We have lift off!

Here we go, just another company flexing its technological competence to spit in the face of competition... or is it? Is it just another gimmick? Curious? That's the point...

- Kaizad Billimoria

TESTED ASUS ZENBOOK 14X SPACE EDITION

from ₹1,14,990 / asus.com/in

Few commercial laptop brands can boast of a portfolio the size of the cosmos, fewer still can boast about actually sending their products into the vast unknown. Asus is one such brand. The story dates back to 1997 - a year before the ISS left Earth’s atmosphere. The Asus P6300 was the first Asus laptop to leave Earth and render its services on the Mir Space Station. The P6300 spent 600 days in orbit, constantly working and came back without any issues whatsoever.

Now that’s something to be proud of and it is a bit of a statement, not just for Asus, but for us as humans and the advancement of technology as well as a whole! It brings us a tiny step further into understanding ourselves and this little blob of blue that we call home. The Asus ZenBook 14X OLED is a celebration of that sentiment that the P6300 sowed in 1998.

Grey matter

The Space Edition is smattered with a lot of intrinsic details that you could read on the box in the next page. The Zero-G Titanium colourway looks downright stunning on the aluminum chassis and represents the exact colour of the material actual space equipment is made from.

spAce - grade stuff

It’s not just a looker either. The Space Edition is SMC-S-016A certified, which is the US Space Systems Command Standard and MIL-STD 810H standard. It will basically survive any harsh environment and can withstand temps ranging from +61C to -24C. Impressive? Hell yea!