The best ASUS laptops
Our experts pick the best ASUS laptops for every creative setting.
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Finding the best ASUS laptop is no easy feat – largely because there are just so many to choose from, whether for gaming, business or studies. There are different form factors and components that can completely change how well these machines will form in different settings.
To help you find the right one for you, our experts have personally tested and reviewed as many ASUS laptops as we can get our hands on, and combined our analysis with results from benchmark tests, external reviews and market research. Using these insights, we've compiled this list of the best ASUS laptops available right now. Right now, our top choice for creatives is the hugely innovative ASUS Zenbook Duo 14 OLED, with its two full-size touchscreens and detachable keyboard offering the perfect balance for almost any creative. However, as everyone's needs and budgets are different, we've laid out a wide variety of choices we can wholeheartedly recommend below.
If you want to look at other brands' laptops, we've included a far wider selection in some of our other guides, whether it's the best laptops for working from home or the best laptops for graphic design.
The best Asus laptops available today
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ASUS is one of the most innovative laptop makers out there, and its latest experiment may also be its greatest. The Zenbook Duo OLED is the latest iteration of ASUS' dual-screened computers, and this time, they've gone fully bananas, with two full-size 14-inch screens, one of which is cleverly concealed under the magnetically detachable wireless keyboard.
And it all works perfectly. The versatility is near-endless, as you can lay the laptop out in pretty much every configuration for any imaginable creative task, and as they're touchscreens, they're especially great for digital drawing and artworking. The only slight (and we do mean very slight) drawback is the lack of a top-spec graphics card, but the Intel Arc Graphics provide enough visual grunt for every task below the lofty realms of heavy rendering jobs.
Read more in our ASUS Zenbook Duo 14 OLED 2024 review.
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Packed out with an astonishing number of top-notch components, this laptop is perfect for handling complex and processing power-hungry creative tasks and software. Despite this, it remains cool and doesn't throttle.
It's pretty gorgeous to look at, to boot - with its luxe design and bright, colour-accurate OLED display which hits 100% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut, the ASUS ProArt Studiobook OLED even has touchscreen functionality. there's even a built-in dial above the trackpad, which is programmable app-by-app; a real boon for creatives.
Read our full ASUS ProArt Studiobook OLED review.
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The ASUS TUF Gaming A15 comes from the company's 'affordable' gaming lineup, but it does everything you need it to, and then some, be it in the realms of gaming or creative work. With a 40-series graphics card on board, it will run all the latest games at good framerates, and the build is sturdy without getting too cumbersome.
It can run Photoshop and Premiere Pro without difficulty, and with the refresh rate and discrete graphics card, you'll have enough grunt for game development and some 3D processing too.
Read our full ASUS TUF Gaming A15 review for more details.
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If you are looking for lots of power in a fairly lightweight package, but don't need top-level graphics grunt, you don't need a MacBook Air. The ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED has the greatest laptop screen on Earth right now, a brilliant, bright, sharp OLED touchscreen, and the CPU performance is on par with the new, and much more expensive, MacBook Pro.
It also offers a big jump in graphics performance over previous integrated graphics laptops thanks to a well-implemented and functioning AI Boost NPU, although it doesn't quite reach into the realms of high-power animation, graphic design or video editing. The only slight downside is its comparative lack of ports and the resulting reliance on an external dock or hub if you have lots of things to plug into it. However, at its price point, you'll be hard-pressed to find anything better than this ASUS Zenbook.
Read our full review of the ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED.
Best lightweight ASUS
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The ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED is the ultimate lightweight laptop, and pretty much took our breath away in our review with its fantastic performance, which we felt was good enough to take on bulkier and heavier rivals (such as the Dell XPS 13 and MacBook Air). Of course, that doesn't necessarily go for much more intensive rendering tasks like video editing or 3D work, but it'll do just fine for photo editing and general use.
The screen does look teeny, but thanks to its super-sharp 2.8K resolution it feels far bigger than it actually is. All round, it's pretty robust and will see you through a good few years, though its integrated graphics are a little unfortunate.
Best for creative pros on a budget
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The ASUS Vivobook Pro 16 is a fantastic all-around laptop for creatives, including students in design-related industries. Integrating a dedicated GPU alongside a more than capable 13th Gen Intel CPU provides enough processing power to fulfil its mid-range laptop status. The battery life leaves a little to be desired, especially given the hybrid worker target market. As it's unlikely to manage a full day's work on a single charge, you'll want to make sure your charger is never too far away.
