The ultrabook SoC variant of the Iris Xe structure is alleged to produce a…

As section of Challenge Athena (Intel Evo), the ExpertBook B9 became developed in partnership with Intel to consist of a like a flash resume, battery lifestyles, and rapid charging (up to 60% in 39 minutes) as three of the considerable level of curiosity facets. The chassis is made of a magnesium-lithium alloy and has the MIL-STD 810H militia durability ranking.

The ExpertBook B9 is being refreshed with an 11th gen. Intel Tiger Lake i5-1135G7 or i7-1165G7 processor and Iris Xe GPU, which is Intel’s strongest mobile graphics chipset to date. The ultrabook SoC variant of the Iris Xe structure is alleged to produce a “discrete GPU stage of performance”, this could likely location it as a competitor to the MX350 or MX450 from Nvidia — searching on the benchmark.

Accompanying these are WiFi 6 and Thunderbolt 4, the latter of which isn’t any quicker than Thunderbolt 3 however has better expose serve (2 x 4K or 1 x 8K), charging enter, Thunderspy safety, and cable dimension (paunchy velocity at 2m). The expose makes spend of a 14-saunter 1080p panel that can expose 100% of sRGB and has a 400-nit maximum brightness.

Memory will likely be configured up to 32 GB LPDDR4x 4266 MHz. The dual M.2 SSD slots enable for configuration of RAID0 or RAID1 setups. RAID0 provides elevated throughput and better total storage capacity, however with the velocity and dimension of on the present time’s NVMe drives the RAID1 affiliation or true two particular person storage drives are doubtlessly extra general choices.

The ExpertBook B9 is the lightest 14-saunter industry laptop on hand, however to get the 880 gram (1.94 lb) advertised weight, or no longer it is major make a different the 33 Wh battery. Fortunately, the 66 Wh battery configuration is handiest a diminutive heavier at true over 1 kg (2.22 lb), which contrivance that it could perchance perhaps perhaps perhaps serene be barely noticeable in the bag of a road warrior. The physique is moderately svelte at 320 x 203 x 15 mm (12.6 x 8.0 x 0.6 inches).

The Asus ExpertBook B9 (B9400) will likely be on hand in the fourth quarter of 2020, starting at €1799 (US$2140). Characterize that the German/Euro pricing now we absorb solutions a 15% gross sales tax.