Bombardment Life

The ZenBook 3 packs a relatively modest 40 Wh bombardment, which is slightly smaller than the battery in the MacBook, simply larger than the 38 Wh prison cell in the HP Spectre. Thanks to some efficiency improvements in Kaby Lake, the ZenBook 3 should terminal longer than an equivalent Skylake laptop, however the small-scale battery size still restricts the full battery life available.

Throughout my time with the ZenBook I typically achieved six hours of continuous use, performing low-cal tasks similar spider web browsing, a chip of game streaming, video watching, and certificate editing. This isn't a stellar result for the ZenBook 3, and I typically prefer laptops to hitting at least viii hours of moderate usage, however the battery did outperform in the HP Spectre in like circumstances.

Thanks to the efficiency improvements in Kaby Lake's video encoding and decoding block, the ZenBook three outperforms most of its ultraportable Skylake competition in video playback benchmarks. The ZenBook three doesn't fare then well while spider web browsing, and a larger laptop like the Surface Book will provide much meliorate results hither.

The good news is that it takes less than two hours to fully charge the ZenBook iii from a drained bombardment, thanks to Asus' fast charging implementation. The company claims y'all can go a 60% charge in 49 minutes, and in my testing that figure is close to authentic. So while the battery life isn't necessarily fantastic, and falls brusk of Asus' claimed ix hours of usage, you'll be able to rapidly charge the laptop on the go.