WEBVTT 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:03.630 - In here we have one of the best gaming laptops on the market, 00:00:03.630 --> 00:00:07.100 but ASUS sponsor this video for us to look at the box? 00:00:07.100 --> 00:00:08.993 So let's have a look. 00:00:10.140 --> 00:00:14.403 Let's see here. Is this the cool box? 00:00:17.090 --> 00:00:20.300 Oh, hell yeah. It's cap time. 00:00:20.300 --> 00:00:23.870 This is the Alan Walker Edition Zephyrus G14. 00:00:23.870 --> 00:00:28.510 Absolutely love the Zephyrus G14. Not 100% sure who Alan Walker is. 00:00:28.510 --> 00:00:32.650 He's a DJ who is massive. I looked up one of his video has like 00:00:32.650 --> 00:00:36.269 billions of views. I'm not one of them. 00:00:36.269 --> 00:00:39.780 (Jono talking) It seems like good music. 00:00:39.780 --> 00:00:43.600 I don't know. - [Brando] It's fine. Yeah. - [Jono] He's only 24. 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:47.730 - He's only 24, (beep). How many views does LTT have, just like overall? 00:00:47.730 --> 00:00:52.270 It would be brutal if he has like, one music video that's more than our entire lives worth. 00:00:52.270 --> 00:00:55.430 Oh, we've got some socks. I'm not going to give (indistinct) any (indistinct). 00:00:55.430 --> 00:00:59.940 And a power brick. Real simple, 180 watts. 00:00:59.940 --> 00:01:03.470 It is half a powerful one. And a C to C cord. 00:01:03.470 --> 00:01:06.480 Sure. I do believe that it does have Type C charging. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:11.340 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. 00:01:11.340 --> 00:01:13.403 Is this the cool box? 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:18.563 So it looks like a really good laptop case. 00:01:19.980 --> 00:01:23.613 Yeah, fancy. This does seem like it is seatbelt. 00:01:25.240 --> 00:01:29.880 Feels very strong. That's a nice little carrying case. Okay, okay. 00:01:29.880 --> 00:01:34.203 Where's the cool box? Oh, it's actually the box of the laptop, it would appear. 00:01:36.410 --> 00:01:40.200 This way. Join the Walkers. 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:43.493 Sure. - [Jono] White Walker? - Well, 00:01:45.750 --> 00:01:49.890 so I believe these are all like capacitive buttons basically 00:01:49.890 --> 00:01:53.380 that allow you to DJ. Well, we'll see how good I do at that. 00:01:53.380 --> 00:01:56.803 But, yeah I like making music. It's all bad though. 00:01:58.974 --> 00:02:02.380 (beep) Okay, this is actually really nice. 00:02:02.380 --> 00:02:07.390 Like the details on here. They have like the seatbelt material 00:02:07.390 --> 00:02:11.030 put right into the lid. This is very nice box, ASUS. 00:02:11.030 --> 00:02:14.530 - [Jono] Oh, it's the laptop. - Yeah. It's in the laptop. 00:02:14.530 --> 00:02:17.950 - [Jono] Ooh, I thought it was like a box for the laptop. 00:02:17.950 --> 00:02:21.750 - No, this thing looks sick. (beep) 00:02:21.750 --> 00:02:25.323 I do have to say this is a mighty fine looking laptop. 00:02:26.460 --> 00:02:31.120 And what else do we have in here? G Series, Gaming up a PC, Warranty. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:34.500 Don't get that. I think I see other stuff. 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:37.880 Huh. So let's have a little look at what they have going on in here. 00:02:37.880 --> 00:02:40.683 I feel like we're not supposed to take the top off, but we did. 00:02:41.620 --> 00:02:46.430 We have a little board here, the Type C that they had included, 00:02:46.430 --> 00:02:49.143 goes right in there. What is this? 00:02:50.220 --> 00:02:53.820 I don't want to pull it out and break it, but I do want to know what it is. 00:02:53.820 --> 00:02:57.360 I'm assuming it's a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino. 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.920 But I can't see the bits that tell me what it actually is. 00:03:00.920 --> 00:03:04.890 We'll get the laptop running then we'll have a little look at the box. 00:03:04.890 --> 00:03:07.273 All right. Let's turn this guy on. 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:12.580 So we've got this fancy Alan Walker background. 00:03:12.580 --> 00:03:16.293 We're also going to plug it in. - [Brandon] I like the blue. - Yeah. 00:03:16.293 --> 00:03:20.570 The blue looks really cool with the like gray and black as well. 00:03:20.570 --> 00:03:22.863 A plus color scheme, Mr. Walker. 00:03:24.978 --> 00:03:28.030 (Alexander laughing) Virtual pet? 00:03:28.030 --> 00:03:29.380 Okay, I've got to see this. 00:03:31.160 --> 00:03:35.440 I just clicked on virtual pet. Is it doing anything on the back? - [Brandon] Yes, it is. - [Alexander] Oh, that's fun. 