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We're here at CES 2025 in ASUS booth where they have sponsored this video.

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I'm going to tell you about how they're actually delivering really great value on a lot of laptops

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starting with this right here. This ZenBook A14 and it is just so incredibly light. Look at this.

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It is under a kilogram 980 and that gets you a 70 watt hour battery which they claim is good for

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32 hours of video playback. Now of course like every single brand that is an out to lunch will

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never happen number but at the same time you can take off half of that and still have better

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battery performance than basically everything out on the market. Now how do they manage that?

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Well the 70 watt hour battery like we just said but also this gets Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.

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This is actually the first laptop that we've seen with a Snapdragon X. Not the X plus or the X

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just the X which gets you eight cores unlike the 10 which is also available with the X plus.

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None of that explains though how they managed to get this so freaking light. They only get it

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under a kilogram by using a magnesium aluminum alloy which is the sort of thing that is typically

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reserved for the most expensive of laptops on the market. The thing is though this thing is just

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899.99 starting price and you still get 16 gigabytes of RAM and a 512 Gigabyte SSD for that

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and man that is a good value especially when you feel this thing. It is seroluminum coated

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across the entire device. ASUS has heavily invested in this process and it used to only be

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the back cover of a laptop and only on the most expensive ones that they had but now the whole

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thing is just covered in it and it feels incredible. This just feels great and also like I am show

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floor sweaty at the moment. Look at this. That would be disgusting on any other laptop but it's

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still looking great. Another thing that's really neat about this laptop is that it comes with a

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1080p OLED display but it almost has like a matte finish. A lot of OLED displays are super glossy

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so using them in bright environments is kind of tough but this right here does not have any

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cover glass which lowers the weight and also just makes it work incredibly well in these super

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challenging lighting environments. That said though if you buy it from Best Buy in the US it will

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have cover glass which increases the weight by a little bit but does make it feel a touch more

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premium if that's what you want. But of course I have seen many a thin and light laptop be ruined

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by terrible IO but fortunately that is not the case here. You have headphone, microphone,

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combo, two USB-C's, HDMI 2.1 and on the other side a USB type A just to make sure that that

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still exists in your life. Maybe though you're still looking for a bit more value and that's

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where the Vivo book line comes in. This is the Vivo book 14 not to be confused with the S model

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which we'll look at later and as far as I can tell this is the cheapest Snapdragon X equipped

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laptop on the market so you still get that like 20 hours of battery life from a 50 watt hour battery

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that actually pans out well it won't we know that but you'll still get great battery life.

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But of course the real selling point of this is the price it is just $699.99 and that gets you 16

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gigabytes of RAM and a 512 Gigabyte SSD and kind of just everything that you need in the laptop.

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Once again we have solid IO including HDMI 2.1 they didn't cheap out on that love to see it

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two USB type A's and a type C oh two type C's and a very nice bonus at this price point is we also

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get Windows Hello facial recognition so you can log in by just being in front of your computer

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and one thing I really really appreciate is just right here you can turn off the webcam just flick

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the switch over you don't have to worry about anyone looking at you or if being weird or accidentally

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still being on a zoom call many hours later is it the prettiest or lightest ever no it's just plastic

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but that said I think it is a pretty great value if you want a little bit more screen though you

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can pay an extra $50 and get an extra two inches with the VivoBook 16 very nice if you want something

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a little bit more premium though you have the ASUS ZenBook S14 comes in at 1.39 kilograms

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very nice and light and that is accomplished by using this aluminum chassis right here we also

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the option of Intel or AMD and maybe in other markets Qualcomm depending on where you live

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but overall this is going to be a very enticing laptop especially at the price that it comes in

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at for 109999 you get an AMD AI9 HX370 32 gigabytes of RAM and a one terabyte SSD making this an

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incredibly appealing config especially when you pair that with the OLED panel on this which just

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looks freaking fantastic again there's nothing super crazy about this laptop you get solid

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selection of IO very similar to the base model but it just does its job as a laptop very well

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oh no touch though again if you want a slightly larger screen the VivoBook S16 comes in at 1099

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also but that gets you 16 gigabytes of RAM and a one terabyte SSD instead of the 32 that you get on

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the 14 with that said though maybe you want this laptop but you want it to look a lot more funer

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well then you need to be in china this right here is the ASUS Adol 14 air which is the same

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as the North American S14 but they did a collab with Anna Sui which gets you these really fun

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little graphics here the really nice colors they have a bunch of them but the most interesting

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it's a fragrant laptop it has a little thing here so you turn this little dial it pops out

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you turn this and then inside there's a little fragrance thing so what they're doing is as your

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laptop heats up it heats up this fragrance and then you get nice smells when you use your laptop

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let ASUS know down below in the comments if you want this sort of fun design of laptops to come

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to North America I think it should I really appreciate laptops that aren't just boring

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maybe though you've got a large or small business and you want something that's a bit more secure

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and a bit more upgradeable well ASUS has told me that these are super upgradeable and repairable

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laptops so let's put it to the test we're taking it apart of course we are they have a blown up one

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right there not good enough on their professional laptops they have tried very hard to limit the

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number of screws that you need to undo so this one right here is six many of them are just four

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inside of this expert book p3 you can see that we have two upgradeable RAM slots upgradeable wi-fi

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right here and an upgradeable SSD many of these also come with two SSD slots although the one we

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opened up specifically turns out it doesn't what also is really cool is you can see all this metal

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reinforcement over all of the io they say that that greatly increases the number of insertions

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that it's rated for you just generally ups the durability of this device by quite a bit and

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here we also get a lot of really cool stuff like hardware tpm that can be really good for security

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and on their expert b-series laptops you get dual BIOS on this right here you get a self-healing

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BIOS so if a cosmic ray just so happens to hit your BIOS chip you are not out of luck here we

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also get a 63 watt hour battery which they say is completely tool is to remove apparently this is

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the number one thing that businesses will replace on their laptops so if we come in here just move

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those over oh come on unlock unlock look at that two things right there and your battery can be

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replaced this can just greatly increase how much you can get out of your laptop because maybe in

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two three years it's not lasting too long don't even need to undo any screws to get the battery out

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absolutely love to see the expert series of laptops you can just configure kind of whatever

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you want from pretty cheap to very very expensive depending on your needs you get to decide you

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have a business you get to do whatever you want just like how the business side of ASUS decided

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to sponsor this video huge thanks guys for watching this hit like get subscribed and let us know what

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kind of weird stuff you want them to bring to north america i really want that scented laptop

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it's hilarious have a good day