Malaysian professionals who want a serious work laptop without the shoulder strain have a new option to weigh, literally. ASUS has launched the ExpertBook Ultra in Malaysia at RM7,999, a business machine that holds its processor at a sustained 50W while weighing just 0.99 kg.
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What the ASUS ExpertBook Ultra offers
Unveiled on 10 June at the Next Enterprise Summit 2026 in front of over 1,000 industry leaders and enterprise partners, the ExpertBook Ultra launches across Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. It is a Copilot+ PC running Windows 11 Pro, built around up to an Intel Core Ultra X7 358H processor with a dedicated 50 TOPS neural processing unit; ASUS puts total platform AI performance at up to 180 TOPS. That on-device muscle handles tasks like real-time translation, meeting transcription and AI document search locally, which matters if your company would rather sensitive data never touched the cloud.
The engineering pitch centres on thermals. Thin-and-light business laptops usually wind their chips down to stay cool, but the ExpertCool Pro cooling system holds the CPU at a 50W sustained thermal design power inside a 10.9 mm chassis, with fan noise kept under 28dB in standard mode. Graphics come from the integrated Intel Arc B390, which ASUS claims beats a dedicated NVIDIA RTX 4050 running at 30W in 3DMark Time Spy. Memory is configurable to 64 GB of LPDDR5x at 9600 MT/s, and storage tops out at a 2 TB PCIe Gen 5 SSD with read speeds ASUS rates above 14,000 MB/s.
Display, battery and the day-to-day
There are two 14-inch 3K (2880 x 1800) touchscreen options. The Tandem OLED panel hits 1400 nits of peak HDR brightness with a 30-120Hz variable refresh rate, covered in Corning Gorilla Glass Victus with a matte anti-glare treatment; this version weighs 1.09 kg. The lighter 0.99 kg configuration uses a 120Hz POLED panel rated at 1000 nits HDR. Both sit in a CNC-machined magnesium-aluminium chassis tested to MIL-STD-810H.
The 70Wh battery is rated for up to 26 hours of use, and reaches 50 percent charge in 30 minutes. ASUS regional commercial director Emma Ou said at the launch that "the ability to get 6 hours of productivity from a mere 15-minute charge" is aimed squarely at professionals living between airport lounges and boardrooms. Rounding out the hardware: a six-speaker Dolby Atmos audio system, a haptic glass touchpad, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB-A ports, HDMI 2.1, an audio jack, Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0.
Security is enterprise grade: compliance with the NIST SP 800-193 firmware resilience standard, a self-healing dual BIOS, TPM 2.0, Microsoft Pluton, a physical webcam shield and both fingerprint and IR facial recognition. The bundled MyExpert AI suite, including AI ExpertMeet and a local Knowledge Hub, comes without a subscription fee.
Price and availability in Malaysia
The ASUS ExpertBook Ultra is on sale now from RM7,999, configurable up to the Intel Core Ultra X7 processor. It is available at selected ASUS Business Authorized Retailers nationwide, the ASUS Official e-Store, and the ExpertBook stores on Lazada and Shopee. Purchases made between 10 June and 31 July 2026 under the Premier Launch Reward promotion come with a complimentary RM500 MH eGift Card from Malaysia Airlines, subject to terms and conditions.
If choosing a work laptop has always meant picking between light and fast, the ExpertBook Ultra's case is that the trade-off is gone. At RM7,999 it sits firmly in premium territory, but the RM500 flight credit takes a little of the sting out of the price.