Promo €959 Asus ZenBook 14 OLED UM3406KA-DRFQD304W Black 10h NumPad, AI OLED laptop PC easy to carry 10h under AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 suitable for creating

Our opinion on the Asus ZenBook 14 OLED UM3406KA-DRFQD304W

Equipped with a numeric keypad device despite its compact, thin and light format, the High Fidelity portable PC Asus ZenBook 14 OLED UM3406KA-DRFQD304W with a battery life of 10 hours suitable for studying, it is adorned with a 14-inch OLED DCI-P3 Full HD screen, 16 GB of RAM and above all a latest generation Artificial Intelligence Ryzen AI 7 350 AMD Krackan Point processor with Radeon 860M graphics solution. Suitable for multimedia processing, this elegant black Windows 11 responsive laptop with fast 512 GB SSD storage has a backlit keyboard accompanied by a NumPad, an Infrared webcam for biometric facial authentication as well as Wi-Fi 6E and USB 4 Type-C connectivity.

Features of the Asus ZenBook 14 OLED UM3406KA-DRFQD304W

The Asus ZenBook 14 OLED UM3406KA-DRFQD304W faces the competition

The Asus ZenBook 14 OLED UM3406KA-DRFQD304W is currently in promotion at the house of Darty and the Fnac. It positions itself as one of the only ones in its category to adopt an equally efficient and recent AI processor with numeric keypad functionality, but encounters cheaper competitors.

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Chassis, connections, screen of the Asus ZenBook 14 OLED UM3406KA-DRFQD304W

Certified to the American military durability standard MIL-STD-810H, this portable PC is rechargeable to 60% in 49 minutes and has an elegant and discreet look with its compact, thin and light Jet Black aluminum design.

This laptop offers good connectivity with its Wi-Fi 6E ax and Bluetooth 5.3 wireless modules for remote connections and communications, its practical HDMI video output for easily connecting it to a monitor or projector in particular, its audio port as well as its 2 USB-C including 1 very fast USB 4 in addition to its practical USB 3.0 for connecting various peripherals such as a mouse, a headset, storage external device or printer.

Biometric authentication is possible under this machine, via the infrared technology of the webcam allowing facial recognition but also Windows Hello.
As soon as the webcam is not in use, a privacy cover can be slid in front of it to hide it to protect privacy.

A backlighting system is of course fitted to the chiclet keyboard. Simply activate it whenever you need to better discern your keys.

On the right, the keyboard does not accommodate a numeric keypad due to lack of space, like any model whose format is less than 14 inches.
Good point, however, for those who regularly enter numbers: they can make this task easier by activating NumPad technology. Then the touchpad takes the form of a NumberPad tactile numeric keypad.

Thanks to its OLED technology, the screen benefits from very deep blacks, significant vertical and horizontal viewing angles, minimal latency ensuring greater responsiveness than average but also much more faithful colorimetry than the vast majority of panels on the market.
OLED means that the Full HD screen has a glossy treatment which makes the colors vivid but is sensitive to reflections in a bright environment (eg outdoors).
In all cases, the 16/10 format is higher than the standard 16/9 format and displays more information vertically.

Performance, battery life of the Asus ZenBook 14 OLED UM3406KA-DRFQD304W

The Asus ZenBook 14 OLED UM3406KA-DRFQD304W is a portable high-fidelity AI-oriented compact laptop with its recent processor.

In fact it is powered by a Ryzen AI 7 350, AMD processor Krackan Point latest generation equipped with 8 cores, a Radeon 860M graphics part but also capabilities particularly suited to Artificial Intelligence.
It is supported by 16 GB of RAM to deliver solid overall performance which will satisfy many users.

And in particular creators operating in areas that are intensive in CPU resources taking advantage of multi-core and Artificial Intelligence, such as photo editing or video editing.

The SSD of course contributes to the great responsiveness and fluidity of processing as well as that of overall operation, for rapid starts/stops like software launches or even arrival on online game cards.

Silent and energy efficient, the SSD is indeed very fast. Here it offers 512 GB of capacity to install and store a lot of applications and files: a standard solution that many configurations on the market are also satisfied with, including – significantly – more expensive ones.
Of course, in the event that you need more space, you can rely on an external storage unit, preferably USB-C/USB 3.2 type to maximize transfer speed, or failing that USB 3.0 rather than USB 2.0.

Although it does not have a dedicated graphics card, this laptop obviously allows you to watch photos and HD videos, including streaming, but also to play light to modest games thanks to the Radeon 860M.

As for its autonomy which is around 10 hours of battery operation in light use, it will delight nomads like some looking for a Student laptop High-performance AI-oriented high fidelity whose lightness, compactness and finesse make it as easily transportable as an Ultrabook.
When it is pushed strongly (e.g. treatments), also expect an increase in temperatures and noise generated by this configuration to which we can add if necessary a ventilated support to control its temperatures (remember to check the dimensions carefully!).