The spread of Covid-19 has caused businesses and workers to rethink how they go about their lives during a lockdown.
In order to ensure individuals and businesses can continue to generate income during extraordinary times, more and more companies have begun to implement work-from-home schemes. ASUS has a laptop to cater for any of your professional needs.
On a positive note, working from home can be a rewarding experience. You get to spend your working hours in a comfortable, familiar environment, perhaps even in your favourite comfy clothes. You don’t have to commute to work and face brutal traffic. And it can be easier to maintain a healthy work-life balance. We have created a guide to the best ASUS work-from-home gear to keep you running on all cylinders wherever you need to set up shop.
Our products give you the flexibility you need to stay productive in the hustle and bustle of home life. We keep you collaborating and creating wherever you need to set down your PC. And the other members of your household can work, learn and play alongside you while staying connected to the communities that matter most to them.
The centrepiece of a home office: your PC
When working in an office, you are tied to the same desk all day. Now, you can have your pick of any room in the house. If you need a breath of fresh air or a change of scenery, there’s a coffee shop and a park just down the road.
The key technology that makes this flexibility possible is a laptop. In your home office, you simply plug your laptop into a secondary display, mouse, and full-sized keyboard, and use it just like a desktop. But when you need to go into the office, the occasional business trip, or you just want to spend an hour at the coffee shop, your laptop lets you bring your work along.
Laptops that give you the flexibility to work wherever life takes you.
The ASUS VivoBook 15 is an everyday laptop with panache
A processor that delivers snappy performance. An SSD that loads your OS and programs without making you wait. A bright, vibrant display and a natural-feeling keyboard. A VivoBook laptop delivers these PC essentials, and it does so in a cheerful chassis that’s bursting with personality.
The VivoBook 15 gives you a broad selection of colours to choose from: everything from subdued silvers to bold blues and modern greys.
The VivoBook 15 opens a world of productivity and possibilities. Its precision engineered ErgoLift hinge has a silky-smooth dual action that holds the display securely at any angle and adds a 2° keyboard tilt to give you a perfect typing position every time.
Timeless beauty and ultimate portability – The ZenBook 14
The beautiful new ZenBook 14 is more portable than ever. It’s thinner, lighter, and incredibly compact, yet includes HDMI, Thunderbolt™ 3 USB-C®, USB Type-A and MicroSD card reader for unrivalled versatility. Built to deliver powerful performance, ZenBook 14 is your perfect choice for an effortless on-the-go lifestyle.
No charger? No problem!
With ZenBook 14’s amazing 22-hour battery life4, traveling without a charger isn’t a big deal. When you do need to top up, its fast-charge feature can restore the battery to a 60% charge level in just 49 minutes, so you’ll be ready to go in no time.
The All-New ASUS ZenBook’s small size and big capabilities will make it your go-to device for productivity and inspiration, whether you’re inside or outside, working or relaxing, alone or collaborating.
The ZenBook Duo doubles up on screens for a productivity boost
When you’re in your home office, it’s easy to expand the multitasking potential of your laptop by connecting it to a monitor on your desk. But what do you do when you’re out on the road? Another is the ZenBook Duo. Its integrated high-resolution ScreenPad Plus display gives you the multitasking real estate you need wherever you go.
The ScreenPad Plus is a high-resolution 12” touchscreen that opens up new possibilities for interacting with your laptop. As a touchscreen, it’s a convenient surface for quick inputs. You can place your favourite media apps on the ScreenPad Plus with a quick drag and click, and then adjust the volume or skip to the next song or video without switching away from your primary workspace on the main display. If you use photo or video editing software regularly, you’ll appreciate having a space to put all the secondary windows and palettes that those applications put on your screen.
The ExpertBook B9450 frees you from range anxiety
When you’re on a tight schedule traveling from one appointment to the next, you just don’t have time to sit and wait for your laptop to charge. The ExpertBook B9450 offers astounding battery life in a chassis so thin and light you’ll hardly notice it in your bag.
