Asus has announced its latest Zenbook laptop. The Zenbook U500VZ has a quad-core CPU from Intel and a GeForce GT 650M graphic card. With a brushed aluminium case, the appearance of the Zenbook is nearly identical to the UX31 series. The U500VZ is 19.7 millimeter thin at its thickest point and has powerful hardware.
The Intel CPU is a quad-core Ivy Bridge but it's unknown which exact model it will be. Besides a build-in video card the Ultrabook has a GeForece GT 650M video card on board which sends its signal to a matte 15 inch IPS panel with a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. The U500VZ can be configured to have two SSDs (2x 128GB) but also the combination of a SSD (128 GB) and HDD (500GB) are possible. Asus claims that the Zenbook will have a long battery life but has no specification on the actual duration.
Also no pricing and availability was announced.
