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- In here we have one of the best gaming laptops on the market,

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but ASUS sponsor this video for us to look at the box?

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So let's have a look.

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Let's see here. Is this the cool box?

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Oh, hell yeah. It's cap time.

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This is the Alan Walker Edition Zephyrus G14.

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Absolutely love the Zephyrus G14. Not 100% sure who Alan Walker is.

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He's a DJ who is massive. I looked up one of his video has like

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billions of views. I'm not one of them.

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(Jono talking) It seems like good music.

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I don't know. - [Brando] It's fine. Yeah. - [Jono] He's only 24.

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- He's only 24, (beep). How many views does LTT have, just like overall?

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It would be brutal if he has like, one music video that's more than our entire lives worth.

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Oh, we've got some socks. I'm not going to give (indistinct) any (indistinct).

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And a power brick. Real simple, 180 watts.

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It is half a powerful one. And a C to C cord.

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Sure. I do believe that it does have Type C charging.

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I don't know what it's up to on this one, but the last one was 60 watts. So this one is probably about the same.

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Is this the cool box?

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So it looks like a really good laptop case.

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Yeah, fancy. This does seem like it is seatbelt.

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Feels very strong. That's a nice little carrying case. Okay, okay.

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Where's the cool box? Oh, it's actually the box of the laptop, it would appear.

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This way. Join the Walkers.

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Sure. - [Jono] White Walker? - Well,

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so I believe these are all like capacitive buttons basically

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that allow you to DJ. Well, we'll see how good I do at that.

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But, yeah I like making music. It's all bad though.

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(beep) Okay, this is actually really nice.

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Like the details on here. They have like the seatbelt material

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put right into the lid. This is very nice box, ASUS.

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- [Jono] Oh, it's the laptop. - Yeah. It's in the laptop.

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- [Jono] Ooh, I thought it was like a box for the laptop.

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- No, this thing looks sick. (beep)

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I do have to say this is a mighty fine looking laptop.

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And what else do we have in here? G Series, Gaming up a PC, Warranty.

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Don't get that. I think I see other stuff.

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Huh. So let's have a little look at what they have going on in here.

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I feel like we're not supposed to take the top off, but we did.

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We have a little board here, the Type C that they had included,

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goes right in there. What is this?

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I don't want to pull it out and break it, but I do want to know what it is.

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I'm assuming it's a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.

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But I can't see the bits that tell me what it actually is.

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We'll get the laptop running then we'll have a little look at the box.

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All right. Let's turn this guy on.

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So we've got this fancy Alan Walker background.

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We're also going to plug it in. - [Brandon] I like the blue. - Yeah.

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The blue looks really cool with the like gray and black as well.

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A plus color scheme, Mr. Walker.

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(Alexander laughing) Virtual pet?

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Okay, I've got to see this.

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I just clicked on virtual pet. Is it doing anything on the back? - [Brandon] Yes, it is. - [Alexander] Oh, that's fun.

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Can I just put whatever I want on here?

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Did that work, Brandon? - [Brandon] Yup. - Hell yeah.

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I'll add in a couple more.

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Why is it flashing now? Oh, Brandon so you said this might drain the battery.

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There is a thing that you can do so that at a certain battery level,

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it'll turn it off. Oh wait. No, I'm wrong.

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You could have it display your battery level.

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Okay, I was hoping I could just figure it out, but I think that I need to look at that QR code.

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Where did that go? Okay, it took me to a video.

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- [Jono] Even those sound effects sound good. - Okay, it seems like you just plug it in and it works.

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Oh yeah, since I guess we're plugging this in, we can show off the IO. So DC power in right here.

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Full-size HDMI, love to see that. We also have USB Type C.

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Audio out 3.5 millimeter. Another Type C and two Type A's.

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So you know, for a gaming laptop these days, that's pretty freaking great.

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And let's get this thing going. I really hope it just launches the app.

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That would be fantastic. Hell yeah, it just launched the app.

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Perfect. I hit play now. Oh, it worked!

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Yeah. (music playing)

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- [Jono] Oh, that's cool! - Okay. So we have a low pass filter here.

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(music playing)

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Make it more faster. (fast music playing)

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Now it's like a video game. Samplers. (various sounds playing)

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Okay. So this allows me to change what samples I have. (electric music)

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Okay. Samples 2.

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(upbeat music) One.

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(upbeat music) Oh, I like that one. (upbeat music)

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(various sounds playing)

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I wish that they had just a drum one. I guess that's kind of number two.

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(upbeat sound playing) You probably just use this as a drum, like...

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(box tapping) - [Jono] But it's not recorder though.

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(box tapping) (upbeat sound playing)

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It doesn't have the snap that I was hoping for. (box tapping)

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(Alexander laughing) There's a lot of latency. That's the thing that I always hate about things like this.

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You have to use like a special USB interface protocol basically

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for it not to have brutal latency. So it's like,

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'cause that little bit of a delay is way more than enough for everything to sound terrible.

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So yeah, there's a bit of fun to be had with the box.

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As far as laptop boxes go, this is probably the best one for creating music

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that I've ever seen, but the latency's way better on this.

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'cause like... (box tapping) You can't do that in this thing, like...

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(various sounds playing)

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(Alexander laughing) Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. We're moving on.

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Back to the laptop though. The Zephyrus G14 was basically

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the best gaming laptop of 2020.

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It was the first one that came out with Ryzen 4000

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and just punted all of the competition,

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just completely destroyed all of them. So let's take a look at the specs here.

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So we have the Ryzen 9 5900HS.

