We're here at CES 2025 in ASUS booth where they have sponsored this video.
I'm going to tell you about how they're actually delivering really great value on a lot of laptops
starting with this right here. This ZenBook A14 and it is just so incredibly light. Look at this.
It is under a kilogram 980 and that gets you a 70 watt hour battery which they claim is good for
32 hours of video playback. Now of course like every single brand that is an out to lunch will
never happen number but at the same time you can take off half of that and still have better
battery performance than basically everything out on the market. Now how do they manage that?
Well the 70 watt hour battery like we just said but also this gets Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.
This is actually the first laptop that we've seen with a Snapdragon X. Not the X plus or the X
just the X which gets you eight cores unlike the 10 which is also available with the X plus.
None of that explains though how they managed to get this so freaking light. They only get it
under a kilogram by using a magnesium aluminum alloy which is the sort of thing that is typically
reserved for the most expensive of laptops on the market. The thing is though this thing is just
899.99 starting price and you still get 16 gigabytes of RAM and a 512 Gigabyte SSD for that
and man that is a good value especially when you feel this thing. It is seroluminum coated
across the entire device. ASUS has heavily invested in this process and it used to only be
the back cover of a laptop and only on the most expensive ones that they had but now the whole
thing is just covered in it and it feels incredible. This just feels great and also like I am show
floor sweaty at the moment. Look at this. That would be disgusting on any other laptop but it's
still looking great. Another thing that's really neat about this laptop is that it comes with a
1080p OLED display but it almost has like a matte finish. A lot of OLED displays are super glossy
so using them in bright environments is kind of tough but this right here does not have any
cover glass which lowers the weight and also just makes it work incredibly well in these super
challenging lighting environments. That said though if you buy it from Best Buy in the US it will
have cover glass which increases the weight by a little bit but does make it feel a touch more
premium if that's what you want. But of course I have seen many a thin and light laptop be ruined
by terrible IO but fortunately that is not the case here. You have headphone, microphone,
combo, two USB-C's, HDMI 2.1 and on the other side a USB type A just to make sure that that
still exists in your life. Maybe though you're still looking for a bit more value and that's
where the Vivo book line comes in. This is the Vivo book 14 not to be confused with the S model
which we'll look at later and as far as I can tell this is the cheapest Snapdragon X equipped
laptop on the market so you still get that like 20 hours of battery life from a 50 watt hour battery
that actually pans out well it won't we know that but you'll still get great battery life.
But of course the real selling point of this is the price it is just $699.99 and that gets you 16
gigabytes of RAM and a 512 Gigabyte SSD and kind of just everything that you need in the laptop.
Once again we have solid IO including HDMI 2.1 they didn't cheap out on that love to see it
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
get Windows Hello facial recognition so you can log in by just being in front of your computer
and one thing I really really appreciate is just right here you can turn off the webcam just flick
the switch over you don't have to worry about anyone looking at you or if being weird or accidentally
still being on a zoom call many hours later is it the prettiest or lightest ever no it's just plastic
but that said I think it is a pretty great value if you want a little bit more screen though you
can pay an extra $50 and get an extra two inches with the VivoBook 16 very nice if you want something
a little bit more premium though you have the ASUS ZenBook S14 comes in at 1.39 kilograms
very nice and light and that is accomplished by using this aluminum chassis right here we also
the option of Intel or AMD and maybe in other markets Qualcomm depending on where you live
but overall this is going to be a very enticing laptop especially at the price that it comes in
at for 109999 you get an AMD AI9 HX370 32 gigabytes of RAM and a one terabyte SSD making this an
incredibly appealing config especially when you pair that with the OLED panel on this which just
looks freaking fantastic again there's nothing super crazy about this laptop you get solid
selection of IO very similar to the base model but it just does its job as a laptop very well
oh no touch though again if you want a slightly larger screen the VivoBook S16 comes in at 1099
also but that gets you 16 gigabytes of RAM and a one terabyte SSD instead of the 32 that you get on
the 14 with that said though maybe you want this laptop but you want it to look a lot more funer
well then you need to be in china this right here is the ASUS Adol 14 air which is the same
as the North American S14 but they did a collab with Anna Sui which gets you these really fun
little graphics here the really nice colors they have a bunch of them but the most interesting
it's a fragrant laptop it has a little thing here so you turn this little dial it pops out
you turn this and then inside there's a little fragrance thing so what they're doing is as your
laptop heats up it heats up this fragrance and then you get nice smells when you use your laptop
let ASUS know down below in the comments if you want this sort of fun design of laptops to come
to North America I think it should I really appreciate laptops that aren't just boring
maybe though you've got a large or small business and you want something that's a bit more secure
and a bit more upgradeable well ASUS has told me that these are super upgradeable and repairable
laptops so let's put it to the test we're taking it apart of course we are they have a blown up one
right there not good enough on their professional laptops they have tried very hard to limit the
number of screws that you need to undo so this one right here is six many of them are just four
inside of this expert book p3 you can see that we have two upgradeable RAM slots upgradeable wi-fi
right here and an upgradeable SSD many of these also come with two SSD slots although the one we
opened up specifically turns out it doesn't what also is really cool is you can see all this metal
reinforcement over all of the io they say that that greatly increases the number of insertions
that it's rated for you just generally ups the durability of this device by quite a bit and
here we also get a lot of really cool stuff like hardware tpm that can be really good for security
and on their expert b-series laptops you get dual BIOS on this right here you get a self-healing
BIOS so if a cosmic ray just so happens to hit your BIOS chip you are not out of luck here we
also get a 63 watt hour battery which they say is completely tool is to remove apparently this is
the number one thing that businesses will replace on their laptops so if we come in here just move
those over oh come on unlock unlock look at that two things right there and your battery can be
replaced this can just greatly increase how much you can get out of your laptop because maybe in
two three years it's not lasting too long don't even need to undo any screws to get the battery out
absolutely love to see the expert series of laptops you can just configure kind of whatever
you want from pretty cheap to very very expensive depending on your needs you get to decide you
have a business you get to do whatever you want just like how the business side of ASUS decided
to sponsor this video huge thanks guys for watching this hit like get subscribed and let us know what
kind of weird stuff you want them to bring to north america i really want that scented laptop
it's hilarious have a good day