Credit: / Mashable Reading an article about the Asus Zenbook A14 is doing a disservice to all parties involved. You really need to hold this thing yourself. I'm old enough to remember when Steve Jobs slid the first Apple MacBook Air out of a brown envelope.

Asus' magnesium-alloy, Qualcomm-based Zenbook aims squarely at the MacBook Air, and I went hands on with it at CES 2025 to see how it might compare.

The new machine not only succeeds in emulating the look of the MacBook Air, but exceeds its specs in no fewer than five different ways – including being even lighter … Glance quickly at the machine and you could easily be forgiven for mistaking it for a new MacBook Air.

MacBook Air 13-inch laptop (M3 chip, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) is currently on sale for $899, 18% off its list price of $1,099. This allows you to pocket $200, which is a