Expensive, but excellent

The ASUS Zenbook Flip S is a convertible premium laptop that can turn into a tablet complete with a touch screen and a pressuresensitive pen The Flip S is tiny with a screen size of just 133 and weighing just 12 kg Despite its diminutive size it packs a walloping number of features Letrsquos start with the screen Itrsquos a 4K screen with a 178degree viewing angle and it does 100 per cent DCIP3 colour gamut which means the colours will be on pointThe computer is running Intelrsquos latest Tigerlake i7 processors which are much better than previous generations at handling graphics It can play most older games like GTA 5 at usable frame rates Donrsquot expect it to play CyberPunk 2077 or something like Microsoft flight simulators at higher settings though The i7 is paired with 16GB DDR4 Ram and a 1TB SSD for a superfast responsive Windows 10 experienceIt is lacking in terms of ports there are 2 USBC Thunderbolt 4 ports which can be used with a dongle to pretty much connect anything you like one USB 32 and a standard HDMI Missing here are the Lan ports and headphone jack That is remedied with a USBC to Audio jack which is essentially an external soundcard and a USB LAN port If you are plugged in for charging add the soundcard and the LAN port and you have no more ports leftThe LAN port functioned well and because it is so tiny it isnrsquot an inconvenience to carry around The sound card on the other hand was sketchy It didnrsquot work well when I used a wired phone headset The sound was fine but the microphone refused to work The speakers on the laptop are fairly loud and if you donrsquot have to use a headphone then the inbuilt mics are efficientThe keyboard is tiny to match the frame I like mine to be desktop size so I found it a little crammed I love the hidden Numpad in the touchpad it is a spacesaving feature we have seen on other ASUS laptops Here they have improved it making it very usableThis laptop is called Flip for a reason push the screen back a lot more than it should be in typical laptops and this thing turns into a tablet For a tablet it is a little heavier than I would have liked but with the pressuresensitive pen it is great for taking down notes quicklyThe Flip S performed very well on battery giving more than 12 hours on a single charge as long as I wasnrsquot playing a game It also has a Intel EVO sticker which is reserved for the very best laptops that are packed with features and performance to matchThe Zenbook Flip S is an excellent tiny laptop especially if you are looking at it for work It is pricey at Rs 147 lakh but this is expected with all the features packed into this small frame The battery life is impressive if you are just working The Zenbook Flip S is a work of art so if you donrsquot game much and you can afford it go for it