WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:04.220 Today we have one laptop and two screens. 00:00:04.220 --> 00:00:05.400 It's gonna be fricking weird. 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:07.340 And huge thanks to ASUS for sponsoring us. 00:00:07.340 --> 00:00:09.840 First of all, they gave us this very nice 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:11.300 little laptop sleeve. 00:00:11.300 --> 00:00:12.480 It says ZenBook on it. 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:15.860 And I don't think it's real leather, but who cares? 00:00:15.860 --> 00:00:17.520 No animals had to die. 00:00:17.520 --> 00:00:20.420 What else do we have? 00:00:20.420 --> 00:00:21.900 Okay, bets. 00:00:21.900 --> 00:00:24.040 Type C, not type C. 00:00:24.040 --> 00:00:25.320 Not type C. 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:26.600 I'll say type C. 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:27.900 Okay, I'm saying type C. 00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:34.160 Oh, 180 watts, nevermind. 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:35.760 Barrel charger. 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:36.600 Oh, what is this? 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:37.980 Oh, we get a pen. 00:00:37.980 --> 00:00:40.080 The ASUS Pen 2.0. 00:00:40.080 --> 00:00:45.080 Apparently it has 4,096 pressure sensitivity points. 00:00:45.160 --> 00:00:46.820 They have different tips that come with it. 00:00:46.820 --> 00:00:50.920 I don't know if you can see that right there. 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:52.260 What a nice box. 00:00:52.260 --> 00:00:56.700 ASUS has done a really good job lately with their packaging. 00:00:56.700 --> 00:01:04.220 That's upside down. 00:01:04.220 --> 00:01:05.840 Oh. 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:11.650 Oh yeah, look at this, David. 00:01:11.650 --> 00:01:13.220 Fancy. 00:01:13.220 --> 00:01:14.800 This is not a cheap laptop. 00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:17.100 This is a very expensive laptop. 00:01:17.100 --> 00:01:17.940 This is the laptop. 00:01:17.940 --> 00:01:20.780 Where like your friends all have MacBooks 00:01:20.780 --> 00:01:24.260 and you want to flex on them. 00:01:24.260 --> 00:01:25.980 I was honestly hoping that there's a CD in here 00:01:25.980 --> 00:01:26.820 for some reason. 00:01:28.820 --> 00:01:29.660 I don't know. 00:01:29.660 --> 00:01:31.860 Just the way that it was packaged made me think of a CD. 00:01:31.860 --> 00:01:34.180 Oh, what's this? 00:01:34.180 --> 00:01:35.840 Like actually, what is this? 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:36.680 It's a stand. 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:38.620 It's a laptop stand. 00:01:38.620 --> 00:01:39.460 Let's see. 00:01:39.460 --> 00:01:42.690 Have we even mentioned this is ZenBook Duo 14 yet? 00:01:42.690 --> 00:01:45.330 Oh, well it is. 00:01:45.330 --> 00:01:46.330 And it's IO. 00:01:46.330 --> 00:01:48.070 Wait. 00:01:48.070 --> 00:01:49.310 Oh, weird. 00:01:49.310 --> 00:01:50.330 The IO is actually pretty good. 00:01:50.330 --> 00:01:52.090 I was kind of concerned there at first 00:01:52.090 --> 00:01:55.350 because on the left side, you only have the headphone jack. 00:01:55.350 --> 00:01:58.470 Although I guess that is a feature now. 00:01:58.470 --> 00:02:02.300 Around back, there's a micro SD card reader, 00:02:02.300 --> 00:02:05.280 power input, and an HDMI port. 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:06.100 And around the other side, 00:02:06.100 --> 00:02:10.160 we have two Thunderbolt 4 ports and USB type A. 00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:12.420 Oh, and it is HDMI 2.1. 00:02:12.420 --> 00:02:13.260 Wicked. 00:02:13.260 --> 00:02:15.700 That's a really solid loadout. 00:02:15.700 --> 00:02:19.940 The only thing that I kind of wish is that the USB type A port 00:02:19.940 --> 00:02:23.170 was not on the right-hand side right there, 00:02:23.170 --> 00:02:24.750 just because then if you plug in a mouse to it, 00:02:24.750 --> 00:02:28.080 that's wired, it'll get in the way of your hand. 