A versatile thin and light mobile laptop with its 9-hour battery life on Windows 11, the Asus ZenBook 14 UX425EA-KI355W with a 14-inch IPS Full HD sRGB screen with more faithful colors than average incorporates an Intel Tiger Lake Quad Core i5 processor with Iris Xe graphics that can run modest games. This elegant silver Aluminum Ultrabook benefits from enhanced responsiveness by its fast SSD storage, a backlit keyboard, an Infrared webcam for facial recognition authentication or connectivity with USB 4 Type-C Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi ax.
Asus ZenBook 14 UX425EA-KI355W Features
Screen(s) | 14″ Full HD IPS NanoEdge thin edges 2.5mm 100% sRGB 400cd/m² (1920×1080, anti-glare) |
Processor | Intel Core i5-1135G7 Tiger Lake (2.4 GHz, 4 cores, TDP 15W) |
Installed RAM (max) | 8 GB (soldered) LPDDR4x 4266MHz |
Video card | Intel Iris Xe integrated into the processor |
Storage | 512GB M.2 SSD |
Connection | 1 USB 3.0 2 USB 4 Type-C Thunderbolt 4, HDMI, microSD |
Network | Wi-Fi ax (2×2, Wi-Fi 6), Bluetooth 5.0 Ethernet Gigabit |
Backlit keyboard | Yes (1.4mm stroke) |
Keypad | Yes, via NumPad 2.0 (NumberPad) |
Windows Hello | Yes, Infrared webcam |
Audio system | 2 Harman Kardon SonicMaster speakers |
Operating system | Windows 11 64-bit |
Announced battery life / Battery | 9 hours / Li-Polymer 4 cells 67Whr |
Weight / Dimensions (mm) | 1.17 Kg (with battery) 890 gr (without battery) / 319 x 208 x 13.9 |
Chassis, connectors, screen of the Asus ZenBook 14 UX425EA-KI355W
Robust with its compliance with the American military resistance standard MIL-STD-810G, this laptop that can be recharged to about 60% in 49 minutes sports a sober, elegant and original appearance with its Pine Grey silver ErgoLift hinged design that raises it 2.5° forward when opened.
This versatile Ultrabook has a good connectivity consisting of 2 USB 4 Type-C Thunderbolt 4 (against 1 maximum usually), a convenient HDMI video output to easily connect it to a TV or monitor for example, Wi-Fi ax wireless modules (newer and more powerful than Wi-Fi ax) and Bluetooth 5 for remote connections and communications but also 1 USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) guaranteeing transfers up to 10 times faster than in USB 2.0 if you plug in a USB 3.0 device.
Audio port point however but you can use a USB to audio adapter if necessary.
It is possible to authenticate biometrically via Windows Hello technology and the infrared technology webcam allowing facial recognition.
The chiclet keyboard can be backlit which is convenient to better discern its keys in case of limited ambient light.
It comes with a NumPad touchpad module that takes place at the touchpad, which can be activated when you want to enter numbers more easily.
Remember on this subject that like all models with a format of less than 15 inches, there is not enough space on the right to house a numeric keypad.
The screen displays more faithful colors than average with significant viewing angles, both horizontally and vertically, because it promises to be 100% sRGB and IPS. In addition, the screen is well suited to videos and more broadly to High Definition content because it adopts a 16/9th format associated with a Full HD definition. Thanks to its anti-reflective treatment, the screen is also more readable than a shiny slab in bright environments (e.g. outside).
Performance, battery life of the Asus ZenBook 14 UX425EA-KI355W
The Asus ZenBook 14 UX425EA-KI355W is a compact High Definition laptop designed for common versatile mobile use.
Easy to carry because of its lightness, compactness and finesse, this versatile laptop will seduce nomads with its autonomy of around 9 hours on battery in light use.
To do this, it relies on energy-efficient components such as its SSD storage that consumes less power than a hard drive while being more robust, quiet and much faster.
Here we find a 512 GB SSD, a capacity similar to what hard drives offer as standard. Of course in case you need additional space, you can use an external storage unit such as a USB-C/Thunderbolt/USB 3.0 device to benefit from fast transfers.
Concretely, the SSD significantly increases the responsiveness and fluidity in use compared to a simple hard disk. Thanks to the SSD, the starts/stops, processing and launches of applications are much faster for example and we reach faster on the cards of online games.
Despite the lack of a dedicated graphics card on board, it is indeed possible to watch photos and videos but also to play modest titles.
This one is a low-power Quad Core i5-1135G7 Tiger Lake, paired with 8GB of RAM to provide good performance able to suit many users.
However, to often carry out work demanding graphics and / or processor resources, we benefit from turning instead to a PC based on a suitable dedicated graphics card and / or a non-low-power processor.
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