Asus ExpertBook Ultra Review: Small, Light, Gameable

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been using the Asus ExpertBook Ultra as my daily notebook, and it’s a lot more capable than its thin business shell suggests. This is the kind of machine that Asus is aiming at professionals, entrepreneurs, and travelling content creators. For me though, spending time with it across writing, editing, dev work, rendering, benchmarks, and a bit of gaming, the ExpertBook Ultra feels less like a corporate laptop and more like a proper ultrathin that happens to wear a business suit. The ExpertBook Ultra weighs a mere 990g, measures 10.9mm thin, and uses a magnesium-aluminium alloy chassis with Asus’ nano liquid ceramic coating. Asus says that coating offers 5X the industry standard for wear resistance and has been tested across 100,000 simulated hand-pressure cycles. In other words, this thing is built for people who throw laptops into bags, move between meetings, and travel the world. The display is equally impressive here, you get a 14-inch, 16:10, 3K OLED touchscreen with a 120Hz variable refresh rate, Gorilla Glass, 600 nits SDR brightness, and up to 1400 nits HDR. It’s sharp, bright, and clean enough for editing work, but also good enough that watching video or playing some games on it feels like a small reward for surviving the work day. Inside this model is Intel’s Core Ultra 7 356H, a 16-core processor running up to 4.7GHz, paired with Intel Arc B390 graphics, 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a 1TB PCIe 5.0 SSD. That combination gave it enough headroom for my usual workload, including video editing, development work, rendering, and the usual round of benchmarks in 3DMark, Cinebench, and Geekbench. Tune in for all the details. //ABOUT NAG Video games, esports, sci-tech, entertainment, pop culture, and a few things in between. Web: https://www.nag.co.za/ Twitter:   / nagcoza   Instagram:   / nagcoza   discord:   / discord