Asus teased the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED (UX9702) at CES at the beginning of this year, but now at IFA it made it official. It's a hybrid device based around a folding 17.3-inch 2560x1920px OLED display of 4:3 aspect (when fully opened) and 500 nits of brigthness. When fully unfolded, it can stand on its own kickstand and work as a monitor - a nice combination for office work, combined with the Bluetooth keyboard.
The Zenbook 17 Fold OLED can also be
folded at 120 degrees and used with the Bluetooth keyboard - a way to still
enjoy its 17.3-inch display in full - or by making the bottom half of the
display act as a virtual keyboard. Finally, the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED can be
used as a conventional laptop with a magnetically-attachable physical keyboard
and only half of its display at 12.5-inch and 1920x1280px.
And if you just fancy a tablet, the
Zenbook 17 Fold OLED can be used in the hand, though at 17.3-inches it is a bit
big. The Zenbook 17 Fold OLED runs on Windows 11 and is powered by Intel's
i7-1250U processor with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM. This is Intel's 12th-gen hybrid
architecture with 2 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores. Graphics are
handled by Intel's Iris Xe. There's a 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD - the latest
and fastest storage around.
There are two USB-C ports on the Zenbook
17 Fold OLED - both Thunderbolt 4 with support for both display output and
charging, which tops out at 65W. There's also a 3.5mm audio jack. Inside,
there's a 75Whr 4-cell battery that's good for up to 9 and a half hours of
screen-on time. The Zenbook 17 Fold OLED weighs 1.5kg - huge for a tablet but
very reasonable for a 17.3-inch device.
Now for the price and availability. The
Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED will be available in Q4 for € 3,999/US$ 3,499 in Tech
Black.
