1 00:00:00,140 --> 00:00:04,220 Today we have one laptop and two screens. 2 00:00:04,220 --> 00:00:05,400 It's gonna be fricking weird. 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,340 And huge thanks to ASUS for sponsoring us. 4 00:00:07,340 --> 00:00:09,840 First of all, they gave us this very nice 5 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:11,300 little laptop sleeve. 6 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:12,480 It says ZenBook on it. 7 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,860 And I don't think it's real leather, but who cares? 8 00:00:15,860 --> 00:00:17,520 No animals had to die. 9 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,420 What else do we have? 10 00:00:20,420 --> 00:00:21,900 Okay, bets. 11 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:24,040 Type C, not type C. 12 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:25,320 Not type C. 13 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:26,600 I'll say type C. 14 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:27,900 Okay, I'm saying type C. 15 00:00:32,140 --> 00:00:34,160 Oh, 180 watts, nevermind. 16 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:35,760 Barrel charger. 17 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:36,600 Oh, what is this? 18 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:37,980 Oh, we get a pen. 19 00:00:37,980 --> 00:00:40,080 The ASUS Pen 2.0. 20 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:45,080 Apparently it has 4,096 pressure sensitivity points. 21 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:46,820 They have different tips that come with it. 22 00:00:46,820 --> 00:00:50,920 I don't know if you can see that right there. 23 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:52,260 What a nice box. 24 00:00:52,260 --> 00:00:56,700 ASUS has done a really good job lately with their packaging. 25 00:00:56,700 --> 00:01:04,220 That's upside down. 26 00:01:04,220 --> 00:01:05,840 Oh. 27 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:11,650 Oh yeah, look at this, David. 28 00:01:11,650 --> 00:01:13,220 Fancy. 29 00:01:13,220 --> 00:01:14,800 This is not a cheap laptop. 30 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,100 This is a very expensive laptop. 31 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:17,940 This is the laptop. 32 00:01:17,940 --> 00:01:20,780 Where like your friends all have MacBooks 33 00:01:20,780 --> 00:01:24,260 and you want to flex on them. 34 00:01:24,260 --> 00:01:25,980 I was honestly hoping that there's a CD in here 35 00:01:25,980 --> 00:01:26,820 for some reason. 36 00:01:28,820 --> 00:01:29,660 I don't know. 37 00:01:29,660 --> 00:01:31,860 Just the way that it was packaged made me think of a CD. 38 00:01:31,860 --> 00:01:34,180 Oh, what's this? 39 00:01:34,180 --> 00:01:35,840 Like actually, what is this? 40 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:36,680 It's a stand. 41 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,620 It's a laptop stand. 42 00:01:38,620 --> 00:01:39,460 Let's see. 43 00:01:39,460 --> 00:01:42,690 Have we even mentioned this is ZenBook Duo 14 yet? 44 00:01:42,690 --> 00:01:45,330 Oh, well it is. 45 00:01:45,330 --> 00:01:46,330 And it's IO. 46 00:01:46,330 --> 00:01:48,070 Wait. 47 00:01:48,070 --> 00:01:49,310 Oh, weird. 48 00:01:49,310 --> 00:01:50,330 The IO is actually pretty good. 49 00:01:50,330 --> 00:01:52,090 I was kind of concerned there at first 50 00:01:52,090 --> 00:01:55,350 because on the left side, you only have the headphone jack. 51 00:01:55,350 --> 00:01:58,470 Although I guess that is a feature now. 52 00:01:58,470 --> 00:02:02,300 Around back, there's a micro SD card reader, 53 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:05,280 power input, and an HDMI port. 54 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:06,100 And around the other side, 55 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:10,160 we have two Thunderbolt 4 ports and USB type A. 56 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,420 Oh, and it is HDMI 2.1. 57 00:02:12,420 --> 00:02:13,260 Wicked. 58 00:02:13,260 --> 00:02:15,700 That's a really solid loadout. 59 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:19,940 The only thing that I kind of wish is that the USB type A port 60 00:02:19,940 --> 00:02:23,170 was not on the right-hand side right there, 61 00:02:23,170 --> 00:02:24,750 just because then if you plug in a mouse to it, 62 00:02:24,750 --> 00:02:28,080 that's wired, it'll get in the way of your hand. 63 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:29,340 But also so many mice, 64 00:02:29,340 --> 00:02:30,720 and especially if you can afford this thing, 65 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,600 like just get a wireless mouse. 