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that the whole thing pops up when you open it up it's kind of fancy wow there's so much going on in this box like do we have something back here oh geez oh it comes with a little like case your laptop's going to get way less scratched when you throw it in bags or stuff it feels kind of cheap though but whatever oh this is a bad sign uh so included first of all we have usba to Ethernet i actually really like to see this the thing that concerns me though is we have a usb type-c to headphone jack is there not one on here there's no way there's no way guys right they wouldn't just can a headphone jack would they it hardly would they certainly would yeah i'm pretty concerned now let's see what do we have for power 65 watts okay so that's not too bad apparently you can charge i think 60 of the battery in 50 minutes using this thing no nothing else here we go the main show it's light wow two and a half pounds which is what like 1.3 ish kilograms it feels really good like just like this i believe the whole thing is cnc machined aluminum so it's not surprising that it feels good let's actually open it though wow i really like the i guess you could call it machining marks i don't exactly know what it is but the little texture that's on the back panel here just looks really nice but the big question oh my god they did it guys no headphone jack what are they thinking it would have been tight but also like what the hell come on i just want to be able to plug actual headphones in especially since ASUS is kind of known for having good dax oh yeah i guess i can tell you what they actually included so we do have a full-size HDMI two usb type-c Thunderbolt yeah they're both Thunderbolt and then on the other side we have a full-size type a and a micro sd card reader it's kind of annoying that they don't have type c on both sides for charging but it's a pretty small complaint no headphone though what the heck i just got my fingerprints all over the back of this thing and you can hardly tell let's uh start it up and by it i mean our sponsor transition to mob mic with the antlion audio modmic wireless microphone you can attach the mic to your favorite headphones it goes onto your headphones simply with a magnetic mounting system and has 12 hours of battery life and you can also use it while it's charging it has cross-platform compatibility and works with pc Windows mac and ps4 check it out at LMG.gg wireless modmic here we go the bezels here are really thin but the first thing that i noticed is that they're plastic uh how expensive is this thing this is a budget orientated device okay as the plastic bezels suggested this is not the most expensive laptop on the market so for eleven hundred dollars you get an i7 1165 g7 16 gigs of RAM i believe a whole one terabyte hard drive or SSD i mean yeah and the 67 watt hour battery so those specs for that price with like you know aluminum and stuff it's actually pretty compelling as long as like you know the rest of it sort of falls in line wow every time that i pick it up i'm surprised by how light it is like but that would probably be the selling point for me personally with this thing apparently we got a full-blown calculator numpad on our trackpad here that's kind of weird but if it works well that's awesome i guess that was way more satisfying than i thought it would be let's start it up oh come on ASUS so i realize this is probably a pre-production model but like Windows isn't activated i want to change the desktop background because it looks like they have just kind of like a compressed wallpaper here so i can't really tell how good the screen is but i can't change it because they didn't activate the damn thing what no i don't want Linux wallpapers i want Linus there we go charlie oh god yeah my thoughts on the screen just after you know this little bit of beauty got put on it it's pretty good so you have three options for the display that you get from this there's a 300 nit 1080p 400 nit 1080p and i believe a 4k you want to go for the 400 nit because it's also the one that consumes the least amount of power surprisingly so you get 400 nits and at 150 nits it only consumes 1 watt so that means that if you know you can knock the brightness down a couple of notches she goes for a long time according to ASUS this will last for 21 hours i don't believe them i think they're full of crap but you're you're still probably going to be able to get like 15 hours or something like that out of it which is pretty awesome oh also lttstore.com get some boxers they're nice actually david can you get in close on the track pad here some kind of weirdness i'm kind of sticking to it i'm not a fan they're kind of like sticking i have noticed this before in ASUS laptops and it's kind of gross the solution um you just want to really get your finger grease read into it like get your hands kind of sweaty yep move's good now just need that hand lube that's pretty gross while we're on the subject of the track pad how does this work okay so you hold down for one second on the top right this comes up and apparently it's able to tell the difference between me wanting to you know touch numbers and just using the trackpad so let's see here how good is it wow that's actually quite impressive it seems to be pretty good at noticing when like i want a number and when i don't it is kind of not perfect like there are times when i was tapping kind of close to the top where it couldn't quite tell but i imagine if you use it for a couple hours you could easily figure out how to have it work every time what's maybe the most interesting to me though is that the switches on here like the key switches have 1.4 millimeters of actuation so the dell xps 13 has one i think the xps 15 has 1.3 hp is also around 1.3 1.2 somewhere around there so this is for a thin and light i believe the longest key travel you can get in a laptop right now so let's see how it actually does one thing that dell and hp just miss on is the light piping in their keyboards they just must not have enough experience like you know rgbing things out like ASUS does for the uh what's it called they're republic of gamers that's just blinged to the nines and they've clearly you know taken that knowledge and put it into this and it just looks fantastic that said though the keyboard itself gets a resounding fine from me so if you look closely here there is a bit of deck flex sort of around the key area you're obviously not going to be pushing this hard but i can notice it just a tiny bit when i'm actually typing that said what really appeals to me with this is that it's long enough you have the 14 inch screen and you have just a tiny bit of bezels top and bottom and for me personally i can comfortably rest my hands on it so if you have slightly larger hands and like you know you just can't use a 13-inch laptop this guy right here might be what you need if you want a thin and light then again you could also just get the surface laptop i didn't check is this a touch screen oh no oh geez is this really i'm gonna just double check it doesn't oh there isn't even an option for a touch screen what are you doing oh that's for me personally in a thin and light i find i constantly use the touchscreen like you know you're just like walking around with it and you'll be like or maybe you're like kind of in an awkward position like you're on the couch you're playing like this right here and it's way easier to just go like that instead of getting in here put a touch screen on it guys where what was it what was i even saying i was talking about something else before i realized that oh the tiger-like processor okay so the i7 1165 g7 that's a really stupid name but anyway you are at least going to be able to play video games on this like not full blownsies amazing details video games but at the same time 1080p medium in modernish games not a problem which is pretty freaking awesome you couldn't do that before now you can although you don't get a touchscreen one area though that ASUS has the potential to claw back though is in upgradability if you know there's some decent stuff on the inside here for you maybe that matters more than having like soldered RAM the ability to upgrade it later is pretty awesome this has been tough uh i think i permanently bent the back piece of aluminum here trying to get in if you don't have an ifixit kit just don't open this you will destroy it like i thought that under these feet there were screws but there isn't i pulled one of them off and there's nothing under them oh those bastards there are screws under the back feet no screws under the front feet we know that now probably would have made this a lot easier okay we did it no it looks like it's still straight so that's good so we get loads of battery that's kind of like i think the main selling point of this you get screw off fly you do get loads of battery though i do think that the 67 watt hour battery is kind of the main selling point of this thing that's way more than like the surface laptop or the xps 15. i think it's pretty similar to the spectre no upgrading the RAM though certainly not doing that there's also a 13-inch version of this and it looks like that they haven't used any of the space that turning into a 14-inch afforded them so we have just these huge gaps here there's a gap there heaps of space down here it's not really a problem because you still get an absolutely massive battery but i do kind of wish that they'd taken advantage of it a tiny bit more so overall buy when it's on sale um that's that's that's about it there's no headphone jack that's oh fly no touch screen okay keyboard buy it when it's 900 or 800 that's that's about where i'm at i am really excited to see ace has a zenbook pro coming out soon with a 3x2 display that could legitimately be like daily driver contention anyway get subscribed for when we do get the zenbook pro with the 3x2 display in really excited about that and just have a fantastic day so long"}