Asus Zenbook A16 MSRP $1,699.99 “A stylish and comfortable laptop with exceptional battery life, a beautiful display, and solid performance” Pros Looks and feels fantastic Handled every work-based task exceptionally Able to run a good number of local LLMs Exceptional battery life Solid port selection Shockingly low weight for a laptop of this size Cons Large center touchpad can be annoying Some GPU-intense applications can still hit the battery hard It feels a little fragile overall Quick Take Asus Zenbook A16 is a bit of a step into the future . It features Qualcomm’s new flagship Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip , an 18-core ARM-based processor designed to put Windows PCs on par with Apple Silicon. The result is a fantastic professional laptop. You get truly exceptional battery life, along with solid performance during pretty much all work-based tasks.…