Zenbook Duo UX481

ZenBook Duo UX481

Windows 10 Home
Up to 10th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 processor
Up to NVIDIA® GeForce® MX250
Up to 16 GB memory
Up to 1 TB PCIe SSD storage
Up to 14" FHD NanoEdge display
12.6” ScreenPad™ Plus

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Awards

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The extra display is a good solution that makes it easier to work with image processing and video editing

ASUS has maintained its leading position, in every top made over the years it has reached the highest position of the podium

Video reviews

Designed to give you the ultimate edge in workflow efficiency, the unique design features a full-width ASUS ScreenPad™ Plus that works seamlessly with the main display.

If you care about multitasking on a laptop and customizing your own experience, then the screen pad + on Asus’s wonderful invention the ZenBook Duo is your best friend

While we are in 2020, Asus came back from 2025 with this laptop

I consider This Laptop is a game changers in the content creation field

In high performance content creation having a powerful laptop is essential, UX481 is one of those laptops that you rely on in such tasks

The screen-Pad plus enhances productivity in a convient and more spaciouse manner

Media reviews

Asus is one of the very few laptop brands that cares to inhance their models with a creativity touch linke in this models

ASUS consistently produced systems that were equal parts powerful, beautiful and innovative

It had the specs of a business class notebook but the body of a premium sports car.

In terms of performance, the Asus ZenBook Duo did its job well. It was able to handle everything we threw at it with aplomb.

Custom Reviews

The laptop of tomorrow

Take your creativity and productivity to the next level with the groundbreaking ASUS ZenBook Duo! Designed to give you the ultimate edge in workflow efficiency, the unique design features a full-width ASUS ScreenPad™ Plus that works seamlessly with the main display. It’s never been this easy to harness your full creative power.

Design
Reflect your style
The brand new Celestial Blue color draws its inspiration from the future, and gives ZenBook Duo a sophisticated air of timeless innovation. As befits such a revolutionary concept, it’s also decorated with a unique asymmetric version of the iconic Zen-inspired spun-metal finish: an intriguing design detail that gives ZenBook Duo a totally unmistakable identity. With the ErgoLift hinge providing a 5.5° keyboard tilt, ZenBook Duo not only gives you a more comfortable typing experience, but cooling and audio performance are also enhanced.
 
Celestial Blue
futuristic theme
 
ErgoLift
hinge design

ScreenPad^™ Plus

Experience ultimate productivity

ASUS ScreenPad Plus gives you on-the-go computing like you’ve never experienced before. It’s a full-width secondary touchscreen that works seamlessly with the main 14-inch FHD display, giving you endless ways to optimize and personalize your workflow. A series of handy built-in apps help boost your productivity. Quick Key allows one-tap automation of complex keyboard sequences, and Handwriting lets you input text intuitively. There are also useful quick controls such as App Switcher, ViewMax and Task Swap for intuitive interactions between the main display and ScreenPad Plus. Task Group lets you lock into work mode by opening multiple tasks with a single touch. And now you can drag apps or in-app toolbars onto ScreenPad Plus to give you more room to work on the main display, wherever you are.

Learn more about ScreenPad™ Plus

App Switcher
Add
ViewMax
Organizer
Task Swap
Task Group
App Navigator
Handwriting

Drag an app onto the App Switcher icon to launch the app on ScreenPad Plus.Drag an app window onto the add icon, or directly drag the app onto the ScreenPad Plus launcher for easy access.Maximize your viewing experience by dragging an app onto the ViewMax icon to view it on the main display and ScreenPad Plus.Drag apps to ScreenPad Plus and let the Organizer function sort them into three blocks.Switch the position of the open apps on the main display and ScreenPad Plus by tapping the Task Swap icon or pressing the Task Swap hotkey.Customize app groups and use the Task Group icon to open multiple apps with one tap.Tap the App Navigator icon to view all open apps on ScreenPad Plus.With Handwriting you can take notes and record your thoughts or ideas the natural way.

ScreenPad^™ Plus

Perfect for you

Photographer
Video editor
Music artist

Put tools, references and source files on ScreenPad Plus for the ultimate editing interface.

* Software depicted is Corel^® Painter 2019.

Scroll through your video timeline on ScreenPad Plus, with plenty of extra room for your pro tools.

* Software depicted is Corel^® VideoStudio Pro 2019.

Record, mix and master on ScreenPad Plus, with more space for track controls.

ScreenPad^™ Plus

Perfect ergonomics, for stylus or keyboard

With ZenBook Duo and an active stylus you can really let your creativity flow. ScreenPad^™ Plus gives you a superbly ergonomic and stable platform for writing or drawing. Take notes, sketch out your ideas, or do precision graphical editing in the most intuitive way ever.

