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RTX 5000 series laptops are here and

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ASUS sponsored this video to check it out. This right here is the ROG Stricks

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Scar 16. We also have the 18 and I

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cannot wait to show you just how fast these things are. Oh, guys, look at

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this. The box is so fancy. You come in

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here and when you lift it up Oh,

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wow. It's on a little pedestal. Before we look at the laptop, let's see how

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much it can draw from the wall. 380 watts is quite a bit and that is

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delivered over Asus's proprietary connector here. Now, I would really like

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to see USBC, but you cannot deliver 380

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watts over that. And they do have 100 watt charging over USBC if you want to

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do that over some other brick. Oh, yes, we have the standard stuff here. Plug it

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in, open it up, turn it on, you're good.

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Now, here today we have the 16-in and also the 18-in, but at the same time, we

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don't really have the 18-in cuz they gave it to us, but we're not allowed to

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do any testing or anything like that cuz this is a pre-production sample. Looking

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at the two laptops, it seems like that the main difference is that the 18-in is

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bigger. Wow. And also, it has a numb pad on the right hand side here. So, if you

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are planning on doing this for work and play, maybe you're an engineer or

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something like that and you want an actual numpad, 18 in is for you.

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Otherwise, I would probably stick with the 16. One thing I do have to say,

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though, the 18-in screen is freaking massive. Like, it makes sense. Of

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course, it's a really big screen for a laptop, but man, this is a desktop

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replacement. It is not a laptop. But anyway, I was not able to do anything

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with the 18-in besides look at it. So,

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we have now done that. For 2025, the Stricks lineup has been completely

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redesigned. And I do have to say this is a fine looking laptop. It looks quite

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professional. It is just dark black right here. Although, if you look right

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here, there's 9,152 precision mil holes behind which

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there are 810 LEDs for the anision.

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Anime vision. Anime vision. Yes, of course.

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Basically, you can put silly little designs here. We'll play around with the

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different stuff you can do with it later, but I do really like that you can

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either have it look crazy and gamey or just turn it off and it looks kind of

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cool. There just a couple holes. Oh, okay. I do like this. On the right side,

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we have two USB typeAs, which excellent,

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but they have put almost all of the IO on the left hand side where we have two

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Thunderbolt Fives, USB type A, HDMI 2.1,

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2.5 gig Ethernet, and our power plug. Oh, and also a little headphone

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microphone combo port right there. But there is also on the back is no IO, but

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a whole heckload of ventilation because I believe that they have a vapor chamber

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that goes all the way across here for many a cooling. Now, I am a bit curious

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if this aluminum back panel will reject fingerprints. And oh, it's actually not

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bad. I was a little bit concerned that this coating would not reject fingerprints too good, but looking here,

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like I I of course can fingerprint it if I really want to, but uh that's pretty

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fingerprinted. It's not the worst I've ever seen, but it's not the best either.

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It's not like they're ser aluminum coating. Man, that is a heavy power

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brick. Actually, we didn't even look at how heavy this whole laptop is. Ooh. Oh,

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this thing feels like it might crack 5 lb. 6.1. Ouch. And then add in the power

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brick and you're going to be carrying around

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7.7. This is a 1.6 lb power adapter.

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Also, that's 3.5 kilograms and 2.7

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kilograms for the rest of the world. All right, after getting into fistauffs with

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the Windows utility for RGB and completely disabling that, I now have

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the most incredible light show that might have ever existed around a laptop.

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They have an RGB strip that goes literally all the way around the bottom,

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giving you this really quite neat little

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underglow for your laptop. Is this necessary in any way?

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No. Is it very cool? Yes. All right,

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let's have a look at this display right here. It is their new Nebula HDR display

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and it is 2560 x600 240 hertz and they

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claim 1200 nits peak brightness, but it turns out that they really undersold it.

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We tested it and we saw a peak value of

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2,000 nits. And also in HDR, it was able

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to sustain over 1,400 nits pure white on

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the whole display, which is really freaking bright. They were able to

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accomplish that kind of brightness by having a miniLEDD display. It's the sort

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of thing that you can't really do on OLEDs yet. And also, it has a dual ACR

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coating, which is sort of like a matte finish, which is incredible at rejecting

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bright spots. Here you can see I have a standard screen with a typical coating.

