Review on 💼 ASUS ExpertBook B9 Thin & Light Business Laptop 14” FHD Intel Core i7-10510U, 512GB SSD, 16GB RAM, Military Grade Durability, Up to 24 Hours Battery Life, Webcam Privacy Shield, Windows 10 Pro, Black (Model: B9450FA-XS74) by John Camelio

Excellent battery life, excellent industrial design. During COVID I've been working outside of my car for a few days for a change and the 180 degree hinge, overall durability and battery life have been great while multitasking in multiple locations. In terms of performance, I used VirtualBox. Virtual machines, Office, Firefox/Chrome, audio mixing tools and video recording. All is well. In terms of sound, I was pleasantly surprised by the ASIO driver and bass from the built-in speakers. Sure, it's not a professional studio setup, but being completely mobile it's pretty impressive that I can intelligently record and mix audio on the go. Where I'm deducting a star is the GPU. The GPU is quite slow. In fact, this GPU is about 10% slower than my 3 year old Asus Zenbook in 3DMark. However, I appreciate that the panel and LCD driver has a 48Hz option (along with 60Hz). 48Hz helps with more stable FPS (about what this GPU is capable of) but as an example of GPU performance I need to run Overwatch in 50% scaling mode to get around 48 FPS. At least you can play it. It's definitely a business and productivity oriented laptop, but it excels at it. I can't wait to run GPU accelerated CGI or ML on this laptop. But battery life is best-in-class as far as I can tell, and performance for everything else non-GPU related is pretty solid. Non-glossy displays with fast GPUs are hard to find these days.