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:29.340 But also so many mice, 00:02:29.340 --> 00:02:30.720 and especially if you can afford this thing, 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:32.600 like just get a wireless mouse. 00:02:32.600 --> 00:02:33.560 Before we open it up, 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:35.340 I really like the finish on the back of this. 00:02:35.340 --> 00:02:36.740 I don't know if you can really tell on the camera, 00:02:36.740 --> 00:02:38.740 but it's like brushed aluminum, 00:02:38.740 --> 00:02:43.110 but with a circle around their little A logo here. 00:02:43.110 --> 00:02:43.950 Zoom in here, Dave. 00:02:43.950 --> 00:02:57.200 We got to get the action the first time it's opened. 00:02:57.200 --> 00:03:01.320 Oh, ah, fancy. 00:03:01.320 --> 00:03:02.780 Yeah, you could probably even put like, 00:03:02.780 --> 00:03:04.860 I don't know what the resolution of this bottom display is, 00:03:04.860 --> 00:03:08.100 but you could have like two YouTube videos down there 00:03:08.100 --> 00:03:10.680 while you're like watching something else up here. 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:14.260 These are incredibly weird resolutions. 00:03:14.260 --> 00:03:17.100 So the top screen is 14 and a half inches, 00:03:17.100 --> 00:03:18.920 2080 by 1800, 00:03:18.920 --> 00:03:23.920 and the bottom is 2080 by 864 for some reason. 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:29.660 12.7 inches on the bottom. 00:03:29.660 --> 00:03:30.500 This one's a touchscreen. 00:03:30.500 --> 00:03:31.560 Is this one touchscreen? 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:32.280 It is. 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.240 Yeah, these are some fine looking displays. 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.340 The bottom one I'm not totally sure how I feel about yet, 00:03:37.340 --> 00:03:40.160 but this top OLED display looks fantastic. 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:43.800 The contrast on it is just incredible 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:47.220 and they have picked a great background to show it off 00:03:47.220 --> 00:03:51.630 the first time that you open it up. 00:03:51.630 --> 00:03:53.830 I do usually complain about OLED on laptops 00:03:53.830 --> 00:03:55.430 and I'm going to complain about the bottom one 00:03:55.430 --> 00:03:56.930 because it's very obvious what's wrong. 00:03:56.930 --> 00:04:00.170 It just looks weird. 00:04:00.170 --> 00:04:01.710 The problem that I'm seeing is just that 00:04:01.710 --> 00:04:04.090 in the areas where it's white, 00:04:04.090 --> 00:04:05.250 it's really grainy. 00:04:05.250 --> 00:04:08.330 Which is a problem that I've had quite a few times before 00:04:08.330 --> 00:04:10.790 on OLED with touchscreens, 00:04:10.790 --> 00:04:12.690 because something with, 00:04:12.690 --> 00:04:14.170 I don't know exactly what's on the go, 00:04:14.170 --> 00:04:17.530 but my guess is that the digitizer doesn't quite line up 00:04:17.530 --> 00:04:19.290 with the sub pixels correctly 00:04:19.290 --> 00:04:22.010 and it creates kind of a weird screen door effect 00:04:22.010 --> 00:04:23.370 kind of thing. 00:04:23.370 --> 00:04:26.010 Yeah, I guess it kind of depends on how you think of it. 00:04:26.010 --> 00:04:31.120 Cause as far as displays that I've had on laptops before, 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:33.380 this is not the best, 00:04:33.380 --> 00:04:35.240 but as far as displays that I've had, 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:37.680 and track pads before, 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:39.520 this is exceptional. 00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:42.140 So I guess it depends on how you think of it in that way. 00:04:42.140 --> 00:04:43.520 I also don't quite understand it 00:04:43.520 --> 00:04:46.760 because whatever the problems are with the bottom display, 00:04:46.760 --> 00:04:48.660 the top one, there's none of that. 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:50.620 The top display just looks awesome. 00:04:50.620 --> 00:04:52.240 Okay, so I can see it. 