66 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:33,560 Before we open it up, 67 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,340 I really like the finish on the back of this. 68 00:02:35,340 --> 00:02:36,740 I don't know if you can really tell on the camera, 69 00:02:36,740 --> 00:02:38,740 but it's like brushed aluminum, 70 00:02:38,740 --> 00:02:43,110 but with a circle around their little A logo here. 71 00:02:43,110 --> 00:02:43,950 Zoom in here, Dave. 72 00:02:43,950 --> 00:02:57,200 We got to get the action the first time it's opened. 73 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,320 Oh, ah, fancy. 74 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:02,780 Yeah, you could probably even put like, 75 00:03:02,780 --> 00:03:04,860 I don't know what the resolution of this bottom display is, 76 00:03:04,860 --> 00:03:08,100 but you could have like two YouTube videos down there 77 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:10,680 while you're like watching something else up here. 78 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,260 These are incredibly weird resolutions. 79 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:17,100 So the top screen is 14 and a half inches, 80 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:18,920 2080 by 1800, 81 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:23,920 and the bottom is 2080 by 864 for some reason. 82 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:29,660 12.7 inches on the bottom. 83 00:03:29,660 --> 00:03:30,500 This one's a touchscreen. 84 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:31,560 Is this one touchscreen? 85 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:32,280 It is. 86 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,240 Yeah, these are some fine looking displays. 87 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,340 The bottom one I'm not totally sure how I feel about yet, 88 00:03:37,340 --> 00:03:40,160 but this top OLED display looks fantastic. 89 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,800 The contrast on it is just incredible 90 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,220 and they have picked a great background to show it off 91 00:03:47,220 --> 00:03:51,630 the first time that you open it up. 92 00:03:51,630 --> 00:03:53,830 I do usually complain about OLED on laptops 93 00:03:53,830 --> 00:03:55,430 and I'm going to complain about the bottom one 94 00:03:55,430 --> 00:03:56,930 because it's very obvious what's wrong. 95 00:03:56,930 --> 00:04:00,170 It just looks weird. 96 00:04:00,170 --> 00:04:01,710 The problem that I'm seeing is just that 97 00:04:01,710 --> 00:04:04,090 in the areas where it's white, 98 00:04:04,090 --> 00:04:05,250 it's really grainy. 99 00:04:05,250 --> 00:04:08,330 Which is a problem that I've had quite a few times before 100 00:04:08,330 --> 00:04:10,790 on OLED with touchscreens, 101 00:04:10,790 --> 00:04:12,690 because something with, 102 00:04:12,690 --> 00:04:14,170 I don't know exactly what's on the go, 103 00:04:14,170 --> 00:04:17,530 but my guess is that the digitizer doesn't quite line up 104 00:04:17,530 --> 00:04:19,290 with the sub pixels correctly 105 00:04:19,290 --> 00:04:22,010 and it creates kind of a weird screen door effect 106 00:04:22,010 --> 00:04:23,370 kind of thing. 107 00:04:23,370 --> 00:04:26,010 Yeah, I guess it kind of depends on how you think of it. 108 00:04:26,010 --> 00:04:31,120 Cause as far as displays that I've had on laptops before, 109 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,380 this is not the best, 110 00:04:33,380 --> 00:04:35,240 but as far as displays that I've had, 111 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,680 and track pads before, 112 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,520 this is exceptional. 113 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,140 So I guess it depends on how you think of it in that way. 114 00:04:42,140 --> 00:04:43,520 I also don't quite understand it 115 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,760 because whatever the problems are with the bottom display, 116 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:48,660 the top one, there's none of that. 117 00:04:48,660 --> 00:04:50,620 The top display just looks awesome. 