Any Feedback on This Asus Zenbook EVO 14"?

Ljimmyrecard on 13/11/2024 - 19:24
Last edited 14/11/2024 - 13:11 by 1 other user

Hey everyone, hoping for some feedback to assist my uneducated purchase of a laptop.

I am pretty settled on purchasing a Zenbook, with my main selling point being the alleged battery life. I was almost about to pull the trigger on this -

But then stumbled across this alternative -

Am I reading this wrong or is the i9 from jw.com.au a better product for cheaper?

And then one more to consider… This MSI laptop seems to trump both of them in specs? Would I be better off buying this?

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

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  scrimshaw on 13/11/2024 - 19:59

  +4

  The JB Hifi one has a newer generation processor on a smaller process node and has Integrated ARC graphics, two additional low power-island (LP) CPU cores and a built in NPU for AI processing.

  The JW Zenbook has a older gen CPU (but with higher boost clocks) and uses Iris XE GPU and has no NPU.

  https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/236847/…

  https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/232135/…

  There's a review of the Core Ultra 7 155h and some tests of the ASUS zenbook if you want to go through it. The battery endurance was tested for 890 minutes on a 1080p video playback test, which is around 15 hours.

  The MSI laptop has more RAM, but it only has a FHD-class (16:10 aspect ratio) display and it's not OLED. not always a bad thing, having a lower res display means you actually get a bit more battery life. MSI claims the battery is whole day (18 hours, probably in a controlled test)

  And of course the other large difference is the lack of touch screen on MSI.

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  freefall101 on 13/11/2024 - 20:02

  +3

  If battery life if your key concern, the JB Hifi one will be better. It's a generation newer, the CPU uses less power (it has specific low power cores for some tasks, so it'll sip battery life) and has the same size battery. Plus it's a bit lighter.

  The i9 is a bit faster than 155H, but you're probably only looking at 10%. Unless you have a CPU heavy use case, it's unlikely to make a noticeable difference. And if that heavy use case is AV1 encoding, get the 155H. Also has a faster GPU (not that Intel laptop GPUs are ever good, it's just the faster of the two).

  The things you'll actually notice are weight, battery life and $200. I wouldn't take the faster CPU and lose battery life, but the $200 could go either way.

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  geekcohen on 14/11/2024 - 06:01

  -2

  In that price bracket, maybe consider a Metabox machine which could offer more bang for buck.

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    Jimothy Wongingtons on 14/11/2024 - 07:41

    Didn’t neg u, but I could never recommend metabox / or Kong computers again tbh after my experience with my p950

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  slowlyslowly on 14/11/2024 - 06:35

  +1

  The JW unit is also a model older, as well as the CPU being older