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:53.800 You're not going to be able to see it on the display, 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:55.920 but on an all white display, 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.540 you can see like the digitizer and the sub pixels 00:04:58.540 --> 00:05:00.040 kind of looking a little bit weird, 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:00.880 but at the same time, 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:03.280 that's only going to be a problem 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:05.180 when you're looking at an all white display. 00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:07.860 Oh, a little thingy just came up. 00:05:07.860 --> 00:05:11.620 I have settings for my second display. 00:05:11.620 --> 00:05:12.960 Are you able to see that, David? 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:17.600 So we have battery saver on this display. 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:19.500 Oh yeah, I guess that having two displays 00:05:19.500 --> 00:05:21.640 wouldn't be great for your battery life. 00:05:21.640 --> 00:05:23.440 Brightness, oh, let's make it full bright. 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:24.280 Oh, nevermind. 00:05:24.280 --> 00:05:25.890 I accidentally turned it off. 00:05:25.890 --> 00:05:29.650 Brightness, all the way up. 00:05:29.650 --> 00:05:32.290 There's also another button here that changes which display 00:05:32.290 --> 00:05:34.830 the window you're currently working on is on. 00:05:34.830 --> 00:05:36.210 Handwriting, huh? 00:05:36.210 --> 00:05:36.930 What's this do? 00:05:36.930 --> 00:05:43.210 Is this easier than typing? 00:05:43.210 --> 00:05:45.230 Well, I guess it depends on how good you are at typing. 00:05:45.230 --> 00:05:46.810 I could type a lot faster than this, 00:05:46.810 --> 00:05:48.670 but like, can my nan? 00:05:48.670 --> 00:05:49.510 I'm not sure. 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:54.600 This is a pre-production sample, 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:58.170 so things might just not work also. 00:05:58.170 --> 00:05:59.990 Oh no, it kind of looks like it's just dead. 00:05:59.990 --> 00:06:01.860 Okay, we'll give that a second. 00:06:01.860 --> 00:06:02.680 How is the keyboard? 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:04.820 The keyboard's kind of strange. 00:06:04.820 --> 00:06:09.520 So there's, as you can see, no palm rest whatsoever. 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:12.940 So your hands kind of just like sit on the table. 00:06:12.940 --> 00:06:13.960 Actually, can we get one of those? 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:17.060 Just like fancy plush palm rest things. 00:06:17.060 --> 00:06:20.720 I don't think you need it now that I have my hands just here, 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:25.110 but I want to see how it feels. 00:06:25.110 --> 00:06:27.530 There's a little bit of typing and this is fantastic. 00:06:27.530 --> 00:06:29.330 The key switches are awesome. 00:06:29.330 --> 00:06:30.170 I don't know. 00:06:30.170 --> 00:06:31.790 They just nailed the keyboard on this. 00:06:31.790 --> 00:06:34.190 Aside from it being kind of weird that my hands are just 00:06:34.190 --> 00:06:37.470 sitting on the table instead of on the actual computer, 00:06:37.470 --> 00:06:39.150 I am totally happy with this. 00:06:39.150 --> 00:06:43.640 The only thing that I might want to change is that the 00:06:43.640 --> 00:06:45.660 space bar is a bit sloppy. 00:06:45.660 --> 00:06:46.840 As for the track pad. 00:06:46.840 --> 00:06:51.040 I'm not quite as happy about it, 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:52.420 but I understand what they're doing. 00:06:52.420 --> 00:06:57.930 So as you can see, it's about three fingers wide 00:06:58.310 --> 00:07:01.760 and six fingers tall. 00:07:01.760 --> 00:07:03.620 Kind of strange. 00:07:03.620 --> 00:07:05.780 Let's have the little tiny buttons down here 00:07:05.780 --> 00:07:07.400 for right and left click. 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:09.540 It isn't as bad as you'd expect. 