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we've got a handful of laptops all set up here for a big old-fashioned

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cinebench run which is pretty much the CPU equivalent of a drag race we've got

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the top performers from Intel over on this side a couple of core i7s their

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latest and greatest mobile core i9 and then this weird one from alienware with

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a desktop eight core processor that's our current king of the hill and then

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over here we've got AMD's desktop eight

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core muscle car equivalent this was only dethroned very recently along with

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something really really special the ASUS

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rog zephyrus ga502 is the first laptop to hit our

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studio that features an AMD mobile ryzen

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processor the ryzen 7 3750h to be exact

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meaning that it was actually made to be used in a laptop

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unlike this one so without further ado gentlemen let's hit it and see if team

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red is able to regain its place at the top of the cinebench leaderboard three

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okay so our two eight core intels are done our

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eight core AMD is done our first core i7 is done over there

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second core i7 is done everyone's done but then

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oh boy um is this supposed to happen yeah

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okay hey it's not about finishing first it's about finishing together so the ga-502

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isn't super fast but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't

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consider it for your next gaming notebook because it has two really big

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things going for it power consumption and price

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let's dig into the specs a little the ryzen 7 3750h only features four cores

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and eight threads with a maximum speed of four gigahertz that's kind of

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surprising given the way that Intel has been pushing up mobile core counts

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recently i thought that was kind of AMD's gem the thing is though for a

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gaming machine there's actually very little benefit to going beyond four

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cores so AMD's approach ends up giving

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us way more bang for the buck so this laptop that we've got right here

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equipped with a gtx 1660 ti max q and 16

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gigs of RAM comes in at only 1200

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dang and in our testing the CPU performed

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admirably i mean by admirably i mean i i wouldn't have

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paired it with a more powerful graphics card or anything but we still managed to

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get aaa games above 60 FPS at high

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details and we comfortably reached 120

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FPS which matches our 120 hertz refresh rate in lighter and esports titles as

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for use outside of gaming we generally saw similar performance to the Intel

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core i5 8300h so nothing amazing but our zephyrus ga502

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stayed cool and quiet even when it was under full synthetic load that doesn't

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mean ASUS didn't make some compromises though moving from the inside to the

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outside compared to the other zephyrus's zephyr psy

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doesn't matter the g0502 doesn't quite

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have the same build quality not that it needs it it lacks visual accents like an

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RGB keyboard and the chassis has a slightly plastickier feel

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but all of that is pretty easy to forgive since most zephyruses

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cost two to three times as much also when compared to similarly priced

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competition like the dell g5 the ga502

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easily takes the cake for overall look and feel like there's basically no

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chassis flex furthermore it's impressively thin for a

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gaming laptop and the metal on the back of the screen and the really thin bezels

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give it a very modern look now the screen itself is merely

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pretty good but once again for the price

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it's more like pretty darn good it's of the 1080p ips variety so no

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fancy retina branding here but it gets

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bright enough for comfortable use in a well-lit office and it sports a 120

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hertz refresh rate making it generally very enjoyable to game on and even

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acceptable for watching movies and shows with the above average speakers adding

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to the experience as well

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as far as connectivity goes the zephyrus has four usb ports one of which is type

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c along with full-sized HDMI headphones

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and Ethernet which is better than most modern devices there's

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no Thunderbolt 3 mind you but you're not going to see that on any AMD devices for

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a little while while Thunderbolt 3 makes the transition to becoming usb4

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one shortfall here though is the wi-fi with just a one by one wi-fi five card

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this thing chugs during large downloads

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like it's it's kind of thing you wouldn't think would be noticeable but

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it definitely is and you're going to want to plug into the wall whenever

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you're installing a game or copying files over the network

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now so far the ga502 has been faring

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pretty well but where most gaming laptops face plant is the trackpad and

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this one actually seemed like it was going to at

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first like for whatever reason my finger kept

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kind of getting stuck on it and skipping around

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but then after using it for a day my hand grease actually made it

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pretty nice and smooth to use so so that's pretty gross um but i guess it

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also goes to show that a little lubrication is never a bad thing and the

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usability score keeps getting better the keyboard is downright excellent no

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finger lube required it's got a snappy short throw that easily beats out the

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dell g5 and acer's helios 300 while

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still being both comfortable and quiet

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now as i mentioned before it doesn't have an RGB backlight but it is still

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backlit which is a lot of help if you're working on assignments at night and

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you're not a comfortable touch typist and there's more good news for the slow

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typists out there the 76 watt hour battery gave us close to five hours on a

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single charge in our standard test now that's not an amazing result compared to

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a low power ultrabook but it's way better than similar gaming laptops and

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well beyond the threshold of usable so i can't really complain

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what i will complain about though ASUS is where the holy hell is the webcam

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i really hope that you guys figure out how to get a webcam in a small bezel

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laptop sooner rather than later i mean dell did it i'm gonna get real sick at

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telling you guys that no webcam at all

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is in fact worse than having a bad or

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even a poorly positioned webcam the thing that makes this really difficult

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though is that you guys are never going

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to learn if i don't stop recommending your bloody devices like honestly even

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even this would be better i think actually

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no i'm not sure that that would be better back to the recommendation

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there's no getting around it for me if you guys are looking for a somewhat

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budget-oriented gaming laptop you should go grab a zephyrus ga502

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so that's all there is to it end of video right

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no not quite yet because here's a big question

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why is it that AMD was able to so

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effectively crush the Intel competition

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in this market segment well as it turns out this is less of a

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win for AMD and more of a colossal

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screw-up from Intel so when oems are speccing out their

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systems Intel will offer kickbacks if one of their higher-end processors like

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a core i7 gets used even if that processor doesn't make a

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ton of sense for the rest of the configuration so if you were ever wondering what is up

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with those weird laptops where the CPU power vastly outstrips the GPU that's

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what's been going on here because in many cases a quad-core core i5 is going

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to keep up with a 1660 ti or even up to

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a 20-70 max q and it'll do it at a lower price

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but Intel's branding strategy is leaving this giant hole in the market that AMD

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has filled quite tightly here simply by allowing laptops with their processors

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in them to be specced in a way that makes sense for gamers

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this just in at computex 2019 laptops

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are revealed from dell and lenovo featuring i5 processors and 1660 ti's

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seemingly in response to AMD's pressure at this price point

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now this news does not change your recommendation of the ga 502 but it's

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still very exciting and gives consumers extra options now back to you Linus

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so once again AMD's return to competitiveness is a win for consumers

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