젠북 Duo

Users who multitask often find a single laptop screen too small, leading to the inconvenience of carrying additional monitors, tablets, and various peripherals. Connecting an external monitor can be cumbersome in mobile environments such as business trips or cafes, and even when users want to use two screens, a single laptop has its limitations.

Additionally, with the recent increase in AI work assistants (e.g., Copilot), laptop performance is often insufficient to process these tasks in real-time, or cloud dependency raises privacy concerns.

In summary,"Users want desktop-level multitasking and AI utilization with just a laptop, but their current device setup does not satisfy this need."This is the problem.

Past dual-screen laptops with a second screen in the keyboard area existed, but they were difficult to use as a main screen due to their small size or limited angle adjustment. Users were forced to compromise between portability and productivity.

Zenbook Duo (2026)is, as the name suggests, an innovation that combines two laptops into one. First, it features two identical 14.5-inch 4K OLED touchscreens stacked vertically, creating a dual-monitor environment when unfolded.

The two screens are connected by a hinge, allowing for free angle adjustment, and the included kickstand allows you to stand the two screens side by side or use one screen separately as a multi-display.

In addition, the keyboard is a detachable Bluetooth keyboard, so you can detach it as needed to use both screens in tablet+monitor mode, or attach it to use it like a traditional laptop. All these mode transitions can be achieved with just one device without additional equipment.

In terms of performance, it features Intel's latest Core Ultra CPU and a 50TOPS NPU (Neural Processing Unit), enabling on-site AI computation without cloud assistance. For example, it can quickly run generative AI such as MS Copilot+ offline, and perform real-time voice translation or AI content generation without lag.

In summary, the Zenbook Duo isa combination of "2 OLED large screens + onboard AI acceleration"that is the only solution in its class that solves the problems of multitasking and AI utilization in a mobile environment at once.

Professional individual consumers (B2C) who multitask frequentlyare the main customers. For example, content creators, programmers, financial traders, designers, and other users who want to increase work efficiency with two screens will be enthusiastic about this product.

Also, streamers can display the game on one screen and chat/broadcast controls on the other, and students can use it by displaying lecture videos on one side and notes on the other.

Although the price will be high, the high-end consumer base and corporate creative departments are expected to adopt it.

In the B2B market, design/video production companies may provide it to their employees, or it may be used in industries with a lot of work while traveling, such as aviation and railways (e.g., for pilot and engineer simulation training). However, since ASUS primarily released it as a premium line for general consumers, a market focused on individual buyers is expected to form first.

Since this product will be launched globally as part of ASUS's main laptop lineup, it will be immediately投入into the global PC market. If it becomes a successful example of the dual-screen laptop category, other manufacturers may release similar products in the future, expanding the market.

In particular, if it is well-received in professional communities that want to improve productivity, it may expand into a new laptop form factor standard.

However, due to the cost of parts such as dual OLEDs, it will initially form a niche market due to its high price, and derivative product lines such as entry-level dual screens (e.g., using one e-paper display) may emerge in the future.

Since regulations and environmental restrictions are the same as for general laptops, there are no particular problems, and for AI acceleration, only the availability of MS Copilot etc. varies depending on the region, but the product functions can be appealed to in the same way.

Also, since it is a form factor that blurs the boundaries between tablets, laptops, and monitors, ASUS may spin off this design into enterprise all-in-one terminals or gaming dual screens in the future. In other words, it is currently a premium product, but if successful, it has extensive scalability as a form factor innovation in the PC industry.

Major media outlets such as Tom's Guide praised the Zenbook Duo as *"truly realizing the dream of a dual-screen laptop."* In particular, the design that completely eliminated the gap ("lip") between the two screens that existed in the previous generation, making the two panels appear as one, and the fact that the battery was distributed on both sides to balance the weight,were evaluated as "achieving the improvements that have been desired."was evaluated.

Tom's Guide selected it as the best 2-in-1 laptop at the CES awards, commenting that *"dual-screen laptops will truly break into the mainstream in 2026."*

In addition, PC World and others focused on the搭載of the AI engine, commenting that it is *"a signal that opens the era of running AI on laptops without the cloud."*

Market expectations are also high, with praise such as "a game changer that will change the office environment" and "the most eye-catching product among laptop innovations."

However, the increased weight and price are pointed out as limitations – the weight is higher than 일반 ultra-books due to the dual OLED and large-capacity battery, and the price is also expected to be in the thousands of dollars, so it is expected to take time for it to become popular.

Nevertheless, it is evaluated as an innovation that everyone recognizes, with less concern about undervaluation than overestimation, *"presenting a clear solution to productivity-seeking prosumers."*