00:07:09.540 --> 00:07:10.540 If I'm honest, this is what, 00:07:10.540 --> 00:07:12.780 it shocked me the first time that I had a Zephyrus 00:07:12.780 --> 00:07:15.820 that had the track pad down here on the side. 00:07:15.820 --> 00:07:17.640 It's a lot more functional 00:07:17.640 --> 00:07:18.820 than you would expect. 00:07:18.820 --> 00:07:20.360 Oh, do we have a wrist rest? 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:21.200 Heck yeah. 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:26.870 This is not the best wrist rest that I've ever seen. 00:07:26.870 --> 00:07:28.110 This is just worse. 00:07:28.110 --> 00:07:29.590 I don't even need to type. 00:07:29.590 --> 00:07:31.090 Yeah, you don't need a wrist rest. 00:07:31.090 --> 00:07:32.550 It's more comfortable without it. 00:07:32.550 --> 00:07:34.310 Anyway, in this thing, 00:07:34.310 --> 00:07:37.730 you get an i9-12900H for the processor. 00:07:37.730 --> 00:07:41.530 That is six performance cores and eight efficiency cores 00:07:41.530 --> 00:07:44.410 for a total of 20 threads. 00:07:44.410 --> 00:07:48.130 That's a lot of fricking horsepower for something that is, 00:07:48.130 --> 00:07:50.390 this large and especially this large 00:07:50.390 --> 00:07:52.480 and having two displays. 00:07:52.480 --> 00:08:01.700 And for the GPU, we have an NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti. 00:08:01.700 --> 00:08:04.060 Okay, so now you can watch your 00:08:04.060 --> 00:08:07.840 how to beat the first boss guide on one display 00:08:07.840 --> 00:08:10.100 while you play the game on the other. 00:08:10.100 --> 00:08:12.190 This is sweet. 00:08:12.190 --> 00:08:13.030 I feel cold. 00:08:13.030 --> 00:08:15.430 Oh no. 00:08:15.430 --> 00:08:19.350 Well, this feels like 40, 50 FPS. 00:08:19.350 --> 00:08:22.260 I forgot to turn on my counter, but whatever. 00:08:22.260 --> 00:08:24.040 Either way, this is running great. 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:25.340 And this display looks awesome. 00:08:25.340 --> 00:08:26.320 Awesome for gaming. 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:30.200 Like the torch in the center, 00:08:30.200 --> 00:08:33.140 alongside like the dark background looks great. 00:08:33.140 --> 00:08:34.480 Cause like on a lot of displays, 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:38.480 you'll get either a bright torch and the rest is just gray, 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:40.240 or you'll be able to see the details, 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:43.580 but the torch would be like not bright at all. 00:08:43.580 --> 00:08:45.340 Whereas this just looks fantastic. 00:08:45.340 --> 00:08:47.840 Like you have the brightness of the torch 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:50.000 and detail in the shadows. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:50.840 Awesome display. 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:53.840 Can you play it on the smaller screen? 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:55.000 Can I play it on the smaller screen? 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:56.300 That's a good question. 00:08:56.300 --> 00:08:58.580 Settings, graphics. 00:09:00.770 --> 00:09:04.030 Let's turn off full screen. 00:09:04.030 --> 00:09:05.110 I just drag it down. 00:09:05.110 --> 00:09:05.930 Oh, I can. 00:09:05.930 --> 00:09:08.320 Cool. 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:13.410 This is like not the best, if I'm honest. 00:09:13.410 --> 00:09:16.310 I've had better gaming experiences before. 00:09:16.310 --> 00:09:18.350 The display is still quite good, but like, you know, 00:09:18.350 --> 00:09:20.490 just because of the angle that it's at 00:09:20.490 --> 00:09:22.110 and we have like film lights here, 00:09:22.110 --> 00:09:25.070 I need to be like there and not get the glare. 00:09:25.070 --> 00:09:26.530 Okay. So it works pretty well. 00:09:26.530 --> 00:09:29.850 If I hit escape and I just go down, like the mouse works. 00:09:29.850 --> 00:09:31.590 Perfectly awesome. 00:09:31.590 --> 00:09:33.630 Then I can come back up here, 00:09:33.630 --> 00:09:37.130 refocus on Valheim and it works well. 00:09:37.130 --> 00:09:39.350 Should we, should we look at the other laptop? 