Asus ZenBook 14 Q Series
Processor: AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) R5 4500U, Intel Alder Lake-P i5-1240P, Intel Meteor Lake-H Ultra 7 155HGraphics Adapter: Intel Arc 8-Core, Intel Iris Xe G7 80EUs, NVIDIA GeForce MX350
Display: 14.00 inch
Weight: 1.15kg, 1.28kg, 1.39kg
Average of 5 scores (from 7 reviews)
Asus ZenBook 14 Q407IQ
Specifications
Notebook: Asus ZenBook 14 Q407IQProcessor: AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) R5 4500U
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce MX350 2048 MB
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.15kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Price comparison
Reviews
Source: Ultrabook Review
Archive.org versionAll in all, while not without its quirks, this ZenBook 14 Q407IQ is an interesting pick, especially at $549. This deal might not last for long, but it might also periodically resurface, so I’d keep this on your shortlist in the near future if you miss it this time around.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/02/2020
Asus Zenbook 14 Q409ZA, i5-1240P
Specifications
Notebook: Asus Zenbook 14 Q409ZA, i5-1240PProcessor: Intel Alder Lake-P i5-1240P
Graphics Adapter: Intel Iris Xe G7 80EUs
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 2880 x 1800 pixels
Weight: 1.39kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Laptop Mag
The Asus Zenbook 14 (Q409ZA) OLED sports a sophisticated, sturdy chassis inspired by Japanese art. Plus, it has a colorful 90Hz display, impressive battery life, and a massive touchpad, but its performance is middling compared to a stiff competitor.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 01/23/2023
Rating: Total score: 80%
Asus Zenbook 14 OLED Q425
Specifications
Notebook: Asus Zenbook 14 OLED Q425Processor: Intel Meteor Lake-H Ultra 7 155H
Graphics Adapter: Intel Arc 8-Core
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 1.28kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Source: PC Mag
This particular take on the Zenbook is clear in its purpose and audience. The Q425 is super portable with exceptional battery life, an enjoyable OLED display, and a snappy enough processor. This makes it a smart fit for those seeking a simple laptop for basic travel needs like answering emails and watching videos or mobile professionals doing lighter work in Microsoft Office or Google’s ecosystem from the road. It’s an impressive value, but it's beaten by Asus’ own Zenbook 14 OLED model UM3406, which delivers superior performance with only a couple of concessions for less money through Walmart. The design of this system won’t wow you, and a higher resolution display requires spending more cash, but you won't miss any essentials. The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED Touch (UM3406) retains its Editors’ Choice award in this category, but the Q425 is a worthwhile consideration if it suits your needs better.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/15/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: CNet
Spend $1,000 on a laptop and you'll generally end up with a mainstream model with peppy application performance inside an aluminum chassis with a decent IPS display. In some instances, you can find a higher-resolution IPS panel like we saw recently with the 2.2K IPS display on the Dell Inspiron 14 Plus or an OLED panel as supplied by the Lenovo Slim 7i. The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED Q425 follows a recipe similar to that of the Slim 7i with its 14-inch OLED touch display powered by an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor. Just by virtue of the superior fidelity of its OLED display, the Zenbook 14 OLED Q425 stands out from the midrange laptop crowd but also feels like a lesser version of the Slim 7i. The Zenbook 14 OLED Q425 is lighter and longer running than the Slim 7i, but this increased portability comes at the expense of build quality.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/12/2024
Rating: Total score: 73%
Source: Lon.TV
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/21/2024
Source: Digital Trends
The Zenbook 14 Q425 is similar to some other Asus 14-inch laptops, but it’s not identical. It’s less expensive than the company’s other recent models and cuts a corner in display resolution. But it shares the typical Asus build quality, has a very good keyboard and touchpad, and its battery life matches its excellent performance. If you’re looking for a 14-inch laptop that won’t break the bank, the Zenbook 14 Q425 comes recommended.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/17/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Laptop Mag
The Zenbook 14 OLED (Q425M) has incredible battery life. That’s the best selling point for this laptop, even if it has plenty of other high quality features and impressive performance versatility. If you want to be untethered from outlets for a full work day, and still have battery life for some work (or play) on your commute home, the Zenbook 14 OLED is the best ultraportable Windows laptop we can recommend. The bonus to all of that battery is the laptop’s snappy performance, quality audio, comfortable keyboard, and stunning OLED display panel. In fact, if the display was just a little bit brighter to deal with glare, it would be a perfect laptop.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/17/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
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Asus: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. is a major Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer based in Taipei, founded in 1989. Under the Asus brand name, the company manufactures a wide range of products, including laptops, desktops, motherboards, graphics cards, monitors, smartphones and networking equipment, complete systems and PC components for end users.
Under the ROG (Republic of Gamers) brand name, ASUS manufactures gaming laptops known by gamers for their powerful specifications, dedicated graphics cards, high refresh rate displays and advanced cooling systems.
Beyond gaming, a wide range of notebooks are offered for different needs and budgets, from ultra-slim and lightweight ultrabooks to versatile 2-in-1 convertibles and budget-friendly options. In 2023, Asus had a 7% global market share of the PC market.
Customer satisfaction with ASUS notebooks concerns performance, the features, and the good price-performance ratio of ASUS notebooks. However, as with any brand, there are occasional reports of problems such as overheating, driver compatibility, or build quality issues.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
NVIDIA GeForce MX350: Successor of the MX250 and most likely a renamed GeForce GTX 1050 based on the Pascal GP107 chip with 640 shaders and a 64 Bit memory bus for GDDR5.
Intel Iris Xe G7 80EUs: Integrated graphics card in Intel Tiger Lake G7 SoCs based on the new Gen. 12 architecture with 80 EUs (Execution Units / Shader Cluster). The clock rate depends on the processor model. The Tiger Lake chips are produced in the modern 10nm+ process at Intel.
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
Intel Arc 8-Core: Integrated graphics adapter based on the Xe LPG architecture (similar to the dedicated Arc GPUs, but with a focus on efficiency). Provides all 8 Xe cores (128 Xe vector engines) and 8 ray tracing units.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU):
R5 4500U: An upper mid-range, hexa-core APU designed for use in thinner, lighter laptops. The Ryzen features Zen 2 CPU cores running at 2.3 GHz to 4.0 GHz along with the Vega 6 graphics adapter (6 x 64 = 384 unified shaders). The thread-doubling SMT technology is not enabled in the case of Ryzen 5 4500U.
Intel Alder Lake-P:
i5-1240P: A mid-range 28 W Alder Lake family CPU featuring 4 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. This SoC is designed for use in ultra-light (yet actively cooled) laptops. The i5's performance cores are Hyper-Threading-enabled for a total of 16 threads. Core i5-1240P runs at 1.2 GHz to 4.4 GHz; it has a built-in 80 EU Iris Xe GPU and supports "Essentials" tier vPro features.
Intel Meteor Lake-H:
Ultra 7 155H: A high-end Meteor Lake chip that debuted in December 2023. This 1st Gen Core Ultra processor has come to replace 13th generation Core chips; it has 16 cores (6 + 8 + 2) and 22 threads at its disposal. Its Performance cores, of which there are 6, run at up to 4.8 GHz while its Efficient cores, of which there are 10 (8 main cores plus 2 extra ones found in the Low Power Island) run at up to 3.8 GHz. The integrated AI Boost NPU offers two Gen 3 engines for hardware AI workload acceleration. This laptop processor's Base power consumption is 28 W while its Turbo power consumption is supposed to stay within 115 W.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
14.00:
14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact.
In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
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78.6%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
