WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.720 ASUS says incredible comes from within and do you know what's within you? A 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:12.400 laptop with two screens. That's right. Today we are talking about the ASUS 00:00:08.120 --> 00:00:13.760 ZenBook Duo, the newest redesigned 2026 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:19.360 Edition. And I know that this is an unboxing channel, but I have actually been using 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:24.680 this for like 2 weeks and spoiler alert, I love it. It's not without its quirks 00:00:22.840 --> 00:00:28.840 and problems, but I'll tell you all about that later after we get through 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:35.440 the unboxing portion. In the box you get the laptop in a nice classy new I don't 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:38.320 know kind of the minimal ASUS ZenBook 00:00:35.440 --> 00:00:44.200 redesign which is very pedestrian and bland. It is about 5 years too late to 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:47.000 the sans serif font trend and I hope that they maybe make something more 00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:50.440 flashy in the future, which is crazy cuz I feel like I've been telling ASUS to 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:54.720 make their stuff less flashy for so long, but that's more on the gaming 00:00:52.000 --> 00:01:01.200 side. In here we have our charger. It is a 100 watt charger that charges via 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:05.519 USB-C. Love to see it. No proprietary BS 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:07.200 here and in here we can see oh, cer鋁num. 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:12.040 How many cer aluminum? They call out their new cer鋁num material 00:01:10.440 --> 00:01:16.840 which you can see on the top of here is a nice little finish. But what is 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:20.840 cer鋁num? Basically, the aluminum body of the laptop has been impregnated with 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:25.880 ceramic that allows it to have a very high hardness making it very scratch 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:28.560 resistant and honestly 00:01:25.880 --> 00:01:32.960 feels really, really good. They used basically the same thing on the OnePlus 00:01:30.080 --> 00:01:36.840 15 which I adored the hand feel of and you know after a little bit of use it is 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:41.480 holding up. It also does a decent job of keeping a nice like not totally matte 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:44.520 finish, but also blocking out fingerprints. You can see some 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:51.120 fingerprints from my greasy grabbers because I've been using a little bit lately, but on the whole it looks really 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:55.680 good. Wow. First thing you'll probably notice when you pull this out is that it 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:57.400 is pretty thick for a modern laptop. 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:00.840 Let's take my Surface Book out to compare. But despite the thickness, this 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:05.000 thing's actually like a pretty similar weight to my Surface Book, which is kind 00:02:02.720 --> 00:02:09.080 of crazy to me. And while it is large, it's very very sturdy. Like this thing 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:14.320 is jam-packed. There's not a part of here that is creaking or bending unless 00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:17.959 you're really trying to make it do that. And that includes the kickstand on the 00:02:15.760 --> 00:02:22.760 back, which has some more information as well as quick access to your M.2 slot if 00:02:20.880 --> 00:02:27.520 you want to add additional storage. Pretty cool. What might not be so cool 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:32.120 is the processor itself. Right now, this looks like it is the intake and on the 00:02:28.880 --> 00:02:34.959 sides here we have our exhausts. And 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:39.920 this is a pretty powerful laptop that we have here. It sports a Intel Core Ultra 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:44.160 9 388H, which is their Oh, it's X9. 00:02:42.440 --> 00:02:51.600 It's And this thing is a And this thing sports a pretty powerful 00:02:47.160 --> 00:02:54.280 CPU. An Intel Core Ultra X9 00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:57.560 388H. Wow. That's basically the top-of-the-line Panther Lake chip, which 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:02.920 also means that this thing's going to have pretty good graphics performance, 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:06.320 pretty good battery life. I am really really excited to talk more about it, 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:11.840 but let's talk about the ports. On this side we have an HDMI 2.1 port, a 00:03:09.320 --> 00:03:15.080 Thunderbolt 4, which can do USB-C, can do power delivery, can do DisplayPort 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:18.120 Alt Mode, basically everything you need. And on the other side, I almost missed 00:03:16.959 --> 00:03:22.360 this, the combination headphone microphone jack. And on the other side, 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:26.840 another Thunderbolt 4 port fully featured and a single USB-A port and a 00:03:25.239 --> 00:03:33.239 power button. Now, if you got laser eyes, you might notice that there is another USB-C port here. That is for the 00:03:30.440 --> 00:03:37.920 detachable keyboard, but it doesn't allow you to connect to the computer. 