00:09:39.350 --> 00:09:40.190 Okay. 00:09:40.190 --> 00:09:41.730 We got a laptop. 00:09:41.730 --> 00:09:43.290 We got a second laptop. 00:09:43.290 --> 00:09:44.990 This one was a surprise. 00:09:44.990 --> 00:09:49.400 It presumably has a nicer box on launch. 00:09:49.400 --> 00:09:53.040 This is a ZenBook 16X 00:09:53.040 --> 00:09:57.640 and it does not have a second display, 00:09:57.640 --> 00:10:00.740 but it does have a keyboard that moves up. 00:10:00.740 --> 00:10:01.700 Actually, let's just take a moment to check this out. 00:10:01.700 --> 00:10:04.260 Take a moment to talk about why you would want 00:10:04.260 --> 00:10:06.200 your keyboard to move up 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:11.280 and also why this display moves up in this fashion. 00:10:11.280 --> 00:10:12.580 Now you might think that 00:10:12.580 --> 00:10:15.880 in like the case of the secondary display here, 00:10:15.880 --> 00:10:18.740 it's just so, you know, it angles up and looks at you, 00:10:18.740 --> 00:10:20.620 which is perfectly fine. 00:10:20.620 --> 00:10:23.100 But the main reason they created a hinge like this 00:10:23.100 --> 00:10:26.500 in the first place is to improve the thermals. 00:10:26.500 --> 00:10:29.000 So you might've noticed that while we're playing Valheim 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.220 and screen recording at the same time, 00:10:31.220 --> 00:10:32.220 this thing was almost satisfied. 00:10:32.220 --> 00:10:33.060 It was silent. 00:10:33.060 --> 00:10:36.160 And that's largely because loads of space for cooling. 00:10:36.160 --> 00:10:37.780 I can see a fan that's right in here. 00:10:37.780 --> 00:10:39.000 Maybe I can stick my finger in it 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:40.740 and you'll hear the light. 00:10:40.740 --> 00:10:42.080 Nope. 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:42.920 Oh yeah. 00:10:42.920 --> 00:10:43.800 We can take it apart. 00:10:43.800 --> 00:10:44.640 Interesting. 00:10:44.640 --> 00:10:48.640 This feels like a haptic touch touch pad on the 16X. 00:10:48.640 --> 00:10:50.120 I guess we didn't even do a tour of it. 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:51.060 Ah, geez. 00:10:51.060 --> 00:10:52.760 Getting way ahead of myself here. 00:10:52.760 --> 00:10:53.800 One second. 00:10:53.800 --> 00:10:54.640 IO. 00:10:54.640 --> 00:10:58.540 We have dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, USB type A, 00:10:58.540 --> 00:11:00.780 our DC in, anything on the back? 00:11:00.780 --> 00:11:01.620 Nope. 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:03.940 And then on the right hand side, 00:11:03.940 --> 00:11:05.820 we have a full size SD card reader. 00:11:05.820 --> 00:11:06.900 I love to see that. 00:11:06.900 --> 00:11:08.500 If you are a photographer, 00:11:08.500 --> 00:11:11.340 having a full size SD card reader is just the best. 00:11:11.340 --> 00:11:14.200 You can go out, snap a whole bunch of photos, 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:15.440 stick your SD card in there, 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:17.640 and it will go over super fast. 00:11:17.640 --> 00:11:21.540 Also headphone microphone combo jack and HDMI 2.1. 00:11:21.540 --> 00:11:22.870 Is that correct? 00:11:22.870 --> 00:11:23.710 Wicked. 00:11:23.710 --> 00:11:24.530 Good job, ASUS. 00:11:24.530 --> 00:11:27.670 I consider this thing to be just the absolute Lightroom beast. 00:11:27.670 --> 00:11:29.310 And that's pretty much entirely 00:11:29.310 --> 00:11:31.350 because of this little nubbin here. 00:11:31.350 --> 00:11:32.310 It used to be like a little, 00:11:32.310 --> 00:11:34.090 a little circle track pad thing. 00:11:34.090 --> 00:11:36.390 Now it's much closer to what you'd find 00:11:36.390 --> 00:11:38.110 on like one of the original iPods. 00:11:38.110 --> 00:11:41.150 So we have click in the center and then move around. 00:11:41.150 --> 00:11:43.440 So like if we come over here, 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:45.940 the ones that immediately you have access to 00:11:45.940 --> 00:11:47.760 are just like screen brightness. 