The screen is responsive and this feature works really well – especially performing simple tasks like pausing/playing YouTube, launching Chrome, closing a window. This is a gimmick I can get behind, it just adds a bit of fun to the Zenbook 14X OLED. Being forced to use Edge in the first instance, however…that’s on Microsoft.
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Since I hesitantly packed away the Dell laptop, the only machine I have used is a Mac and getting re-familiar with the concept of a right click and how to navigate a Windows OS in general is all I’ve had to deal with. The only issues I ran into using the keyboard were as a result of using nothing but a MacBook for the last four months.
While the ASUS Zenbook 14X OLED isn’t a rival to the iPad, I can’t help but think the fact it’s so compact AND has a touchscreen, while still being a Windows machine, leans into a Chromebook/tablet/2-in-1 competitor, too. My issue with using Apple’s iPad Magic Keyboard is that it just isn’t big enough, that my fingers are too squished together while typing. It’s so big and spaced out – surprising considering the Zenbook 14X OLED is only 14-inches. OK, I’ve hyperfixated enough on the ScreenPad.
I’m not too sure what else I could put here, as it’s far too small for me to read anything on it comfortably. Either way, I’m going to watch some crabs dance.
With the Zenbook 14X OLED, ASUS is trying to make the consumer range like the gaming range (see the ASUS Zephyrus Duo 16, which has a larger version of this ScreenPad). I want a trackpad as standard and a ScreenPad as secondary, even a quaternary, quinary, heck senary, feature. And when you leave the device, you have to reenable it (I’ve now launched the alarm clock three times sliding my finger across the trackpad to wake the machine). Swapping out of app mode is relatively easy, however it doesn’t remove the apps from view, rather places a sort-of transparent box over the top of them to allow you to use the ScreenPad as a trackpad. Windows is already optimised for shortcuts, anyway. I can find them easy enough on the desktop/via the Start menu, and I’d in fact argue this feature is a hinderance to my productivity. With the exception of the handwriting app, none of these are worth launching from the ScreenPad. Selecting most of these sees a window pop up on the laptop. Out of the box it has a number key app, handwriting input app, calculator, Spotify and Films & TV, to name a few. What it really is, is a quick launch space for certain apps. It includes a collection of ASUS utilities to boost this productivity. The ScreenPad on the Zenbook 14X OLED is an interactive secondary touchscreen that ASUS reckons enhances productivity, allowing for more efficient workflow. But, the elephant in the room… I hate the ScreenPad It’s powered by the latest 11th-gen Intel Core i7 processor and it can handle load so well.
The laptop is slim, light and compact and I’m now sold on the need for a laptop to have a touchscreen. The screen is brilliant, the colours are perfect, vivid – truly unrivalled. The Zenbook 14X OLED is touted by ASUS as the ‘ world’s first 14-inch 4K OLED HDR display‘. One seemingly small thing has ruined the brilliance that exists everywhere else. What do I mean by that? The trackpad, sorry, ScreenPad, sounds great on paper, but in execution it kinda sucks. I have to assume the conversation at ASUS when making this laptop went something like, “Let’s try reinvent the wheel by making it rounder”.
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