ScreenPad^™ Plus

Endless possibilities

ScreenPad^™ Plus gives you effortless app multitasking, so ASUS works closely with third-party developers — including professional video-editing software developer Corel^®, with more to come — to optimize ScreenPad Plus for the ultimate productivity. ScreenPad Plus is your gateway to endless possibilities.

* Software depicted is Corel^® MultiCam and Spotify^®

Performance
Creative power
To give you the ultimate performance to fire up your creativity, ZenBook Duo is powered by up to an Intel® Core™ i7 processor, NVIDIA® GeForce® MX250 graphics and blisteringly fast SSD storage with best-in-class thermal performance.

                                
                                
                            
 
Windows 10 Home
 
Up to
Core™i7
Intel® processor
Up to
GeForce® MX250
graphics
Up to
1TB
PCIe® x4 SSD
Up to
16GB
LPDDR3 2133MHz

                                    
                                

Powerful computing

ZenBook Duo is equipped with up to a powerful 10th Generation Intel^® Core^™ i7 processor. With its multi-cores, ZenBook Duo can easily handle all the apps on your main screen and ScreenPad^™ Plus, for a super-fluid cross-screen workflow.

Creating on the go

The NVIDIA^® GeForce^® MX250 discrete graphics chip in ZenBook Duo supercharges your laptop for work or play. It gives you up to 3.5X-faster performance than an integrated graphics chip for photo and video-editing applications, as well as faster, smoother gaming. With the ultraportable ZenBook Duo you have the ultimate power for on-the-go content creation at your fingertips.

VRAM in MX250

Display

90% screen-to-body ratio

The FHD NanoEdge display on ZenBook Duo has a four-sided frameless design to upgrade your viewing experience, giving you more screen, and less distraction! It’s also PANTONE^® Validated for professional-grade color accuracy.

1920X1080

FHD main display

screen-to-body ratio

validated display

Touchscreen

IR camera

Hands-free login with face unlock

Enjoy hands-free login on your laptop, using the infrared camera with Windows Hello to login with just a glance — even in the dark!

Connectivity

Ultrafast connectivity

ZenBook Duo features a full set of high-performance I/O ports, giving you dongle-free connectivity whatever you’re doing, wherever you are. The latest Intel Wi-Fi 6 with Gig+ (802.11ax) takes wireless speeds to the next level, for supersmooth connections to the world.

Up to

Wi-Fi6

802.11ax

MicroSD card readerAudio jackUSB 3.1 Gen 1DC-inHDMIUSB 3.1 Gen 2USB-C^™ 3.1 Gen2

Cortana and Alexa

The intelligent Alexa

Alexa¹ makes it easy to voice control your day. At home or on the go you can ask Alexa to play music, read the news, answer questions and more. Just ask, and Alexa will respond instantly.

Alexa, turn on the lights.

Audio

Audio tuned by Harman Kardon

The ASUS Golden Ear team worked with renowned home and automotive audio experts Harman Kardon to ensure the best audio experience. A tailored mix of superior hardware — including smart amplifier technology that delivers louder sound with no distortion — and finely tuned software gives you sound like no other laptop.

certified

ASUS Laptop quality test

Military-grade toughness and build quality

ZenBook Duo undergoes a punishing test regime — the MIL-STD-810G military standard — to make sure it delivers best-of-the-best reliability and durability. It is subjected to extended tests for operation in harsh environments, including extremes of altitude, temperature and humidity. It has also passed ASUS internal laptop tests that far exceed the standards set by the industry.

Learn more about ASUS Laptop Quality Tests

drop test

vibration test

altitude test

high temperature test

low temperature test

Amazon Alexa availability varies according to country. Please check with your local ASUS retailer for details.

Game-changing performance

Waiting for data is a thing of the past, with up to a lightning-fast 1TB PCIe^® 3.0 x4 SSD to accelerate your workflow for awesome productivity.

Read Speed

faster than PCIe x2¹

faster than SATA3 SSD¹

3000MB/s

PCIe x4

2000MB/s

PCIe x2

520MB/s

SATA III

3000MB/s

Write Speed

faster than PCIe x2¹

faster than SATA3 SSD¹

1700MB/s

PCIe x4

900MB/s

PCIe x2

300MB/s

SATA III

1700MB/s

Uncompromised cooling

ZenBook Duo is engineered to deliver uncompromising thermal performance, despite having to make room for the 12.6-inch ScreenPad^™ Plus. The powerful dual-fan setup combined with the ErgoLift hinge design results in optimal airflow and effective cooling at all times, and three heat pipes help dissipate heat effectively to ensure performance even with heavy workloads.

Triple

heat pipes

Replay

14.0-inch, FHD (1920 x 1080)

Intel® UHD Graphics 620, NVIDIA® GeForce® MX250

1TB SSD

Intel® Core™ i7-10510U

16GB LPDDR3

Windows 10 Home

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