Asus is really flooded Computex 2014 with new products. After Transformer Book V, Padfone, and Memo Pad, now they released Zenbook NX500. What are the advantages? Wear NX500 15.6-inch wide screen that has a resolution of 4K. Yes, it has a screen resolution of 3840x2160 NX500.
With a resolution of it, it takes a powerful graphics processor anyway. To that end, pinned Asus GTX 850m GPU with 2GB VRAM coupled with a quad core Intel Core i7.
The battery is claimed to be able to last for 7-8 hours, and the maximum capacity of the RAM and SSD that can be selected is 16GB and 512GB.
Given such specifications, Asus NX500 will be competing with the MacBook Pro 15 Retina. Even the NX500 screen resolution is much larger than the Apple MacBook Pro 15, which only reach 2880x1800.
However, high specification was followed by swelling of the dimensions and weight of the laptop. NX500 weight of 2.2 kg, with a thickness of 19 mm, a little heavier than the MacBook Pro 15 Retina that weighs only 2 kg.