00:03:35.959 --> 00:03:41.200 However, you can use the keyboard via the USB-C key to connect to other 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:44.320 systems, which is pretty cool. Shall we open her up? 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:50.959 Obviously, it's got that premium hinge, so you only need one hand to open it up without it tipping. Though, I did notice 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:54.400 there there's quite a lot of play when 00:03:50.959 --> 00:03:56.360 you try and set the position. Like it 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.680 I want it here and it goes back quite a bit. It's not a big criticism, but it's 00:03:58.160 --> 00:04:05.080 also like not perfect. Another interesting thing about the hinge is that it reminds me very much of like the 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:09.400 Galaxy Fold phones where you have this kind of solid piece down the middle and 00:04:06.760 --> 00:04:13.880 then these outer edges slide over the spine in a way that allows you to have 00:04:11.600 --> 00:04:18.560 basically zero gap between the two displays. And as I did 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:22.240 that, the keyboard actually just came right off. So, let's talk about that. On 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:26.640 the blanket that it gives, it says you can charge it. You can charge it or you 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:31.160 can Bluetooth it. And they have the smart zone so you can do brightness in 00:04:28.320 --> 00:04:33.880 the one side. You can do scrubbing with the top of it or change your volume. And 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:40.000 if you use the top right corner, you can open a settings menu very quick. And look at that. I love that that we 00:04:37.520 --> 00:04:43.400 have a nice big trackpad here and it the keyboard itself has a great finish to 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:47.280 it. The trackpad has a different more glass kind of feeling compared to the 00:04:45.880 --> 00:04:51.840 seralumen of the rest. And the other side has this kind of really soft touch 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:56.720 kind of plastic that is quite enjoyable that I think is there to help prevent 00:04:54.360 --> 00:05:00.320 getting too many scratches on the bottom screen. 00:04:57.880 --> 00:05:04.560 I do wish that we got full-sized arrow keys. I think it's very strange that 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:07.680 every laptop is afraid of just making the arrow keys full-size and having them 00:05:06.440 --> 00:05:12.280 jut out a little bit. They don't have to be in line. It might look a little janky, but I think it would be pretty 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.280 nice. 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:20.000 The typing experience on this pretty standard. It's very quiet. 00:05:18.280 --> 00:05:23.840 But the space between the keys I find makes it really easy to type on. You do 00:05:21.760 --> 00:05:29.880 have the Copilot button because this is a Copilot Plus PC cuz it's just chalk 00:05:26.919 --> 00:05:33.800 full of all that AI stuff that you love. You have your function row, but on top 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:37.160 of your Fs1 through 12, you get a couple of bonus buttons. One of them allows you 00:05:35.640 --> 00:05:42.480 to swap the displays quickly and one of them allows you to turn off one of the displays when you are using this in the 00:05:40.640 --> 00:05:46.720 Bluetooth mode. On the side of the keyboard, you have your USB-C port and a 00:05:44.760 --> 00:05:51.320 switch that allows you to turn it off if you're using it in the wireless mode 00:05:49.080 --> 00:05:56.560 either with the laptop or with another device because this just connects via 00:05:53.720 --> 00:06:00.440 Bluetooth. Gosh, ew. What the hell is this? What the Why would they put that 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:04.320 there? It literally extends over the bezel. That's hideous. Just put it on 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:08.720 the bottom with the rest of the stupid stickers. 00:06:06.520 --> 00:06:12.480 On regular laptops, is there an HDMI sticker attached to the screen like 00:06:10.640 --> 00:06:16.880 >> I I don't think I've ever seen an HDMI sticker on a laptop. Like who cares? 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:22.040 You're HDMI, dude. You're a port. Shut up. A bit of extra clarification about 00:06:19.200 --> 00:06:27.000 this USB-C port. It can send keyboard inputs, but it does not send like data 00:06:24.320 --> 00:06:31.200 via USB. It's mainly just for charging or if you wanted to connect via a wire 00:06:29.400 --> 00:06:34.160 to either your laptop or another system. But I think it's kind of cool that you 00:06:32.520 --> 00:06:39.040 can just use this with literally anything else. They could have made it proprietary and they didn't. However, I 00:06:37.400 --> 00:06:43.320 have a couple of issues with the trackpad. The main thing being you can 00:06:41.080 --> 00:06:47.600 click through the bottom of this thing so easily. And it's such a shame because 00:06:45.760 --> 00:06:52.160 one of the coolest things about this is