A laptop only serves its primary purpose if it’s light enough for you to carry around. It’s hard to imagine a laptop more portable than the B9450. It’s a mere 14.9mm thin, and thanks to its featherweight-yet-sturdy magnesium-lithium chassis, it’s as light as 865g. Narrow display bezels help the laptop keep a compact footprint, as well. As a result of these NanoEdge bezels, we were able to fit a 14” display in a chassis footprint more typical of 13” laptops.
The ExpertBook B9450’s battery proved itself good for an astounding 20 hours of productivity in our internal tests. That’ll take you a long way through a business trip or the dreaded load shedding, but even if you should manage to run the battery down, it can recharge to 60% in just 39 minutes with the included charger.
Powerful components complete the B9450’s feature set. Powerful and Durable – The B9450 is also Military Grade Tested, so it can handle anything you throw at it – literally.
It’s powered by 10th Gen Intel processors up to a Core i7 and is equipped with Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) and up to 16GB of LPDDR3 memory. It has a pair of Thunderbolt 3 ports, giving you access to the fast peripherals and a powerful option for connecting more displays. A face-sensing webcam and a fingerprint sensor give you multiple ways to keep business-critical information secure, too.
The ProArt StudioBook Pro 17 the mobile workstation that gives you the power to create anywhere
Architects, content creators, animators and programmers need high-performance hardware for work, but there’s an increasing demand for the ability to do that work in a variety of locations, whether they’re out in the field, syncing with a client or on location. The ASUS StudioBook Pro 17 is a new breed of workstation that lets you work from anywhere no matter what the task.
The StudioBook Pro 17 answers the call with an all-new design tailored for not only content creators, but also designers, architects, programmers, and engineers.
This mobile workstation walks the walk with configurations that include up to a six-core Intel Xeon processor, discrete NVIDIA Quadro graphics, ultra-fast SSD RAID 0 storage, and reliable ECC memory. And it includes little details like shortcuts for snipping screenshots, disabling the webcam, and locking the machine.
Slim bezels allow the 17” display to squeeze into a 15” body, and its 16:10 aspect ratio provides extra vertical real estate for toolbars. With 97% coverage of the DCI-P3 gamut, the panel offers exceptional colours with Pantone Validated accuracy. If you want to go big, you can also connect to an 8K display via Thunderbolt 3.
Over the years, mobile workstations have changed a lot. Once portable in name only, the hefty chunks of black plastic that used to adorn our desks have been replaced by sleek, shiny notebooks.
The problem is that we’ve started to settle for pinch hitters that let you work from anywhere but don’t necessarily let you do your job on the road.
The StudioBook Pro 17, is a mobile workstation that aims to deliver all you need to get the job done and make changes on the fly. This device like the ASUS ExpertBook B9450 is also military grade tested and literally and figuratively packs a punch.
The ROG Zephyrus G14 is a new laptop for a new generation of gamers
Today’s gamers are busy. Sure, they’re often playing the latest games, but they’re also streaming and sharing. A gaming laptop has the power to support all the demanding work that modern gamers do to cultivate and retain their audiences.
The potent processors and massively parallel GPUs that serve up smooth frame rates in today’s games are more than capable of editing video footage and performing complex rendering tasks. The ROG Zephyrus G14 provides an excellent platform for gaming and productivity alike in a chassis that’s dressed to impress.
The Zephyrus G14 harnesses AMD’s latest Ryzen 4000 CPUs to provide up to eight cores and 16 threads primed for multithreaded performance. An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 powers games and content creation applications with equal aplomb.
The high-resolution WQHD display will meet the needs of creators. Pantone Validated for accurate colours right out of the box—a stamp of approval that makes games look great and a must-have for anyone working with photos or video footage.
Finished in pearlescent Moonlight White or metallic Eclipse Gray, the Zephyrus G14 is a laptop that’s professional and stylish at the same time. The exclusive AniMe Matrix display, an array of mini-LEDs in the lid of the laptop that displays custom images and animations in a retro-inspired dot-matrix design.
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