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Over the years, I’ve greatly appreciated those ultrabooks that could run silently with daily use, with video streaming and text-editing and even browsing. Very few can, though, and most that can are actually fanless and passively-cooled implementations. However, passively cooling current mid-range ultrabook hardware platforms in compact designs is a lot more complicated than it sounds, and that’s why the vast majority of available fanless laptops ran on lower-performance hardware, with a lesser or greater toll on the everyday experience, and limited abilities in sustained loads. With that in mind, here enter the Matebook X 2020. Earlier this year Huawei announced their updated late-2020 MateBook X series, a passively cooled 13-inch ultrabook built on an Intel Core U hardware platform. A 10th gen Comet Lake platform, so not the latest available at this point, but even so, it sounded promising for a casual-use premium ultrabook, especially since the MateBook X al...

The ZenBook 14 UM425 series has been one of the most popular ZenBook series available in stores in the last year or so, as ultrabooks that marry premium design lines and features with the power and versatility of the AMD Ryzen U hardware platforms. Quick forward to 2021, Asus have very quietly updated the UM425 series with more recent AMD Ryzen H specs, a more complex thermal design to match those, and an audio jack, all available in the ZenBook 14 UM425QA lineup. We got one of these, a retail unit available locally in stores, and put it through our tests so we can share our findings with you down below. Our configuration is the Ryzen 7 5800H processor with 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB of storage, and the 1W 400+ nits IPS panel, available here in Europe for 1000 EUR at the time of this article, with Ryzen 5 configurations starting at around 700 EUR. Both are excellently priced for what these laptops are. In just a few words, these UM425QA models are marginally thicker a...