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people are always trying to change the laptop for some reason razer went and

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put a touchscreen under their touchpad like six years ago moved it off to the

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right apple took away the function keys on their professional notebooks and

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replaced them with the much maligned touch bar like here's the thing guys if it ain't

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broke don't freaking fix it

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is what i would have said before today

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right here in front of me is the ASUS zenbook duo and zenbook pro duo

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and i think these might make me eat my words because this appears

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to be far more than just another stupid

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gimmick

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so let's jump right into it with the zenbook pro duo it comes with this wrist

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rest it's got kind of a little magnetic thing that's going to help

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align it but there's there's no actual functionality here other than improving

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the ergonomics because ASUS knows from their experience with their gaming

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lineup that moving the keyboard down does tend to have a bit of a detrimental

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impact on ergonomics now what they also

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learned from their zephyrus lineup of gaming laptops is that a surefire way to

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pack more performance into a notebook is to lift it up off the table a little bit

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so that gives us a slight angle here in terms of our ergonomics and also more

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room for the laptop to breathe so they're calling this their ergo lift

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hinge or something like that and essentially what it does is it

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allows them to pack an eight core hk

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series processor and an rtx 2060 into a

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shockingly compact little device here in terms of i o we've got Thunderbolt 3

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microphone headphone full-sized usb-a

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then we've got HDMI another usb-a and more ventilation as well as a power in

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over here that is a freaking lot of performance and they say that unlike the

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original zenbook pro they are not going to be experiencing any thermal slowdown

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so i'm going to hold them to that now let's go ahead and talk about the star

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of the show here which is the secondary

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4k but to be clear not ultra hd because

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it's actually 3840 by 1100 pixels

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secondary display so the way that it works unlike previous

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implementations where we've relied on kind of janky

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software is it's just another display in Windows that's right

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below your main one so if you want to move a tab in between them all you do is

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grab your touchpad and boom drag a

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window it is actually that simple so the

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multitasking potential for this is absolutely incredible and they have

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actually built some software tools specifically for it that

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honestly allowed to do some pretty cool stuff so over here on the left hand side

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they've got a little thing that you can either touch with your finger or

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activate with the mouse that allows you to set up a few of your presets so let's

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say i wanted to book a trip for example

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i could have my hotel website up on the top my calendar and a maps application

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on the bottom and who knows i might want to throw a calculator down there to see

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how much this whole thing's going to cost me or if i'm more of a creative

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type i can fire up my creation software on my main screen browse for files on

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the bottom left here and then control my music over on the right hand side and

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managing Windows down here is actually surprisingly easy so you can either have

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it be a full window down at the bottom

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you can have two side by side and it works exactly the same way as your

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traditional arrow snap so you just pull it over onto the side and bipoppy there

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you go there's a different one over there or ASUS built a custom thing where

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you can drag it up to a little bar on the top and you can have three things

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down on the bottom if you decide okay you know what really i'd rather focus on

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youtube right now all you do is hit this button right here and boom my youtube

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and my music's up here and now i am browsing the web down here honestly as a

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writer i could see myself using this all the freaking time because now i'm having

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the typewriter experience down here i've got what i'm working on right below me

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and then up here i can have whatever you know uh article or like a reviewer's

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guide or whatever it is that i'm referencing because honestly i don't

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need to see that much of a document that i'm working on now one thing i haven't

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mentioned from a usability standpoint is oh yeah that right hand side touch pad

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that i have not been a fan of in the past but honestly for the extra

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productivity that i'm going to get out of this screen i could overlook that

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with one small improvement i'd like to see a couple of the keys over here be

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able to be rebound to left and right click so that i can operate it

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two-handed then i just honestly don't see a reason why

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this can't be my next notebook i certainly hope it could be

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now one thing that's not finalized is the panel technology the one i'm looking

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at right now is a 4k OLED up here and it's a glossy display and then it's that

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3840 by 1100 lcd with a matte display

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down here that's to give you a better feel on your stylus and prevent

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reflections from the top display from interfering with the image but it could

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be that depending on the region you're going to end up with an implementation

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on the pro that's more like this zenbook duo sample so here we've had the display

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downgraded to 1080p but something you might have noticed

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especially if i were to open up here we go a web page that i can scroll through

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here is that they match a lot better so

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in this case not only are they both matte but they're both lcd so that a

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you're gonna have a much cleaner experience as you scroll through a page

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like this look at that isn't that freaking cool and b ASUS says that on

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the pro model in some regions they're aiming for lcd because they can achieve

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better delta ease for content creators and they really want people to be able

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to get real work done on these things as opposed to just

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watch youtube videos and browse the news so this one is a smaller screen it's a

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lower end processor up to core i7 what was it u series so that's up to a quad

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core it's got a little bit less i o but it does get significantly better

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portability and it still has dedicated graphics with a GeForce mx250 in it so i

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want to hear from you guys because last year at computex we showed their dual

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screen notebook concept and my big thing was like guys you're never getting rid

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of the keyboard but this

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this i could get behind

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