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:37.390 Can I just put whatever I want on here? 00:03:38.870 --> 00:03:42.920 Did that work, Brandon? - [Brandon] Yup. - Hell yeah. 00:03:42.920 --> 00:03:44.263 I'll add in a couple more. 00:03:47.070 --> 00:03:50.470 Why is it flashing now? Oh, Brandon so you said this might drain the battery. 00:03:50.470 --> 00:03:55.030 There is a thing that you can do so that at a certain battery level, 00:03:55.030 --> 00:03:58.453 it'll turn it off. Oh wait. No, I'm wrong. 00:04:00.323 --> 00:04:02.573 You could have it display your battery level. 00:04:04.430 --> 00:04:09.740 Okay, I was hoping I could just figure it out, but I think that I need to look at that QR code. 00:04:09.740 --> 00:04:14.330 Where did that go? Okay, it took me to a video. 00:04:14.330 --> 00:04:20.470 - [Jono] Even those sound effects sound good. - Okay, it seems like you just plug it in and it works. 00:04:20.470 --> 00:04:25.300 Oh yeah, since I guess we're plugging this in, we can show off the IO. So DC power in right here. 00:04:25.300 --> 00:04:30.240 Full-size HDMI, love to see that. We also have USB Type C. 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:34.120 Audio out 3.5 millimeter. Another Type C and two Type A's. 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:38.300 So you know, for a gaming laptop these days, that's pretty freaking great. 00:04:38.300 --> 00:04:42.290 And let's get this thing going. I really hope it just launches the app. 00:04:42.290 --> 00:04:46.510 That would be fantastic. Hell yeah, it just launched the app. 00:04:46.510 --> 00:04:49.683 Perfect. I hit play now. Oh, it worked! 00:04:49.683 --> 00:04:53.160 Yeah. (music playing) 00:04:58.130 --> 00:05:02.407 - [Jono] Oh, that's cool! - Okay. So we have a low pass filter here. 00:05:02.407 --> 00:05:05.074 (music playing) 00:05:09.250 --> 00:05:12.980 Make it more faster. (fast music playing) 00:05:12.980 --> 00:05:18.969 Now it's like a video game. Samplers. (various sounds playing) 00:05:24.570 --> 00:05:30.228 Okay. So this allows me to change what samples I have. (electric music) 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:33.853 Okay. Samples 2. 00:05:34.807 --> 00:05:37.843 (upbeat music) One. 00:05:37.843 --> 00:05:42.039 (upbeat music) Oh, I like that one. (upbeat music) 00:05:42.039 --> 00:05:45.456 (various sounds playing) 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:50.105 I wish that they had just a drum one. I guess that's kind of number two. 00:05:50.105 --> 00:05:54.688 (upbeat sound playing) You probably just use this as a drum, like... 00:05:54.688 --> 00:05:57.862 (box tapping) - [Jono] But it's not recorder though. 00:05:57.862 --> 00:06:01.180 (box tapping) (upbeat sound playing) 00:06:01.180 --> 00:06:05.211 It doesn't have the snap that I was hoping for. (box tapping) 00:06:05.211 --> 00:06:09.770 (Alexander laughing) There's a lot of latency. That's the thing that I always hate about things like this. 00:06:09.770 --> 00:06:14.990 You have to use like a special USB interface protocol basically 00:06:14.990 --> 00:06:17.273 for it not to have brutal latency. So it's like, 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:24.360 'cause that little bit of a delay is way more than enough for everything to sound terrible. 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:27.470 So yeah, there's a bit of fun to be had with the box. 00:06:27.470 --> 00:06:33.210 As far as laptop boxes go, this is probably the best one for creating music 00:06:33.210 --> 00:06:37.480 that I've ever seen, but the latency's way better on this. 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:41.370 'cause like... (box tapping) You can't do that in this thing, like... 00:06:41.370 --> 00:06:45.400 (various sounds playing) 00:06:45.400 --> 00:06:50.240 (Alexander laughing) Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. We're moving on. 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:54.380 Back to the laptop though. The Zephyrus G14 was basically 00:06:54.380 --> 00:06:57.520 the best gaming laptop of 2020. 00:06:57.520 --> 00:07:01.030 It was the first one that came out with Ryzen 4000 00:07:01.030 --> 00:07:04.170 and just punted all of the competition, 00:07:04.170 --> 00:07:07.520 just completely destroyed all of them. So let's take a look at the specs here. 00:07:07.520 --> 00:07:10.580 So we have the Ryzen 9 5900HS. 00:07:10.580 --> 00:07:18.300 That's basically the fastest mobile processor that you can get at least in a laptop that's of this size. 00:07:18.490 --> 00:07:24.453 We also have 16GB of RAM. The Wi-Fi cards, a Medaiatek Wi-Fi 6 one. 00:07:25.490 --> 00:07:29.580 In my experience, they're fine. But the drivers, 00:07:29.580 --> 00:07:35.600 they just need to be a bit more mature. And for the GPU, it's an RTX 3050 Ti. 