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when NVIDIA released their max-q line of low-power gaming gpus notebook

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manufacturers fighting to make their devices as thin and powerful as possible

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made headlines with some let's call them unconventional designs

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i'm sorry you put the trackpad where oh

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i don't know if that's any better now they were cool to play with but the

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usability sacrifices made them very

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hard to recommend so ASUS

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backtracked on some of their more edgy design choices in this the second

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generation zephyrus

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the zephyrus gm 501 is a sexy machine

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and opening it up at the local coffee shop is bound to draw attention the guy

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watching summit 1g on twitch will notice the keyboard area lifting up creating a

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gap for the internals to breathe and then everyone else will probably turn

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their heads when you boot it up

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really guys that's the idea you rip off from acer

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and you guys will hear just a moment the uh

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start engine noise that comes with this notebook it's pretty cool anyway

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the vent flap itself is a little flimsy feeling when it's

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lifted but the feel of the entire machine including the keyboard is

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nothing short of premium noticeably better than last gen

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and the flap closes when you pack up making it a total non-concern if you

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want to throw the zephyrus into your bag and then get to class

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if the first thing you do when you get home is fire up netflix or a game stream

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the speakers are potent enough that you won't need to grab a pair of headphones

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but if you want to be the one doing the streaming you are definitely going to

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need some accessories in spite of the fairly complete io including Thunderbolt

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3. first and foremost you're going to want a type c to DisplayPort adapter for

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your external display then you're going gonna want a gigabit

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Ethernet adapter and finally you are definitely going to want a

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different webcam because the one that's included is well i think the best way to

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put it is not very exceptional

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even if you are considerably better looking than me

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it's definitely got enough power though not only will its full fat gtx 1070 push

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a high enough frame rate in modern aaa titles but its six core CPU means that

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finally we've got a portable device that

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covers you for both your game and your streaming coding the experience

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is shockingly similar to what you'd get from a very decent desktop machine

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but the same is not true of acoustics and

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thermals with a full blown synthetic load there

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is some overheating at first despite the

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spoiler but the good news is that the frequency on the CPU doesn't drop too

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much to get the temps reasonable again so in productivity tasks the new

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zephyrus is faster than every 7th gen

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laptop we tested and the only laptop it loses to in cinebench is the g702 zc

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that one with eight ryzen cores with an actual desktop chip in it so needless to

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say this one is about 44 thinner than that

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one so this is great news for video editors or other on-the-go content

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creators as for gaming well you've actually got a

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couple of tuning options in shadow of war in silent mode we got 77 frames per

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second which is respectable but it clearly wasn't designed to be used like

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that so we toggled overboost cranking up

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the fans now this is not a quiet experience

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but if you play games with sound especially if you wear headphones it's

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definitely worth it 104 FPS

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dang like that is an insane improvement so with the fans on bust the zephyrus

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beats out even its much thicker 7th gen siblings and that is in spite of a touch

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of thermal throttling on the CPU

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probably the coolest thing happening in laptops right now alongside incredible

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performance is high refresh rate displays and this 1080p ips one is

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fantastic now the colors aren't quite what i would

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describe as pro grade but

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they are heaps better than any high refresh rate laptop display from a year

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or two ago and at 144 hertz with g-sync you will finally

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be getting the most out of your op mobile graphics card

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so there are no huge surprises so far

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a gaming laptop that games

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but it's actually more than just a one trick pony the RGB lighting on the keyboard

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might not be for everyone but this typing experience

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probably will be most gaming laptops have low actuation

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force keys that are awesome for quick split second actions but fall flat once

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you try and type but with a long 1.7 millimeter travel

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the zephyrus offers a surprisingly tactile feel like i could easily sit and

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write scripts or long letters to people who are mad about my recent you know

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insert controversial topic here video on it

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below the keyboard is a trackpad

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it's a little on the small side but thanks to its somewhat sensible

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positioning thank you ASUS it's perfectly suitable for casual on-the-go

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use that is if you want to carry around

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the 1.8 pound power adapter with you

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on the go

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on the subject of which we were actually expecting much better battery life than

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other gaming laptops ASUS has given you

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the option to turn off g-sync and then

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with a restart enable NVIDIA optimus

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which lets the laptop use the Intel integrated graphics for tasks like web

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browsing and microsoft word but in practice we were still only

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getting around two and a half hours in our work battery test

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and opening it up reveals why the 55 watt hour battery doesn't stand a

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chance against a six core CPU now i

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think the solution is ditching the two and a half inch drive bay for more

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battery capacity here but the upgraders out there might like

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it better this way maybe let us know in the comments

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so is the zephyrus for you then

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well at 2200 us dollars for the gtx 1070

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model with some better battery it would be a

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lot easier to recommend but that doesn't mean we're recommending against it

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either because the zephyrus has one of the best mobile gaming experiences

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available on the market it's got an awesome keyboard great screen and heaps

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of sex appeal so if you can afford the not entirely

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ludicrous premium the zephyrus gm 501

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asks for the fewest compromises we've seen out of a gaming thin and light so

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twitch will probably notice the keyboard area lifting up

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as you'll