ASUS is commonly greatest when it is bizarre, and this 12 months at CES 2026 the corporate determined to resurrect one in all its weirdest laptops ever: the ROG Zephyrus Duo. In contrast to the final mannequin from 2023 that had a smallish, tilting second display screen, the 2026 mannequin rocks huge twin 16-inch OLED shows that ought to make it a great content material creation and gaming machine. ASUS has now opened up pre-orders for the Zephyrus Duo and revealed that pricing will begin at a panoramic $4,500.
The Zephyrus Duo is the “world’s first 16-inch dual-screen gaming laptop computer,” in accordance with ASUS. It boasts a pair of 3K HDR OLED touchscreens that supply a mixed 21 inches of diagonal display screen area. They’re DisplayHDR True Black 1000 licensed, and may every hit 1,100 nits of peak HDR brightness. Each provide a 120Hz refresh fee and 0.2ms response time, although solely the principle display screen helps NVIDIA G-Sync.
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One other necessary piece is the removable magnetic Bluetooth keyboard. Regardless of the skinny 5.1mm profile, it presents a beneficiant 1.7mm of key journey and ultra-large touchpad. With the 2 hinging contact shows and the keyboard, it presents 5 devoted operation modes. Twin Display screen mode removes the keyboard altogether, Laptop computer mode offers a normal 16-inch display screen and keyboard setup, Sharing mode units the Duo flat at 180 levels, E-book mode units each screens in a portrait orientation, and Tent mode has the hinge forming an A-frame.
There’s a number of energy beneath the hood, with a 16-core Intel Core Extremely 9 386H processor paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 or RTX 5090 laptop computer GPU with a max TGP of 135 watts. The latter is NVIDIA’s flagship cellular GPU with the newest AI and gaming options together with DLSS 4, body era and fourth-gen ray-tracing cores. It additionally comes with a redesigned motherboard and bigger vapor chamber, together with twin followers to maintain issues cool.
All of that’s housed in a CNC-milled aluminum chassis with a brand new “Stellar Gray” colorway and “Slash” lighting array with 35 discrete zones. The Zyphyrus Duo is now out there for pre-order from ASUS or companions together with Newegg beginning at $4,500 for the RTX 5070Ti model or (brace for it) $5,500 for the RTX 5090 version. Each fashions include 32GB of reminiscence and 1TB of PCIe 5.0 storage.
