The Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED is coming

Asus has finally revealed official pricing and availability information for its first foldable ever, the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED. The laptop, which is one of the first foldable PCs on the market, will be rolling out globally in the fourth quarter of the year, and it will start at a whopping $3,499, Qazet.az reports.

The main appeal of the device is the display itself, which is a 17.3-inch OLED panel, coming in a very sharp 2560 x 1920 resolution and a 4:3 aspect ratio. When you fold the screen, you get two 12.5-inch halves, with a 3:2 aspect ratio and a resolution of 1920 x 1280, which enables various use cases.

Laptop mode lets you use the top half of the screen as a regular display and the bottom half as a keyboard and there’s a physical keyboard you can attach to the bottom half for a more comfortable experience – while desktop mode lets you use the full screen with the keyboard connected via Bluetooth, with Extended mode being a variant of this where the display is laid vertically and partially folded, so you get more vertical screen real estate. You can also use it in tablet mode and reader mode, where you hold the device like a book.

Powering the experience is an Intel Core i7-1250U processor, hailing from Intel’s U9 series, which is meant for ultra-thin devices like this one. And yes, this is a very thin device, at just 8.7mm when unfolded. You also get 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, so you’re getting fairly high-end specs to compensate for the price.