Even though not everyone has room on their desk to use a dual or multi-monitor setup, it’s still really useful for almost everyone, whether for work or play, as it allows you to have the view several things at once. Now ASUS has announced the launch of its new ZenScreen OLED MQ16AH , a USB-C portable monitor that represents the top of the manufacturer’s range in this category, but for some unknown reason, they have not announced its launch price … so high? will be?
A secondary monitor is a really useful thing to have on a PC. If you’re working, it allows you to have an at-a-glance view of several things at once, like email on one screen and Excel on the other. For leisure, it is still very useful, since, for example, you can be playing on one screen and watching Discord or your OBS stream on the other. The downside is that not everyone has enough room to fit two of the same monitors on their desk, and that’s where portable monitors come into play.
ASUS ZenScreen OLED MQ16AH, your best USB-C monitor
As you may already guess since we are talking about a portable monitor, we are dealing with a monitor with USB-C connectivity, which already allows you to connect it to a PC or laptop using a single cable, without having to connect additional power. This is very comfortable, and not only because you will have fewer cables around, but because it limits the use of plugs and strips and, in addition, allows you to put it on and take it off comfortably to use it whenever and wherever you want.
And now, as you might guess from its name, this new member of the ASUS ZenScreen family has an OLED matrix , which means that we are facing a monitor with excellent color representation and that it can be especially useful for creative users. It represents an update of the MB14AC model that they launched in 2020, updated with this new matrix that replaces the LED-IPS of its predecessor.
This OLED screen has a diagonal of 15.6 inches , so it corresponds to the standard for laptops and can therefore be especially useful to use in combination with them. Its color accuracy is Delta E <2 with 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 color space , 10-bit color (1.07 billion colors), HDR-10 , 100,000 to 1 contrast ratio, and 360 peak brightness. cd/m2, with a peak of up to 400 cd/m2. By the way, its resolution is Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) with a 60 Hz refresh rate and a response time of just 1 ms (GtG).
As video inputs, we can connect a mini HDMI cable to this monitor (it includes a normal mini HDMI to HDMI cable to be able to connect it to a standard PC HDMI video output) and two USB-C inputs. Of course, you must bear in mind that if you use the mini HDMI connector as a video input for this monitor, you will be forced to give it additional power via USB-C , since using a cable for power and data is only possible via USB -C, not by HDMI. USB-C, by the way, supplies you with up to 20W of power.
Finally, it should be noted that its dimensions are 358.7 x 226.15 x 8.95 mm and that it weighs just 650 grams.
No release date or price
As we said in the title of this news, ASUS has not announced the price of this new ZenScreen OLED MQ16AH, although seeing the price of the rest of the brand’s USB-C monitors and taking into account its technical specifications that include screen OLED, most likely we are facing a product that when it is launched on the market will cost around 300 Euros. Of course, ASUS has not specified the launch date either, so we will have to wait to know these two unknowns.
