Asus ScreenPad transforms the ZenBook Pro’s touchpad into a magical video screen - lesperancebaboyes

chebert@idgcommunications.com The Asus ScreenPad is the flagship feature of the Asus ZenBook Pro15 UX580. It doubles as a nav screen as well as a secondary screen for playing back telecasting.

The Asus ZenBook Pro has always strived to offer a balance between price and performance, but its visual aspect settled upon the relatively mundane. No longer. The Asus ZenBook Pro 15 (UX580) Asus showed off at Computex features the ScreenPad, a vibrant, amazing intermediate sieve that does threefold duty as a touchpad.

Think of the UX580 as building off the latterly announced UX550G, which included Intel's premium CORE i9 microprocessor, along with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Te graphics. The ZenBook Pro besides features a 4K "NanoEdge" display that has been tuned for 100-percent Adobe brick RGB and Delta-E <2 colourize truth.

ScreenPad is controlled by the F6 button on the display, which cycles through several obtainable modes. Turned off, ScreenPad looks, feels, and acts like an ordinary touchpad. When ScreenPad is enabled, though, it's immediately apparent that you're carrying something special.

asus zenbook pro15 with screenpad — Wait, is that a video screen? Yes, it's the Asus ScreenPad.

The basic ScreenPad fashion essentially treats ScreenPad as a screensaver of sorts, projecting a pleasing unmoving background onto your trackpad. While IT's a discriminating idiom to the laptop, in that location's nothing that functional about it.

Putting ScreenPad into Extension phone Display mode allows you to treat ScreenPad Eastern Samoa a secondary exhibit (in our video, we're playing a YouTube video in "rumbling screen" mode). You can also use it as a fine-grained ascendence panel of sorts.

Asus said that it has worked with Microsoft to put option Office controls into ScreenPad, and plans to knead with more developers. A ScreenPad SDK is also planned besides. According to an Asus spokesman, placing these controls under your fingers—such as a slider to adjust the line width Beaver State tint—is more intuitive and easier to manipulate than it would get on the main touch screen. That's an argumentation that ScreenPad is more than a gimmick.

We didn't give the ScreenPad resolution at campaign time. Asus tells us the $2,299 Asus ZenBook Pro 15 (UX580) will send on by latterly July, so you'll have a chance to try IT out soon.

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