ASUSThe new year offers a time for a work from home (WFH) refresh to check whether your PC has what it takes to keep up with everything you need to get done in 2026. With support for Windows 10 officially ending, there’s never been a better moment to upgrade. Fortunately, ASUS is here with a range of Windows 11 machines designed to make everyday tasks easier, allow for more productivity and even boost your creativity.
It will be a big year for personal computing, with AI features continuing to roll out, and ISPs starting to offer the first range of NBN plans topping 2Gbps.
You could even say we’re looking at a bit of a paradigm shift, and if you haven’t upgraded in a few years, there’s a risk that your current setup won’t be able to get the most out of what this new age of computing has to offer.
Don’t wait until the new year, start it right with a new device, so you can unlock your full potential in 2026 with ASUS.
Power your everyday in 2026
ASUS Zenbook A14 OLED
From $1999
A laptop needs to be two things: reliable for rock-solid everyday use, and sleek for portability and the aesthetic of your home, work, and commute. For the new year, the ASUS Zenbook A14 steps up to meet that brief, and much more.
Stylish in Ceraluminum
The Zenbook A14 is both super-stylish and durable. The chassis is made from ASUS’ signature Ceraluminum material. It’s a radical next-generation material created by ASUS that exposes the lightness and toughness of traditional aluminium to an oxidisation process that gives it the smoothness and scratch-resistant properties of a ceramic.
So, you get a machine that looks great out of the box and stays looking great even after years of use.
Speaking of use, the Zenbook A14 is fully geared toward portability and stamina. It weighs less than a kilogram, but the battery can last up to 32 hours* (depending on what you throw at it).
Snapdragon meets Copilot
The secret is the Snapdragon X CPU package, plus of course ASUS’ own proprietary power management features and careful selection of complementary parts – the right SSD (up to 1TB NVMe drive, running over PCIE 4.0) and the right memory (up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory) – all of which work together to give you maximum performance from a minimal power draw.
AI features provided by Copilot can be accessed via a dedicated key on the low-profile keyboard, or by using voice commands. As Microsoft continues to roll out more Copilot features, you can expect your ASUS Zenbook A14 to get not just smarter, but more intuitive, throughout 2026 and beyond.
Olé! for OLED display
And last, but perhaps most excitingly, there’s the Zenbook A14’s Lumina OLED display. As one of the best OLED laptop screens in the business, it offers intense colour, blacks so dark you want to call them infinite, and a bunch of integrated smarts to make the display more adaptive to your environment. We’re talking less harmful blue light (up to 70%), more accurate colours, and ASUS OLED Care for burn-in protection.
Indeed, despite its tiny footprint and featherlight weight, the ASUS Zenbook A14 provides just about everything you need in a laptop for 2026 and years to come. But if you think you do need more, if you need to take your multi-tasking and productivity to the next level (or you just love top-tier tech), well then, ASUS has your 2026 covered there too…
Ultimate New Year 2026 refresh
ASUS Zenbook DUO OLED
From $3999
Calling a laptop the “ultimate New Year upgrade” is a bold claim, but the ASUS Zenbook DUO OLED really, really does fit the bill. From its dual displays (with pro-grade spec) to its best-in-class CPU, flexible form-factor, full set of IO ports, and massive capacity to do, well, just about anything… it’s hard to pick which spec of the Zenbook DUO is most impressive.
Perhaps it’s that this beast of a machine weighs in at 1.35kg (without keyboard, 1.65kg with), which just goes to show that in 2026, you don’t need to sacrifice portability for power.
Twin OLED touchscreen displays
The most striking feature of the ASUS Zenbook DUO is, of course, the form factor. Two OLED touchscreen displays in a portfolio format, with a detachable Bluetooth keyboard. This is a machine that adapts to your space, even if your space changes several times a day. New year, new way of working (and playing).
Commuting on the train? Snap the keyboard over the lower display and use the Zenbook DUO like a traditional laptop. Emails done? Pop the keyboard back in your bag, fold the device into tablet mode, and peruse the news.
Made it to the office or studio? Well, the choice is yours. Use the keyboard separately from the two displays, and set them either one above the other, or side by side. Both displays have touchscreen capability, and along with the usual Windows 11 dual-screen features, ASUS provides other software tools to make the most of this exciting and innovative hardware.
There’s also gesture control, which is ideal if you’re using a complicated app that requires a mouse and keyboard, or if you’re giving a presentation (or even just want to sit back and watch YouTube with a coffee).
The displays themselves are both 14-inch ASUS Lumina OLED panels, 2800 x 1800, which ASUS calls 3K. They have the same great ASUS OLED features, including low harmful blue light, excellent colour accuracy, and ASUS’s OLED Care burn-in protection.
Powered by Intel Core™ Ultra 9 Processor
Of course, a clever form-factor needs to be powered by quality hardware. As a flagship productivity laptop, the ASUS Zenbook DUO packs an AI-enabled Intel Core™ Ultra 9 Processor 285H, running at 2.9 GHz. As an AI-focused package, there’s a Neural Processor (NPU) that supports Intel’s AI Boost technology, with up to 13 TOPS of performance.
That means up to 13 trillion operations per second for handling AI tasks – like enhanced web browsing, digital assistants, image and text generation – and using AI features while performing demanding tasks like video editing.
Expansion and connectivity options
There’s also 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD running over PCIe 4.0, and a second M.2 expansion slot so you can add another SSD for even more storage.
And while you might have heard that so many expensive laptops are ditching IO ports in the name of… something… well, the ASUS Zenbook DUO bucks that trend with a full assortment of plugs for all your essential peripherals. There’s a 5Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 port, 2x Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI 2.1 port, and even a 3.5mm audio jack. All this in a machine that’s just 1.99cm thick (or 1.46cm without the keyboard).
With so much packed in, it’s easy to see how the Zenbook DUO might just be the ultimate multi-tasking PC.
Ready, steady, GO!
The question you need to ask is: are you ready to take 2026 to the next level? And if you are, don’t wait around, get out there now and get yourself set up with an ASUS laptop that can set you up for an amazing year ahead.
*32-hour battery life based on local 1080p video playback.
