Overview
- Following Tuesday’s reviews, the Best Buy listing for the Zenbook A16 shifted from the $1,599 price cited in coverage to $1,699, a $100 jump reported by Windows Central, PCWorld, Wccftech, and others.
- Price changes also hit other new Zenbooks, with the A14 moving to $1,349 from $1,149 and some S‑series models up by as much as $300 to $350, drawing broad criticism over transparency.
- ASUS told Tom’s Guide that Best Buy shared wrong pricing and later corrected it, and Best Buy said a system error caused the mismatch, though neither explained how the incorrect prices stayed live through launch.
- Reviewers praised the 16‑inch A16 for its Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip, 48GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and 3K OLED, with Engadget logging about 21 hours and 35 minutes of battery life and noting a big jump in CPU performance over prior Snapdragon laptops.
- Compatibility remains a caveat for this Windows‑on‑Arm system, as tests showed some big games work well—Cyberpunk 2077 ran near 80 fps at 1080p medium—while others fail due to anti‑cheat or legacy app issues, which could weigh on buying decisions.