you know it's kind of funny how there's differences between what reviewers say
and what people actually get so like lots of reviewers will be like oh hey go
out and get the xps 13. it's freaking awesome and then in
the real world i see absolute loads of zen books
because really they're a good you know well everyone
just says they got them on sale that's why you buy a zen book because
it's on sale ASUS hopes probably to change that maybe
they don't i don't know i see lots of them in the wild so maybe they have a good thing going
but either way we've got a brand new one here and
i want to check it out it seems pretty legit let's see here
oh wow do you see 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
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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