
When I opened the box containing the test model of the ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED sent to me for review, I first thought there had been a terrible mistake. Seemingly, ASUS had accidentally sent a tiny little kiddie tablet instead of a proper laptop, or was this a miniature model of a laptop, or, like, maybe half of it was missing? Was this an IKEA-style self-assembly thing? Would more parts be arriving later? Surely, this wasn't it.
What I was holding, carefully and delicately, was a thin rectangle that weighed hardly any more than my now-ageing iPad, the stone-textured lid accentuated with striking diagonal lines.