ASUS shows you can walk on, spill on and drop your Panther Lake-based ExpertBook Ultra laptop
Remember that ASUS laptop the company took higher than Mount Everest ? Apparently, ASUS is so proud of this design that it is now showing what you can do to it, but probably should not do yourself unless you somehow turn into Hulk.
At ASUS Summit 2026 in Tokyo, the company presented its new ExpertBook Ultra and gave visitors a live durability demo. It was a bit like those salespeople showing off vacuum cleaners in the 90s, except this time the product was a business laptop being stepped on, soaked and bent in public.
Source: PCWatch
What you can do with Expertbook Ultra
The staff closed the laptop with a hard object on the keyboard, poured water over it, invited a visitor to step on it and bent the display/hinge area by holding one corner. The clips came from X user @Number84M, and ASUS Japan also reposted the clip.
これはわろた
どこがうっかりやねん #ASUS pic.twitter.com/VPVKv5r1dQ— たか / 𝙉𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝟖𝟒 (@Number84M) June 17, 2026
The demo was made to promote the ExpertBook Ultra’s ruggedness. ASUS says the laptop meets MIL-STD-810H and passes 24 durability tests. ASUS also lists its own quality tests, including up to 50,000 hinge cycles, a 120 cm drop test, a 50 kg pressure test, display pressure testing, drip testing and twist testing. That probably covers most office accidents, except the one where someone installs OneDrive accidentally.
ディスプレイとヒンジの部分は、踏ませてもらいました！ pic.twitter.com/tk52Kqe8Sp
— たか / 𝙉𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝟖𝟒 (@Number84M) June 18, 2026
Panther Lake inside
The ExpertBook Ultra is a 14-inch business laptop. ASUS Japan lists up to a Core Ultra X7 358H processor, Intel Arc B390 integrated graphics, 64GB LPDDR5X-8533 memory, a 1TB PCIe 5.0 SSD and a 2880×1800 120 Hz Tandem OLED panel on the Morn Gray model. The lighter Jet Fog versions use Core Ultra 7 356H or Core Ultra 5 325 chips, 32GB memory and weigh around 990 grams.
これはわろた
どこがうっかりやねん #ASUS pic.twitter.com/VPVKv5r1dQ— たか / 𝙉𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝟖𝟒 (@Number84M) June 17, 2026
We already covered ASUS’ earlier ExpertBook Ultra stress test, where the company sent the laptop to 8,856 meters with a weather balloon. That test exposed it to -42.5°C and air pressure of roughly 30% of sea level, before a 26 km/h landing on wet ground. Now ASUS has moved from “higher than Mount Everest” to “please remove your shoes and step on the laptop.”
I do not recommend copying these tests, especially when the system has LPDDR5X memory and you can’t replace it. No word on warranty covering any of this, by the way.
Source: @Number84M
