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tips unboxing this time we're going to be checking out something that I
personally am very excited about this is the ASUS Republic of Gamers
g46 notebook so this is a premium notebook that comes with their 360 care
package to your International waranty meaning you can take it anywhere zero
bright dot guarantee two-way free standard shipping in the event of an RMA
and 24/7 tech support it looks like this one doesn't include their accidental
damage which only the very very expensive notebooks do but that's still
a very strong included warranty compared
to the offerings from other guys on the market and ASUS has been making it a
habit to do that with their notebooks so
why do I care about this notebook you guys might be asking yourselves well number one is that I like notebooks I
like powerful notebooks I don't play as many games as I used to but what I might
find myself doing is editing video on a notebook or just generally being a power
user and wanting something that gets closer to the desktop experience that I
can have we've got a nice protective paper sleeve here for the notebook
itself just going to tuck that away and what a gaming notebook typically does is
it delivers a bit of a thicker overall form factor but it is able to deliver
better overall experience a better overall performance and a better
experience for power users so check this out in terms of the thickness here's an
HTC1 phone for size comparison you can see it's not that thin but it has
powerful Cooling and that's part of the reason it has to be thicker you can see
through these grills the huge heat sinks
that are cooling the GPU and the CPU because this notebook does not skimp on
the specs it actually uses a core i5 3230m which can turbo up to 3.2 GHz and
a GTX 660m so what you'll notice about
this is that unlike other sort of massive gaming laptops this one actually
fits in my lap it has the same kind of style and aesthetic that we've seen from
other ASUS Rog notebooks such as the g75
so you can see we've got an illuminated ASUS logo on the back with a shiny ASUS
logo so that's sorry an illuminated Rog logo the overall notebook has a matte
finish so you can see I can touch it like this and it actually doesn't show
any fingerprints which is great for something you're going to carry around with you which this one is actually
possible to carry around I'd rather have thicker than bigger in this case um the
hinge is extremely robust so you can see it's uh it's attached here not quite at
the very edge of the notebook but that gives you a comfortable distance between
the keyboard and the screen itself so let's just go ahead and uh give you guys
sort of another angle of that uh we showed you the back and enough already
so on the bottom you've got easy access to memory upgrades the hard drive that
comes in this particular one is a 750 gig drive with an 8 gig SSD providing a
caching functionality that gives it a boost in performance without uh without
actually having to have two separate drives it's got an SD card reader on
this side HDMI out super speed USB 3 as
well as VGA this is probably the most flexible display output that I like to
see on a notebook this is a this is the flexibility I like to see because
between these two you can adapt to pretty much anything else that you need
to run however things do get better so
there's your power in there's your gig of ether there's two more USB 3 bam mini
DisplayPort love to see that so you can actually drive multiple displays off of
this notebook very very easily it's got microphone and headphone Jacks that are
dedicated uh some some smaller thin and light notebooks are starting to
integrate these into one I think what is it three three pole Jack uh so the ones
that have both microphone and headphones on one and now that we've opened it up
you can see it has a very Sleek look to it so the bezel of the monitor part is
matte again which I think looks really clean really really good there's your
webcam um but down here you've got what
appears to be brushed aluminum now you guys if you've been watching my videos
for a while will know what I think of brushed aluminum on places where you
have to rest your hands because it will stain pretty much instantly but what
isus is actually gone with here for the material is that brushed plastic that
looks gorgeous it looks just like brushed aluminum except you can actually
clean it unlike brushed aluminum so it'll come clean and it'll always look
good whereas brush aluminum will look terrible pretty much immediately on the
keyboard layout itself they haven't committed any cardinal sins so they've
got long shifts long enter and long backspace meaning you'll be able to
easily reach all of those buttons should you desire it and all of your usual hot
keys are built into the top here so brightness up and down for the illuminated keyboard Wireless on and off
that's Wireless AC so it has the very
latest wireless standard brightness up and down for your screen itself as well
as external display options turning the touchpad off which is an important
option for gamers because the last thing you want is to be using your keyboard
and then a separate Mouse which most people don't game on a touchpad and then
accidentally brush the touchpad with your palm and then have that
accidentally move you around inside the game other than that there's not too
much to say about it it does feature NVIDIA Optimus which is basically uh
NVIDIA and Intel's way of using their drivers well I guess NVIDIA developed it
more than Intel but uh NVIDIA's way of using their drivers to turn the
dedicated GPU off when you're not running a 3D application and then back
on when you are running a 3D application that way you get the power benefit of
using on the onboard GPU with the performance benefit of using the 2 gig
GTX 660m GPU for actually playing games
so here in summary this is what it'll
look like when sort of a slightly small homunculus style person actually holds
the device and it's just ah so much lighter and more portable than your
typical gaming brick so I was really excited when I saw this at CES and now
that I have it sort of in my hands in person I am no less excited about it
well maybe a little less excited about it cuz I've seen it already but whatever
I didn't get to show it to you guys in as much detail I didn't actually show
the accessories so it comes with a power cord comes with a notebook warranty card
which is important make sure you hold on to that keep that information cuz it
does have as I mentioned before a very good warranty battery notice telling you
about the warranty on your battery drivers on a disc
as well as a user manual there you go and last but not least presumably ah yes
the power brick so this is a little on the bigger side because even though ASUS
has packed all that power into a small notebook form factor well it still needs
to actually get the power somehow so you end up with a bit of a bigger bigger
power brick so again this is a 4.3 in phone which should give you some idea
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unboxings reviews and other computer and I'll see you guys again next time so
there's a couple things I missed there's some optional configurations it's
available in a variety of different config so number one is you can either
get it with a 1366 X 768 screen this
particular model comes with a 1600x 900 screen which is definitely the one I'd
prefer because at that 14in size, 1600
by 900 delivers a compromise between a good gaming experience because you're
not pushing quite as many pixels as 1900 by 1080 but also getting that desktop
real estate that you need you can also change up the storage config so this is
a 750 gig drive with an 8 gig SSD
however you can get up to a 1 terab drive with a 128 gig SSD using a
combination of the 2 and 1/2 in Bay and the M SATA spot that is available and
another funny observation that I made that I didn't even notice when I was doing the regular unboxing is that
there's no battery I couldn't find the battery it has a non- removable battery
so my thinking for this cuz normally a chassis this thick you'd see a removable
battery of some sort but my thinking is that what ASUS actually had to do in
order to fit this kind of performance and this kind of heat dissipation in
such a small chassis is they had to go with a non- removable battery that's uh
that's built into the to the device so
there you go now I think we're actually done thanks for watching this video was
edited on a workstation powered by Kingston
memory it actually uses a core i5 32 oh
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