Its OLED display provides the necessary size, colour accuracy, and vibrancy to deliver a perfect solution for those working with photos or colour-grading videos. As far as budget-friendly mid-range laptops go, it's hard to argue with the performance of the Vivobook Pro 16.
Read our full ASUS Vivobook Pro 16 OLED review.
Best for students
07. ASUS Vivobook S14
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If you're looking for a slightly more affordable model that can still pack a punch for your creative studies, the older-gen ASUS Vivobook S14 is well-balanced and can handle low-demand applications and software with relative ease despite its low retail price.
The specs aren't much to write home about; you can choose between 8GB or 16GB RAM, and it comes with Intel 11th generation processors, but that should be enough to see students, lightweight creatives, and workers through the day. It's also specifically designed to be especially apt at handling creative software like Adobe Photoshop and Clip Paint Studio for any digital illustrator; maybe just save the more intensive rendering tasks for a more robust machine.
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This stylish and svelte laptop is kitted out with some of the most powerful components from recent years, including the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. It's flashy inside and out with its LED lid display, which is reflected in its hefty price tag, and will work wonderfully both as a creative workstation and for gaming.
In our review, we praised the "premium feel", noting it's not all style, no substance; however, some of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16 proprietary technology, namely the ROG Intelligent Cooling Thermal System, doesn't quite work as advertised. Plus, it's just frighteningly expensive.
How to choose
Why should I buy an ASUS laptop?
In our experience, Asus laptops are very reliable, perform well and offer a decent lifespan without breaking the bank. As they're slightly more affordable than some other premium brands, though, you do make the occasional concession on components and build quality.
ASUS also makes a huge range of laptops, many of which have graced various buying guides across our site in the past, so you can rest assured of the brand's reputation.
How should I choose the best ASUS laptop for me?
Well, the answer really depends on what you want. Our choice right now is the new and revolutionary ASUS Zenbook Duo, with its two 14-inch touchscreen OLED displays and 14th-gen AI-boosted Intel Core Ultra CPU. If you want an ASUS laptop for gaming or game development, we'd recommend the ASUS TUF Gaming A15, which is a pretty affordable model that still performs under pressure.
Alternatively, the ASUS ProArt Studiobook OLED (H7604) is, without a doubt, the best Windows laptop for creatives; in fact, as of writing, it's second only to the MacBook Pro 16-inch (M2, 2023) across all laptops. ASUS also produces some more niche and unique devices, like the ASUS Vivobook S14, which is a great budget-friendly option for creatives.
More broadly speaking, the most important thing to do when choosing an ASUS laptop is to identify exactly what you're working with; how much can you budget towards a laptop, what are you most frequently going to be doing on it, and do you have any accessibility or form requirements?
How we test laptops
Creative Bloq's team of hardware experts bring with them many years of experience using, testing and benchmarking laptops with a focus on running creative applications. All the laptops in this guide have been tested by using real-life creative software and benchmarked to gauge what types of software each one can use without problems, as well as using toher creative tools you'll use, such as Adobe Creative Cloud applications and more. We run different benchmark tests on each laptop depending on its intended use by its maker, but the benchmarks we've run all the laptops in this guide through include the following:
• Cinebench R23/2024 - this assesses the performance of a computer's CPU and GPU using real-world 3D rendering tasks
• Handbrake - we use this free and open-source transcoder for digital video files to render a short 4K animated film, using the same file for all our tests
• Geekbench 5/6 - this tests the CPU's processing power, both by using a single core for a single task at a time as well as all the CPU's core to see its ability to multitask
• 3DMark - this assesses a laptop's ability to run 3D graphic rendering tasks, which is important for both a variety of render-based creative work and gaming
But perhaps more importantly than benchmarking, we evaluate machines in real-world scenarios, pushing them to the limit with multiple applications running to see how they perform in project-like conditions. Power, speed, flexibility, and what a laptop looks and feels like to use are all criteria in our reviewing process. We do much more than simply unpack a test unit, run some benchmarks and then pack it up again; we have lived and worked with all of the above laptops, running them in real-life scenarios and done projects relevant to this guide, otherwise we wouldn't recommend these models to you.
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Erlingur is the Tech Reviews Editor on Creative Bloq. Having worked on magazines devoted to Photoshop, films, history, and science for over 15 years, as well as working on Digital Camera World and Top Ten Reviews in more recent times, Erlingur has developed a passion for finding tech that helps people do their job, whatever it may be. He loves putting things to the test and seeing if they're all hyped up to be, to make sure people are getting what they're promised. Still can't get his wifi-only printer to connect to his computer.
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