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I upgraded from a 2020/1 zenbook 14 a month or so ago-- to that same ryzen 7 ai 350 laptop you're looking at there... I bought mine online/refurbished... if you want to try your luck here's the link: (mine showed up in super shape.. looked brand new... haven't noticed any issues-- but refurbished is always a gamble) https://www.newegg.com/asus-zenbook-14-0-yes-amd-ryzen-ai-7-350-amd-radeon-graphics-32gb-lpddr5x-memory-1tb-m-2-nvme-pcie-4-0-ssd-ssd-jade-black/p/N82E16834236755?Item=9SIBURPKYX6599
Love the laptop-- I did take it with me a few days ago and tried to use it outside on a sunny day-- you do get a lot of reflection on this OLED display... I went to a table indoors. If you're located in USA, here's where i got mine: (refurbished is a crap shoot, but I lucked out.. it came with just the laptop and charger, well-packaged shipping.. but I can't find anything wrong with it.. and it looks like new..) https://www.newegg.com/asus-zenbook-14-0-yes-amd-ryzen-ai-7-350-amd-radeon-graphics-32gb-lpddr5x-memory-1tb-m-2-nvme-pcie-4-0-ssd-ssd-jade-black/p/N82E16834236755?Item=9SIBURPKYX6599
refurbished is a crapshoot-- I bought a refurbished laptop through newegg.com for a real good (very cheap) price.. by the time the laptop was delivered, there was no time to return-- (had 30 days) and battery wouldn't hold charge past about an hour- it was real cheap, wasn't too concerned-- tech shop near me replaced the battery with new-- so, after that- i think i spent what i would have spent for the same laptop new.. However, I really wanted a zenbook 14 to replace my old 2021 zenbook 14 thin and light laptop-- and they had this real good deal.. yah, i did it again- i got it last month.. this time, everything's good-- and reason i posted- i'm running ubuntu 26.04 on it and it detects the NPU after getting the right drivers loaded-- (i would normally run fedora or rocky linux.. but amd and ubuntu are working together well at the moment-- NPU on this laptop would have been a pain to get working in fedora) I run linux on most computers I have-- and i've always had good luck with asus laptops... well, except the one that came with the bad battery.. (but again, it was refurbished) https://www.newegg.com/asus-zenbook-14-0-yes-amd-ryzen-ai-7-350-amd-radeon-graphics-32gb-lpddr5x-memory-1tb-m-2-nvme-pcie-4-0-ssd-ssd-jade-black/p/N82E16834236755?Item=9SIBURPKYX6599