the trackpad. The trackpad is ErgoSense trackpad which means it is comfortable. It is very smooth in running trackpads. It supports multi-gestures. It is a fully clickable trackpad and clicks are smooth. The best part is th

at when you hold the logo, The numpad is created. You can use this to do calculations. If you hold this symbol, You can adjust the brightness and do all the calculations the most exciting part of this laptop is its display. It comes with OLED display that is brilliant it has a 14 inches display with 3K resolution 2880x1800. It has 16:10 display which means it has more vertical space. It comes with 120Hz refresh rate and variable refresh rate option in display settings it shifts between 60Hz and

120Hz according to your usage. It is very good for battery backup. It has a response time of 0.2 millisecond. It is an Asus Lumina OLED display. The colors are very vibrant, Saturated and punchy. If you look at the content on the OLED display, It is very beautiful. As it is an OLED display, It has a glossy panel which means it has reflections on the screen. OLED panels are usually glossy and this is a touch-sensitive laptop so it will be glossy. In terms of color gamut it has 100% DCI-P3 color

gamut, 95% Adobe RGB, 100% sRGB and 94% NTSC. The colors are very good. If you want to do color accuracy tasks, Photo editing, Video editing, Content creator, You can do all these tasks on this laptop. The brightness of the display is very important. If you don't get brightness along with the colors, Then what is the use. But, If it is an Asus laptop with OLED display there is no disappointment in the brightness of the OLED display. We get a peak brightness of 550 nits in this laptop. So, If you

want to use it indoors, Then there is no problem. Even if you want to use it outdoors, Then also there is no problem. Many people have a doubt regarding OLED burning. That there is only one thing printed on the back of the display those doesn't know about OLED burning. It looks like this. So, Asus has taken some measures regarding OLED burning which I have covered in the My Asus app. You can go and watch it or else I will tell you everything display HDR 500 True Black, Dolby Vision and Pantone

Validated all these certifications are available on this display. It is Pantone validated, So, We get good colors. We get accurate colors. Dolby Vision is supported on this display. If you watch content on Dolby Vision, It will look good. Display HDR 500 True Black i.e. You will see true black in the high dynamic range content. Plus, We get a touch screen display. So, You can use the laptop with your fingers. If you want to scroll a page, If you want to watch content on a 180 degree screen, Scro

ll Youtube Or if you want to do a normal touch screen task, You can do it with your fingers. I don't know whether it supports a stylus or not. Because, It doesn't have a stylus in the box. I think it will support a stylus but there is no confirmed information. If it supports a stylus, I will mention it in the comment section or in the description. We get a color light sensor and ambient light sensor in this laptop. With this, The brightness of the screen will be controlled according to the ambie

nt lighting. The brightness of the keyboard will also be controlled. Plus, The color temperatures are also managed according to the room lighting. If the room lighting is too warm, The colors will be cooler. If the room lighting is too cool, The colors will be warmer. The color will be adjusted according to the room lighting. We get the My Asus app in this laptop. It has a lot of things that we normally get. The main tab is for device settings. In this, we get all the settings. Like battery care

mode, You can toggle it here. You can set up the fan profile. Like performance, standard, and whisper. Whisper works like a battery saver mode. Because our laptop runs very quietly without fans. We get a hibernate helper here. We get AI noise cancelling microphone features. You can set up different features according to your needs. You can also connect other microphones on this laptop. You can also apply this feature on it. You will also get a noise cancelling speaker. This is useful in meeting

s. If there is a lot of noise from the other person, This speaker cancels out the noise. Normally, The sound is not good while listening to music so keep it off we get sound modes here. You can choose the type of listening experience you want. Movie, Music, Game. Dynamic is the best because it has Dolby Atmos support. We get a volume booster here. If you enable it, The volume becomes loud. Asus has given OLED care features as this is an OLED display like pixel refresh. If pixels are running, The

n due to screen burning Screen saver automatically turns on after 30 minutes. You get an automatic hide taskbar option because the taskbar stays in its place. To avoid burning here, You can turn on the taskbar and hide it. You can also turn it off and on. We also get a Windows taskbar transparency effect. By turning it on and off, The taskbar becomes transparent. We also get features for OLED flicker free dimming. You can set up dimming for your laptop, It reduces the brightness. You can set up

