I’ve been enamored with the Asus Zenbook A14 laptop since I saw it at a presentation event earlier this year. Unfortunately, its featherlight build and incredible battery life didn’t quite justify its price of over $1,000. But Best Buy is addressing that imbalance today with a sale on the base model, bringing it down to just $649.99—the cheapest it’s ever been.
The Zenbook A14 is basically Asus’ answer to the MacBook Air, with Asus representatives even telling me that the “A” very unofficially stands for Air. It’s a 14-inch model with an incredibly light weight of just 2.16 pounds (or 0.98 kilograms if you live in a civilized country). This base model is running on a Snapdragon X chip with 16GB of RAM, and though the 1200p display is a gorgeous OLED panel, it doesn’t have a touchscreen. It’s packing 512GB of storage.
You can read all about this laptop in Chris Hoffman’s review of it for PCWorld. In short, it’s tiny, it’s featherlight, it has a unique “ceraluminum” finish that makes it stand out, and the battery life is absolutely astonishing—70 watt-hours in a laptop this small gives it a full 24 hours in a standardized battery test. For downsides, that 8-core Snapdragon X chip (the slowest of these Arm-based options) won’t blow anyone away, and it might just refuse to play some 3D-based games. (Note that this model sold by Best Buy isn’t the same one in the review. It’s a lighter sand color and has half the RAM and storage, 16GB/512GB, respectively.)
I’ve been keeping an eye on this one, and this is $100 less than the best sale I’ve seen yet for the 16GB version of the Zenbook A14. I’d be very surprised if you find a better price for a new version of this laptop any time this summer, even with Prime Day approaching. But if you need something with more power or more ports, be sure to check out PCWorld’s picks for the best laptops.
Get this super-light, long-lasting Zenbook A14 laptop for $650