These are the best ASUS laptops you can buy in 2022

When buying a new laptop, the brand can be just as important as the advertised specs. Sure, you can have a look at the best laptops around and choose from those, but we all have preferences. Many of the best and most popular laptops are from companies like HP or Lenovo, but maybe you just happen to prefer Asus. If that’s the case for you, then you’ve come to the right place.

In this article, we’ve rounded up some of the very best Asus laptops you can buy today, covering a wide range of products. Asus is perhaps best known for its gaming laptops, the ROG line, but the company actually makes some really cool products in other segments, too. From premium ultrabooks to creator laptops, there are plenty of great options to choose from. Without further ado, let’s get into our list.

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Best overall: Asus ROG Flow X13

I may have the slightest bit of bias here, but having bought and currently using the Asus ROG Flow X13, I frankly couldn’t imagine buying any other laptop on this list for myself. The ROG Flow X13 is a phenomenal mix of powerful enough specs for occasional gaming, a lightweight build, and a versatile convertible design — pretty much everything I could want.

For performance, the Asus ROG Flow X13 comes with AMD’s latest Ryzen processors up to a Ryzen 9 6900HS, an 8-core, 16-thread processor with boost speeds up to 4.9GHz. This is a 35W processor and one of the most powerful ones at that. That’s backed up by up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics card with 4GB of RAM and up to 40W of power (with Dynamic Boost), giving you entry-level ray-tracing capabilities and solid performance to run just about any modern game. Beyond that, it can come with up to 32GB of RAM (soldered) and a 1TB SSD.

If you want top-of-the-line gaming performance, you can add the ROG Xg Mobile, an external GPU enclosure with a GeForce RTX 3080 inside, plus a few extra ports for your laptop. This is an expensive add-on, but it’s nice to see because AMD laptops don’t support Thunderbolt — Asus actually uses a proprietary connector to enable this, so it’s one of the few AMD laptops that can use an external GPU at all.

The display on the ROG Flow X13 is also great. It’s a 13.4-inch panel, and it comes in a 16:10 aspect ratio, unusual for a gaming laptop. The added vertical space makes for a great screen for productivity, though, and that makes this a very versatile laptop. The base model comes with a Full HD+ (1920 x 1200) display and a 120Hz refresh rate, but if you want a sharper image, you can also get a variant with an Ultra HD+ (3840 x 2400) display and a 60Hz refresh rate.

One area where it does cut some costs is the webcam. Asus is using a typical 720p webcam, which is still very common for laptops, and it also doesn’t have Windows Hello facial recognition. It does have a fingerprint sensor on the side of the laptop, though, so you can easily unlock your PC that way.

In the design department, Asus did some great work with the ROG Flow X13. Despite having dedicated RTX graphics and a 35W CPU, the ROG Flow X13 weighs just 2.87lbs, and it’s 15.8mm thin. That’s impressively thin and light for a laptop with these specs, and a convertible one at that. In terms of looks, the ROG Flow X13 is also subdued and sleek, featuring an all-black chassis with engraved stripes running across it. The only hint of RGB lighting is in the ROG banner on the lid, but only on some models.

Rounding things out with ports, the ROG Flow X13 has what we’d consider a good supply of ports considering its size. It has two USB Type-c (3.2 Gen 2) ports, one USB Type-A (3.2 Gen 2) port, HDMI 2.0b, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. One of the USB Type-C ports is also used for the ROG Xg Mobile connector if you plan to use it. For a 13-inch laptop, that’s not bad, and this covers most of the basics you could need.

All in all, this is a powerful and versatile laptop in a way you don’t often see. It’s got the right combination of processor and GPU to still allow for a thin design so it’s not just a gaming laptop, it’s great for almost anyone, and we’re tempted to say it’s one of the very best laptops Asus makes.

Also great: Asus ROG Zephyrus G14

If you want a bit more graphics power and one of the most unique laptops out there, the ROG Zephyrus G14 is another fantastic option. It’s not quite as portable, but that’s to be expected considering it has higher-end specs. The 2022 model comes with some very noticeable improvements over the previous generation, so it’s better than ever.

Those specs include similar 35W AMD Ryzen processors, this time up to a Ryzen 9 6900HS with 8 cores, 16 threads, and boost speeds up to 4.9GHz. That’s similar to the ROG Flow X13’s top-tier configuration, but that’s not the case with the GPU. The Zephyrus G14 comes with an AMD Radeon RX 6800S, a powerful but efficient GPU with 8GB of memory and up to 105W of power (with AMD SmartShift), which is a very significant step up from the RTX 3050 Ti. It’s also a very noticeable improvement over the previous iteration of the Zephyrus G14. Aside from that, the laptop comes with up to 32GB of RAM (half of which is soldered) and a 1TB SSD for storage. This is a better machine for gaming, though that does come at the cost of some portability.