different color gamut. It is now native with NTSC, SRGB, DCI-P3 and P3. You can set up different profiles. There are different modes which you can change according to your viewing experience. You can adjust something like eye care, manual, temperature set, etc there is a mode for true to life. If you turn it on, You can see the true to life colors. There is a target mode and I don't know how many more things are there. Let me scroll down. You can pause the video and watch it. My throat will dry

up. You get system diagnosis, You can check if there is any error or not responding title showing up you get system update option. You get BIOS update and important updates from ASUS. You can pause the video and watch the rest of the basic things. We also get GlideX app in ASUS laptops. It works like an ecosystem. You can connect your phone to laptop, Laptop to laptop connection data transfer, screen casting, calls, message, PC to PC data transfer, in short, an ecosystem is created by adding Gli

deX app, phone, laptop, other PC, laptop, you got it ? And this is a webcam test of ASUS, they call it AI sense webcam, they have used the word AI because it has AI noise cancellation the mic you are listening to is being used of the webcam, you will get this type of quality when you take meetings or do a live stream and here we also get noise reduction, you can see how good, how clean footage it is recording it has a full HD webcam you will get this quality, comment and tell us how you liked it

it was a very long webcam test, bro and in this laptop, we also get support for Windows Hello, We get face unlock in it, as soon as we press the power button and this get immediately unlocked, face unlock works very fast and here on the camera, we also get privacy shutter, as soon as we swipe it, our camera will turn off and as soon as we remove it, our camera will turn on, it is very useful for privacy, there is a lot of hacking going on these days so keep it closed when you are not using it a

nd as we were talking about AI, here we get Windows Studio effects, we get automatic framing in this, In this our webcam crops and does automatic framing, as soon as I move, this camera will move according to me basically, it moves the crop and it feels like the camera is moving, so if you want to use it for live streaming or meetings it will look like a VIP and secondly, we get eye contact feature, when we turn it on, we can see left, right, up our eyes will be shown as if we are looking at the

camera, but this feature is not working properly maybe in the future, there may be an update and it starts working properly and yes, background effect, this is working very well, look at the tracking, it is giving a very good blur in the background I am the only one who is focused, and here if you want portrait blur or standard blur, you can get that type of blur and it feels like a DSLR, The blur is maintained if you are taking a meeting with this, you can create a lot of mess in the room, jus

t blur it Those who heard with headphones will know that the quality of the speaker is very good, Because Sound is by Harman Kardon, We get Dolby Atmos support, you can add Dolby app and do customizations if you connect an external headphone or speaker, you will get good audio processing and if I conclude the sound quality of the laptop, it has a good bass, good loudness, good treble, very loud, crisp and good sound quality, I can say that it has the sound quality is amazing but the company didn

't mention the wattage According to me, it has 2.5W or 3.3W speakers, it is not 2W and yes, you get down firing speakers, so if you listen to music on a flat table you will get an amazing experience. This is a premium thin and light series laptop, and the battery backup matters a lot for the users like if you are traveling or working, It is Intel EVO certified, So you won't have any issues with the battery backup. You will get a 75Wh battery, I used it for multitasking, I used the software, I us

ed the app and kept the laptop on standard mode I didn't use any battery saver, still, it gave 6-7 hours of battery backup And ASUS says that you will get 15 hours of battery backup but to get 15 hours of battery backup, you will have to switch to battery saver mode. I tested it on 120Hz, You will have to switch to 60Hz, So, I think it will give 15 hours of battery backup. I can judge by battery Whr, It has an ultra series processor, It has low power e-cores which I will tell you in the specific

ation, Because of that, the battery backup is really good. Suppose, you are working in an office or browsing, You have a P-core and E-core in the corner, Take more battery, Now comes the most exciting part of this laptop, i.e. technical specs It has Intel core ultra processor, Which is Intel's latest meteor lake processor, In which, Ultra 5, Ultra 7, Ultra 9 have been launched, It is similar to i5, i7, i9, But it has been named as Ultra. And their architecture has changed a lot. First, let's tal

k about the technology, Then we will talk about the ultra, That what is new in this The variant that we have has Intel core ultra 7 155H processor, It is a 16 cores 22 threads processor. It has 6 P-cores, 8 E-cores and 2 LPE cores, LPE means low power E-cores. Low power e-cores are used when you are doing very low power tasks, P and E-cores will not be assigned. Low power E-cores will be assigned, All thanks to Intel thread director, And there we will get very good battery backup. In this laptop