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And wow, that's a studio light right there. You sure as heck cannot see a

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single thing on my phone screen. But if we move over to the ACR, double ACR

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coding. Wow, that's really good. This

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legitimately is probably the best display if you want to do gaming in a

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bright room. It is fantastic. Okay,

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Belle just said, "Who's outside gaming in the park?" But I have legitimately

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been thinking that I would really love to be able to game on my patio. So, this

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would be pretty sick.

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One final thing about the display though, we did measure the color space and it got 99% of DCI B3, which is

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great. But of course, a good display means nothing if you don't have the

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performance to back it up. But we really do. Here we have an Intel Core Ultra

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9275HX, which has 24 cores, goes up to

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megat transfers per second, which is quite a bit slower than most of the RAM

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that's on the market these days, but that's because it's replaceable. Love to

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see that. Also in here, we have a 2 TBTE

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NVMe SSD. That one's PCIe 4, but we have

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a PCIe 5 slot in here if you feel like going extra fast on your storage later.

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For Wi-Fi, we have Intel Wi-Fi 7. Love to see that. An NPU from Intel. Very

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cool. But the star of the show, of course, is the RTX 5080. This entire

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system is able to draw up to 255 watts.

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And the GPU alone is able to suck back

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175, and we did confirm that with firmware. We were able to get it to

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sustain 173, which is a lot of watts for

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a mobile GPU. If you do want even more power though, you can spec this with the

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5090. But do know that the 5080 and 5090

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are not super dissimilar on mobile and you will not be getting extra power or

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wattage delivered to it. So don't expect it to be groundbreakingly faster. I do

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really want to have a game on this, but first let's have a look at the keyboard

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and trackpad. Now, the trackpad right here is 36% bigger than last year. And

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also, it can be a numpad if you so choose. So, you can hold right here. Oh,

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look at that. Okay, I can take off the sticker now. I guess this is a thing

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that you can do. I don't really see how much I would use it, but at the same

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it's there. I'm not going to complain about it, especially when the trackpad

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itself is great. It is huge. It is glass

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topped and the click feel and overall tracking is fantastic. Fortunately, we

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haven't really had to worry about crappy trackpads for a while on Windows, ever

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since precision drivers came out, and it's nice to see. They just continue to

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be great. Same with the

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keyboard. Unsurprisingly, the keyboard is fantastic. Asus has been doing a

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great job on their gaming laptops for years at this point, and it's so nice

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that you don't have to get a gaming laptop and deal with a crap tier

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keyboard like you did a couple years ago. This thing's fantastic. It's a

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little bit on sort of the softer side.

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That's not a bad thing, especially for gaming where you might be holding W for

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a really long time. If you don't want to just be holding W, though, up here at

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the top, we have programmable macro keys if you don't want to be able to adjust

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your volume or turn off your mic. I just remembered we haven't been looking at

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the anime vision. Has it been doing anything? A sick. All right, we have the

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anime vision enabled now. Also, we have a bunch of pre-done animations like this

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one right here. You have your ROG stuff. Oh, what about

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raining? That one's kind of cool. Do you guys know what this is? Is

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it obvious? Yeah. What do you think? Is that what we stay

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with for the rest of the shoot? Yeah. Hell yeah. All right. What game do you

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guys want to play? Cyber Gun. That's

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good cuz that was kind of the only option. All right. How does this run

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some video games? I am in Cyberpunk here. Ultra settings and I turned on

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DLSS and it is on balanced mode and I'm currently getting 60 FPS would appear.

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Oh, it's dropping a bit. It was way higher before. All right. Yeah, we're

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getting about 55 FPS which isn't too

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bad. It's decent enough, but I do have the system right now in silent mode. So,

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let's try and increase that a bit. We're going to sit

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here. We're at like 70 FPS or so, but we

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can go to performance mode. 100 FPS. That's looking a bit

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better. I am also screen recording at the moment, but holy frig, I am much

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less concerned about the game itself. And this display

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is great. I know that I already talked about it, but like that is freaking

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bright. Like, I'm sorry, Andrew. Is the top down able to handle that at all?

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It's just freaking blown out. So, IRL, this looks pretty decent. Like, it is

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very white, but it also looks like the sun is glinting off of stuff. The top

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down, it is just getting destroyed. This display is way too bright for our

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camera. Are are you able to like ND filter this or something? There we

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go. I'm sorry, editor. Okay, so you now can see the details in the window here.

