AMD is used to being treated like the redheaded stepchild at partner events
manufacturers like ASUS typically line up all their sexy new designs with Intel
inside and then there's like a room over there somewhere with the
more plastic crappier AMD version that's not even coming for another three months
oh how the tables have turned literally
every single one of the machines that ASUS
showed up with today for our ces pre-briefing is launching with an AMD
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the quickest and easiest way to tell that AMD is really leading the charge in
the CPU space is that they're suddenly going all Intel
tactics on us by not allowing ASUS to tell us anything other than that this is
a 4000 series ryzen processor
fortunately we have basic investigative skills like
googling ryzen 4 000 leak and reading so
here's the rundown the new ASUS zephyrus g14 is an all-new 14-inch laptop design
that is just smoking
ryzen 4000 is going to be the first time that AMD brings their seven nanometers
zen ii to laptops because confusingly remember guys their 3000 series mobile
are still 14 nanometer so with the decrease in transistor size we are
getting some significant benefits starting with an increase in core count
that's right my friends in this tiny 14-inch zephyrus AMD well ASUS really
but who's keeping track has somehow managed to cram a true 8 core 16 thread
CPU that is expected to boost at over 4
gigahertz now it'll be interesting to see how much of the seven nanometer
efficiency boost AMD chooses to use for performance versus battery life but
given that ASUS is advertising oh thank you 10 hours on a 76 watt hour battery
we will probably be getting a fair bit of both
and the cold hard truth is that if we're wrong about this AMD has nobody to blame
but their own obstinance maybe the coolest thing about this
processor though and the zephyrus g14 as a whole is that it really blurs the line
between a gaming and a professional laptop like
look at this thing it looks like you could show up in a boardroom meeting
with it but you're getting an rtx 2060 3
200 megahertz RAM so you can shred them games and then a course so you can tear
through renders you get a 120hz display
with freesync but you're also getting pantone calibration you're getting all
that RGB wait
you don't get RGB no no RGB well
how could i buy a gaming laptop without a lighting gimmick right
hey there it is
it's back here so yeah they've got
1250 mini leds on the back of the
display that allow you to put custom pictures or animations on the rear of
your computer this is an optional extra though so most
of you will probably be ending up with what is a shockingly toned down laptop
for an rog machine so the design goal of the zephyrus g14
was to take on the do-it-all gaming laptops like the razer blade but at a
more affordable price that doesn't mean though that ASUS sacrificed build
quality so here we've got the forged and
cnc machined magnesium chassis that ASUS is using in the g14 you can actually see
they've strategically left like a honeycomb pattern here on the wrist rest
so that there's surprisingly little flex to this thing
even without the assembled laptop around it and i'm like you heard that i'm
trying to break it another really nice to have is a fingerprint reader but not
just any fingerprint reader my friends ASUS was very proud of this here guys
what we're looking at is the world's first
triangular power button with a built-in
fingerprint reader wait i'm sorry who's asking for this
apparently this is actually a six dollar
part for them and i sincerely hope that
most of the cost was in its hidden superpower the ability to cash your
fingerprint temporarily when you press the button initially then use that
cached data to unlock the device once Windows asked for authentication
i hope they didn't spend too much on the shape in keeping with the zephyrus name
ASUS needed to include some fancy ways to manage the thermals in such a small
device and they haven't disappointed lifting up the screen causes the whole
device to lift up off the surface it's sitting on making the keyboard slightly
more ergonomic and the down firing speaker sound better and of course it
also allows the machine to pull nice cool air into the fans from the bottom
of the unit getting air into the machine of course though is only half the battle and this
new hinge means that they can't just blast the hot
air out the back straight into the bottom of the display this was actually
quite a problem on one of their strix laptops about two years ago they didn't
design enough room for the air to get out so you'd get way better performance
when the screen was either like this or like this but then you'd get thermal
throttling if it was at a 90 degree angle anyway ASUS has solved this by splitting
the airflow with these fancy new heat sinks so that it goes both check this
out that's cool so it goes both up and down to get as much heat out as possible
and if that's still not enough heat output for you well then you can say
goodbye to the zephyrus here and move over to what we call the thick boy
this is the ASUS tough a15 gaming laptop
and it features up to a 45 watt eight
core 4th gen ryzen that is 10 more watts
than the zephyrus now this is the cost down model of the ASUS laptop lineup so
you don't get fancy things like uh magnesium chassis you hear that flex
it's probably an engineering sample but it's probably not gonna get that much better or a flippy doodle hinge but we
do seem to have the makings of a pretty solid budget laptop here it's got a
144hz display with freesync an rtx 2060
most impressively a 90 watt hour battery this means that if you
don't mind the chunk the tough could easily have everything you need in a
laptop it even has easily upgradable RAM and storage but you're just gonna have
to trust me on that since i wasn't allowed to film the inside apparently
some of the stuff in this engineering sample will not be in the final version
what i'm sorry i can't tell you finally
over here we've got the ASUS ga35 this is their new flagship desktop
and like how crazy is this flagship products
with AMD cpus what so it's got a 16 core
32 thread ryzen 3950x paired with a
strix rtx 2080 ti giving me no doubts whatsoever that it's going to be a
gaming beast and seems like it's going to be a pretty quiet one too given how
much room there is for airflow and ASUS
insisted that i mention just how many thermal zones it has it's got lots of
thermal zones okay one really cool thing though about this
desktop is the two hot swappable two and a half inch bays in the front which will
likely be super useful for
esports tournaments and more importantly messing with your
friend who buys one just here guys
sorry how do you get the thing off help me out here
where is it thank you okay
so guys pro tip you just pull it out a little bit so it
looks like it's still installed hours of hilarity will ensue while he or
she uses the integrated carrying handle to chuck the thing out a window because
it won't boot speaking of throwing things i'ma throw
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wtf dude