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curse for more details welcome to another line of tech

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tips unboxing this time we're going to be checking out something that I

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personally am very excited about this is the ASUS Republic of Gamers

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g46 notebook so this is a premium notebook that comes with their 360 care

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package to your International waranty meaning you can take it anywhere zero

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bright dot guarantee two-way free standard shipping in the event of an RMA

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and 24/7 tech support it looks like this one doesn't include their accidental

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damage which only the very very expensive notebooks do but that's still

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a very strong included warranty compared

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to the offerings from other guys on the market and ASUS has been making it a

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habit to do that with their notebooks so

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why do I care about this notebook you guys might be asking yourselves well number one is that I like notebooks I

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like powerful notebooks I don't play as many games as I used to but what I might

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find myself doing is editing video on a notebook or just generally being a power

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user and wanting something that gets closer to the desktop experience that I

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can have we've got a nice protective paper sleeve here for the notebook

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itself just going to tuck that away and what a gaming notebook typically does is

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it delivers a bit of a thicker overall form factor but it is able to deliver

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better overall experience a better overall performance and a better

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experience for power users so check this out in terms of the thickness here's an

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HTC1 phone for size comparison you can see it's not that thin but it has

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powerful Cooling and that's part of the reason it has to be thicker you can see

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through these grills the huge heat sinks

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that are cooling the GPU and the CPU because this notebook does not skimp on

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the specs it actually uses a core i5 3230m which can turbo up to 3.2 GHz and

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a GTX 660m so what you'll notice about

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this is that unlike other sort of massive gaming laptops this one actually

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fits in my lap it has the same kind of style and aesthetic that we've seen from

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other ASUS Rog notebooks such as the g75

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so you can see we've got an illuminated ASUS logo on the back with a shiny ASUS

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logo so that's sorry an illuminated Rog logo the overall notebook has a matte

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finish so you can see I can touch it like this and it actually doesn't show

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any fingerprints which is great for something you're going to carry around with you which this one is actually

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possible to carry around I'd rather have thicker than bigger in this case um the

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hinge is extremely robust so you can see it's uh it's attached here not quite at

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the very edge of the notebook but that gives you a comfortable distance between

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the keyboard and the screen itself so let's just go ahead and uh give you guys

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sort of another angle of that uh we showed you the back and enough already

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so on the bottom you've got easy access to memory upgrades the hard drive that

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comes in this particular one is a 750 gig drive with an 8 gig SSD providing a

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caching functionality that gives it a boost in performance without uh without

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actually having to have two separate drives it's got an SD card reader on

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this side HDMI out super speed USB 3 as

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well as VGA this is probably the most flexible display output that I like to

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see on a notebook this is a this is the flexibility I like to see because

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between these two you can adapt to pretty much anything else that you need

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to run however things do get better so

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there's your power in there's your gig of ether there's two more USB 3 bam mini

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DisplayPort love to see that so you can actually drive multiple displays off of

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this notebook very very easily it's got microphone and headphone Jacks that are

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dedicated uh some some smaller thin and light notebooks are starting to

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integrate these into one I think what is it three three pole Jack uh so the ones

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that have both microphone and headphones on one and now that we've opened it up

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you can see it has a very Sleek look to it so the bezel of the monitor part is

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matte again which I think looks really clean really really good there's your

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webcam um but down here you've got what

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appears to be brushed aluminum now you guys if you've been watching my videos

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for a while will know what I think of brushed aluminum on places where you

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have to rest your hands because it will stain pretty much instantly but what

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isus is actually gone with here for the material is that brushed plastic that

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looks gorgeous it looks just like brushed aluminum except you can actually

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clean it unlike brushed aluminum so it'll come clean and it'll always look

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good whereas brush aluminum will look terrible pretty much immediately on the

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keyboard layout itself they haven't committed any cardinal sins so they've

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got long shifts long enter and long backspace meaning you'll be able to

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easily reach all of those buttons should you desire it and all of your usual hot

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keys are built into the top here so brightness up and down for the illuminated keyboard Wireless on and off

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that's Wireless AC so it has the very

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latest wireless standard brightness up and down for your screen itself as well

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as external display options turning the touchpad off which is an important

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option for gamers because the last thing you want is to be using your keyboard

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and then a separate Mouse which most people don't game on a touchpad and then

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accidentally brush the touchpad with your palm and then have that

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accidentally move you around inside the game other than that there's not too

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much to say about it it does feature NVIDIA Optimus which is basically uh

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NVIDIA and Intel's way of using their drivers well I guess NVIDIA developed it

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more than Intel but uh NVIDIA's way of using their drivers to turn the

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dedicated GPU off when you're not running a 3D application and then back

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on when you are running a 3D application that way you get the power benefit of

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using on the onboard GPU with the performance benefit of using the 2 gig

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GTX 660m GPU for actually playing games

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so here in summary this is what it'll

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look like when sort of a slightly small homunculus style person actually holds

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the device and it's just ah so much lighter and more portable than your

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typical gaming brick so I was really excited when I saw this at CES and now

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that I have it sort of in my hands in person I am no less excited about it

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well maybe a little less excited about it cuz I've seen it already but whatever

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I didn't get to show it to you guys in as much detail I didn't actually show

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the accessories so it comes with a power cord comes with a notebook warranty card

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which is important make sure you hold on to that keep that information cuz it

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does have as I mentioned before a very good warranty battery notice telling you

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about the warranty on your battery drivers on a disc

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as well as a user manual there you go and last but not least presumably ah yes

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the power brick so this is a little on the bigger side because even though ASUS

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has packed all that power into a small notebook form factor well it still needs

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to actually get the power somehow so you end up with a bit of a bigger bigger

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power brick so again this is a 4.3 in phone which should give you some idea

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how big that bad boy is don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips more

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there's a couple things I missed there's some optional configurations it's

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available in a variety of different config so number one is you can either

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get it with a 1366 X 768 screen this

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particular model comes with a 1600x 900 screen which is definitely the one I'd

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prefer because at that 14in size, 1600

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by 900 delivers a compromise between a good gaming experience because you're

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not pushing quite as many pixels as 1900 by 1080 but also getting that desktop

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real estate that you need you can also change up the storage config so this is

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a 750 gig drive with an 8 gig SSD

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however you can get up to a 1 terab drive with a 128 gig SSD using a

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combination of the 2 and 1/2 in Bay and the M SATA spot that is available and

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another funny observation that I made that I didn't even notice when I was doing the regular unboxing is that

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there's no battery I couldn't find the battery it has a non- removable battery

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so my thinking for this cuz normally a chassis this thick you'd see a removable

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battery of some sort but my thinking is that what ASUS actually had to do in

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order to fit this kind of performance and this kind of heat dissipation in

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such a small chassis is they had to go with a non- removable battery that's uh

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that's built into the to the device so

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there you go now I think we're actually done thanks for watching this video was

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edited on a workstation powered by Kingston

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memory it actually uses a core i5 32 oh

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crap one more time