118 00:04:50,620 --> 00:04:52,240 Okay, so I can see it. 119 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,800 You're not going to be able to see it on the display, 120 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,920 but on an all white display, 121 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,540 you can see like the digitizer and the sub pixels 122 00:04:58,540 --> 00:05:00,040 kind of looking a little bit weird, 123 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:00,880 but at the same time, 124 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,280 that's only going to be a problem 125 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:05,180 when you're looking at an all white display. 126 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:07,860 Oh, a little thingy just came up. 127 00:05:07,860 --> 00:05:11,620 I have settings for my second display. 128 00:05:11,620 --> 00:05:12,960 Are you able to see that, David? 129 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,600 So we have battery saver on this display. 130 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:19,500 Oh yeah, I guess that having two displays 131 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:21,640 wouldn't be great for your battery life. 132 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:23,440 Brightness, oh, let's make it full bright. 133 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:24,280 Oh, nevermind. 134 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:25,890 I accidentally turned it off. 135 00:05:25,890 --> 00:05:29,650 Brightness, all the way up. 136 00:05:29,650 --> 00:05:32,290 There's also another button here that changes which display 137 00:05:32,290 --> 00:05:34,830 the window you're currently working on is on. 138 00:05:34,830 --> 00:05:36,210 Handwriting, huh? 139 00:05:36,210 --> 00:05:36,930 What's this do? 140 00:05:36,930 --> 00:05:43,210 Is this easier than typing? 141 00:05:43,210 --> 00:05:45,230 Well, I guess it depends on how good you are at typing. 142 00:05:45,230 --> 00:05:46,810 I could type a lot faster than this, 143 00:05:46,810 --> 00:05:48,670 but like, can my nan? 144 00:05:48,670 --> 00:05:49,510 I'm not sure. 145 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:54,600 This is a pre-production sample, 146 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,170 so things might just not work also. 147 00:05:58,170 --> 00:05:59,990 Oh no, it kind of looks like it's just dead. 148 00:05:59,990 --> 00:06:01,860 Okay, we'll give that a second. 149 00:06:01,860 --> 00:06:02,680 How is the keyboard? 150 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,820 The keyboard's kind of strange. 151 00:06:04,820 --> 00:06:09,520 So there's, as you can see, no palm rest whatsoever. 152 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,940 So your hands kind of just like sit on the table. 153 00:06:12,940 --> 00:06:13,960 Actually, can we get one of those? 154 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,060 Just like fancy plush palm rest things. 155 00:06:17,060 --> 00:06:20,720 I don't think you need it now that I have my hands just here, 156 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:25,110 but I want to see how it feels. 157 00:06:25,110 --> 00:06:27,530 There's a little bit of typing and this is fantastic. 158 00:06:27,530 --> 00:06:29,330 The key switches are awesome. 159 00:06:29,330 --> 00:06:30,170 I don't know. 160 00:06:30,170 --> 00:06:31,790 They just nailed the keyboard on this. 161 00:06:31,790 --> 00:06:34,190 Aside from it being kind of weird that my hands are just 162 00:06:34,190 --> 00:06:37,470 sitting on the table instead of on the actual computer, 163 00:06:37,470 --> 00:06:39,150 I am totally happy with this. 164 00:06:39,150 --> 00:06:43,640 The only thing that I might want to change is that the 165 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,660 space bar is a bit sloppy. 166 00:06:45,660 --> 00:06:46,840 As for the track pad. 167 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:51,040 I'm not quite as happy about it, 168 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,420 but I understand what they're doing. 169 00:06:52,420 --> 00:06:57,930 So as you can see, it's about three fingers wide 170 00:06:58,310 --> 00:07:01,760 and six fingers tall. 171 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,620 Kind of strange. 172 00:07:03,620 --> 00:07:05,780 Let's have the little tiny buttons down here 173 00:07:05,780 --> 00:07:07,400 for right and left click. 174 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,540 It isn't as bad as you'd expect. 175 00:07:09,540 --> 00:07:10,540 If I'm honest, this is what, 176 00:07:10,540 --> 00:07:12,780 it shocked me the first time that I had a Zephyrus 177 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:15,820 that had the track pad down here on the side. 178 00:07:15,820 --> 00:07:17,640 It's a lot more functional 179 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:18,820 than you would expect. 