CES 2021 is in full swing here at our
office and behind me is not one not two but seven brand new gaming laptops from
ASUS including this one which has
onboard Graphics a dedicated GPU and a
second dedicated GPU that hangs off the side of it that's right this right here
is an RTX wait are we not allowed to say the
specs yet not at all well that's fine
viewers are really smart so I'm sure that if I said this is the powerful next
gen graphics card for mobile they can put the pieces together so come on let
me show you this stuff after I change into my segue pants and hey do you look
at that I'm already wearing
them right out of the gate ASUS has seemingly broken the laws of
thermodynamics with the Rog flow x13 on
the surface it appears to be a solid thin and light notebook with some Rog
flare so it's 1.3 kg and 15.3 mm thick
kind of like an XPS 13 or a razor book
but thinner and lighter than both of them and it flips around like this
pretty cool I'd forgive you for assuming that it's got a quad core CPU and
integrated Graphics but no not at all in
this miniature monster we have a Next Gen ryzen processor which rumors
indicate could give it up to processing cores and what it's someone else's rumor
we can report on that up to eight processing cores and a GTX
1650 that's the same amount of power as an XPS 15 which is considerably heavier
now we can't do performance testing or game on it until the 26th so get
subscribed to see if the answer to how the heck they did this is just made it
super loud but ASUS has given us a couple of Clues it seems they've taken
what they learned from the Rog Mothership that a laptop performs better
when it's pulling fresh air in instead of you know suffocating against the
surface of a table and they've applied that same logic with maximum performance
apparently being available in either stand or tent mode even better this
screen doesn't just hit the points for a notebook including being the only laptop
here that actually has a webcam it demolishes them as far as I know this is
the first 16x by10 touchcreen with a 120
HZ refresh rate it's like they made this thing for me given my first look so far
my main criticism is the trackpad is on the small side and I would have loved to
see them move the keyboard up just a little bit to give it more room but I
suspect they needed as much space as possible up here for cooling while still
giving you decent keyboard travel IO is
surprisingly solid for a notebook in this class we've got USB type c and type
A along with a power button does that have a fingerprint sensor in it I don't think so kind of looks like it should
well we'll figure that out in the production units along with an audio
jack HDMI port and a what in the crap is
this thing okay that is where things get
extra spicy if you heard GTX 1650 and
thought great I get to play cyberpunk at 18 frames per second fear not in my hand
is the XG mobile GPU and inside it is
the next gen mobile graphics card that I talked about it connects through this
proprietary connector that supplies PCI Express by8 for the GPU and remember
this is Gen 4 so by8 is a lot of
bandwidth along with I yes a USB type-c
for a healthy mix of extra ports that you can plug all your other crap into
now unsurprisingly this all doesn't come
cheap and I don't have finalized pricing but ASUS told us to expect about the
price of a zephrus G14 for the laptop and another zephrus G14 for the egpu
dock thing so that's a a big ouch what's
going to be exactly the price of a zephrus G14 though is well the new
zephrus G14 on the outside not a whole
lot has changed here but that isn't a problem given the original G14
absolutely effortlessly took our gaming laptop of the Year award in 2020 now we
don't know exactly what's inside besides new ryzen and new NVIDIA stuff but based
off the old model we can pretty safely guess it'll be packing an 8 core ryzen
5000 processor that'll make its Intel counterparts blush and a 60 class RTX
graphics card honestly the biggest upgrade on this one though is the screen
with a 1440p 144z panel this is exactly
what we've been asking for in a gaming laptop for years now we recently did a
ShortCircuit video where we looked at this screen actually a lot of these
screens frankensteined onto the older models so we could actually game on them
so you should go check out that video if you want to hear my full thoughts one
can only fit so much power into a laptop of this size though and that is where
the all new zephrus g15 comes in and she
is a beauty now in the past ASUS has
made premium gaming laptops but they've always skewed heavily gamery and often
included what I will describe as interesting design decisions that
occasional Gamers would just find unacceptable but here ASUS has finally
made something that not only has the horses but also the looks to go
toe-to-toe with the best of alien wear or razor by the way it's also available
in Black if you don't trust yourself to keep this one clean we've got a massive
glass topped trackpad a very good keyboard with a nice soft touch feel and
a 90w hour battery to hopefully deliver
all day juice well we'll have to see how that goes again we only know for sure
that it will have a NextGen ryzen CPU and NVIDIA GPU but the rumors are that
it'll have up to an 8 core ryzen 5900 HX
and a freaking RTX 380 all of the frames will be beamed to
your eyeballs via a 1440p yes 65 HZ
screen with 100% dcp3 coverage what
doesn't deliver as much color though is the keyboard CU as far as we can tell it
only does white so if you're craving something a bit more colorful well we've
got our keyboard t-shirts in your favorite colors like brown at LTD
store.com and also this ASUS RG stricks
g15 ah yes there's the Unicorn vomit you
guys were all waiting for much better
here we get a replaceable vanity plate wait where's the vanity plate here we
get a replaceable vanity plate so that's
neat I guess uh and a cool kind of like
see-through design on the top that's reminiscent of like N64 controllers from
the late '90s uh with some more
thickness compared to the zephrus and also a Next Gen ryzen processor that
either will run cooler or quieter or
will just get pushed to the absolute limit so that it can handle the up to
300 htz full HD panel option the big
selling point here though is the mechanical keyboard
which very interesting is quite clicky
indeed if you want this but bigger we've
also got this Trix G7 you can see we've
swapped oh well this one doesn't seem to either it doesn't have the vanity plate
or it's like broken on this early unit the rumors say this one will Top
out at an RTX 3070 but if I had to guess
I would say the up to 360 HZ display
would indicate that it might need a little bit more grunt than that moving
on we've got this laptop ah that came in
a box and the reason we left it in the box is cuz the box is actually kind of
cool come on over here Brandon oh yeah
how's that for box un undoing unboxing
look at that list it right out of the box for you isn't that convenient this
is the updated zephrus duo with a 4K 120
HZ panel on the top with 100% Adobe RGB
and a secondary touchscreen this thing
is a beast for Content creators and Gamers alike once again we get a next
gen ryzen CPU and NextGen NVIDIA Graphics presumably the fastest ones
available and a 90w hour battery to hopefully keep both screens going for I
don't know maybe half a day that seems like a a lot to run on battery does it
not finally we've got the ASUS tough
Dash F15 there it is oh there's so many laptops on the table its main selling
point is a good price to Performance ratio and surprisingly this is the only
Intel laptop out of the entire Bunch wow
the times really have changed haven't they just like I'm changing from the
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Linus if you guys enjoyed this video hey go check out the ShortCircuit one where
I was able to actually game on these screens at least and give you some first
impressions