The display on the Zephyrus G14 is a 14-inch panel with a 16:10 aspect ratio, and the resolution is Quad HD+ (2560 x 1600) with a 120Hz refresh rate. Those are already very impressive specs and it means you’ll get a great experience for both work and play with this machine. But there’s more to it, because this is using Asus’ ROG Nebula Display, meaning it’s a mini-LED panel with local dimming. It can reach 500 nits of brightness and it covers 100% of DCI-P3, in addition to being Pantone Validated. It’s just a fantastic screen.

Another major upgrade in this model compared to last year’s is that it actually has a webcam. Yes, in its bid to be super compact, Asus didn’t include a webcam in the previous model, but now you get a 720p camera complete with Windows Hello facial recognition. While the webcam quality may not be the greatest, at least it’s something, and Windows Hello does make it much more convenient to unlock your PC.

Just like its predecessor, the lid of this laptop features a grid of LEDs covering half of its surface, and you can customize this panel to display anything you want. From text to images and animations, you can make the back of this laptop look more unique than any other laptop allows you to, and it’s actually been upgraded from the previous model to allow for smoother animations. Aside from that, the design is actually fairly subdued, and you can get an almost professional look if you turn off the LEDs on the lid. It’s not exactly a light laptop, but at 3.79lbs (3.64lbs without the LEDs on the lid), it’s not terribly heavy either. It’s also 19.5mm thick (18.5mm without the LEDs), so it’s a bit bigger than its predecessor, but that makes sense for the increase in power and capabilities here.

As for ports, you get two USB Type-C (3.2 Gen 2) with DisplayPort (but only one with power delivery), two USB Type-A (3.2 Gen 2) ports, HDMI 2.0b, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a microSD card reader. That’s a solid and varied setup overall, though we have to wonder why don’t both USB-C ports support charging. Realistically, you’ll probably want to use the proprietary charger most of the time anyway, so maybe that’s why.

Regardless, the Zephyrus G14 is a great laptop for gaming and everyday use, with a powerful CPU and GPU but without being too heavy to carry to school or on a trip.

Best premium Asus laptop: Asus ZenBook 14 OLED

What if you’re not into gaming at all and you just want a high-quality, premium ultrabook? The answer to that is the Asus ZenBook 14 OLED, which is thin, light, and powerful enough to get through your workday just fine.

Performance-wise, the ZenBook 14 OLED is very much in line with premium laptops in 2022. It comes with Intel’s 12th-generation Core P-series processors, up to a Core i7-1260P. That’s a powerful processor with 12 cores, 16 threads, and boost speeds up to 4.8GHz. It also has Intel Iris Xe graphics, so it can handle some light GPU workloads. Additionally, you get 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB of SSD storage depending on the configuration you get. That’s a very solid setup for an ultrabook.

The highlight of the ZenBook 14 OLED is its display, particularly because it’s one of the rare laptops with OLED displays that aren’t insanely expensive. OLED panels are becoming a bit more common in 2022, but this is still a great one. It’s a 14-inch panel with a 16:10 aspect ratio, and the resolution is 2.8K, or 2880 x 1800. That’s super sharp for a panel of this size, and on top of that, it has a smooth 90Hz refresh rate, up to 550 nits of peak brightness, and 100% coverage of DCI-P3, so it simply looks great all around. It also supports touch and pen input.

Above the display, the ZenBook 14 OLED has a typical 720p webcam, which is something that’s still unfortunately common with ASUS laptops. There’s no Windows Hello facial recognition, either, but a fingerprint sensor is built into the power button so unlocking your PC is easier.

In terms of looks, the Asus ZenBook 14 OLED comes in a subtle, but not boring Ponder Blue color and it looks very nice. The new signture Asus glyph on the lid gives the laptop a bit of personality, too. As per usual with Asus laptops, the touchpad also doubles as a number pad for number crunching in a pinch. The laptop itself is fairly thin at 16.9mm, and it weighs 3.06lbs, so it should be easy to carry around anywhere you go.

Rounding things out with ports, there’s a solid supply of them here. You get two Thunderbolt 4/USB Type-C ports, one USB Type-A (3.2 Gen 1), HDMI 2.0b, a headphone jack, and a microSD card reader. It’s not a mind-blowing setup of ports, but it does enough to cover all the basics, and you get expansion options thanks to Thunderbolt, too.