00:11:47.760 --> 00:11:50.160 So I can click on that and you'll be able to see 00:11:50.160 --> 00:11:55.800 as I turn it around, gets dimmer, gets brighter. 00:11:55.800 --> 00:11:57.120 And this works awesome 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.760 because it automatically plugs into Lightroom. 00:11:59.760 --> 00:12:02.160 So you can go click on like your brightness 00:12:02.160 --> 00:12:03.630 and you just spin it. 00:12:03.850 --> 00:12:04.690 You just spin it a little bit 00:12:04.690 --> 00:12:07.590 and you click on your other values and same sort of thing. 00:12:07.590 --> 00:12:10.270 It's just, it feels nicer when you're editing photos. 00:12:10.270 --> 00:12:12.430 It also would appear that we have a haptic touch pad 00:12:12.430 --> 00:12:14.950 and it is really nice and big. 00:12:14.950 --> 00:12:16.390 I know that the other one right here, 00:12:16.390 --> 00:12:18.710 the Duo does not have a large touch pad. 00:12:18.710 --> 00:12:19.950 This one most certainly does. 00:12:19.950 --> 00:12:20.950 Look at this. 00:12:20.950 --> 00:12:25.300 Also big, the display, 16 inches, 16 by 10. 00:12:25.300 --> 00:12:26.140 It also is OLED. 00:12:26.140 --> 00:12:27.100 And this one looks even better. 00:12:27.100 --> 00:12:28.340 Is it not a touch screen? 00:12:28.340 --> 00:12:29.220 It is a touch screen. 00:12:29.220 --> 00:12:30.960 Damn, how did they do that? 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.900 Oh, they did it by just it being big. 00:12:33.900 --> 00:12:34.740 Oh, cool. 00:12:34.740 --> 00:12:35.560 Look at that. 00:12:39.920 --> 00:12:44.380 The keyboard on this is a little bit on the strange side. 00:12:44.380 --> 00:12:48.380 So we have, as you can see, it's lifted up. 00:12:48.380 --> 00:12:51.540 And I don't know, maybe I'll get used to it in a little bit. 00:12:51.540 --> 00:12:56.360 Let's type a little bit more. 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:59.360 I still don't know how I feel about how angled it is, 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:01.640 but I think I could get used to it. 00:13:01.640 --> 00:13:03.600 What is annoying is that the switches 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:05.900 just are kind of letting me down. 00:13:05.900 --> 00:13:07.760 Well, the switches are great, 00:13:07.760 --> 00:13:09.840 but the rigidity of the chassis 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:10.880 and center, as you can see, 00:13:10.880 --> 00:13:14.770 it kind of moves just a little bit. 00:13:14.770 --> 00:13:16.310 It's like not great. 00:13:16.310 --> 00:13:18.290 It's the sort of thing where I probably would have given 00:13:18.290 --> 00:13:20.600 this much higher praise 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:25.360 if I hadn't just touched the exact same switches in this, 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.080 which is just way sturdier. 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.140 Like this base right here, the switches all feel awesome. 00:13:30.140 --> 00:13:32.380 This one's like an easy A plus. 00:13:32.380 --> 00:13:35.020 This one right here, where it's kind of, 00:13:35.020 --> 00:13:37.520 the whole deck has a little bit more movement. 00:13:37.520 --> 00:13:39.080 It's more like an A minus. 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:43.560 Now, in the 16X, we get the same i9-12900H for the processor 00:13:43.560 --> 00:13:45.120 and an RTX 3060. 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:48.740 Six gigabytes of RAM and RTX 3060s in laptops 00:13:48.740 --> 00:13:52.720 just are so much faster than a 3050 Ti. 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:57.720 This 4K OLED panel on the 16X is just fantastic. 00:13:57.780 --> 00:14:01.980 Now, it has like more pixels than the 14, 00:14:01.980 --> 00:14:03.920 and also it's just plain bigger. 00:14:03.920 --> 00:14:05.840 So even though it does have the graininess 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:07.740 that I always complain about on OLEDs, 00:14:07.740 --> 00:14:08.120 it isn't a problem until you're about, like, 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:11.680 here. 00:14:11.680 --> 00:14:13.880 Do you know what's also great? 