that I could be kicking it back at my 00:06:49.640 --> 00:06:55.320 desk typing like this. But then like even the slightest bit of weight, if I'm 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:59.400 not very careful about the positioning, I get misclicks cuz it's physically 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:05.240 clicking the button. And there's no way to turn off like a physical click on the 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:09.440 button. I would love to see if that was possible so I could just use capacitive 00:07:07.440 --> 00:07:13.680 touch inputs cuz this is both physical and capacitive touch. I just don't know 00:07:11.880 --> 00:07:17.080 if ASUS would implement that. But please. I please Please do it, ASUS. 00:07:15.760 --> 00:07:21.440 That would make this so good. Now to be fair to ASUS, this is an issue on a lot 00:07:19.080 --> 00:07:25.520 of laptops, but it's even an issue when I'm holding it against the glass, right? 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:29.560 Like if I'm doing this, I can still get clicks and inputs that I don't want. 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:35.000 It's just It's just like such a little blemish on what is overall a really good 00:07:32.960 --> 00:07:39.560 user experience. I'm hovering over this like watch together button. Watch. 00:07:39.880 --> 00:07:46.760 I I clicked it. Like it's really, really easy to do. Another kind of issue I have 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:50.920 with the keyboard is that it's a little difficult to get on and off of the 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:54.160 laptop, especially compared to prior years' models. Using magnets placed 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:57.960 around the edge of the display and on the edge of the keyboard, it fastens 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:03.440 pretty nicely. Like, you're not going to accidentally like shake it off or anything. And it doesn't have too much 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:07.080 play when it's on the device itself. It's just that like there's nowhere to 00:08:05.320 --> 00:08:10.600 There's nowhere to grab it. So, I found that the easiest way to get it is to 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:14.080 like kind of go into the corners and use both hands to kind of like 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:19.200 But, I really wish the keyboard had some spot on it that extended at least beyond 00:08:17.280 --> 00:08:22.240 this thin part of the bezel so that I could easily grab it without kind of 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:27.160 like which is like Now, I've just like rubbed it across the screen and you can see 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:30.440 there's smuts all over it. Like, there's it's it's scary, you know? I don't want 00:08:28.760 --> 00:08:34.520 to scratch the screen, though I probably already have. But, what's really cool 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:37.840 about how it does connect is look at At the bottom of the screen, there's these 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:41.919 little pogo pins. But, here's the cool thing. They're completely recessed if 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:45.680 you do close the laptop like this without the keyboard, you don't have to 00:08:43.719 --> 00:08:50.400 worry about those metal pins scratching the display because they recess with 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:56.160 magnets. So, they connect right here on the keyboard. As I get close to the 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:57.560 pins, they pop out. Isn't that neat? 00:08:56.160 --> 00:09:00.839 I think it's pretty neat. But, I've said a lot about just the 00:08:59.160 --> 00:09:04.600 keyboard and some of the coolest parts of this laptop are found with the 00:09:02.280 --> 00:09:08.440 display and the PC itself. And we'll talk about all of that after this 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:12.600 message from our sponsor, Akiflow. 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You have to like be careful to be like, "Okay, I'm going to take this off and then wipe my screen and then put 00:09:51.280 --> 00:09:59.440 it on." Especially if you're concerned about longevity. And you're going to want to take care of these displays 00:09:56.280 --> 00:10:01.400 because these are two really nice 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:06.480 displays. The ZenBook Duo comes with two 14-in displays that have variable 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:08.800 refresh rate up to 144 Hz. They're 3K 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:13.200 displays and they can get up to 1,000 nits peak brightness in HDR and are 00:10:10.760 --> 00:10:16.240 rated for 500 nits in SDR. The fact that they're OLED means that you have really 00:10:14.520 --> 00:10:19.200 great viewing angles, which is awesome because you have, you know, a lot of 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:25.120 angles that you're going to be looking at this at, especially because they advertise that this is an angle. This is 00:10:22.520 --> 00:10:29.080 a way to do it. This is a way to do it. This is a way to do it. 00:10:26.920 --> 00:10:33.880 And this is a way a way to do it. I find that that this is not a very effective 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:38.040 way of using them and the stand feels really flimsy in this way. You basically 