180 00:07:18,820 --> 00:07:20,360 Oh, do we have a wrist rest? 181 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:21,200 Heck yeah. 182 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,870 This is not the best wrist rest that I've ever seen. 183 00:07:26,870 --> 00:07:28,110 This is just worse. 184 00:07:28,110 --> 00:07:29,590 I don't even need to type. 185 00:07:29,590 --> 00:07:31,090 Yeah, you don't need a wrist rest. 186 00:07:31,090 --> 00:07:32,550 It's more comfortable without it. 187 00:07:32,550 --> 00:07:34,310 Anyway, in this thing, 188 00:07:34,310 --> 00:07:37,730 you get an i9-12900H for the processor. 189 00:07:37,730 --> 00:07:41,530 That is six performance cores and eight efficiency cores 190 00:07:41,530 --> 00:07:44,410 for a total of 20 threads. 191 00:07:44,410 --> 00:07:48,130 That's a lot of fricking horsepower for something that is, 192 00:07:48,130 --> 00:07:50,390 this large and especially this large 193 00:07:50,390 --> 00:07:52,480 and having two displays. 194 00:07:52,480 --> 00:08:01,700 And for the GPU, we have an NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti. 195 00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:04,060 Okay, so now you can watch your 196 00:08:04,060 --> 00:08:07,840 how to beat the first boss guide on one display 197 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,100 while you play the game on the other. 198 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:12,190 This is sweet. 199 00:08:12,190 --> 00:08:13,030 I feel cold. 200 00:08:13,030 --> 00:08:15,430 Oh no. 201 00:08:15,430 --> 00:08:19,350 Well, this feels like 40, 50 FPS. 202 00:08:19,350 --> 00:08:22,260 I forgot to turn on my counter, but whatever. 203 00:08:22,260 --> 00:08:24,040 Either way, this is running great. 204 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,340 And this display looks awesome. 205 00:08:25,340 --> 00:08:26,320 Awesome for gaming. 206 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,200 Like the torch in the center, 207 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,140 alongside like the dark background looks great. 208 00:08:33,140 --> 00:08:34,480 Cause like on a lot of displays, 209 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:38,480 you'll get either a bright torch and the rest is just gray, 210 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,240 or you'll be able to see the details, 211 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,580 but the torch would be like not bright at all. 212 00:08:43,580 --> 00:08:45,340 Whereas this just looks fantastic. 213 00:08:45,340 --> 00:08:47,840 Like you have the brightness of the torch 214 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,000 and detail in the shadows. 215 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:50,840 Awesome display. 216 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,840 Can you play it on the smaller screen? 217 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:55,000 Can I play it on the smaller screen? 218 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,300 That's a good question. 219 00:08:56,300 --> 00:08:58,580 Settings, graphics. 220 00:09:00,770 --> 00:09:04,030 Let's turn off full screen. 221 00:09:04,030 --> 00:09:05,110 I just drag it down. 222 00:09:05,110 --> 00:09:05,930 Oh, I can. 223 00:09:05,930 --> 00:09:08,320 Cool. 224 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:13,410 This is like not the best, if I'm honest. 225 00:09:13,410 --> 00:09:16,310 I've had better gaming experiences before. 226 00:09:16,310 --> 00:09:18,350 The display is still quite good, but like, you know, 227 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:20,490 just because of the angle that it's at 228 00:09:20,490 --> 00:09:22,110 and we have like film lights here, 229 00:09:22,110 --> 00:09:25,070 I need to be like there and not get the glare. 230 00:09:25,070 --> 00:09:26,530 Okay. So it works pretty well. 231 00:09:26,530 --> 00:09:29,850 If I hit escape and I just go down, like the mouse works. 232 00:09:29,850 --> 00:09:31,590 Perfectly awesome. 233 00:09:31,590 --> 00:09:33,630 Then I can come back up here, 234 00:09:33,630 --> 00:09:37,130 refocus on Valheim and it works well. 235 00:09:37,130 --> 00:09:39,350 Should we, should we look at the other laptop? 236 00:09:39,350 --> 00:09:40,190 Okay. 237 00:09:40,190 --> 00:09:41,730 We got a laptop. 238 00:09:41,730 --> 00:09:43,290 We got a second laptop. 239 00:09:43,290 --> 00:09:44,990 This one was a surprise. 240 00:09:44,990 --> 00:09:49,400 It presumably has a nicer box on launch. 