, I will get 16GB LPDDR5X RAM which is soldered on-board RAM. It has 7467MHz RAM and there is a 32GB RAM variant, Which is obviously expensive. Let's talk about the pricing in conclusion, It has a 1TB Gen 4 SSD. And the read and write speed is in front of you, I am a little disappointed with it. This is a 2024 laptop and it comes with a Gen 4 SSD. The peak speed of Gen 4 is around 7500Mbps, It has a read speed of around 5000Mbps which is very low. it should have been higher according to the segm

ent of this laptop It has Intel Arc graphics, Earlier it was Iris Xe, Now Iris Xe has been upgraded to Intel Arc The performance of Intel Arc is definitely better than Iris Xe. It performs well in GPU intensive, Productive tasks and gaming. It has WiFi 6E and Bluetooth version 5.3 for wireless connectivity. And as this laptop targets working professionals, We will get MS office, Home and student for lifetime So, Office work, Productive tasks, Good display, This laptop is certified by Intel Evo,

And for certification of Intel Evo, There are minimum requirements, When those are checked, Then the laptop is certified by Intel Evo. If all those requirements are met, Then the laptop will be certified by Intel Evo. And if the laptop is certified by Intel Evo, Then all those things will be there Like we get Fast boot timing, Windows hello support, Fingerprint and face unlock. Latest wireless connectivity like WiFi 6E and Bluetooth version 5.3. So, There should be no problem in connectivity, We

get battery backup of 10 plus hours, Type C fast charging. There are many such things that Intel Evo laptops have. Or, Intel Evo certification is there when all these things are there. Hope you understood, Don't confuse yourself. It has the latest Meteor Lake CPUs, What is new in this hat makes it different from last generation CPUs. Intel says that these are thin, Enthusiastic, Ultra portable, Gaming, 4K rating CPUs that you will get in the laptop. It will give you a very good performance, Ear

lier we used to have P-Cores and E-Cores, Now we will get low-power E-Cores. And the biggest change, Here we get AI NPU, Neural Processing Unit, Which will help you in running AI apps. Like co-pilot of Windows, It is integrated in Windows 11, Earlier, the load was on CPU and GPU Now we get a dedicated NPU tile. Because of this, Our AI tasks work very well. And they work optimally without putting load the laptop. And because of this Neural Processing Unit, Our Thread Director will also work bette

r. Because of AI, It will know which task to assign to P-Core, E-Core, Low-Power E-Core. It will work better, Earlier it used to work well, Now it will work better. In Intel Core Ultra series, We get ABT support i.e. Adaptive Boost technology. Which improves the gaming performance of the processor by allowing more multi-core turbo frequency. So, You will get good performance in gaming. I will test the game now, You will get to know the results. And lastly, We had Iris Xe graphics, Which had 96

execution units, Now we have 128 execution units. Because of which, It has been converted to Intel Arc. And it will give better performance. That is also about GPU, I will show you later. I get DirectX 12 support, Ray tracing support, Mesh shading and many other features support. Plus, This Ultra series works on PCIe 5.0, i.e. Latest technology. Now, Let's talk about the performance of this laptop they have given Ultra series First, Let's see the benchmark scores then we'll talk further here ar

e the scores of Cinebench 2024, Then Cinebench R23 scores are 12600 multi-core and 1688 single-core. And this is not a GPU laptop, We tested 3D mark time spy The CPU score is good. The GPU score is 3354 that means GPU is powerful, PC mark 10 score is 5600, Geekbench 6 scores are also good. Geekbench 6's OpenCL score is also good, Which is for GPU, Intel Arc score is 32000. Now, You must be thinking that there are many benchmarks missing, Like cross mark, V-Ray benchmark that we do in other lapto

ps these are the latest processors, And the latest software doesn't work properly in the latest processors. So, There are no benchmarks. But yes, In the upcoming laptops, I will show you all the numbers. Currently you have to rely on these numbers Now, Let's talk about the real-life performance. We tested 4K video editing on this laptop. The performance was good. Obviously, If you edit in more layers, You will feel some lag. But, According to Thin and Light laptop, It was able to handle 4K video

