One of my favorite laptops just got a 16-inch sequel that's lighter than a MacBook Air

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Asus announced the Zenbook A16 at CES 2026, a follow-up to last year's 14-inch.

The Zenbook A16 weighs 2.6 pounds and comes with the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme CPU.

It's rounded out with a vivid OLED display, solid build, and marathon battery life.

Asus' Zenbook A14 was one of my favorite laptops of 2025, earning our Editors' Choice award and raising the bar for thin and light laptops with bigger displays and marathon battery life.

Not content to rest on the success of the A14, Asus just announced a 16-inch expansion of the lineup -- the Zenbook A16 -- following up with what made the A14 great, but with Qualcomm's latest and greatest processor, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme.

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Armed with a 16-inch, 3K OLED at 120Hz and 1,100 nits of peak brightness, the Zenbook A16 presents a gorgeous edge-to-edge display, spacious keyboard, massive trackpad, and attractive construction in Asus' proprietary Ceraluminum material. It's a gorgeous laptop that picks up where the A14 left off with a more substantial presence and a bump up in hardware.

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