Đánh giá laptop asus zenbook ux433fa i7 năm 2024

As a long-time owner of an Asus ZenBook, typing on the ZenBook 14 feels cosy and familiar; the chiclet keyboard layout is about as standard as it gets, and there aren’t any unusual key placements or standout quirks. The 1.4mm key travel is perfect and the typing experience is what I’d describe as light and soft. Individually, the keys feel pretty sturdy. Press a bit harder on them, however, and there is a worrying amount of give to the keyboard chassis, especially around the centre of the keyboard. It’s backlit, too, with three brightness levels you can switch between using the F7 key.

Onto the touchpad or, as Asus calls it, the “NumberPad”. This dual-purpose touchpad looks perfectly normal at first glance, except for a small numpad symbol in the top-right corner. Oddly, you don’t touch the symbol itself to active said numpad, but rather an unmarked sensor ever so slightly below and to the left of it. This is counter-intuitive (why, oh why didn’t Asus just put the sensor where the symbol is?) and requires some precision and patience, at least until you’ve learnt the correct finger placement.

Activating the sensor will illuminate a bright blue digital numeric keypad within the touchpad. A similar, slightly smaller 2-in-1 touchpad can be found on the Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX701 I reviewed earlier in the year. The touchpad mostly functions as normal while the numpad is switched on – you can still scroll, click and use shortcuts.

The digital numpad is a nice feature but Asus could have implemented a physical button on the keyboard to use it, rather than an invisible sensor integrated on the touchpad. On the aforementioned Zephyrus S GX701, there was such a button, so why not have one here? It’s annoying when you want to use it and twice as annoying when you don’t. During my use of the laptop I managed to unintentionally activate the numpad a few times while typing or scrolling. There is no setting to deactivate the NumPad sensor completely, so it can become a major source of irritation.

Asus ZenBook 14 UX433FA review: Display

Much the same goes for the glossy finish that coats the display of my review unit. Using the ZenBook 14 in our brightly-lit office, I was constantly distracted by streaks of light reflected from the ceiling and had to make a conscious effort to keep it facing away from light sources. When you’re trying to watch a video or study a document, a glossy display like this is just not helpful. In fact, I’m not sure there’s any scenario in which it would be.

You can actually buy a non-glossy iteration of the ZenBook 14 that appears to be the same in every way, except that the display has a matte finish instead. This model, the ZenBook 14 UX433FA-A5128T, costs exactly the same (£999) as my review model on Amazon. That’s definitely the one I’d get.

The ZenBook 14’s panel has an sRGB gamut volume of 98% and an sRGB coverage of 84%. For a visual representation of what this means, take a look at the gamut graph below. The solid line represents the colour range detectable by the human eye while the dotted line represents sRGB, which is the standard colour space used on the web and in the majority of applications. Lastly, there’s the coloured line, depicting how the panel’s colour reproduction overlaps with the sRGB colour space. This panel’s accuracy is not great (but not terrible either), managing an average Delta E accuracy of 3.38.

A contrast ratio of 1,323:1 means that images on screen are poppy enough, but not what you’d call sensational. The display has a maximum luminance of 312.1cd/m², which is only slightly below average for a laptop of this price, although it’s really not helped out by the reflective coating. Working outside or by a sun-soaked window is going to be a challenge on this particular model of the ZenBook 14.

Asus ZenBook 14 UX433FA review: Performance and battery life

Having previously tested laptops with an Intel Core i7-8565U and 8GB of RAM, I knew what kind of performance speeds to expect from the ZenBook 14. In our in-house 4K benchmark, which is a combined CPU speed and multitasking stress test, the ZenBook 14 achieved an overall score of 89. That’s a perfectly good score and, during my time with the laptop, I never had any issues when opening applications or running with a couple of dozen browser tabs open.

That CPU speed result is around what I’d predicted and, as you can see from the chart above, it’s not far off the 95 scored by the Dell XPS 13 (2019). The Razer Blade Stealth 13 and Huawei MateBook 14 are faster but both have 16GB of RAM to play with, rather than 8GB.

The Asus ZenBook 14 has a 512GB PCIe SSD, which is pretty capable. Running the AS SSD software revealed a sequential file read speed of 1,444.4MB/sec and a sequential file write speed of 664.14MB/sec. Although not as fast as the SSDs in some competitor laptops, it won’t hold the ZenBook 14 back when accessing and saving files.

But what about gaming? As you know by now, the ZenBook 14 UX433FA is bereft of a dedicated GPU. The only gaming muscle it has to flex is its integrated Intel UHD 620 graphics. That’s not to say it can’t run games at all, though. In the GFXBench GL Car Chase test the ZenBook 14 managed to keep up an average on-screen fps of 31.61, and anything above 30 is respectable on a laptop without a proper GPU. Based on these results, it seems that the ZenBook 14 is most closely matched to the Dell XPS 13 (2019) in terms of gaming capabilities.

The 720p Dirt: Showdown benchmark backs this up: the ZenBook 14 ran the test at an average of 44fps, compared to the XPS 13’s 49fps. Numbers such as these indicate that you don’t need to only stick to Age of Empires on the ZenBook 14 (although it’s a great choice!) , and should be able to play some slightly more demanding titles, as long as you lower your settings. You’ll notice in the Dirt results chart above that the MateBook 14 and the Stealth 13 pulled way ahead of the competition – they have their dedicated graphics to thank for that.

Perhaps we should be thankful that the ZenBook 14 doesn’t have a dedicated GPU – if it did, its power efficiency would likely take a nasty hit. It’s hardly the most long-lived laptop as it is, only lasting a lacklustre 7hrs 51mins in our standard battery rundown benchmark. With moderate use, it should just about see you through a working day on a full charge but, considering its Dell and Huawei competitors can last north of ten hours, that’s arguably not quite good enough.