Aside from the 720p webcam, the ZenBook 14 OLED gets almost everything right, and with prices starting around $750, it gives you plenty of bang for the buck. The model with a Core i5, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage is available below. If you want more GPU power, maybe consider the ZenBook 14X OLED, which also has discrete Nvidia graphics.

Best gaming Asus laptop: ROG Strix SCAR 15

For the all-out gamers, the Asus ROG Strix SCAR 15 is a beatstly machine, and one of the best gaming laptops out there. It’s powerful and it’s unapologetically gamer-focused, right down to its design.

First off, the ROG Strix SCAR 15 comes with an Intel Core i9-12900H processor, which is one of the most powerful CPUs on this list. It’s got a 45W TDP, and to go along with that, you get 14 cores, 20 threads, and boost speeds up to 5GHz, so you’re not missing out on any performance here. You can pair that with up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 16GB of memory and 150W of power (with Dynamic Boost), making for an extremely powerful laptop that can handle any modern game without breaking a sweat. Additionally, you can get up to 32GB of RAM (you can upgrade it yourself later) and a 1TB SSD for storage.

The Strix SCAR 15 comes with a 15.6-inch display in the typical 16:9 aspect ratio, and it gives you two options to choose from. You can get a Full HD (1920 x 1080) display with a 300HZ refresh rate if you need the absolute fastest response times, or you can go with a Quad HD (2560 x 1440) panel with a 240Hz refresh rate if you favor a sharper picture. It’s up to your preference, though we’d say the latter offers the best balance of being sharp and having a very smooth refresh rate.

A major downside of the Strix SCAR 15 is that there’s no built-in webcam at all, and thus, no support for Windows Hello facial recognition. This is a major downside in today’s reality, so it’s hard to overlook. In fact, there’s no Windows Hello support at all, since there also isn’t a fingerprint reader.

The ROG Strix SCAR 15 has a number of things that make it look very unique, for better or worse. The ROG logo on the lid is RGB backlit, and there’s also a strip of RGB lighting underneath the display panel, and another one running across the front of the laptop’s base and extending to the sides. The keyboard is also equipped with per-key RGB backlighting, so there’s no shortage of flair. Adding to this, part of the keyboard base of this laptop is translucent so you can see the inside, and it also includes an “armor cap” on the hinge, which you can swap with three different styles included (one of them also translucent). ASUS even has a template online so you can 3D print your own.

On the last note about customization, there’s what Asus calls a keystone slotted on the right side of the laptop. Aside from adding a red accent to the laptop, keystones can store RGB profiles for the laptop, serve as a key to reveal a hidden drive on the laptop, and more. As for portability, the Strix SCAR 15 weighs 5.07lbs and measures 27.2mm at its thickest point. It’s far from the lightest or thinnest laptop around, but that shouldn’t be surprising with something this powerful.

Turning to connectivity, the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 15 has one Thunderbolt 4/USB-C port, one standard USB Type-C (3.2 Gen 2) port, two USB Type-A (3.2 Gen 1) ports, 2.5Gb Ethernet, HDMI 2.1, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The ports are all on the back or on the left side of the laptop. That’s a solid setup overall and it covers pretty much all the most common needs for a gaming laptop.

The ROG Strix SCAR 15 isn’t for everyone but if you’re an avid gamer that also appreciates the customizability of RGB lighting, this is a very unique and powerful laptop that will serve you very well.

Best Asus laptop for creative professionals: Asus ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED

Asus has many laptops focused on creative professionals, but none are quite as unique and interesting as the ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED. Featuring two great displays and powerful specs, this is a fantastic, albeit expensive laptop.

Starting with performance, the ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED has an Intel Core i9-12900H processor, featuring 14 cores, 20 threads, and boost speeds up to 5GHz. That’s already a fantastic start for creative workloads, but it also comes with up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU with 6GB of video memory. That gives you plenty of performance for creative workloads like photo and video editing, though oddly enough the GPU is not as powerful as in the last-generation model. You also get 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD for storage, so performance surely isn’t lacking here.

On to the display — or rather, displays — this is where the ZenBook Pro Duo gets its name. The main display is a 15.6-inch panel and it has a 16:9 aspect ratio, coming in Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) resolution. It’s also an OLED panel, so it offers 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification, and fast response times. Not only that, it covers 100% of DCI-P3 and it’s validated by PANTONE, so it’s a fantastic screen all around. The screen also supports touch and pen input.

