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Best ASUS laptops
The top 12 of 28 non-discontinued ASUS models we track, ranked by our hand-scored average across the six categories. Not by what ASUS pushes, and not by commission.
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- ASUS ProArt P16 (H7606, 2024)
A 1.81 kg creator machine with a 4K 120 Hz OLED touch panel, 64 GB, and an RTX 4070, well-supported on Linux via asus-linux.org.
€ 2.999 8.0/10 Linux, minor tweaks - ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405CA (2025)
The 2025 Arrow Lake refresh of the Zenbook 14 keeps the excellent 2.8K 120Hz OLED and adds a faster Core Ultra 9, but it inherits the same CS35L41 silent-speaker problem on Linux unless you hand-load an SSDT patch.
€ 1.399 7.8/10 Linux not supported - ASUS Vivobook S 15 (S5507, Snapdragon X Elite)
A 15.6 inch 3K 120Hz OLED 600-nit Copilot+ PC with 70Wh and 14 hours of real Windows battery for 1299 dollars, but on Linux Canonical lists a specific installer bug on this exact board on top of the usual Snapdragon X gaps.
€ 1.499 7.8/10 Linux not supported - ASUS Zenbook S 16 OLED (UM5606, 2024)
A genuinely good 3K 120 Hz OLED with Strix Point and a 78 Wh battery doing about 10 real hours.
€ 1.599 7.8/10 Linux, minor tweaks - ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405MA
Light, cheap for the spec, and a genuinely good OLED.
€ 1.399 7.7/10 Linux not supported - ASUS Zenbook S 14 (UX5406SA, 2024)
A 1.2 kg Ceraluminum Lunar Lake ultrabook with a 3K 120Hz OLED and a 77Wh battery that does roughly 13 hours, but the IPU6 webcam stays unusable in normal Linux video apps and the cs42l43/cs35l56 audio chain needs a current alsa-ucm-conf before speakers and the mic come up.
€ 1.699 7.7/10 Linux, minor tweaks - ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (GA403, 2025)
A 1.5 kg OLED gaming ultrabook with an RTX 5070 Ti at 110 W and the best-supported hybrid setup on Linux thanks to asus-linux tooling, but the speaker amp wants kernel 6.19 or a quirk and battery is around 7 hours.
€ 2.799 7.7/10 Linux, minor tweaks - ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (GU605, 2024)
A 1.91 kg RTX 4090 with a 2.5K 240 Hz OLED and the best Linux tooling story of any gaming laptop here, but the 4090 runs at only 115W and RAM is soldered.
€ 3.199 7.7/10 Linux, minor tweaks - ASUS ExpertBook P5 (P5405CSA, 2025)
A 1.27 kg MIL-STD business laptop with a bright 14-inch 144 Hz IPS panel and around 14 hours of real battery for 1299 dollars, hit by the same IPU6 webcam gap as every Lunar Lake thin-and-light on Linux.
€ 1.399 7.5/10 Linux, minor tweaks - ASUS Vivobook S 14 OLED (M5406WA, 2024)
A 1.3 kg Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Vivobook with a 3K 120Hz OLED and a 75Wh battery for around 11 hours of light work, no NVIDIA or IPU6 webcam tax on Linux, but you want kernel 6.10 or newer for the Radeon 890M iGPU and the chassis feels closer to the plastic Vivobook tier than a Zenbook.
€ 1.399 7.5/10 Linux, minor tweaks - ASUS Vivobook S 14 OLED (S5406SA, 2025)
A 1.3 kg Lunar Lake Vivobook with a 3K 120 Hz OLED and a 75 Wh battery that does about 13 hours, but the IPU6 webcam stays unusable in Linux video apps and audio needs a UCM fix on older kernels.
€ 1.499 7.5/10 Linux, minor tweaks - ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (GA403, 2024)
A 1.48 kg OLED ultrabook that games and the best-supported gaming laptop on Linux, but the 90W RTX 4070 throttles to 4060 levels and battery is only about 6 hours.
€ 2.499 7.5/10 Linux, minor tweaks