241 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,040 This is a ZenBook 16X 242 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:57,640 and it does not have a second display, 243 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,740 but it does have a keyboard that moves up. 244 00:10:00,740 --> 00:10:01,700 Actually, let's just take a moment to check this out. 245 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:04,260 Take a moment to talk about why you would want 246 00:10:04,260 --> 00:10:06,200 your keyboard to move up 247 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:11,280 and also why this display moves up in this fashion. 248 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:12,580 Now you might think that 249 00:10:12,580 --> 00:10:15,880 in like the case of the secondary display here, 250 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,740 it's just so, you know, it angles up and looks at you, 251 00:10:18,740 --> 00:10:20,620 which is perfectly fine. 252 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:23,100 But the main reason they created a hinge like this 253 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:26,500 in the first place is to improve the thermals. 254 00:10:26,500 --> 00:10:29,000 So you might've noticed that while we're playing Valheim 255 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,220 and screen recording at the same time, 256 00:10:31,220 --> 00:10:32,220 this thing was almost satisfied. 257 00:10:32,220 --> 00:10:33,060 It was silent. 258 00:10:33,060 --> 00:10:36,160 And that's largely because loads of space for cooling. 259 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:37,780 I can see a fan that's right in here. 260 00:10:37,780 --> 00:10:39,000 Maybe I can stick my finger in it 261 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,740 and you'll hear the light. 262 00:10:40,740 --> 00:10:42,080 Nope. 263 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:42,920 Oh yeah. 264 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:43,800 We can take it apart. 265 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:44,640 Interesting. 266 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:48,640 This feels like a haptic touch touch pad on the 16X. 267 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:50,120 I guess we didn't even do a tour of it. 268 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,060 Ah, geez. 269 00:10:51,060 --> 00:10:52,760 Getting way ahead of myself here. 270 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:53,800 One second. 271 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:54,640 IO. 272 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,540 We have dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, USB type A, 273 00:10:58,540 --> 00:11:00,780 our DC in, anything on the back? 274 00:11:00,780 --> 00:11:01,620 Nope. 275 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:03,940 And then on the right hand side, 276 00:11:03,940 --> 00:11:05,820 we have a full size SD card reader. 277 00:11:05,820 --> 00:11:06,900 I love to see that. 278 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:08,500 If you are a photographer, 279 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:11,340 having a full size SD card reader is just the best. 280 00:11:11,340 --> 00:11:14,200 You can go out, snap a whole bunch of photos, 281 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:15,440 stick your SD card in there, 282 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,640 and it will go over super fast. 283 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,540 Also headphone microphone combo jack and HDMI 2.1. 284 00:11:21,540 --> 00:11:22,870 Is that correct? 285 00:11:22,870 --> 00:11:23,710 Wicked. 286 00:11:23,710 --> 00:11:24,530 Good job, ASUS. 287 00:11:24,530 --> 00:11:27,670 I consider this thing to be just the absolute Lightroom beast. 288 00:11:27,670 --> 00:11:29,310 And that's pretty much entirely 289 00:11:29,310 --> 00:11:31,350 because of this little nubbin here. 290 00:11:31,350 --> 00:11:32,310 It used to be like a little, 291 00:11:32,310 --> 00:11:34,090 a little circle track pad thing. 292 00:11:34,090 --> 00:11:36,390 Now it's much closer to what you'd find 293 00:11:36,390 --> 00:11:38,110 on like one of the original iPods. 294 00:11:38,110 --> 00:11:41,150 So we have click in the center and then move around. 295 00:11:41,150 --> 00:11:43,440 So like if we come over here, 296 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,940 the ones that immediately you have access to 297 00:11:45,940 --> 00:11:47,760 are just like screen brightness. 298 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,160 So I can click on that and you'll be able to see 299 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:55,800 as I turn it around, gets dimmer, gets brighter. 