Asus Zenbook A14 Review

“The Asus Zenbook 14 is remarkably light and incredibly long-lasting.”

The Zenbook A14 is Asus' latest Snapdragon-powered laptop, positioned towards business-minded folks as a high-end daily driver. It's not going to replace your desktop if you do anything other than light to medium workloads but it still manages to be lightweight without being flimsy and boasts impressive battery life (even though we didn't get close to Asus' claims). Not a bad offer for R30,000 but there are plenty of other options at this price that may be better for you.

The ASUS Zenbook A14 is a triple threat laptop with excellent design, stunning performance and remarkable battery life. If you're in the market for Windows 11 Copilot+ PC laptop it will be hard to look past the ASUS Zenbook A14.

We haven’t given an award for a Snapdragon laptop yet and I still think almost all ultraportable laptop buyers would be better off with either a Lunar Lake laptop or something like the MSI Prestige 14 AI Evo with its Core Ultra (first Series) processor, amazing battery and matte screen. However, if you absolutely need the most portable laptop on the market, and only need to do Office, web and occasional photo-editing work, then the numbers show that this is technically the best on the market, even if there are plenty of rivals nipping at its toes.

The ASUS Zenbook A14 laptop is the best laptop we've reviewed this year, with truly all-day (and even multi-day battery life) and an incredible thin and light design... it's an impressive laptop, to say the least.

While the Asus Zenbook A14 is an interesting chassis evolution within the Zenbook lineup, with a lightweight design and excellent ergonomics, I find the overall positioning of this series rather questionable, especially in this top-specced and expensive Snapdragon X1 Elite UX3407RA configuration. E expect better value in the mid-specced X1 and X1 Plus variants once available, as those are a better fit for a portable daily-use laptop with a much more affordable price tag.