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CES 2021 is in full swing here at our

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office and behind me is not one not two but seven brand new gaming laptops from

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ASUS including this one which has

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onboard Graphics a dedicated GPU and a

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second dedicated GPU that hangs off the side of it that's right this right here

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is an RTX wait are we not allowed to say the

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specs yet not at all well that's fine

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viewers are really smart so I'm sure that if I said this is the powerful next

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gen graphics card for mobile they can put the pieces together so come on let

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me show you this stuff after I change into my segue pants and hey do you look

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at that I'm already wearing

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them right out of the gate ASUS has seemingly broken the laws of

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thermodynamics with the Rog flow x13 on

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the surface it appears to be a solid thin and light notebook with some Rog

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flare so it's 1.3 kg and 15.3 mm thick

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kind of like an XPS 13 or a razor book

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but thinner and lighter than both of them and it flips around like this

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pretty cool I'd forgive you for assuming that it's got a quad core CPU and

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integrated Graphics but no not at all in

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this miniature monster we have a Next Gen ryzen processor which rumors

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indicate could give it up to processing cores and what it's someone else's rumor

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we can report on that up to eight processing cores and a GTX

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1650 that's the same amount of power as an XPS 15 which is considerably heavier

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now we can't do performance testing or game on it until the 26th so get

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subscribed to see if the answer to how the heck they did this is just made it

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super loud but ASUS has given us a couple of Clues it seems they've taken

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what they learned from the Rog Mothership that a laptop performs better

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when it's pulling fresh air in instead of you know suffocating against the

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surface of a table and they've applied that same logic with maximum performance

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apparently being available in either stand or tent mode even better this

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screen doesn't just hit the points for a notebook including being the only laptop

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here that actually has a webcam it demolishes them as far as I know this is

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the first 16x by10 touchcreen with a 120

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HZ refresh rate it's like they made this thing for me given my first look so far

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my main criticism is the trackpad is on the small side and I would have loved to

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see them move the keyboard up just a little bit to give it more room but I

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suspect they needed as much space as possible up here for cooling while still

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giving you decent keyboard travel IO is

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surprisingly solid for a notebook in this class we've got USB type c and type

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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

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well we'll figure that out in the production units along with an audio

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jack HDMI port and a what in the crap is

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this thing okay that is where things get

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extra spicy if you heard GTX 1650 and

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thought great I get to play cyberpunk at 18 frames per second fear not in my hand

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is the XG mobile GPU and inside it is

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the next gen mobile graphics card that I talked about it connects through this

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proprietary connector that supplies PCI Express by8 for the GPU and remember

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this is Gen 4 so by8 is a lot of

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bandwidth along with I yes a USB type-c

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for a healthy mix of extra ports that you can plug all your other crap into

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now unsurprisingly this all doesn't come

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cheap and I don't have finalized pricing but ASUS told us to expect about the

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price of a zephrus G14 for the laptop and another zephrus G14 for the egpu

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dock thing so that's a a big ouch what's

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going to be exactly the price of a zephrus G14 though is well the new

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zephrus G14 on the outside not a whole

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lot has changed here but that isn't a problem given the original G14

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absolutely effortlessly took our gaming laptop of the Year award in 2020 now we

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don't know exactly what's inside besides new ryzen and new NVIDIA stuff but based

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off the old model we can pretty safely guess it'll be packing an 8 core ryzen

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5000 processor that'll make its Intel counterparts blush and a 60 class RTX

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graphics card honestly the biggest upgrade on this one though is the screen

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with a 1440p 144z panel this is exactly

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what we've been asking for in a gaming laptop for years now we recently did a

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ShortCircuit video where we looked at this screen actually a lot of these

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screens frankensteined onto the older models so we could actually game on them

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so you should go check out that video if you want to hear my full thoughts one

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can only fit so much power into a laptop of this size though and that is where

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the all new zephrus g15 comes in and she

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is a beauty now in the past ASUS has

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made premium gaming laptops but they've always skewed heavily gamery and often

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included what I will describe as interesting design decisions that

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occasional Gamers would just find unacceptable but here ASUS has finally

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made something that not only has the horses but also the looks to go

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toe-to-toe with the best of alien wear or razor by the way it's also available

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in Black if you don't trust yourself to keep this one clean we've got a massive

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glass topped trackpad a very good keyboard with a nice soft touch feel and

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a 90w hour battery to hopefully deliver

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all day juice well we'll have to see how that goes again we only know for sure

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that it will have a NextGen ryzen CPU and NVIDIA GPU but the rumors are that

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it'll have up to an 8 core ryzen 5900 HX

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and a freaking RTX 380 all of the frames will be beamed to

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your eyeballs via a 1440p yes 65 HZ

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screen with 100% dcp3 coverage what

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doesn't deliver as much color though is the keyboard CU as far as we can tell it

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only does white so if you're craving something a bit more colorful well we've

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got our keyboard t-shirts in your favorite colors like brown at LTD

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store.com and also this ASUS RG stricks

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g15 ah yes there's the Unicorn vomit you

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guys were all waiting for much better

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here we get a replaceable vanity plate wait where's the vanity plate here we

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get a replaceable vanity plate so that's

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neat I guess uh and a cool kind of like

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see-through design on the top that's reminiscent of like N64 controllers from

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the late '90s uh with some more

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thickness compared to the zephrus and also a Next Gen ryzen processor that

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either will run cooler or quieter or

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will just get pushed to the absolute limit so that it can handle the up to

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300 htz full HD panel option the big

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selling point here though is the mechanical keyboard

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which very interesting is quite clicky

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indeed if you want this but bigger we've

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also got this Trix G7 you can see we've

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swapped oh well this one doesn't seem to either it doesn't have the vanity plate

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or it's like broken on this early unit the rumors say this one will Top

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out at an RTX 3070 but if I had to guess

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I would say the up to 360 HZ display

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would indicate that it might need a little bit more grunt than that moving

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on we've got this laptop ah that came in

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a box and the reason we left it in the box is cuz the box is actually kind of

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cool come on over here Brandon oh yeah

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how's that for box un undoing unboxing

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look at that list it right out of the box for you isn't that convenient this

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is the updated zephrus duo with a 4K 120

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HZ panel on the top with 100% Adobe RGB

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and a secondary touchscreen this thing

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is a beast for Content creators and Gamers alike once again we get a next

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gen ryzen CPU and NextGen NVIDIA Graphics presumably the fastest ones

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available and a 90w hour battery to hopefully keep both screens going for I

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don't know maybe half a day that seems like a a lot to run on battery does it

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not finally we've got the ASUS tough

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Dash F15 there it is oh there's so many laptops on the table its main selling

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point is a good price to Performance ratio and surprisingly this is the only

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Intel laptop out of the entire Bunch wow

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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

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I was able to actually game on these screens at least and give you some first

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impressions