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protection here we are ASUS hasn't even set up yet
in here in fact this is like they kind of pulled me aside from the pre-briefing
thing and they were like okay yeah that stuff's really cool but like
come on in here we got this and i was like
that's an rog strix scar two
why are you pulling me in here for this everything about this
is like basically normal strict scar
stuff so you got a bunch of ventilation for your cooling you got a bunch of heat
pipes and you got a bunch of heat sinks because you got powerful graphics six
core 8750h processor you got like a bunch of io sd
card reader and you know RGB backlit
keyboard and is this individually backlit yeah individually backlit cool
that's good stuff all right so okay so we got we got RGB you know ASUS living
up to their reputation clearly no Thunderbolt but lots of display we
got you know wired networking and all that cool stuff and they're like
no no no no hold on a second lioness don't walk away yet because i was half i
was halfway i was halfway out of the room i'm like look you guys don't even
respect me enough to put away your packing materials before
see all right our say seuss rep is hiding he's hiding back there because
he's like oh no i'm gonna get in all kinds of trouble for this but he's like
no come back come back because this thing is what i have been asking for for so
long so first of all they've added some better rigidity so the thing with strix
for ASUS is they can't seem to decide if it's a premium brand or if it's kind of
like their value brand because they've got rog
like the high end rog and then strix was like kind of this value one but then
they're like no no it's like it's for gaming it's premium and they're finally
taking that seriously so they've added more metal to the bottom of the chassis
so this is now a really rigid chassis like it makes the overall device feel
quite a lot better still a little flimsy up here room for improvement there but
you know baby steps right but the big thing the big thing i've been asking for
is watch this holy
crap so for years now i've been saying the
same thing that actually apple's been saying and we don't agree on everything
for sure but you don't need higher resolution once you get to the point
where you can't distinguish the individual pixels and so while 4k
displays make a ton of sense if you got a 32 inch monitor because at the
distance you'd sit you would easily be able to make out the pixels on qhd or
something like that for laptops this this race to 4k has just been
frustrating for me we're sucking up extra battery we're making the screens
dimmer because the closer you pack the pixels actually the harder it is to push
the backlight through them like we're doing all these counterproductive things
when what we should be focusing on is refresh rate this
to my knowledge is the first laptop in
the world with a 240 hertz display and not just that but
check this out so it's using a sharp exo panel that has
among the best anti-ghosting that i have
seen certainly the best i've seen on a laptop look at this like it's hard to
appreciate at 30 frames per second through a youtube compression
filter but i can read this text as i'm
moving it around on the screen that would have been
unthinkable on anything but a crt in the
past i mean maybe a high-end tn panel but but
that's not what this is this is this is an exo panel it's not like just like bad
viewing angle junk check this out
so this is the closest thing i've ever seen to a
zero compromises mobile gaming experience because high refresh rate is
a true competitive advantage where higher resolution is not and speaking of
competitive advantage unfortunately they had to have like
someone directly over my shoulder the entire time to make sure that i didn't
run any of these tantalizing benchmarks over here but this is actually going to
be equipped with an rtx 2080 max q
design or whatever NVIDIA's latest you know
nomenclature for that is now ASUS can't tell me under pain of death
what kind of performance we could expect for this compared to a regular rtx 2080
but if i had to go out on a limb i'd say well the max q1's last gen were about 10
percent lower so i wouldn't be surprised
if we saw something along those lines now there's still room for improvement here this webcam bad
terrible not only is it on the bottom it's off-center clearly they expect
absolutely no one to use it but other than that the keyboard feels better than
last gen track pad acceptable could be bigger but this is looking pretty
freaking sick so my stylist fell out but
it should be noted that that is the only damage that my phone sustained so this
is the dbrand grip it features super clicky buttons it's really grippy it's
got precise cutouts for all your various things be they fingerprint sensors
cameras or whatever the case may be and of course
fantastic impact resistance as you might expect for dbrand every grip case has a
customizable spot on the back so you can put any dbrand skin you'd like on the
back and then as for the front their prism screen protector
is kind of unbelievable so it feels very
glassy on the front but it's not glass
like there's this demo they had me do that made me feel very uncomfortable
hammering nails in with a phone that had a prism installed on the front and
somehow the screen survived i thought
like i love dbrand there are bros but i thought they must have kind of fudged it
a little bit when they did the demo but they didn't
and it's you should just go check it out at the
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