Overview
- Asus and Best Buy increased the Zenbook A16’s listed price from $1,599 to $1,699 hours after reviews published, a change flagged by Hardware Canucks and reported by Windows Central and Wccftech.
- The 16‑inch Windows laptop is now on sale in the U.S. with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip, configurations up to 48GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a 1TB SSD.
- Reviewers report a clear CPU leap over prior Arm laptops and strong efficiency, with Engadget measuring about 21 hours and 35 minutes of battery life in a video rundown test.
- Game support remains uneven on Windows‑on‑Arm, as some anti‑cheat systems block certain titles, though Qualcomm says roughly 90% of games run and reviewers saw playable results in select titles like Cyberpunk 2077 at tuned settings.
- The quick price change complicates the laptop’s original value case that compared well with Apple’s MacBook lineup, shifting attention from its light Ceraluminum build and 3K OLED display to how it stacks up on cost.