300 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,120 And this works awesome 301 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,760 because it automatically plugs into Lightroom. 302 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,160 So you can go click on like your brightness 303 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:03,630 and you just spin it. 304 00:12:03,850 --> 00:12:04,690 You just spin it a little bit 305 00:12:04,690 --> 00:12:07,590 and you click on your other values and same sort of thing. 306 00:12:07,590 --> 00:12:10,270 It's just, it feels nicer when you're editing photos. 307 00:12:10,270 --> 00:12:12,430 It also would appear that we have a haptic touch pad 308 00:12:12,430 --> 00:12:14,950 and it is really nice and big. 309 00:12:14,950 --> 00:12:16,390 I know that the other one right here, 310 00:12:16,390 --> 00:12:18,710 the Duo does not have a large touch pad. 311 00:12:18,710 --> 00:12:19,950 This one most certainly does. 312 00:12:19,950 --> 00:12:20,950 Look at this. 313 00:12:20,950 --> 00:12:25,300 Also big, the display, 16 inches, 16 by 10. 314 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:26,140 It also is OLED. 315 00:12:26,140 --> 00:12:27,100 And this one looks even better. 316 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:28,340 Is it not a touch screen? 317 00:12:28,340 --> 00:12:29,220 It is a touch screen. 318 00:12:29,220 --> 00:12:30,960 Damn, how did they do that? 319 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,900 Oh, they did it by just it being big. 320 00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:34,740 Oh, cool. 321 00:12:34,740 --> 00:12:35,560 Look at that. 322 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:44,380 The keyboard on this is a little bit on the strange side. 323 00:12:44,380 --> 00:12:48,380 So we have, as you can see, it's lifted up. 324 00:12:48,380 --> 00:12:51,540 And I don't know, maybe I'll get used to it in a little bit. 325 00:12:51,540 --> 00:12:56,360 Let's type a little bit more. 326 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,360 I still don't know how I feel about how angled it is, 327 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,640 but I think I could get used to it. 328 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,600 What is annoying is that the switches 329 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,900 just are kind of letting me down. 330 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:07,760 Well, the switches are great, 331 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:09,840 but the rigidity of the chassis 332 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:10,880 and center, as you can see, 333 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,770 it kind of moves just a little bit. 334 00:13:14,770 --> 00:13:16,310 It's like not great. 335 00:13:16,310 --> 00:13:18,290 It's the sort of thing where I probably would have given 336 00:13:18,290 --> 00:13:20,600 this much higher praise 337 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:25,360 if I hadn't just touched the exact same switches in this, 338 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,080 which is just way sturdier. 339 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,140 Like this base right here, the switches all feel awesome. 340 00:13:30,140 --> 00:13:32,380 This one's like an easy A plus. 341 00:13:32,380 --> 00:13:35,020 This one right here, where it's kind of, 342 00:13:35,020 --> 00:13:37,520 the whole deck has a little bit more movement. 343 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:39,080 It's more like an A minus. 344 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,560 Now, in the 16X, we get the same i9-12900H for the processor 345 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:45,120 and an RTX 3060. 346 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,740 Six gigabytes of RAM and RTX 3060s in laptops 347 00:13:48,740 --> 00:13:52,720 just are so much faster than a 3050 Ti. 348 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:57,720 This 4K OLED panel on the 16X is just fantastic. 349 00:13:57,780 --> 00:14:01,980 Now, it has like more pixels than the 14, 350 00:14:01,980 --> 00:14:03,920 and also it's just plain bigger. 351 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:05,840 So even though it does have the graininess 352 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,740 that I always complain about on OLEDs, 353 00:14:07,740 --> 00:14:08,120 it isn't a problem until you're about, like, 354 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,680 here. 355 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:13,880 Do you know what's also great? 