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:39.490 And now this is kind of where the Alan Walker Edition 00:07:39.490 --> 00:07:46.450 is a bit of a disappointment. So this right here is a $2,000 laptop 00:07:46.450 --> 00:07:49.530 where you're paying for a hat and a cool box, 00:07:49.530 --> 00:07:54.530 but you can also get a G14 for $450 less 00:07:55.150 --> 00:07:59.640 with an RTX 3060. So if you want one, that looks cool 00:07:59.640 --> 00:08:04.090 you get this one, but if you want one that's cheaper and faster, 00:08:04.090 --> 00:08:05.813 you get the one with the 3060. 00:08:07.870 --> 00:08:13.070 Actually it is kind of an oof, Jono. I wish that this one was $200 more and had a 3060 in it. 00:08:13.070 --> 00:08:16.810 'Cause like, when you're making funky versions of stuff, just make it the best one. 00:08:16.810 --> 00:08:20.933 This thing will be a beast for music making like you've got the CPU. 00:08:21.850 --> 00:08:26.520 It could use maybe a bit more RAM, but at the same time, we'll open up later, you can upgrade it. 00:08:26.520 --> 00:08:29.883 And we also have a 1TB SSD from Samsung. 00:08:31.410 --> 00:08:34.610 Moving on from the inside to the outside though, 00:08:34.610 --> 00:08:38.060 the G14 is just a fantastically built laptop. 00:08:38.060 --> 00:08:41.100 Like it's a magnesium alloy chassis, 00:08:41.100 --> 00:08:44.320 very stiff. You can see like a little bit of deflection 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:48.070 if you're pushing in the center there, but like it's really good feeling. 00:08:48.070 --> 00:08:51.180 The track pad. I do wish it was slightly bigger, 00:08:51.180 --> 00:08:55.320 mostly because ASUS gave us the G15 now 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:58.390 that has one of the best track pads 00:08:58.390 --> 00:09:03.840 on a gaming laptop on the market. I would really like to see something a bit more like this. 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.830 Then again, you're probably not going to care too much about the track pad size 'cause like, 00:09:07.830 --> 00:09:11.220 it's good and this thing's really small and light 00:09:11.220 --> 00:09:14.300 like ASUS did do a fantastic job. 00:09:14.300 --> 00:09:21.030 This one's actually the N16, but the G14 is just so much easier to like 00:09:21.030 --> 00:09:26.250 chuck in your backpack, take around, it's shockingly light for how much power 00:09:26.250 --> 00:09:29.726 and performance there is in here. Moving on to the keyboard. 00:09:29.726 --> 00:09:33.380 (keyboard clicking) Yeah. There's plenty of travel. 00:09:33.380 --> 00:09:37.000 It doesn't quite have the snappiness of some other keyboards, 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:41.550 but it's the kind of thing where when it's a gaming laptop, you want to be able to easily press it. 00:09:41.550 --> 00:09:45.260 And also like you're going to be holding down W you don't want to have 00:09:45.260 --> 00:09:51.870 a whole bunch of force pushing back up. It's much nicer to have just that like lighter actuation, 00:09:51.870 --> 00:09:54.930 even if it does lightly harm your typing, 00:09:54.930 --> 00:09:58.780 it helps you a lot in games. All the way for the GPU drivers to install. 00:09:58.780 --> 00:10:03.200 Another thing that's fantastic about this laptop is that in the power button, 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:07.750 there is a fingerprint reader, but it does it so that when you press it, 00:10:07.750 --> 00:10:11.290 it catches your fingerprint. So when it's brought up by Windows, 00:10:11.290 --> 00:10:15.900 it just gives you the authentication and you only have to press the power button once. 00:10:15.900 --> 00:10:19.640 Sick. It's so good. There's obviously no Windows Hello 00:10:19.640 --> 00:10:25.500 because there's no webcam. If you want a webcam, don't buy this, I guess. 00:10:25.500 --> 00:10:29.850 Or you can just get an external one. They normally look way better than what you get anyway. 00:10:29.850 --> 00:10:33.770 Oh, yes. I just checked and they do have the AI noise cancellation software. 