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That's basically the fastest mobile processor that you can get at least in a laptop that's of this size.

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We also have 16GB of RAM. The Wi-Fi cards, a Medaiatek Wi-Fi 6 one.

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In my experience, they're fine. But the drivers,

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they just need to be a bit more mature. And for the GPU, it's an RTX 3050 Ti.

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And now this is kind of where the Alan Walker Edition

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is a bit of a disappointment. So this right here is a $2,000 laptop

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where you're paying for a hat and a cool box,

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but you can also get a G14 for $450 less

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with an RTX 3060. So if you want one, that looks cool

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you get this one, but if you want one that's cheaper and faster,

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you get the one with the 3060.

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Actually it is kind of an oof, Jono. I wish that this one was $200 more and had a 3060 in it.

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'Cause like, when you're making funky versions of stuff, just make it the best one.

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This thing will be a beast for music making like you've got the CPU.

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It could use maybe a bit more RAM, but at the same time, we'll open up later, you can upgrade it.

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And we also have a 1TB SSD from Samsung.

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Moving on from the inside to the outside though,

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the G14 is just a fantastically built laptop.

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Like it's a magnesium alloy chassis,

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very stiff. You can see like a little bit of deflection

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if you're pushing in the center there, but like it's really good feeling.

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The track pad. I do wish it was slightly bigger,

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mostly because ASUS gave us the G15 now

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that has one of the best track pads

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on a gaming laptop on the market. I would really like to see something a bit more like this.

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Then again, you're probably not going to care too much about the track pad size 'cause like,

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it's good and this thing's really small and light

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like ASUS did do a fantastic job.

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This one's actually the N16, but the G14 is just so much easier to like

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chuck in your backpack, take around, it's shockingly light for how much power

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and performance there is in here. Moving on to the keyboard.

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(keyboard clicking) Yeah. There's plenty of travel.

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It doesn't quite have the snappiness of some other keyboards,

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but it's the kind of thing where when it's a gaming laptop, you want to be able to easily press it.

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And also like you're going to be holding down W you don't want to have

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a whole bunch of force pushing back up. It's much nicer to have just that like lighter actuation,

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even if it does lightly harm your typing,

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it helps you a lot in games. All the way for the GPU drivers to install.

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Another thing that's fantastic about this laptop is that in the power button,

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there is a fingerprint reader, but it does it so that when you press it,

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it catches your fingerprint. So when it's brought up by Windows,

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it just gives you the authentication and you only have to press the power button once.

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Sick. It's so good. There's obviously no Windows Hello

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because there's no webcam. If you want a webcam, don't buy this, I guess.

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Or you can just get an external one. They normally look way better than what you get anyway.

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Oh, yes. I just checked and they do have the AI noise cancellation software.

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So you're not able to see yourself, but at least if you're playing games

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with people on Discord, you are going to sound decent. Just going to hop into Valheim,

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have a little run around. All rights, so unsurprisingly,

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Valheim runs excellently. It also like the fans ramped up,

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but it really isn't all that loud. And we're in the performance setting.

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So this is as loud as it get, basically.

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Well you have a 1440P panel, that is 120 hertz

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and it looks frigging fantastic.

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It's also color calibrated and no complaints.

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This is basically just like the panel

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to have on a laptop these days. Look at that sky.

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Beautiful. The nice old tree. I forgot what it's called,

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but it's a good tree. (audience laughing)

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Valheim confirmed good, but will a 3050 Ti

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be able to hold up to Cyberpunk?

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Okay. We're just going high graphics,

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that should be fine. 1440P.

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Okay. This, this looks really good, actually.

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Oh, we are getting a couple of drops here and there.

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So maybe high details, not quite what you'll be able to do on this system.

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You're looking probably more along the lines of like

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medium high-ish. This seems like the kind of thing where

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I could tweak one or two settings and get a solid game play experience

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instead of right now where it's mostly good.

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Then again, it might also just be this game.

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Okay. Can I just get like in a gun battle? Yeah. I'm just shooting people to try and okay,

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there's someone.

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Well, I'm dead, but the game looks really good. So there you go.

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Do you know what also looks really good? The inside of this laptop, I imagine.

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Let's find out. All right. Took it apart. I really liked that they have a captive screw here

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that pops the chassis open. It makes getting in just that little bit easier.

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You don't have to, yeah.

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It's just very easy. So for RAM, they have 8GB of it on board.

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You can't do anything with that, but you do also have

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one sodimm slot, so you can swap that out. So you could get like 24GB of RAM.

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You could also put a 32 gig stick in there, and have, what?

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40? Yeah. Math is hard. We also can see our wonderful SSD right here.

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Wow. That's a lot smaller than expecting for 1TB,

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but that's fine. We also have a 76WHr battery.

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So the last one had over 10 hours of battery life,

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which was like at the time, unheard of in a gaming laptop.

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AMD is fantastic for having good battery life.

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This one right here, I can't confirm it, but I'm guessing it's pretty much the same.

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Like this is such a great laptop for like

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using as a laptop for school or work

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or what have you and also as a gaming laptop.

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You don't have to have just like your battle station laptop.

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It's the sort of thing that you can use everywhere. And it's not really compromised.

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Zephyrus G14, fantastic laptop.

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Should you get the Alan Walker edition? If you think it looks cool, then sure go for it.

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But I probably get the one that's a lot cheaper and also faster.

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So huge thanks again to ASUS for sponsoring this video. G14, fantastic laptop.

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It's probably linked to right down there and just have a fantastic day,

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