have you ever seen something and immediately assume that it's a gimmick
like for example this brush buddies justin bieber singing toothbrush
i'm in it's certainly fun
but if ultimately when i'm finished my teeth are no
cleaner than if i had saved seven dollars and gotten a regular one
well when i first heard that ASUS put a
touchscreen in the touchpad
of their new zenbook pro i have to confess that it triggered my
gimmick detector at least before i used it for a while
as for now well i'll say this
it's a lot better than a worthless gimmick
but then also kind of worse you know what's not a gimmick though
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the overall design of the ASUS zenbook pro ux 580 ge is a solid
b plus the brushed aluminum and relatively
small bezels are nice but i just can't shake the nagging
feeling that it looks kind of like an inspiron but made from
better materials and making matters worse compared to dell's professional
xps 15 it is a fingerprint magnet and the reduced chassis rigidity
makes it feel significantly cheaper which i mean fortunately for it it
actually is with that said i can't think of a situation where i'd be embarrassed
to be seen with the zenbook pro i mean whether it's in an office or a studio or
a library it does a great job of blending in seamlessly
that is at least until your studymates notice the second display so
there's a standard one up top though it might not be fair to call it
standard because between its 4k resolution touch support and factory
calibration everything from consuming to creating
content is a joy as long as you don't care about HDR and then there's the one
where the track pad would normally be
ASUS is calling their little creation here the screen pad
most of the time it just acts like a normal trackpad and actually quite a
good one you'd think it would feel weird but it has a nice soft touch and a
satisfying click in fact even without a screen under it it would already be
getting a pretty positive review and then it's got extra functionality
like contextual shortcut keys and the ability to use it as an extended display
well that should get it right into a plus territory right
hold on in some situations it's actually great
the youtube integration on chrome puts
ad skipping and a full screen toggle
right at your fingertips quite literally and it even lets you
scrub along the timeline and this is while keeping most of the screen free to
be used as a regular trackpad then by contrast spotify shouldn't even be
listed as compatible i mean you know how most keyboards have
media hotkeys up here at the top making
play pause and track control a single action
well for some inexplicable reason ASUS has removed
those functions and replaced them with nothing
so you can have the pleasure of executing three actions instead of
pressing one button and then making matters worse once the
spotify app is open the touchpad no
longer works meaning that it is literally always
faster and more convenient to just click
on the actual spotify app and this problem of not being able to
use the touchpad when in certain apps hampers the usefulness further for
things that would otherwise be great like the numpad or calculator which is
particularly annoying given that these are issues that were solved in the word
numpad like in office programs the numpad works freaking fantastic
but also reveals its limitations only the numpad and symbol inserter
actually really save you time and then for power users keyboard shortcuts like
control s are going to be the way to go for a very long time and then finally
the lack of features like macros and equations on the screen pad meant that
we really just didn't get many opportunities to use it
overall then i don't think the screen pad is a huge selling point at this
moment but at least if you don't like it there's still a perfectly usable
touchpad like normal and so i like where ASUS is going with this and i hope we
continue to see development on the apps something that should speed up when they
release the sdk which is coming soon
now this is kind of a funny thing because we're halfway through this video
and i haven't even gotten to the specs of this machine on paper the zenbook pro
is an absolute beast with a core i9 6
core processor a gtx 1050 ti graphics
card 16 gigs of RAM and 512 gigs of NVMe
storage and at that price
unfortunately it doesn't touch the maximum performance
of the core i9 and you know what i'm just going to come out and say it i
blame apple for this very unfortunate
industry trend like a core i9 macbook
pro the zenbook pro pro right almost immediately overheats
under heavy load dropping the frequency even below the base clock of the
processor and even though the temps do get a bit better when the fans kick in it's still
running well under base clock realistically you could be better off
with a cheaper core i7 if you want a chassis that's this slim
and the heat problems don't stop there while you're gaming or even in some
cases while performing mundane tasks like installing programs the bottom of
this machine would regularly get uncomfortably hot sometimes close to 50
degrees celsius making the zenbook pro less of a laptop and more of a desktop
well i mean i mean not like a desktop but like the point is it works better
sitting on a on a desk you get with you guys get what i mean
also the battery life isn't that great that was supposed to tie into the desk
thing desk top desk okay forget it so
continuing on the dislike train only the storage is upgradable the
webcam is softer than soft camembert
cheese and the keyboard leaves a fair bit to be desired it's pretty similar to
the one found on the dell g3 which is all right in a budget gaming
machine and overall pretty good but when you compare it to professional machines
from microsoft lenovo and dell the keyboard on the zenbook lacks key
stabilization chassis rigidity and tactile feel
which i guess nicely leads into our conclusion
besides the thermals nothing about the zenbook is
bad in fact the speakers which i couldn't find another place to talk about are
pretty good but at twenty three hundred dollars for
our build the only thing that really stands out against the competitors is
the top of the line core i9 CPU and the screen pad but since the thermals don't
allow the i-9 to stretch its legs and the screen pad needs a lot of work on
the software side before i would consider it a selling point
at this time the zenbook would probably need to be more than a couple hundred
dollars less than a surface book 2 for me to recommend it
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