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welcome to my Zenbook unboxing this is

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very exciting and I am excited to bring

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you this exciting new unboxing from the exciting Channel lonus Tech tips which

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does unboxings reviews and other computer videos this

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is an unboxing but we're also going to do an overview of the unit in general

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here is some Packaging and here is other

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more different packaging so the Zenbook is part of a new class of notebooks

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which is called a thin and light no it's called a thinner and lighter no wait

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it's called an Ultra Book yes so an Ultra Book is thinner and lighter than a

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thin and light and basically refers to a

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class of notebooks that is thinner and lighter than a thin and light yes

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totally circular blabbing right now while I get

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the packaging opened so the most obvious

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competitor for the Zenbook is the MacBook Air although there are other PC

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guys who will be releasing Ultra books in the near future great packaging

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actually reminiscent of the way Apple uh does the MacBook Air which we also

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unboxed so here we are

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Zenbook oo I can already see it has USB 3 which is better than the MacBook Air

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although the MacBook Air has Thunderbolt which is better than the Zenbook so

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let's just give them both some time to reveal their strengths and weaknesses

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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

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connector attached to an Ethernet port

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aha so you can run a wired net Network

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out of the box on the Zenbook

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fascinating next we have oh look at that a little mini connector to VGA you can

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run a VGA external monitor out of the box on the Zenbook

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Advantage Zen book so far next we have a

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power adapter that looks a little something like this actually fairly similar to the

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way that uh the MacBook Air does things

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except the MacBook Air does have the option to instead extend this cable and

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make it even longer and not take up as

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much space in your power brick so Advantage MacBook

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Air all right what else we got in here ooh it comes with a case that is a big

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Advantage Zen book because uh we all

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know Apple accessories are not cheap so here we are it comes oh you know

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remember those commercials where they showed you the the air fits in an envelope ASUS thought to provide you

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with an envelope so you can do that demo all day every day for all of your

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friends just going to go ahead and slip that bad boy in there and that is how

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much space and ASUS Zen book will take

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up okay don't worry we're going to keep going here what else we got for

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documentation here Zen

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book some like branding there very

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nice okay inside we find a battery

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notice hm something caution do not dispose of in fire do not put in water

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do not eat it that kind of stuff okay next we have a cable tie thank you ASUS

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very elegant very not MacBook Air likee all right next we have a notebook

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warranty card here's a big Advantage ASUS because you get look at that

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complimentary one-year accidental damage

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protection plan bam you must register within 60 days from the date of purchase

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and follow the simple steps but you get accidental damage protection that

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includes water electricity broken screen and

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fire wow doesn't cover acts of God however

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okay uh okay so what else we got here 12 month limited on the complete unit 24

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month new purchase oh okay this is just

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General stuff okay so that's not that useful um Beyond The Accidental damage

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warranty bit system recovery DVD

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fascinating next we have a notebook users manual as well as an LCD cleaning

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cloth Advantage Zenbook all right and let's go ahead and

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get the Zenbook taken back out of its

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envelope here and let's check it out so it is also

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slightly lighter than the MacBook Air so these are both I'm comparing both the

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13.3 in models so the Zenbook is yeah

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I'm cheating I have a cheat sheet down there is 1.3 kg and the MacBook Air is

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1.35 kg which actually holding on to the

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units doesn't feel that significant to be perfectly honest but that's okay I

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mean every Advantage counts right all right let's uh check out the overall

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form factor so I'm going to do my uh my

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traditional iPhone size comparison so there it is at its thickest point

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Point here it is at its thinnest point at the front of the unit I'm going to go

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ahead and open it up here and then I want you guys to check out the oops a

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little bit tricky to open there we go all right so I want you guys to check it

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out on the screen here let's make sure we go y there we go so that's the

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thickness of the LED back lit 13in

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screen actually I believe it's 13.3

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in okay and then there is the bottom of

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the unit so there's that thickness comparison so

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overall yes it is very thin and very

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very light all right uh you know what we're

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going to close it back up for a second and so let's have a look at what we've

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got in terms of IO here we've got a usb2 port a headphone jack an SD card slot so

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far all this is looking pretty familiar along the back we have a hinge excellent

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next we have a DC in so there's your

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power we also have an a super speed USB

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3 Port so that is to combat the Thunderbolt port on the MacBook Air we

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also have uh I think it's micro HDMI as well as our Fancy Pants little

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one that supports where'd it

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go oh no hold on this is this so This

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does HDMI and VGA so cool so okay give

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me a sec here guys I got to find out what this is got a little confused there guys so

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this is the VGA this is the micro HDMI

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and this is a light okay so let's go ahead and oh here there's a little lip

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here which is going to help you lift up the lid of the Zen

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book look at how fancy pants this thing

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looks wow okay so we have in traditional

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PC fashion actual left and rightclick buttons which will help you left and

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right click in the software that you use in your daily life we also have check

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this out so ASUS actually got authorization to use altered branding

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for Intel Core i7 as well as Windows 7

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in a monochrome kind of style so that it wouldn't disrupt the overall look of the

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machine we've got sort of your typical ASUS branding here stereo microphone by

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the look of things which is pretty cool next to the webcam and then the keyboard

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layout let's check out the keyboard layout so the keyboard layout looks very ideal from where I'm sitting right now

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we've got long backspace long enter long shift long shift and a reasonably sized

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tab we've also got a fairly ideal layout in terms of the arrow keys as well as

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pretty much everything else that I can see on here you know what it's pretty

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darn similar in fact to the MacBook Air which I'm just going to run over here

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and grab because this reminds me of it so

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much okay here we go so there there's

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both machines side by side so the only only major differences look like the

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inclusion of a Windows key on the Windows machine

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and yeah that's looking like pretty much

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it in fact they even both have their power Keys here although uh looks like

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the ASUS Zenbook has not come pre-charged so I'm not going to be able

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to turn it on just yet now I do want to take both of these notebooks and I

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haven't really done the the finish on the top yet here so this looks just

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outstanding it's kind of a a circular here you might need to move to that side

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so that we can get the light on it can you see the circular pattern in it yeah

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you can okay good so you can see kind of the um well the circular pattern with

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the ASUS branding in the top of the notebook here and then on the bottom

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very very sharp looking by the way um kind of like stainless steel appliances

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sort of thing and then on the bottom instead of a circle it's more like a brushed pattern and then we've got

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little plasticky rubbery feet on the bottom as well as ventilation holes all

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along the back the unit can be opened up with torque screws all along the bottom

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if you needed to well open it up for any

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reason in particular so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS's

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end book and stay tuned to my ncixcom channnel for a more detailed comparison

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of these two notebooks head-to-head and thank you for watching Line's techtips

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