Deal | 2.2 lbs. Asus OLED laptop with 16-hour battery life reaches lowest price ever

Laptops have come a long way. Gone are the days when you needed to sacrifice portability and weight to get good performance and battery life from a notebook. Asus has taken this even further with the Asus Zenbook A14 (2026), a laptop that weighs less than 1 kg (2.2 lbs.) while packing a large 70 Wh battery, an OLED display, and an 18-core CPU.

In fact, Asus managed to do this so well that the Zenbook A14 (2026) earned an excellent 88% rating and a “Top Rated” award from us.

Best Buy is now selling the Asus Zenbook A14 (2026) for just $879, a record-low price. This is a 34% discount when compared to the $1,349 list price.

Specs-wise, the Asus Zenbook A14 comes with an 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite CPU, 16 GB of speedy LPDDR5x-9600 RAM, and 512 GB of storage. Unlike the RAM, you can replace the SSD with a bigger one down the line.

Display duties are handled by a 14-inch FHD+ (1,920 x 1,200) panel operating at a constant 60 Hz. Our measurements show that the display covers 100% DCI-P3, offers exceptional contrast, and can reach 400 nits in SDR mode. The HDR brightness can go as high as 625 nits.

Snapdragon X2 Elite is both powerful and efficient

The 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite X2-88-100 powering the Zenbook A14 (2026) is a massive improvement over the last-gen Snapdragon X Elite. Our testing reveals that the 2026 Zenbook A14 is 55% faster in single-core and a whopping 128% faster in multi-core tests compared to the 2025 Zenbook A14. GPU performance has also seen a sizeable bump, resulting in playable frame rates in AAA titles like Cyberpunk 2077.

Finally, the superb efficiency of the Snapdragon X2 Elite and the sizeable 70 Wh battery bestow excellent runtimes on the Zenbook A14. The laptop lasted for 16 hours in our WLAN test.

Long story short, the Asus Zenbook A14 (2026) is a superb laptop for anyone in the market for an ultraportable daily-use machine.