But the keyboard base houses a second screen, and it’s not just a tiny display for quick glanceable information. This display is about half the height of the main display, but it’s just as wide, and it comes in the same pixel density, so the resolution is 3840 x 1100. Because it’s so big, this display can be used to display normal Windows apps, but it can also expand certain apps like Photoshop with precise touch-based controls. This screen is an IPS panel, though, so it’s not quite as nice as the main one. To help with visibility, the top of the display is raised when you open the laptop, and this also provides more airflow to keep the internals cool.

As crazy as everything else is on this laptop, it still comes with a 720p webcam, but at least it includes Windows Hello facial recognition, so it gets points for convenience.

Having a giant display on the keyboard base obviously influences how things are arranged, so the ZenBook Pro Duo has some interesting choices. The keyboard is pushed down to the bottom and to the left side of the keyboard deck, and on the right side, you get a vertically-oriented touchpad. Like many other ASUS laptops, you can also turn that touchpad into a virtual number pad for number-crunching. Having two screens and powerful internals means this laptop isn’t very light, weighing 5.16 lbs, but frankly, it could be worse. It’s also 21.5mm thick — again, not as bad as it could be, though obviously not slim.

Ending things off with ports, the ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED comes with two Thunderbolt 4 ports, one USB Type-A (3.2 Gen 2) port, HDMI 2.1, and a headphone jack, giving you an overall solid setup. Understandably, there isn’t a ton of space for ports with everything that’s already packed into the laptop, but this covers almost everyone’s basic needs.

Obviously, the ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED isn’t for everyone, and the price makes that even more apparent. But if you need a powerful laptop and the convenience of a second screen on the go sounds enticing, Asus has created one of the most interesting laptops out there.

Best business laptop: Asus ExpertBook B9

Asus isn’t exactly best known for its business laptops, but that’s not to say they don’t have merit. The ExpertBook B9 is a great lightweight laptop for business users, including a Windows 10 Pro (the Windows 11 upgrade is free) license and a more professional-looking design. Unfortunately, while Asus has announced a refresh with Intel 12th-gen processors, it’s not available yet, so we can only recommend the 11th-gen version.

That means this model comes with an Intel Core i7-1165G7 processor, which has four cores, eight threads, and boost speeds up to 4.7GHz.  That’s no longer impressive, but it’s still a great processor, and it also includes Intel Iris Xe graphics to enhance some light GPU workloads. Aside from the processor, you can get the ExpertBook B9 with up to 32GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD, which is more than most business ultrabooks tend to give you.

The display on the ExpertBook B9 is fairly standard, but that’s what you’d probably expect from a business laptop. It’s a 14-inch panel with a 16:9 aspect ratio, and it comes in Full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution. The brightness is 400 nits and it covers 100% of sRGB, so it should look good enough to work on, even when you’re outdoors.

The webcam is unfortunately another 720p sensor, but it does include a privacy shutter, something business users tend to appreciate. Additionally, it supports Windows Hello facial recognition, so unlocking the laptop is as easy as it gets.

Design-wise, the ExpertBook B9 is more subdued than most ASUS laptops, coming in a plain black color without anything that makes it stand out at first glance. It does have Asus’ virtual number pad on the touchpad, though, so if you work with numbers, that’s a nice benefit. Most 14-inch don’t have a number pad at all, so this is an interesting workaround. As for portability, the ExpertBook B9 weighs a mere 2.23lbs and measures 14.9mm at its thickest point, so this is something you can take with you and work from anywhere. Despite that, it still meets MIL-STD-810H standards for durability.

For a laptop as thin and light as this, the ExpertBook B9 still manages to offer a very good range of ports. You get two Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) ports, one standard USB Type-C (3.2 Gen 2) port, one USB Type-A (3.2 Gen 2) port, HDMI 2.0b, a micro HDMI port meant to be used with the included RJ45 Ethernet adapter, and a headphone jack. That covers just about all the basics you could ever need, and getting the option for Ethernet out of the box is a nice bonus. One thing that’s missing that business users might have wanted is cellular support so they can stay connected while they’re away from Wi-Fi.

Overall, the Asus ExpertBook B9 gets more right than you might expect from a brand that isn’t known for its business laptops. All the essentials are there, wrapped in a thin and light chassis with lots of ports. This is a great option if you need a new work laptop.

Best budget laptop: Asus VivoBook S14

We can’t all afford to buy premium and high-end laptops, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a solid experience from Asus. The Asus VivoBook S14 is a great laptop that’s still decently affordable, and it packs in some solid specs.

