Asus finally gives its ROG Zephyrus Duo gaming laptop the true dual screens it deserves

The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo is back, but for CES 2026 some its screens are going afloat edge-to-edge — for illustration a Zenbook Duo built for gaming. The original Zephyrus Duo was a quirky keyboard-in-the-front-club member, pinch a 15.6-inch main show and a 14.1-inch-wide, skinny touchscreen crammed betwixt the hinge and side-by-side keyboard and trackpad. The caller exemplary features 2 full-size 16-inch 3K 120Hz OLED HDR displays that tin scope 1,100 nits of highest brightness and a detachable keyboard / trackpad you tin usage wirelessly aliases complete the bottommost display.

And since this multi-screen monster is simply a gaming laptop, it offers Intel Panther Lake and Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs (up to the RTX 5090). Pricing isn’t finalized, but it’s expected to motorboat successful mid-to-late Q2 2026.

The caller Zephyrus Duo is fundamentally a double Zephyrus G16, truthful it’s a small chunkier astatine 0.77 inches / 19.6mm thick, and it weighs 6.28 pounds / 2.85kg. The detachable keyboard platform allows you to usage its dual screens successful two-up aliases side-by-side dual-screen positions, shelter mode, level mode, aliases arsenic a normal single-screen laptop. Like the G16, it has a plethora of ports including HDMI 2.1, USB-C / Thunderbolt 4, USB-A, and a full-size SD paper slot.

I sewage a glimpse of the caller Zephyrus Duo astatine an early preview event, and beatified hellhole americium I excited for this thing. We’ve agelong been large fans of Asus ROG Zephyrus laptops present astatine The Verge, because they’re truthful versatile arsenic travel-friendly laptops that are awesome for some activity and gaming. The thought of taking that aforesaid look and turning it into a multi-display setup for caller levels of multitasking sounds incredibly compelling. (Battlefield 6 connected 1 surface and WordPress and Slack connected the other, anyone?)

As for the accepted ROG Zephyrus G14 and ROG Zephyrus G16 gaming laptops, they’re getting a humble but nice-sounding refresh pinch Intel Panther Lake chips. The creation remains mostly unchanged, pinch RTX 50-series GPUs connected offer, but the slash lighting connected the lid is now 35 LED segments alternatively of conscionable 7 — and it tin now show the artillery level. The hinges are easier to open, the OLED displays are now factory-calibrated and HDR-compatible (reaching up to 1,000 nits of brightness), and the bottommost sheet is redesigned for amended cooling that Asus claims enables improved performance.

Also, the G14 now sports a full-size SD paper slot (hooray for america photographers) and will beryllium disposable for the first clip pinch Intel arsenic good arsenic its accustomed AMD options. The caller G14 and G16 don’t person charismatic pricing yet, but they’re some expected successful mid-to-late Q2 2026 for illustration their dual-screen cousin.