4 months ago
A mates years agone ASUS made its first dual-screen laptop successful nan ZenBook Duo. Now astatine CES 2026, nan institution has taken that thought and branched disconnected successful a somewhat unexpected measurement pinch nan ROG Zephyrus Duo, which mightiness conscionable beryllium nan world’s first existent dual-screen gaming laptop.
Unlike a much accepted productivity notebook pinch 2 built-in displays, nan conception of a dual-screen gaming notebook doesn’t construe rather arsenic people because powering 2 screens comes pinch a capacity hit. Plus, successful nan power of battle, it’s not for illustration you person a batch of opportunity to utilize that 2nd monitor. But if you position this Zephyrus Duo arsenic much of an all-purpose portable contented creation and gaming station, things statesman to make a batch much sense.
Both of Zephyrus Duo’s 16-inch Nebula OLED panels person beardown specs including support for HDR pinch up to 1,100 nits of highest brightness, NVIDIA G-Sync, stylus integration and a very beardown Delta-E (which measures colour accuracy) of little than one. Performance besides looks coagulated pinch ASUS offering nan latest Core Ultra processors from Intel and up to an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU. Sure, pinch a TDP of 135 watts, nan Zephyrus Duo won’t beryllium rather arsenic punchy arsenic a comparable single-screened 16-inch gaming notebook, but those won’t beryllium astir arsenic adaptable arsenic nan ROG either.
Just for illustration nan Zenbook Duo, nan Zephyrus Duo comes pinch a detachable wireless keyboard that tin beryllium charged up magnetically. This allows users to group up nan laptop successful each sorts of positions, which are enhanced acknowledgment to a built-in kickstand. The 1 group will usage nan astir is astir apt nan stacked statement pinch 1 show supra nan other. However, you tin besides support nan Duo and clamshell mode, descent nan keyboard guardant for drawing, laic it down level connected a array aliases moreover put it into shelter mode and crippled connected it. Though moreover ASUS admits that whitethorn not beryllium ace applicable arsenic apps will request to specifically support that usage case. Though astatine nan very least, you tin reflector your surface for a friend connected nan different broadside of a desk/table.
The ROG Zephyrus Duo comes pinch a built-in kickstand which makes it easy to group it up successful each sorts of different positions, moreover if it is simply a spot heavy. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)
Now I will admit that aft messing astir pinch nan Zephyrus Duo successful person, it is simply a spot ungainly owed to its weight of 6.28 pounds. But ASUS managed to do a bully occupation of keeping it comparatively bladed (0.77 inches) without skimping connected features for illustration sound acknowledgment to nan Duo’s six-speaker stereo strategy and cooling which features a vapor enclosure and a liquid metallic thermal material. You besides get a astonishing magnitude of ports including aggregate USB-C pinch Thunderbolt 4, USB-A, HDMI 2.1 and a full-size SD paper slot, positive a decently ample 90Whr battery.
The 1 important point we don’t cognize yet though is really overmuch it will cost, peculiarly because this point almost surely won’t beryllium inexpensive (I’m guessing a starting value of astir $2,500). A dual-screen gaming laptop mightiness not make a batch of sense, but I admit really eager ASUS is being pinch nan ROG Zephyrus Duo and I’m looking guardant to testing it retired sometime later this year.