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Only problem is everything else is way too dark. But that really does show you

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the kind of dynamic range that you can get out of this display. It looks

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awesome in real life. The fans are definitely a little bit on the louder

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side now that we have put it into performance mode. I guess we can put her

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in full-blown's turbo mode here and see how loud that is. Performance. I think

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the vast majority of headphones once you put them on, you will not be able to

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notice it or care. In turbo mode, it's increasing a bit and you might be a

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little bit cross. Also, do remember that everything that we're doing here is with

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screen recording. Looking at our Labs results at 1600p, we were able to get 92

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FPS on average in Cyberpunk at medium settings, 179 FPS in

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F124, and 66 in Total War Warhammer. And

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looking at our CPU results, we were able to get 151 watts out of the CPU in

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Cinebench. Although it did hit 87 degrees, it is still very impressive

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that they are able to cool that much out of this little laptop. They do say that

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you'll be able to get up to 175 watts PL2 on the CPU. And when combined with

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the IPC increases, it should be really quick, although we were not able to

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replicate that. You probably have to be in a really cold room to get that kind

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of performance. Now that we know that it can get a little bit loud from the fans

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in gaming, let's see how loud the speakers can get.

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All right. It sounds loud and clear, but I feel like there's not going to be a

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whole lot of bass

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here. It's not bad. There's definitely

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not a whole lot of bass in it, but it is

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clear and it is loud. I also hear it sounds quite wide. One sec. I'm

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curious if there's settings I can look at. Well, turns out that you can't

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fiddle around with the surround sound settings, but it does sound pretty good.

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All right, let's check out this webcam. The first thing that I absolutely love

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about it is that they have Windows Hello facial recognition. So, there's some

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little IR cameras that can pick up your face. It is the best way to get into

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your laptop in my opinion. And also, they have a new 1080p webcam, which I

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think looks decent. It's a little bit

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chunky for sure. Like, there's some

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weird there's some weird going on. I

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don't really know what to call it, but it is exposing pretty decently for my

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face. Right here, it's kind of hot on one side, but that's okay enough. Moving

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over here, it's doing a pretty decent

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job. There's a lot of noise, though. I don't know what's There's like noise and

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some trails, which is interesting. That

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said, though, that is not really going to affect your video calls, and it is

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exposing well, so I'll give it a pass. All right, let's have a look at the

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repairability here. First of all, the bottom of this looks pretty sick. ROG

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Stricks, and it has a totally toolless design. So, I just push to the left

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right there. Pull like that. That was incredibly simple. That

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is maybe the easiest laptop to get in I have ever experienced. And in here, you

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can actually do some stuff. You can upgrade the RAM. I already talked about

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that, but frig. So few laptops these days let you upgrade the RAM. And I

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absolutely love that that's an option. Also, the SSDs, you can just come in

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here, give that a little turn, and bam.

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Once again, totally toolless, and you can put an SSD there, and another one

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over here if you want to upgrade it down the road. In here, we also have three

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fans, which is very nice. So, we have these two right here, which are

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primarily for your GPU and CPU. Although, also, this third one down here

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is blowing across like your VRM and stuff like that to make sure that things

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other than your main components stay cool. Speaking of other things staying

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cool, they actually have the intakes for this on the keyboard, so you're sort of

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actively cooling down the keyboard with the air that's going into it. So, you

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don't have to worry about your fingers getting all burned from the laptop. In

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here, we also have a vapor chamber that goes all the way across the back. And on

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the CPU and GPU, we have liquid metal to make sure they stay nice and cool. Now,

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one thing that ASUS couldn't really do is make the battery life incredible. In

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here, we have a 90Wh battery, which is getting pretty close to as big as they

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could get into it, but not big enough to deliver a whole lot of battery life. So,

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we got 5 hours and 44 minutes, which is impressive given the power, not

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impressive if you compare it to anything that's not

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powerful. Oh, that is so sick. And this

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laptop overall is pretty sick. I do have to say that I quite like it. It is heaps

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powerful. The display is awesome and the price is high. This thing right here is

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$3300 as spec. And if you want a 5090,

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ouch. That said though, they have an Ultra 9 in here, a 5080, and a bunch of

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storage and RAM. So, you can't really blame them for the price getting that

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high. And of course, you can get like a G14 or something with way less power if

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you don't want to be spending that much. So, huge thanks to ASUS for sponsoring

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this video. Huge thanks to you for watching it. And I hope that you guys

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have a great old day. Hit like, get subscribed and so