we're here at CES 2025 in Asus Booth where they have sponsored this video I'm
going to tell you about how they're actually delivering really great value
on a lot of laptops starting with this right here this Zenbook A14 and it is
just so incredibly like look at this it
is under a kilogram 980 and that gets you a 70w hour battery
which they claim is good for 32 hours of
video playback now of course like every single brand that is an out to lunch
will never happen number but at the same time you can take off half of that and
still have better battery performance than basically everything on the market
now how do they manage that well it's a 70w hour battery like we just said but
also this gets Qualcomm Snapdragon processors this is actually the first
laptop that we've seen with a Snapdragon X not the X+ or the X Elite just the X
which gets you eight cores unlike the 10 which is also available with the X+ none
of that explains though how they managed to get this so freaking light they're
able to get it under a kilogram by using a magnesium aluminum alloy which is the
sort of thing that is typically reserved for the most expensive of laptops on the
market the thing is though this thing is just
$899.99 starting price and you still get 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD for that
and man that is a good value especially when you feel this thing it is SAR
aluminum coated across the entire device
Asus has heavily invested in this process and it used to only be the back
cover of a laptop and only on the most expensive ones that they had but now the
whole thing is just covered in it and it feels incredible this just feels great
and also like I am show floor sweaty at the moment look at this look that would
be disgusting on any other laptop but it's still looking great another thing
that's really neat about this laptop is that it comes with a 1080p OLED display
but it almost has like a matte finish a lot of OLED displays are super glossy so
using them in bright environments is kind of tough but this right here does
not have any cover glass which lowers the weight and also just makes it work
incredibly well in these super challenging lighting environments that
said though if you buy it from Best Buy in the US it will have coverglass which
increases the weight by a little bit but does make it feel a touch more premium
if that's what you want but of course I have seen many a thin and light laptop
be ruined by terrible IO but fortunately that is not the case here we have
headphone microphone combo two USB-C's
HDMI 2.1 and on the other side a USB
type A just to make sure that that still exists in your life maybe though you're
still looking for a bit more value and that's where the Vivo book line comes in
this is the Vivo book 14 not to be confused with the s model which we'll
look at later and as far as I can tell this is the cheapest Snapdragon X
equipped laptop on the market so you still get that like 20 hours of battery
life from a 50w hour battery that actually pans out well it won't we know
that but you'll still get great battery life but of course the real selling
point of this is the price it is just $699.99 and that gets you 16 GB of RAM
and a 512 GB SSD and kind of just
everything that you need in laptop once again we have solid IO including HDMI
2.1 they didn't cheap out on that love to see it two USB type A's and a type c
oh two type C's and a very nice bonus at
this price point is we also get Windows hello facial recognition so you can log
in by just being in front of your computer and one thing I really really
appreciate is just right here you can turn off the webcam just flick the
switch over you don't have to worry about anyone looking at you or if being
weird or accidentally still being on a zoom call many hours later is it the
prettiest or latest ever no it's just plastic but that said I think it is a
pretty great value if you want a little bit more screen though you can pay an
extra $50 and get an extra 2 in with the Vivo book 16 very nice if you want
something a little bit more premium though you have the Asus Zenbook S14
comes in at 1.39 kgr very nice and light
and that is accomplished by using this aluminum chassis right here you also the
option of Intel or AMD and maybe in other markets Qualcomm depending on
where you live but overall this is going to be a very enticing laptop especially
at the price that it comes in at for $199.99 you get an AMD ai9 HX 370 32 GB
of RAM and a 1 TB SSD making this an
incredibly appealing config especially when you pair that with the OLED panel
on this which just looks freaking fantastic again there's nothing super
crazy about this laptop you get solid selection of I/O very similar to the
base model but it just does its job as a
laptop very well ah no touch
though again if you want a slightly larger screen the B book S6 comes in at
1099 also but that gets you 16 GB of RAM
and a 1 TB SSD instead of the 32 that
you get on the 14 with that said though maybe you want this laptop but you want
it to look a lot more funner well then you need to be in China this right here
is the Asus adol 14 air which is the
same as the North American S14 but they
did a cab with Anna sui which gets you these really fun little Graphics here
the really nice colors they have a bunch of them but the most
interesting it's a fragrant laptop it
has a little thing here so you turn this little dial it pops out you turn turn
this and then inside there's a little
fragrance thing so what they're doing is as your laptop heats up it heats up this
fragrance and then you get nice smells when you use your laptop
uh let Asus know Down Below in the comments if you want this sort of fun
design of laptops to come to North America I think it should I really
appreciate laptops that aren't just boring maybe though you've got a large
or small business and you want something that's a bit more secure and a bit more
upgradeable well Asus has told me that these are super upgradeable and
repairable laptops so let's put it to the
test we're taking it apart of course we are they have a blown up one right there
not good enough on their professional laptops they have tried very hard to
limit the number of screws that you need to undo so this one right here is six
many of them are just four four inside
of this expert book P3 you can see that we have two upgradeable RAM slots
upgradeable Wi-Fi rate here and an upgradable SSD many of these also come
with two SSD slots although the one we opened up specifically turns out it
doesn't what also is really cool is you can see all this metal reinforcement
over all of the io they say that that greatly increases the number of
insertions that it's rated for and just generally UPS the durability of this
device by quite a bit and here we we also get a lot of really cool stuff like
Hardware TPM that can be really good for security and on their expert B Series
Laptops you get dual BIOS on this right here you get a self-healing BIOS so if a
cosmic ray just so happens to hit your BIOS chip you are not out of luck here
we also get a 63w hour battery which they say is completely toolless to
remove apparently this is the number one thing that businesses will replace on
their laptops so if we come in here just move those over oh come on unlock unlock
look at that two things right there and
your battery can be replaced this can just greatly increase how much you can
get out of your laptop cuz maybe in 2 3 years it's not lasting too long don't
even need to undo any screws to get the battery out absolutely love to see it
the expert series of laptops you can just configure kind of whatever you want
from pretty cheap to very very expensive
depending on your needs you get to decide you have a business you get to do
whatever you want just like how the business side of Asus decided to sponsor
this video huge thanks guys for watching this hit like get subscribed and let us
know what kind of weird stuff you want them to bring to North America I really
want that scented laptop it's hilarious have a good day