"Perfect everyday laptop" with 120 Hz OLED, 32 GB RAM, thin build is $300 off

[Redaktion]

Less than three months into the launch, the latest Asus Zenbook S16 (2026) laptop is on sale at a big discount. The laptop packs the latest AMD Ryzen AI 9 465 APU, 32 GB RAM, and a 1 TB SSD. The front of the Zenbook S16 is dominated by a stunning 16-inch OLED display.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Perfect-everyday-laptop-with-120-Hz-OLED-32-GB-RAM-thin-build-is-300-off.1330833.0.html

[Nate]

32 GB RAM - 8 GB for the OS itself = 24 GB. The SOTA MoE for its size AI LLM model, huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-GGUF UD-Q4_K_XL quant (good for 80-120k unquantized context), is 22.9 GB. Context requires additional 2 GB for 32k and 8 GB for 128k context (linear). This means that the quant barely fits and there's pretty much almost or no space left for any context.

.. I've come to the conclusion that (1) 32768 is the biggest context I can get away with in an adequately smart model, and (2) it just ain't enough.

The dense huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF UD-Q4_K_XL quant (17.9 GB) would run much slower (because it's dense 27B = 27B active parameters per token vs 3B active for the 35B model), but at least it does somewhat fit with some context.

Had this laptop additional 8 GB VRAM dGPU (then it would be a gaming laptop, so it doesn't make sense indeed) or 48 GB RAM, then yes, it would come much closer to being perfect.