Asus is launching a 16-inch version of its award-winning MacBook Air competitor.
Announced at CES 2026 on Tuesday, the new Asus Zenbook A16 is a thin, light Windows laptop with a fresh Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip and a 3K OLED touchscreen featuring a sleek 90 percent screen-to-body ratio. Its tan chassis is made from Asus’ patented “Ceraluminum” material, a durable and featherlight magnesium-aluminum alloy, and it weighs as little as 2.65 pounds depending on the version of Windows it runs. That makes it nearly an ounce lighter than Apple’s 13-inch laptop. (For reference, the other 16-inch Windows laptops that Mashable has tested in recent months come in at 3.3 to 4.7 pounds.)
The Asus Zenbook A16 comes in a tan finish called “Zabrinskie Beige.” Credit: Asus
The Zenbook A16 is a larger version of the Asus Zenbook A14, a 14-inch Copilot+ PC that debuted to acclaim at CES 2025 last January. It featured peppy last-gen Snapdragon X series chips, a 2K 60Hz OLED display, a good mix of ports, and a 22-hour battery life. As Asus’ first all-Ceraluminum laptop, it weighed as little as 2.18 pounds depending on the configuration.
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