Of course, being a budget laptop means it’s hard to get the latest specs. As such, the Vivobook S14 iss powered by an 11th-generation Intel Core i5-1135G7, which is a quad-core, eight-thread processor that can boost up to 4.2GHz. Naturally, it’s not quite as fast as newer and higher-end processors, but this is still a great CPU that also includes Intel Iris Xe graphics. Paired with that, you get 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, which is frankly kind of fantastic for a laptop under $600 (thanks to a discount).

The display is also solid here. It’s a 14-inch panel with a 16:9 aspect ratio, as you’ d probably expect, but it does come in Full HD resolution, so it’s more than sharp enough for the vast majority of users. It covers 45% of the NTSC color space and has 250 nits of brightness, so it’s not on the same level as the more expensive laptops on this list, but it’s certainly serviceable.

As usual for budget laptops, the webcam is one area that gets sacrificed, so you get a 720p sensor and no Windows Hello facial recognition here. There is a fingerprint sensor, though, and that’s actually surprising for a laptop at this price.

Design isn’t usually a priority for budget laptops, but the Vivobook S14 actually looks great, particularly in Dreamy White. It has this colorful sheen to it that really stands out, though you can also get it in black. We should point out that the white model is currently cheaper, though. Aside from that, the Vivobook S14 is farli thin, at 15.9mm, and it weighs 3.09lbs, so it’s fairly portable for a budget laptop.

Rounding things out with ports, the VivoBook S14 includes a USB Type-C port, three USB Type-A ports (one USB 3.2 Gen 1, two USB 2.0), HDMI 1.4, a headphone jack, and a microSD card reader. That’s not a bad setup for a laptop at this price, and you have all your basic needs covered. There’s no Thunderbolt support, but that’s not uncommon at this price point.

All in all, the VivoBook S14 is a great mid-range laptop, and thanks to a big ongoing discount, it costs under $600. It’s one of the best Asus laptops you can buy at this price, and while it’s still a solid laptop for its MSRP, we definitely recommend taking advantage of this deal if you want to save some money.

Best Chromebook: ASUS Chromebook CX9

Finally, for the Chrome OS fans, we have the Asus Chromebook CX9. This laptop is featured in our XDA Awards for 2021 as the best Chromebook of the year, and there’s good reason for that. It’s a lightweight and capable laptop that’s great for cloud and web-focused use cases.

Powering the Asus Chromebook CX9 is an 11th-generation Intel Core processor up to a Core i7-1165G7. That processor has four cores, eight threads, and boost speeds up to 4.7GHz, plus Iris Xe graphics, and it’s one of the best mobile processors out there. The laptop also comes with up to 16GB of RAM (8GB base) and 512GB of SSD storage, which is frankly more than you’ll probably need considering Chrome OS is a very cloud-focused operating system. This is a great setup for any laptop, and even more so more a Chromebook.

The display on Chromebook CX9 is also quite good. It’s a 14-inch panel in the 16:9 format, and it comes in Full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution. The base model reaches up to 400 nits of brightness and covers 100% of the sRGB color space. There’s also an optional touch panel that goes up to 500 nits of brightness but has a less impressive color coverage with 70% of NTSC. Regardless, this should be a good display for work.

Unfortunately, this is yet another 720p webcam, and since Chrome OS doesn’t support IR-based facial recognition, that’s not included here either. Worse yet, there’s no fingerprint sensor on this laptop, which Chrome OS does support. That will make unlocking this laptop a bit more of a hassle.

The Asus Chromebook CX9 is clearly designed to be a business laptop, being an all-black laptop without much in the way of flair. It’s also meant to be durable, and it meets the MIL-STD-810H standard for military-grade durability. It’s also very light, with weight starting at 2.31lbs and maxing out at 2.54lbs, and relatively thin at 16mm for the non-touch model and 18mm for the touch variant.

Finally, we come to the ports, which include two Thunderbolt 4 ports, one USB Type-A (3.2 Gen 2) port, HDMI 2.0b, a headphone jack, and a microSD card reader. As usual, this does a good job of covering the basics and it allows plenty of expansion with a Thunderbolt dock, for example.

For businesses that rely more on Chrome OS, the Chromebook CX9 is a one of best laptops Asus makes. It has great performance, a sharp and bright display, and plenty of ports. It doesn’t seem to be available at writing time, but you can check it out below, or see other great Chromebooks Asus makes.

And those are what we’d consider the best Asus laptops you can buy right now. I’d be lying if I said I don’t love the ROG Flow X13, but that’s because it’s a fantastic laptop. It’s a fantastic combination of specs, portability, and versatility, and that’s why it’s at the top of this list. But there are great options for different kinds of users here. I also find the ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED an extremely interesting laptop, personally, but you might be interested in any of the others.