Asus Zenbook A16
Shares rank 58 of 63 laptops by recommenders
People recommend it for fast performance and a generally good reputation for its class. One reported caveat is that it has no way to disable USB boot or change the boot priority.
People recommend it for fast performance and a generally good reputation for its class. One reported caveat is that it has no way to disable USB boot or change the boot priority.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fast performance, beats rival laptops
“It's super fast -- it beats a 2026 Macbook Pro rendering Blender "Classroom".”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything” “It feels very fast, faster than my 24-core Xeon desktop”
Comment from 29 May 2026 in “It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12” Generally praised as quite good
“it's at least a glass one and generally praised for being quite good in comparison”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded” “nothing wrong with it! looks fine!”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series”
Other laptops people recommend
The four most recommended other laptops, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple MacBook Pro | 928 | 688 | 57% | 13 | 5 yrs248 owners | — |
| Apple MacBook Neo | 707 | 355 | 66% | 9 | 1 mo8 owners | — |
| MacBook Air | 633 | 209 | 75% | 12 | 5 yrs130 owners | Approved |
| Apple MacBook | 499 | 348 | 59% | 12 | 9 yrs77 owners | — |
| Asus Zenbook A16This page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“nothing wrong with it! looks fine!”
“I am cautiously optimistic that something like the A16 will end up unintentionally becoming sort of a standard”
“Not that #1 was bad at all but more please!”
“a report on Zenbooks good touchpad quality from a previous M2 Pro user”
“it's at least a glass one and generally praised for being quite good in comparison”
“with recent patches posted to Linux ARM mailing list that support it in full”
“It's super fast -- it beats a 2026 Macbook Pro rendering Blender "Classroom".”
“It's got 18 cores and 48GB of integrated memory, great battery life, and an OLED screen for $1699”
“It feels very fast, faster than my 24-core Xeon desktop”
“has NO way to disable USB boot or even to change the boot priority”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.