00:14:13.880 --> 00:14:14.720 Crab rave. 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:27.910 Huh. 00:14:27.910 --> 00:14:30.050 The 16 has very good speakers, 00:14:30.050 --> 00:14:31.670 but it's like a little bit harsh. 00:14:31.670 --> 00:14:33.970 Those are both fantastic speakers to have on a laptop. 00:14:33.970 --> 00:14:35.630 It's amazing how good speakers have gotten 00:14:35.630 --> 00:14:38.850 in the last, like, three years, maybe? 00:14:38.850 --> 00:14:42.250 Both of the displays, top and bottom on the 14, 00:14:42.250 --> 00:14:44.770 are 120 Hertz OLED. 00:14:44.770 --> 00:14:46.650 It's actually just like the best display you can get 00:14:46.650 --> 00:14:50.310 for like consuming content and like video gaming. 00:14:50.310 --> 00:14:51.310 It's frigging awesome. 00:14:51.430 --> 00:14:53.430 This one right here, high refresh rate, too? 00:14:53.430 --> 00:14:55.620 No, 60, ah, that's too bad. 00:14:55.620 --> 00:15:00.620 So the 14-inch starts at two grand and goes up to three, 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:05.380 and the 16-inch starts at $2,600 and goes up to three grand. 00:15:05.380 --> 00:15:08.680 Yeah, here we've got our 76-watt-hour battery. 00:15:08.680 --> 00:15:10.380 I don't know how long that's going to last you. 00:15:10.380 --> 00:15:14.180 There's so many variables, especially with OLED screens. 00:15:14.180 --> 00:15:15.920 What you're showing on it 00:15:15.920 --> 00:15:17.680 can change your battery life significantly. 00:15:17.680 --> 00:15:21.220 Like, showing only dark displays can net you 00:15:21.220 --> 00:15:23.560 like an extra two hours of battery life 00:15:23.560 --> 00:15:25.980 compared to having really bright displays 00:15:25.980 --> 00:15:28.460 because it's actually turning off the pixels. 00:15:28.460 --> 00:15:31.420 RAM, you're not replacing it, as far as I can see, 00:15:31.420 --> 00:15:34.300 but the storage is replaceable, which is awesome. 00:15:34.300 --> 00:15:37.060 Like, there's a small chance that the RAM's 00:15:37.060 --> 00:15:40.100 on the other side of this and you can replace it, 00:15:40.100 --> 00:15:42.860 but that's going to be a huge pain in the arse to get at, 00:15:42.860 --> 00:15:44.860 so it's effectively not replaceable. 00:15:44.860 --> 00:15:45.680 As for the big boy, I do love how easy it is to replace. 00:15:45.680 --> 00:15:46.840 It's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:48.760 I do love how easy the bottoms 00:15:48.760 --> 00:15:51.850 of ASUS laptops are to take off. 00:15:51.850 --> 00:15:52.890 Is that a vapor chamber? 00:15:52.890 --> 00:15:54.310 Damn! 00:15:54.310 --> 00:15:57.870 We're not able to do performance or thermal testing on these 00:15:57.870 --> 00:15:59.210 because they're pre-production units 00:15:59.210 --> 00:16:03.410 and not representative of what you'll actually get, 00:16:03.410 --> 00:16:05.970 but this is an impressive cooler. 00:16:05.970 --> 00:16:09.750 This is like gaming laptop spec sort of stuff. 00:16:09.750 --> 00:16:13.010 96-watt-hour battery, that's coming just, 00:16:13.010 --> 00:16:16.790 just under what is legally allowed to go on a plane. 00:16:16.790 --> 00:16:17.950 Same thing here. 00:16:17.950 --> 00:16:19.850 The SSD is replaceable. 00:16:19.850 --> 00:16:21.510 I don't see any RAM. 00:16:21.510 --> 00:16:22.330 Okay, guys. 00:16:22.330 --> 00:16:25.560 Can you settle mine and Jono's debate down in the comments? 00:16:25.560 --> 00:16:27.900 ZenBook 16, ZenBook 14. 00:16:27.900 --> 00:16:29.020 Which one would you want? 00:16:29.020 --> 00:16:30.740 Do you want to flex with the dual screens? 00:16:30.740 --> 00:16:32.420 Do you want the one that's more practical 00:16:32.420 --> 00:16:35.890 for actually using as a professional? 00:16:35.890 --> 00:16:36.730 I don't know. 00:16:36.730 --> 00:16:37.570 Let us know. 00:16:37.570 --> 00:16:39.510 Huge thanks to ASUS for sponsoring this video. 00:16:39.510 --> 00:16:40.750 Hit like, hit subscribe. 00:16:40.750 --> 00:16:44.250 Links are going to be down below for you to buy one of these 00:16:44.250 --> 00:16:45.650 and just have a great old day. 00:16:45.650 --> 00:16:46.450 See ya.