Promo €899 Asus Zenbook 14 UX3450MA-QD074W, Elegant Blue Ultrabook under Core Ultra 5 with Intel Arc 14″ OLED DCI-P3 screen and long battery life

Our opinion on the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3450MA-QD074W

Easy to carry with its original blue design, compact, thin and light, the versatile laptop PC Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3450MA-QD074W nomad with a battery life of 13 hours benefits from a 14-inch 16/10th Full HD OLED DCI-P3 screen with much more faithful colors than average and a latest generation Meteor Lake hybrid Core Ultra 5 125H processor with Intel graphics solution Arc associated with 16 GB of RAM for good general performance, acceleration of multimedia processing and the possibility of playing modest games. This Windows 11 Ultrabook whose responsiveness is enhanced by the fast 512 GB SSD storage has a backlit keyboard accompanied by a NumPad numeric keypad module, an Infrared webcam for biometric facial authentication with shutter or even connectivity USB-C Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi 6E.

Features of the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3450MA-QD074W

The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3450MA-QD074W faces the competition

The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3450MA-QD074W is now available sales at Asus France and offers a configuration/price ratio attractive for its category where it is one of the cheapest to offer such a recent and efficient processor and graphics solution with a screen with such faithful colors, Thunderbolt connectivity as well as a numeric keypad module, all in such an original color.

If this Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3450MA-QD074W does not meet all your criteria, you will find it in our guide Gaming laptop other configurations to play with a similar budget. For the same budget, choose the model with the most powerful graphics card, it will have the greatest impact on performance.
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Chassis, connections, screen of the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3450MA-QD074W

Rechargeable to 60% in 49 minutes and certified to the military robustness standard MIL-STD-810H, this versatile laptop with a thin and light compact design in Ponder Blue has an original and elegant appearance.

This versatile multimedia Ultrabook offers good connectivity with its 2 USB-C Thunderbolt 4, its Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6E ax wireless modules for communicating and connecting remotely, its useful HDMI video output to easily connect it to a TV or a monitor for example, its audio port or even its USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) guaranteeing transfers taking place up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 if you plug a USB 3.0 device into it.

As the webcam is equipped with Infrared technology, biometric authentication by facial recognition is possible via Windows Hello technology.

Good point: we can preserve privacy by closing the webcam behind a privacy cover to slide in front when not using it.

To better distinguish the keys when ambient light is limited, you can activate the chiclet keyboard's backlighting system.

Like any model whose format is less than 15 inches, this laptop PC lacks space on the right to accommodate a physical numeric keypad.
Asus, however, offers this computer its NumberPad technology. Once the NumPad is activated, the touchpad transforms into a tactile numeric keypad to enter numbers more easily.

Thanks to its OLED DCI-P3 characteristics, the screen offers much fairer colorimetry than average with great black depth, low latency as well as significant viewing angles, both horizontal and vertical.
OLED induces a shiny treatment which revives colors but is subject to reflections in bright environments (e.g. outdoors).
The screen adapted to Full HD content is also distinguished by its 16:10 format which displays more information in height than the classic 16:9 format.

Performance, battery life of the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3450MA-QD074W

The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3450MA-QD074W may be of interest to those who wish to equip themselves with a versatile High Fidelity multimedia-oriented laptop in a compact format equipped with recent components for portable use.

Its autonomy is in fact around 13 hours on battery in light use, enough to appeal to some wishing to equip themselves with a Student laptopespecially since its lightness, compactness and thinness make it easy to transport.

Logically, this Ultrabook does not have a dedicated graphics card. However, it entrusts all the graphics to the care of the Intel Arc solution housed in the processor, close to a dedicated graphics card like the GeForce RTX 2050, enough to view photos and videos but also play modest games and a larger number of titles than with the classic Iris Xe obviously.

The Intel Arc takes place in the Core Ultra 5 125H, processor Meteor Lake with 14 hybrid cores and AI services, low consumption model like the 16 GB of RAM.

This core delivers good general performance capable of satisfying many users and is suitable for not too demanding multimedia processing taking advantage of multi-cores and RAM, such as photo editing or video editing.

However, if the objective is to often carry out work requiring graphics and/or processor resources, it is better to opt for a PC based on an appropriate dedicated graphics card and/or non-low consumption processor.

On the storage side we find a 512 GB SSD, capacity equivalent to the standard hard drives.
If additional space is needed, it can be expanded using an external storage unit. To obtain fast transfers, we will favor a USB 3.0/Thunderbolt/USB-C device.

Finally, expect heating and noise in the event of heavy loads (e.g. treatments) from this versatile High Fidelity multimedia Ultrabook which can be coupled if necessary to a ventilated support to contain its temperatures (remember to check the dimensions carefully!).