Asus Zenbook 15 OLED

Sleek and solid in every department, Asus's OLED notebook is a very appealing lightweight laptop

From £899.99 asus.com

When finding the perfect laptop for your needs, everyone has different priorities and boxes to be ticked. Are you going for a work machine or a gaming laptop? A desktop replacement or something ultralight? Well, the Asus Zenbook 15 OLED aims to meet all of your needs.

Ultrabooks are consistently some of the best-looking laptops available and the Zenbook is right up there among them. The Ponder Blue colour (yes, really) of our review model is pretty slick - but doesn't have the environmental credentials of the ceramic-style Basalt Grey, which swaps the aluminium case with a plasma ceramic aluminium, making it harder and more resistant to wear.

It's pretty lightweight too at 1.4kg. That's lighter than air - well, alright, not actual air. More specifically the 2023 MacBook Air 15-inch with the M2 chip. At 14.9mm thick, the Asus is a bit chunkier than the MacBook, but not by much.

The standout feature of the laptop is its screen. The name gives it all away, really, as you'll find a 15.6-inch OLED display with 550 nits peak brightness at a 2880 x 1620 resolution (with a 16:9 aspect ratio) front and centre.