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we're here at CES 2025 in Asus Booth where they have sponsored this video I'm

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going to tell you about how they're actually delivering really great value

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on a lot of laptops starting with this right here this Zenbook A14 and it is

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just so incredibly like look at this it

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is under a kilogram 980 and that gets you a 70w hour battery

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which they claim is good for 32 hours of

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video playback now of course like every single brand that is an out to lunch

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will never happen number but at the same time you can take off half of that and

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still have better battery performance than basically everything on the market

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now how do they manage that well it's a 70w hour battery like we just said but

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also this gets Qualcomm Snapdragon processors this is actually the first

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laptop that we've seen with a Snapdragon X not the X+ or the X Elite just the X

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which gets you eight cores unlike the 10 which is also available with the X+ none

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of that explains though how they managed to get this so freaking light they're

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able to get it under a kilogram by using a magnesium aluminum alloy which is the

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sort of thing that is typically reserved for the most expensive of laptops on the

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market the thing is though this thing is just

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$899.99 starting price and you still get 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD for that

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and man that is a good value especially when you feel this thing it is SAR

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aluminum coated across the entire device

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Asus has heavily invested in this process and it used to only be the back

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cover of a laptop and only on the most expensive ones that they had but now the

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whole thing is just covered in it and it feels incredible this just feels great

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and also like I am show floor sweaty at the moment look at this look that would

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be disgusting on any other laptop but it's still looking great another thing

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that's really neat about this laptop is that it comes with a 1080p OLED display

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but it almost has like a matte finish a lot of OLED displays are super glossy so

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using them in bright environments is kind of tough but this right here does

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not have any cover glass which lowers the weight and also just makes it work

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incredibly well in these super challenging lighting environments that

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said though if you buy it from Best Buy in the US it will have coverglass which

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increases the weight by a little bit but does make it feel a touch more premium

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if that's what you want but of course I have seen many a thin and light laptop

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be ruined by terrible IO but fortunately that is not the case here we have

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headphone microphone combo two USB-C's

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HDMI 2.1 and on the other side a USB

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type A just to make sure that that still exists in your life maybe though you're

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still looking for a bit more value and that's where the Vivo book line comes in

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this is the Vivo book 14 not to be confused with the s model which we'll

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look at later and as far as I can tell this is the cheapest Snapdragon X

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equipped laptop on the market so you still get that like 20 hours of battery

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life from a 50w hour battery that actually pans out well it won't we know

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that but you'll still get great battery life but of course the real selling

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point of this is the price it is just $699.99 and that gets you 16 GB of RAM

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and a 512 GB SSD and kind of just

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everything that you need in laptop once again we have solid IO including HDMI

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2.1 they didn't cheap out on that love to see it two USB type A's and a type c

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oh two type C's and a very nice bonus at

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this price point is we also get Windows hello facial recognition so you can log

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in by just being in front of your computer and one thing I really really

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appreciate is just right here you can turn off the webcam just flick the

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switch over you don't have to worry about anyone looking at you or if being

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weird or accidentally still being on a zoom call many hours later is it the

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prettiest or latest ever no it's just plastic but that said I think it is a

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pretty great value if you want a little bit more screen though you can pay an

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extra $50 and get an extra 2 in with the Vivo book 16 very nice if you want

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something a little bit more premium though you have the Asus Zenbook S14

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comes in at 1.39 kgr very nice and light

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and that is accomplished by using this aluminum chassis right here you also the

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option of Intel or AMD and maybe in other markets Qualcomm depending on

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where you live but overall this is going to be a very enticing laptop especially

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at the price that it comes in at for $199.99 you get an AMD ai9 HX 370 32 GB

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of RAM and a 1 TB SSD making this an

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incredibly appealing config especially when you pair that with the OLED panel

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on this which just looks freaking fantastic again there's nothing super

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crazy about this laptop you get solid selection of I/O very similar to the

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base model but it just does its job as a

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laptop very well ah no touch

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though again if you want a slightly larger screen the B book S6 comes in at

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1099 also but that gets you 16 GB of RAM

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and a 1 TB SSD instead of the 32 that

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you get on the 14 with that said though maybe you want this laptop but you want

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it to look a lot more funner well then you need to be in China this right here

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is the Asus adol 14 air which is the

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same as the North American S14 but they

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did a cab with Anna sui which gets you these really fun little Graphics here

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the really nice colors they have a bunch of them but the most

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interesting it's a fragrant laptop it

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has a little thing here so you turn this little dial it pops out you turn turn

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this and then inside there's a little

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fragrance thing so what they're doing is as your laptop heats up it heats up this

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fragrance and then you get nice smells when you use your laptop

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uh let Asus know Down Below in the comments if you want this sort of fun

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design of laptops to come to North America I think it should I really

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appreciate laptops that aren't just boring maybe though you've got a large

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or small business and you want something that's a bit more secure and a bit more

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upgradeable well Asus has told me that these are super upgradeable and

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repairable laptops so let's put it to the

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test we're taking it apart of course we are they have a blown up one right there

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not good enough on their professional laptops they have tried very hard to

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limit the number of screws that you need to undo so this one right here is six

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many of them are just four four inside

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of this expert book P3 you can see that we have two upgradeable RAM slots

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upgradeable Wi-Fi rate here and an upgradable SSD many of these also come

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with two SSD slots although the one we opened up specifically turns out it

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doesn't what also is really cool is you can see all this metal reinforcement

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over all of the io they say that that greatly increases the number of

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insertions that it's rated for and just generally UPS the durability of this

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device by quite a bit and here we we also get a lot of really cool stuff like

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Hardware TPM that can be really good for security and on their expert B Series

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Laptops you get dual BIOS on this right here you get a self-healing BIOS so if a

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cosmic ray just so happens to hit your BIOS chip you are not out of luck here

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we also get a 63w hour battery which they say is completely toolless to

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remove apparently this is the number one thing that businesses will replace on

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their laptops so if we come in here just move those over oh come on unlock unlock

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look at that two things right there and

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your battery can be replaced this can just greatly increase how much you can

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get out of your laptop cuz maybe in 2 3 years it's not lasting too long don't

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even need to undo any screws to get the battery out absolutely love to see it

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the expert series of laptops you can just configure kind of whatever you want

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from pretty cheap to very very expensive

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depending on your needs you get to decide you have a business you get to do

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whatever you want just like how the business side of Asus decided to sponsor

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this video huge thanks guys for watching this hit like get subscribed and let us

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know what kind of weird stuff you want them to bring to North America I really

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want that scented laptop it's hilarious have a good day