editing You can easily do 1080P video editing of any level. You can also do coding and app development. You can do photoshop, Office work, Multitasking. Multitasking means you can open a lot of apps, You can open a lot of tabs in the browser. There is no problem in this laptop. It has 16GB RAM LPDDR5X that too of Latest generation, And the processor is also good. So, The performance of this laptop is good. Many people must be thinking about GPU intensive tasks like 3D modeling, rendering, After

effects etc. It won't perform well because there is no dedicated GPU in this laptop. This is a Thin and Light series laptop. If you want to do GPU intensive tasks, Then buy a dedicated GPU laptop. If you are going for Thin and Light side, Then there will be some compromises and sacrifices. Now, Let's talk about the gaming performance. We tested some games on this laptop. Have a look at them Then we will talk about the conclusion. First of all, We are starting with Valorant. The resolution is 12

00P. The settings are kept on low. We are getting around 200-250 FPS on low settings. It has a 120Hz panel. So, You can enjoy Esports on this laptop. I am showing you the FPS on low settings at 1200P. Then I thought to test it on native resolution that is 1800P. I tested it on both low and high settings. We are getting 150 FPS on low settings in native resolution. And there is not much difference in high settings as well. We are getting around 120-130 FPS on high settings. It has a 120Hz panel.

So, You can play Valorant on this laptop with good graphics. I am surprised to see how optimized it is. I was doubting to test it on battery. You can see the clock speed, GPU usage, wattage, CPU usage has reduced. We were getting 60 stable FPS in Valorant. So, It is giving okayish performance on battery as well. I am telling you for high performance tasks. After that, I tested CS2 on low quality and the resolution is 1200p slightly higher than 1080P And I am getting an average of 80 FPS in a gam

e like CS2. CS2 is so graphics intensive, But still, it is giving 70-80 FPS on low settings, Which is a good thing, If you want to play CS2 for time pass You can easily play it on this laptop. And when the game test is going on, We have to test GTA V, We have set 1080p resolution, We have set a very high normal mixture in graphics, And here you can see that we are getting 70-80 FPS in GTA V, And the performance on the right side is the performance of the battery, On the battery, you can see that

the wattage of the CPU has been reduced by 2-3W, And the clock speed of the GPU is also fluctuating a lot, Because of which we are getting less frame rates, And I would say that there are good frame rates on the battery as well, Rest, we are getting 70-80 FPS easily on the plug-in, Great performance on 1080p in GTA V, After that, we tested RDR 2, We have set the resolution to 1200P, On one side, we have set the preset to favor performance, And on the other side, we have set it to balanced, I th

ought to increase the settings and see how many FPS we will get, And here we get the support of FSR as well, But earlier, we had set it to off, And here you can see that we are getting 30-35 FPS on low settings, And on the balanced preset, We are getting 30 FPS only, Which is a very playable FPS in RDR 2, After that, we kept the low settings on RDR 2, But this time, we kept the FSR on quality, And after doing that, we are getting 40-45 FPS, We never thought that we will be able to play a game li

ke RDR 2 on 1200P resolution at this frame rate. And the last game that we are testing is Cyberpunk, I don't think that this laptop will be able to run it. Still, we tested it on low settings, And we get Intel Xe Super Sampling, We kept it on quality, And we had set the resolution to 1080P Obviously, running on 1080P is also tough, And I was surprised to see that we are getting 35-40 FPS in 1080P Even in such a thin laptop. So, this Intel Core Ultra series gives a very good performance in thin a

nd light laptops, Even on such a low wattage draw. So, this was the complete review of ZenBook 14 OLED, Which is the 2024 variant with Intel Core Ultra processor. It is the Ultra 7 variant, And this series starts from Rs 96,990. And the variant that we are reviewing costs Rs 114,990. It costs around Rs 1,15,000. You can eat any biscuit in that 1 rs And such laptops target working professionals, Students, Those who have a lot of money, Those who want to go for Windows, Those who don't want to go

for Mac, And creators who love Windows, You can check out this laptop, I will provide the link in the description. Do tell me in the comments, How did you find this laptop? And do tell me about the Intel Ultra series. And I am waiting for the Ultra series laptop, Both 14th Gen and Ultra series are running at the same time. And if you like such videos, Then subscribe to the channel, Click on the bell icon, And if you didn't like the video, Then click on the like button. If you have any suggestion

s, queries or feedback, Then comment in the comment section. I will see you in the next video, Till then, Bye.