ASUS’s sweet-smelling notebook gets a version with Ryzen AI 9 365

ASUS has announced a new Ryzen AI version of the Adol 14 Air Fragrance Edition, its curious scent-emitting notebook. The upgrade adds an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 APU to the device, also updating its price. In other words, the renewed version of the notebook is now 28% more expensive.

The Adol 14 was launched at the end of July this year, featuring a Ryzen 9 8945H for 6,999 yuan. Converted, the value is close to R$5,500.

The Ryzen AI 9 365 version features a Zen 5-based APU with 10 cores and integrated Radeon 880M graphics. It’s the entry-level option in the Ryzen AI 300 family, but the notebook’s price goes up to 9,199 yuan – approximately R$7,250.

In other specs, the Adol 14 looks the same. We have a 240Hz OLED display with a resolution of 2880 x 1800p, LPDDR5-7500 memory and a 75Wh battery. It is also worth mentioning that it has a promotional price at its launch, coming out at 8,999 yuan.

Even the scent dispenser hasn’t changed at all. It still appears as a small disc in the middle of the notebook’s lid, offering the same scents: Be a New Her, Basil and Mandarin, and Rose of Man’s Land.

ASUS’s fragrant notebook attracted attention when it was launched not only because of its unique gimmick, but mainly because of its competitive price. As such, its new version has already lost some of its impact in this regard.

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It’s up to each user to judge whether the Ryzen AI 9 365’s performance boost justifies the price increase, but it seems like a trend is taking hold. Beelink’s new SER9 mini PC, for example, uses a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and costs $999. In this case, we’ve heard unofficially that the reason for this increase is the price of the new APU.

Fonte: VideoCardz