welcome to my Zenbook unboxing this is
very exciting and I am excited to bring
you this exciting new unboxing from the exciting Channel lonus Tech tips which
does unboxings reviews and other computer videos this
is an unboxing but we're also going to do an overview of the unit in general
here is some Packaging and here is other
more different packaging so the Zenbook is part of a new class of notebooks
which is called a thin and light no it's called a thinner and lighter no wait
it's called an Ultra Book yes so an Ultra Book is thinner and lighter than a
thin and light and basically refers to a
class of notebooks that is thinner and lighter than a thin and light yes
totally circular blabbing right now while I get
the packaging opened so the most obvious
competitor for the Zenbook is the MacBook Air although there are other PC
guys who will be releasing Ultra books in the near future great packaging
actually reminiscent of the way Apple uh does the MacBook Air which we also
unboxed so here we are
Zenbook oo I can already see it has USB 3 which is better than the MacBook Air
although the MacBook Air has Thunderbolt which is better than the Zenbook so
let's just give them both some time to reveal their strengths and weaknesses
and we will go from there so let's find out what comes in this little package here we are going to find a USB
connector attached to an Ethernet port
aha so you can run a wired net Network
out of the box on the Zenbook
fascinating next we have oh look at that a little mini connector to VGA you can
run a VGA external monitor out of the box on the Zenbook
Advantage Zen book so far next we have a
power adapter that looks a little something like this actually fairly similar to the
way that uh the MacBook Air does things
except the MacBook Air does have the option to instead extend this cable and
make it even longer and not take up as
much space in your power brick so Advantage MacBook
Air all right what else we got in here ooh it comes with a case that is a big
Advantage Zen book because uh we all
know Apple accessories are not cheap so here we are it comes oh you know
remember those commercials where they showed you the the air fits in an envelope ASUS thought to provide you
with an envelope so you can do that demo all day every day for all of your
friends just going to go ahead and slip that bad boy in there and that is how
much space and ASUS Zen book will take
up okay don't worry we're going to keep going here what else we got for
documentation here Zen
book some like branding there very
nice okay inside we find a battery
notice hm something caution do not dispose of in fire do not put in water
do not eat it that kind of stuff okay next we have a cable tie thank you ASUS
very elegant very not MacBook Air likee all right next we have a notebook
warranty card here's a big Advantage ASUS because you get look at that
complimentary one-year accidental damage
protection plan bam you must register within 60 days from the date of purchase
and follow the simple steps but you get accidental damage protection that
includes water electricity broken screen and
fire wow doesn't cover acts of God however
okay uh okay so what else we got here 12 month limited on the complete unit 24
month new purchase oh okay this is just
General stuff okay so that's not that useful um Beyond The Accidental damage
warranty bit system recovery DVD
fascinating next we have a notebook users manual as well as an LCD cleaning
cloth Advantage Zenbook all right and let's go ahead and
get the Zenbook taken back out of its
envelope here and let's check it out so it is also
slightly lighter than the MacBook Air so these are both I'm comparing both the
13.3 in models so the Zenbook is yeah
I'm cheating I have a cheat sheet down there is 1.3 kg and the MacBook Air is
1.35 kg which actually holding on to the
units doesn't feel that significant to be perfectly honest but that's okay I
mean every Advantage counts right all right let's uh check out the overall
form factor so I'm going to do my uh my
traditional iPhone size comparison so there it is at its thickest point
Point here it is at its thinnest point at the front of the unit I'm going to go
ahead and open it up here and then I want you guys to check out the oops a
little bit tricky to open there we go all right so I want you guys to check it
out on the screen here let's make sure we go y there we go so that's the
thickness of the LED back lit 13in
screen actually I believe it's 13.3
in okay and then there is the bottom of
the unit so there's that thickness comparison so
overall yes it is very thin and very
very light all right uh you know what we're
going to close it back up for a second and so let's have a look at what we've
got in terms of IO here we've got a usb2 port a headphone jack an SD card slot so
far all this is looking pretty familiar along the back we have a hinge excellent
next we have a DC in so there's your
power we also have an a super speed USB
3 Port so that is to combat the Thunderbolt port on the MacBook Air we
also have uh I think it's micro HDMI as well as our Fancy Pants little
one that supports where'd it
go oh no hold on this is this so This
does HDMI and VGA so cool so okay give
me a sec here guys I got to find out what this is got a little confused there guys so
this is the VGA this is the micro HDMI
and this is a light okay so let's go ahead and oh here there's a little lip
here which is going to help you lift up the lid of the Zen
book look at how fancy pants this thing
looks wow okay so we have in traditional
PC fashion actual left and rightclick buttons which will help you left and
right click in the software that you use in your daily life we also have check
this out so ASUS actually got authorization to use altered branding
for Intel Core i7 as well as Windows 7
in a monochrome kind of style so that it wouldn't disrupt the overall look of the
machine we've got sort of your typical ASUS branding here stereo microphone by
the look of things which is pretty cool next to the webcam and then the keyboard
layout let's check out the keyboard layout so the keyboard layout looks very ideal from where I'm sitting right now
we've got long backspace long enter long shift long shift and a reasonably sized
tab we've also got a fairly ideal layout in terms of the arrow keys as well as
pretty much everything else that I can see on here you know what it's pretty
darn similar in fact to the MacBook Air which I'm just going to run over here
and grab because this reminds me of it so
much okay here we go so there there's
both machines side by side so the only only major differences look like the
inclusion of a Windows key on the Windows machine
and yeah that's looking like pretty much
it in fact they even both have their power Keys here although uh looks like
the ASUS Zenbook has not come pre-charged so I'm not going to be able
to turn it on just yet now I do want to take both of these notebooks and I
haven't really done the the finish on the top yet here so this looks just
outstanding it's kind of a a circular here you might need to move to that side
so that we can get the light on it can you see the circular pattern in it yeah
you can okay good so you can see kind of the um well the circular pattern with
the ASUS branding in the top of the notebook here and then on the bottom
very very sharp looking by the way um kind of like stainless steel appliances
sort of thing and then on the bottom instead of a circle it's more like a brushed pattern and then we've got
little plasticky rubbery feet on the bottom as well as ventilation holes all
along the back the unit can be opened up with torque screws all along the bottom
if you needed to well open it up for any
reason in particular so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS's
end book and stay tuned to my ncixcom channnel for a more detailed comparison
of these two notebooks head-to-head and thank you for watching Line's techtips
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