00:10:33.770 --> 00:10:37.560 So you're not able to see yourself, but at least if you're playing games 00:10:37.560 --> 00:10:41.740 with people on Discord, you are going to sound decent. Just going to hop into Valheim, 00:10:41.740 --> 00:10:45.890 have a little run around. All rights, so unsurprisingly, 00:10:46.800 --> 00:10:51.660 Valheim runs excellently. It also like the fans ramped up, 00:10:51.660 --> 00:10:54.940 but it really isn't all that loud. And we're in the performance setting. 00:10:54.940 --> 00:10:59.490 So this is as loud as it get, basically. 00:10:59.490 --> 00:11:04.170 Well you have a 1440P panel, that is 120 hertz 00:11:04.170 --> 00:11:07.630 and it looks frigging fantastic. 00:11:07.630 --> 00:11:12.020 It's also color calibrated and no complaints. 00:11:12.020 --> 00:11:15.110 This is basically just like the panel 00:11:15.110 --> 00:11:18.600 to have on a laptop these days. Look at that sky. 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.640 Beautiful. The nice old tree. I forgot what it's called, 00:11:21.640 --> 00:11:25.440 but it's a good tree. (audience laughing) 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.650 Valheim confirmed good, but will a 3050 Ti 00:11:28.650 --> 00:11:32.010 be able to hold up to Cyberpunk? 00:11:32.010 --> 00:11:35.550 Okay. We're just going high graphics, 00:11:35.550 --> 00:11:38.720 that should be fine. 1440P. 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:41.093 Okay. This, this looks really good, actually. 00:11:43.495 --> 00:11:47.110 Oh, we are getting a couple of drops here and there. 00:11:47.110 --> 00:11:52.170 So maybe high details, not quite what you'll be able to do on this system. 00:11:52.170 --> 00:11:55.860 You're looking probably more along the lines of like 00:11:55.860 --> 00:11:59.150 medium high-ish. This seems like the kind of thing where 00:11:59.150 --> 00:12:04.190 I could tweak one or two settings and get a solid game play experience 00:12:04.190 --> 00:12:07.330 instead of right now where it's mostly good. 00:12:07.330 --> 00:12:09.530 Then again, it might also just be this game. 00:12:10.450 --> 00:12:15.030 Okay. Can I just get like in a gun battle? Yeah. I'm just shooting people to try and okay, 00:12:15.030 --> 00:12:16.243 there's someone. 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:23.580 Well, I'm dead, but the game looks really good. So there you go. 00:12:23.580 --> 00:12:26.810 Do you know what also looks really good? The inside of this laptop, I imagine. 00:12:26.810 --> 00:12:31.300 Let's find out. All right. Took it apart. I really liked that they have a captive screw here 00:12:31.300 --> 00:12:35.590 that pops the chassis open. It makes getting in just that little bit easier. 00:12:35.590 --> 00:12:38.740 You don't have to, yeah. 00:12:38.740 --> 00:12:44.230 It's just very easy. So for RAM, they have 8GB of it on board. 00:12:44.230 --> 00:12:47.567 You can't do anything with that, but you do also have 00:12:47.567 --> 00:12:53.350 one sodimm slot, so you can swap that out. So you could get like 24GB of RAM. 00:12:53.350 --> 00:12:58.270 You could also put a 32 gig stick in there, and have, what? 00:12:58.270 --> 00:13:03.640 40? Yeah. Math is hard. We also can see our wonderful SSD right here. 00:13:03.640 --> 00:13:06.720 Wow. That's a lot smaller than expecting for 1TB, 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:10.140 but that's fine. We also have a 76WHr battery. 00:13:10.140 --> 00:13:14.550 So the last one had over 10 hours of battery life, 00:13:14.550 --> 00:13:18.230 which was like at the time, unheard of in a gaming laptop. 00:13:18.230 --> 00:13:21.830 AMD is fantastic for having good battery life. 00:13:21.830 --> 00:13:25.350 This one right here, I can't confirm it, but I'm guessing it's pretty much the same. 00:13:25.350 --> 00:13:28.890 Like this is such a great laptop for like 00:13:28.890 --> 00:13:32.500 using as a laptop for school or work 00:13:32.500 --> 00:13:35.560 or what have you and also as a gaming laptop. 00:13:35.560 --> 00:13:39.673 You don't have to have just like your battle station laptop. 00:13:39.673 --> 00:13:44.292 It's the sort of thing that you can use everywhere. And it's not really compromised. 00:13:44.292 --> 00:13:47.400 Zephyrus G14, fantastic laptop. 00:13:47.400 --> 00:13:51.400 Should you get the Alan Walker edition? If you think it looks cool, then sure go for it. 00:13:51.400 --> 00:13:55.260 But I probably get the one that's a lot cheaper and also faster. 00:13:55.260 --> 00:14:00.810 So huge thanks again to ASUS for sponsoring this video. G14, fantastic laptop. 00:14:00.810 --> 00:14:04.830 It's probably linked to right down there and just have a fantastic day, 00:14:04.830 --> 00:14:06.280 Like, hit subscribe, so long.