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:42.080 have to have it flat open, but honestly, it is really nice to be able to say like 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:45.680 have like maybe a full page script as well as some apps on the side. I, 00:10:43.640 --> 00:10:49.560 however, think that this is honestly more ergonomic for me because I really 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:53.520 like that how it brings up the top display so you're not kind of doing the like laptop hunch all the time. And the 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:59.680 fact that they're pretty bright displays means that any sort of overhead lighting is going to be easier to overcome on the 00:10:57.640 --> 00:11:02.640 bottom display. In my usage, I found them to be very good-looking displays. I 00:11:01.160 --> 00:11:06.200 think they look great with all types of content, but let's get some specific 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:10.040 information from Labs. On the whole in SDR, the display is decently color 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:13.320 accurate, but has some problems specifically with gamma tracking. 00:11:11.800 --> 00:11:16.760 Sometimes things can be brighter than they should be or darker than they 00:11:14.880 --> 00:11:21.120 should be. However, when you switch to HDR, on the whole the display performs 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:25.320 really really well and it's very You're going to What you're seeing is going to be very close to the artist's intent and 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:30.560 you wouldn't have to be too worried if you had were doing some mildly color sensitive work. And those results hold 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:33.720 true over both of the displays. So, not only are these displays like good 00:11:32.560 --> 00:11:39.440 displays, but they have to be like relatively similar and relatively matched so that when you show your 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:44.400 content on either display, it's still going to look correct. And they did a 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:46.960 pretty dang good job. I can't articulate 00:11:44.400 --> 00:11:50.840 how much I love this. Like this whole thing of having the 00:11:48.760 --> 00:11:54.760 keyboard out here, having the extra headroom, this way being able to play a 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:58.320 game, and then having like my chats on the bottom, any sort of other like maybe 00:11:56.640 --> 00:12:01.560 a guide up because I'm a little pleb and I'm too stupid to figure out how to 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:06.080 solve a puzzle. This is such a good experience. One thing though is that 00:12:03.680 --> 00:12:08.920 having so much space dedicated to screens means I had to make some 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:12.800 trade-offs and one of those trade-offs is the speakers. The speakers are 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:17.360 contained in the tiny little gap between the screen. Unlike a typical laptop 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:21.480 where you can do some sort of emanation of sound through the keyboard, um you 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:25.360 got a big old screen in the way. And there's no obvious porting in the back. 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:30.000 Maybe they fire a little bit out here, but uh you know, let's take a quick 00:12:27.280 --> 00:12:34.640 little test and see how they sound. I am not helpful. 00:12:32.920 --> 00:12:37.600 Yeah, this is like not a whole lot there for bass. 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:40.200 They also don't They don't get that loud. 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:51.280 For a laptop of its size and price point, they're not very good speakers. 00:12:48.760 --> 00:12:55.160 But most laptops at this size and price point don't have a whole extra screen. 00:12:54.080 --> 00:13:00.560 To me, it's decent and totally serviceable, but it's not going to be like a MacBook Pro where you can use it 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:03.240 in lieu of a Bluetooth speaker. That's just the compromise you have to make. 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:08.000 Continuing on stuff that is still on the external part of the display, let's talk about the webcam. Honestly, the webcam, 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:14.280 it's nothing to write home about. The specs are decent, but maybe a little low 00:13:11.280 --> 00:13:16.200 for a something of in this price range. 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:20.360 But it's completely serviceable. I think the image quality is decent. 00:13:18.160 --> 00:13:23.480 And the real benefit is like the ergonomic benefit of being able to have 00:13:21.839 --> 00:13:28.240 a camera at face height. So, it's not like looking up at your nose like so 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:33.240 many awful webcam Like so many awful laptop webcams do 00:13:30.400 --> 00:13:33.240 where you're just like 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:41.960 You know? And I think that kind of concludes the tour of the outside of the laptop. Let's 00:13:40.560 --> 00:13:46.000 talk about what's inside of it. And inside of it, it's pretty kitted out. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:52.280 Obviously we have a top end Intel processor. We get 32 GB of LPDDR5X 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:59.320 memory running at 9600 MT/s because it is soldered. We also 00:13:55.440 --> 00:14:02.200 have a included Samsung 1 TB NVMe with 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:08.520 the ability to expand that NVMe storage through the bottom. And it has a 99 W 00:14:05.280 --> 00:14:10.080 hour battery, which is really, really 00:14:08.520 --> 00:14:14.920 big. And something that Intel's been I think really pushing for with these Panther Lake releases, which is great 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:20.840 because that means that this thing got like 15 hours of battery life in our 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:25.840 video playback test. And anecdotally, I never found it to be unacceptable. Even 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:30.320 when I was using both screens the whole time. It seems like using both displays, 00:14:28.160 --> 00:14:36.760 even at high brightness, is only going to cut down your battery life by like 20 00:14:33.560 --> 00:14:38.920 to 30%, which is pretty good. And if you 00:14:36.760 --> 00:14:42.320 are worried, you can obviously use various dimming features to dim one of 00:14:40.680 --> 00:14:47.000 the displays or turn one of the displays fully off when it's not active. It's a 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:53.480 pretty nice. And I guess this is as good of a time to talk about the included software as any. Um ASUS loves including 00:14:51.400 --> 00:14:56.440 a lot of extra stuff you don't need. Uh I don't know what Story Cube is and I 00:14:54.880 --> 00:14:59.720 don't care to find out. All I know is it's not related to the function of this 00:14:57.880 --> 00:15:03.440 laptop. What is though is their ScreenXpert utility, which I think is 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:07.440 pretty nice. It's a little quick setting menu that helps you control each display. 00:15:05.640 --> 00:15:11.280 You can do stuff like virtual input, sharing mode, second screen, stuff like 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:15.920 that. And then the MyASUS app contains a lot of your other settings like 00:15:13.760 --> 00:15:19.839 hibernate helper or you can even change your memory allocation for your iGPU. So 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:24.760 you can actually give even more memory to your GPU if you want or if you need 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:29.200 more for your CPU multitasking stuff, you can do that, too. I do wish that 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:33.000 they gave us access to fan speeds. They give you different fan profiles, but you 00:15:31.400 --> 00:15:36.280 can't actually design your own fan curve. There we go. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:40.040 And that was weird. It glitched out. Like at 100% the fan 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:44.080 profile was not applying properly cuz the CPU was in the middle of doing Dead 00:15:42.880 --> 00:15:49.680 Space. And I'm going to tell you this much, this thing doesn't cool perfectly. 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:54.720 It the CPU will overheat. I never found it to be like catastrophic overheating, 00:15:52.680 --> 00:15:59.000 but it is something to note that even in this with the highest fan profile 00:15:56.760 --> 00:16:02.760 available, you can see some overheating, especially in gaming. Yeah, like okay, 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:06.280 here the like so I installed stuff cuz I was I was using it, but like by default 00:16:05.040 --> 00:16:10.800 here's some of the default software you get pinned in Windows. So, you get the 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:15.800 entire Office Suite that you're not allowed to use until you sign up and pay 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:17.320 for it. You get Dropbox, ASUS GlideX, 00:16:15.800 --> 00:16:20.600 which is their like utility that lets you like use your phone, easily share 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:25.680 files between your phone and your laptop, as well as Dolby settings, Story 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:28.640 Cube, Virtual Assistant. Like what is Virtual Assistant? What could it 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:33.760 possibly be? It's an intelligent system that I will soon find indispensable to 00:16:30.920 --> 00:16:36.440 my life. Oh my god, it's a Clippy. They made a Clippy. So, yeah, I was 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:40.720 gaming on this a decent amount. I played a lot of Deadlock, and it does a fine 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:45.000 job. Look, you see there's some chugging right there. We're also screen recording, 00:16:43.640 --> 00:16:48.560 and I don't have it at the highest settings, but like we're getting like 90 00:16:46.800 --> 00:16:51.560 to 100 FPS on power. You won't get the same performance on battery. You have to 00:16:50.040 --> 00:16:56.600 be plugged in to get the maximum amount of performance, but this thing can kind 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:58.440 of handle anything you can throw at it. So, we're going to get into like an 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:03.800 actual fight. We're going to see some particle effects, some stuff actually happening right here. We're kind of 00:17:01.040 --> 00:17:07.720 locked like 109 FPS, which is really great. I brought this to the Wayland and 00:17:05.800 --> 00:17:10.920 played quite