356 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:14,720 Crab rave. 357 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:27,910 Huh. 358 00:14:27,910 --> 00:14:30,050 The 16 has very good speakers, 359 00:14:30,050 --> 00:14:31,670 but it's like a little bit harsh. 360 00:14:31,670 --> 00:14:33,970 Those are both fantastic speakers to have on a laptop. 361 00:14:33,970 --> 00:14:35,630 It's amazing how good speakers have gotten 362 00:14:35,630 --> 00:14:38,850 in the last, like, three years, maybe? 363 00:14:38,850 --> 00:14:42,250 Both of the displays, top and bottom on the 14, 364 00:14:42,250 --> 00:14:44,770 are 120 Hertz OLED. 365 00:14:44,770 --> 00:14:46,650 It's actually just like the best display you can get 366 00:14:46,650 --> 00:14:50,310 for like consuming content and like video gaming. 367 00:14:50,310 --> 00:14:51,310 It's frigging awesome. 368 00:14:51,430 --> 00:14:53,430 This one right here, high refresh rate, too? 369 00:14:53,430 --> 00:14:55,620 No, 60, ah, that's too bad. 370 00:14:55,620 --> 00:15:00,620 So the 14-inch starts at two grand and goes up to three, 371 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:05,380 and the 16-inch starts at $2,600 and goes up to three grand. 372 00:15:05,380 --> 00:15:08,680 Yeah, here we've got our 76-watt-hour battery. 373 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,380 I don't know how long that's going to last you. 374 00:15:10,380 --> 00:15:14,180 There's so many variables, especially with OLED screens. 375 00:15:14,180 --> 00:15:15,920 What you're showing on it 376 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,680 can change your battery life significantly. 377 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:21,220 Like, showing only dark displays can net you 378 00:15:21,220 --> 00:15:23,560 like an extra two hours of battery life 379 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,980 compared to having really bright displays 380 00:15:25,980 --> 00:15:28,460 because it's actually turning off the pixels. 381 00:15:28,460 --> 00:15:31,420 RAM, you're not replacing it, as far as I can see, 382 00:15:31,420 --> 00:15:34,300 but the storage is replaceable, which is awesome. 383 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:37,060 Like, there's a small chance that the RAM's 384 00:15:37,060 --> 00:15:40,100 on the other side of this and you can replace it, 385 00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:42,860 but that's going to be a huge pain in the arse to get at, 386 00:15:42,860 --> 00:15:44,860 so it's effectively not replaceable. 387 00:15:44,860 --> 00:15:45,680 As for the big boy, I do love how easy it is to replace. 388 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:46,840 It's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, 389 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:48,760 I do love how easy the bottoms 390 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,850 of ASUS laptops are to take off. 391 00:15:51,850 --> 00:15:52,890 Is that a vapor chamber? 392 00:15:52,890 --> 00:15:54,310 Damn! 393 00:15:54,310 --> 00:15:57,870 We're not able to do performance or thermal testing on these 394 00:15:57,870 --> 00:15:59,210 because they're pre-production units 395 00:15:59,210 --> 00:16:03,410 and not representative of what you'll actually get, 396 00:16:03,410 --> 00:16:05,970 but this is an impressive cooler. 397 00:16:05,970 --> 00:16:09,750 This is like gaming laptop spec sort of stuff. 398 00:16:09,750 --> 00:16:13,010 96-watt-hour battery, that's coming just, 399 00:16:13,010 --> 00:16:16,790 just under what is legally allowed to go on a plane. 400 00:16:16,790 --> 00:16:17,950 Same thing here. 401 00:16:17,950 --> 00:16:19,850 The SSD is replaceable. 402 00:16:19,850 --> 00:16:21,510 I don't see any RAM. 403 00:16:21,510 --> 00:16:22,330 Okay, guys. 404 00:16:22,330 --> 00:16:25,560 Can you settle mine and Jono's debate down in the comments? 405 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,900 ZenBook 16, ZenBook 14. 406 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:29,020 Which one would you want? 407 00:16:29,020 --> 00:16:30,740 Do you want to flex with the dual screens? 408 00:16:30,740 --> 00:16:32,420 Do you want the one that's more practical 409 00:16:32,420 --> 00:16:35,890 for actually using as a professional? 410 00:16:35,890 --> 00:16:36,730 I don't know. 411 00:16:36,730 --> 00:16:37,570 Let us know. 412 00:16:37,570 --> 00:16:39,510 Huge thanks to ASUS for sponsoring this video. 413 00:16:39,510 --> 00:16:40,750 Hit like, hit subscribe. 414 00:16:40,750 --> 00:16:44,250 Links are going to be down below for you to buy one of these 415 00:16:44,250 --> 00:16:45,650 and just have a great old day. 416 00:16:45,650 --> 00:16:46,450 See ya.