so we're coming back at you from ces 2019
where ASUS brought the ces show to us
this is the zephyrus s
gx701 the latest in their lineup of
hyper thin and yet super powerful gaming
laptops you might not be able to tell from the outside or from its weight or
even from the inside unless you're like some kind of electronics engineer and or
you know this heat pipe design means anything to you but this is going to be
one of the most powerful gaming laptops
out there we're going to show you all around it
and our ces coverage this year is brought to you by dbrand you can check
out dbrand's new second gen grip case this is a drop proof case we've got that
linked below as well as their prism hammer proof screen protector if the
links in the video description it links at the links
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so from the outside the new zephyrus inherits a lot of the traits of its
15-inch predecessors it's super thin
you've got your exhaust ports here here here and here because there is a lot of
heat to dissipate and you've got actually pretty ample selection of i o
with the one thing that's notably missing being an rj45 jack because the
thing is quite honestly just too darn
thin to fit it but there are some really cool new additions that are obvious
before we even open it up so while it does have a power in jack it can also
accept boom right there usb type-c power up to 65 watts so that
means you can actually top this thing up on the go or at the very least extend
your gaming time by a little bit another
thing that's really cool here is that they have made some not too obvious
changes to the thermal design they're not strictly speaking new to this
generation of zephyrus but they're definitely worth mentioning so these
fans here are now made using a liquid crystal polymer which is presumably to
make them like super mega hyper thin and
the shrouds for them have been redesigned as well so right here they've
got like a dust collection chamber so you won't gunk up the fins of your
heatsink and they've added
kind of a little pout to it that is to say they've got a little lip
on the bottom that keeps here we go
a typical zephyrus fashion that keeps the cool air that's being drawn in from
this flap that opens up at the bottom when you open up the screen from mixing
too much with the hot air that's coming out here and here because it wouldn't do
you a lot of good to exhaust the hot air if you just sucked it right back in now
let's get it opened up and this is where things get exciting these bezels are
hyper thin so even though it's a 17 inch
display the laptop itself is crazily
actually not that big and there's a couple of options there's a 144 hertz
1080p version and that guy is going to be obviously for the gamers out there
but even not quite because it's pantone certified so you could do some light
content creation on it and they're going to have a 400 nit peak brightness HDR
display with local dimming so that's right 400 nitpeak brightness
right so a little bit higher yeah good try
now one disadvantage to this thin bezel approach that you might have picked up
on is that uh
i tried to launch the camera app and oh wow
it doesn't have a webcam so ASUS's rationale here is that most gamers
don't care about the webcam anyway so they went so far as to not even include
a crappy one down here but to rip it out entirely assuming that anything you
could build into a tiny little bezel or anything like that wouldn't be
acceptable anyway and they might as well just ship
a standalone webcam and it appears that
it mounts that's the standalone stand for it well
you know what i've had enough of your crap jeff
it goes like that oh look how much of your screen it covers can it kind of bite onto it like
that okay so it's an imperfect solution but
it's better than nothing you know which is quite literally what you have if you
don't put this on i've been informed it is at least 1080p 60 FPS so
now let's talk specs this little puppy is equipped with a six core 8750h
our particular model has 24 gigs of RAM for some reason and you can get it with
either a gtx 10 20 70 or 20
max-q did i say gtx the first time damn
it so this thing is equipped with an rtx
2070 which i don't know if it's equivalent to the desktop version
because NVIDIA won't tell us a damn thing about it or a 2080 max q which i
also don't know a damn thing about because NVIDIA won't tell us anything
about it so i i don't know how neutered the 2080 max q is although presumably if
ASUS bothered to do two skews it's either because NVIDIA twisted their ARM
behind their back or because even with the max q variant the 2080 is still at
least a little bit faster than 2070. either way what we know
is that you can turn rtx on and have glorious 40 to 55 FPS gaming
on this machine and there's a few other extras so the
keyboard backlight is now brighter than ever this wheel right here adjusts the volume
and uh oh it has a 50 bigger battery yes my friends ASUS used a bunch of the
extra space they have down here to put a 76 watt hour battery in this thing so
now you can game for even a little bit more over an hour
on battery fabuloso now in fairness to ASUS it does
include the same GPU switch button that'll actually trigger an entire
restart of the machine and switch between g-sync discrete graphics mode
and optimus mode where you can't have g-sync but our testing on the zrsm
yielded something like 54 minutes of battery life in the pcmark battery test
even in optimus mode so i'm still not expecting this to be like you know the
machine for meetings at the office or whatever unless your office has very
very short meetings it's for gamers come on look at the logo it's rog anyway what
do people expect it doesn't have Thunderbolt no Thunderbolt
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dbrand without dbrand our trip to ces 2019 wouldn't have been possible so a
big shout out to those guys go check out their new second gen grip at the link in
the video description it's grippier than ever so no dropping even for me and it's
65 thinner than the first generation it
offers military-grade impact protection along the full case and it's easy to
customize the back plate also you can protect the front of your phone with
dbrand now too with their prism screen protector that you can literally smack
with a hammer and it won't break obviously there are limits to this
technology we don't recommend trying it at home but it's a heck of a lot better
than nothing and it's got a nice glass like feel even though it's an impact
resistant screen protector that's pretty cool go check that out at the link below
as well so don't miss any of our ces 2019
content i think the rest of it will actually be on the show floor so we'll
like see you guys there i'm gonna like warp in between this video and the next
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