Asus Shipping $1,700 All-Aluminum ZenBook 3 With Harman Sound, 14-Inch Display

Asus began shipping the ZenBook 3 Deluxe laptop, billed as having a 14-inch thin-bezel display under a 13-inch laptop chassis. The 0.3-inch display bezel maximizes the screen area, offering a 77 percent screen-to-body ratio, said Asus, and the all-aluminum chassis is made from a single block of aluminum. The $1,699 laptop has an Intel Core i7 7500U processor, 16 GB RAM, a 512 GB solid-state drive and three USB-C ports, two with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity, said the company. The 2.4-pound ZenBook 3 is 0.5-inch thick and cooled by liquid-crystal-polymer fan blades and a copper-alloy heat pipe system that expels warm air via hidden vents in the hinge, it said. The audio system boasts Harman Kardon tuning.