a few games on it, and really didn't encounter any major 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:18.120 problems once I lowered the resolution and, you know, tweaked the settings a little bit. The Intel Arc B390 found in 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:20.800 these new Panther Lake CPUs, it's so 00:17:18.120 --> 00:17:24.120 good. It's amazing what Intel has done in their graphics department and I'm 00:17:22.120 --> 00:17:27.560 really excited to see if they bring that these improvements to the desktop. But, 00:17:25.959 --> 00:17:31.360 this is all anecdotal stuff and we need to get some freaking facts. So, let's 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:34.560 see what the Labs has to say. For comparison, Labs brought in a Lenovo 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:39.360 laptop with the same chipset as this one, as well as an Asus ZenBook with 00:17:36.760 --> 00:17:44.520 AMD's currently available flagship mobile CPU, the HX370, 00:17:41.800 --> 00:17:48.800 to see how they hold up. And in Rocket League, well, things look great for 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:51.640 Intel and also great for this laptop where we see barely any difference in 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:55.360 performance between the Lenovo and the ZenBook Duo. However, when you look at 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:58.120 AMD's, uh it's uh not so good. Like, basically 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:03.840 like half the performance of the Intel. And 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:05.680 that's also true in uh Dota 2. And in 00:18:03.840 --> 00:18:10.680 Cyberpunk, where AMD's is kind of getting whooped by Intel's iGPUs. 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:15.160 Really, AMD makes great CPUs, but their GPUs are struggling, especially compared 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:20.520 to Intel. Like, in Cyberpunk, you're getting 62 FPS on average here and 53 in 00:18:17.840 --> 00:18:24.880 the lows. That's a super great gaming experience and that's at medium settings 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:28.360 at 1,200 p. Like, that's awesome. And if you want to crank the resolution a 00:18:26.080 --> 00:18:32.720 little bit higher, you do lose a lot of frames, but you're still going at 39 FPS 00:18:30.760 --> 00:18:36.200 average. And this thing really isn't struggling compared to the Lenovo. Now, 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:40.800 Labs never saw this thing thermally throttling in their testing. However, in 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:44.600 my usage, I did actually see it throttle a couple of times, but it was never to 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:49.120 the point that my performance took a massive nose dive. So, honestly, for 00:18:47.040 --> 00:18:53.400 thermals, when you have a whole extra display in the bottom, like, everything 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:57.840 is here, it does a pretty damn good job. Now, all of this is super mega very 00:18:55.520 --> 00:19:03.720 cool, but how much are you paying to get something this exotic? Well, less than 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:06.640 you'd think. This is just $2,700. 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:12.120 Okay, maybe it's not just $2,700. That is a pretty penny. That is not a cheap 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:15.240 laptop. But, you're getting two high-end 00:19:12.120 --> 00:19:16.960 displays, a top-of-the-line chipset, and 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:20.320 decent levels of storage. It I'm honestly I would have expected this 00:19:18.600 --> 00:19:23.640 thing to be like four to five hundred dollars more expensive than what it is. 00:19:21.760 --> 00:19:28.840 Yes, you can find similarly spec'd machines in a more typical form factor 00:19:26.360 --> 00:19:32.760 for cheaper. Yes, you can find better battery life elsewhere. But when you 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:37.720 consider that compared to other exotic display laptops like the Lenovo 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:39.040 rollable, which is like $3,300, 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:44.240 this thing's pretty good. And if gaming's not really your thing, you can save a little bit more money by going 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:49.320 with the $2,500 version of this with the Ultra 9 386H 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:51.840 that foregoes having the GPU, but still gives you 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:56.720 basically all of the great processing power that you can find on Panther Lake. 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:59.600 I love this thing, and I am going to do 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:03.840 my best to steal it from the office and use it for as long as I can. You will 00:20:01.520 --> 00:20:06.960 take this laptop from my cold, dead hands, okay? Thank you for watching 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:14.200 ShortCircuit. If you enjoyed this video, why don't you get subscribed and keep your eyes peeled for the Lenovo rollable 00:20:11.040 --> 00:20:15.920 display laptop. It's pretty crazy. And 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:22.560 it also it might already be out. So if it's out, we're going to put it here. 00:20:18.560 --> 00:20:22.560 Or here. It's going to be on screen.