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laptop oh wow that was not how that was

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supposed to go but that's fine because this thing is

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absolutely sweet on paper at least the

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ASUS zephrus g15 g503 looks like everything a modern

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laptop can be it's crazy fast relatively

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lightweight and it's built with the finest materials available it even looks

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really good I mean is this finally it

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the zero compromises gaming laptop yeah

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eh maybe it's also possible that ASUS

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left too much performance on the table in the name of thinness and sex appeal I

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mean that would be a compromise wouldn't it especially if somebody else did it

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better the zephrus G5 g503 leaves an

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excellent first impression doesn't it it's got a reinforced magnesium chassis

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a massive glass top trackpad and instead

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of RGB ASUS has gone full classy with

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this sweet Prismatic film behind the 8,279 holes in the lid that just barely

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catches the light and Peaks through pure style can I just take a moment to say

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thank you like finally the industrial design of gaming laptops is getting the

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same kind of attention attention as The Thermals and the power delivery IO is

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overall solid but I do wish the HDMI port was the 2.1 variety and this being

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an AMD laptop you're getting two USB type-c 10 GB per second ports instead of

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Thunderbolt 3 that's a potentially deal-breaking downgrade if you have

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invested in the Thunderbolt ecosystem moving inside though we've already shown

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the ryzen 9 5900 HS shredding Intel's

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Flagship core I9 and that was in a much smaller design so unsurprisingly in this

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more robust enclosure the performance numbers it puts up are enough to make

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any more blue machine absolutely cower in fear which means that the more

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relevant comparison to ensure that ASUS hasn't compromised on performance is of

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course another AMD machine ah yes the Spectre that loomed

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before there we go ah much better while

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both of these machines are similarly equipped on paper there are some key

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differences the xmg neo5 here gets the

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45 rather than the 35 watt ryzen 98 core

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and it gets the 135 watt version of the

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RTX 380 Mobile H probably the most

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beautiful thing about the xmg neo5 though is that after you buy it xmg

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doesn't seem to give too Hoots what you do with it so naturally we started by

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sliding every one of the dials all the way to the right for a generous 80 Watts

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on the CPU and 135 Watts on the GPU of

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course ASUS has some fun sliders too but

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the CPU only goes to 45 Watts Boo and

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the GPU tab turns every game you play into alt f4 simulator which is a good

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game I just wouldn't buy an entire machine for the express purpose of

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playing it truthfully though it's not

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the end of the world in our experience with both of the machines turned up to

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their Dyson performance profiles so named for the wonderful

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noises that they make the g15 GPU sat

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above 1,400 MHz with temps in the mid

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70s super reasonable that's not bad so

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it's clear then that in the name of thinness ASUS is giving up somewhere in

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the neighborhood of 10 to as much as 30%

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of the performance this silicon could be capable of but here's another

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perspective even operating in its much quieter default profile which will cost

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you about 10 FPS across the board it easily beats the best of last gen even

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in their loudest possible profiles and

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like it looks like this doing it surprisingly it was actually the CPU

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bound games where the neo5 was able to pull ahead the most with the GPU in the

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zephrus punching well above the official specs of an 80 watt chip realistically

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then if you're looking to choose between these two laptops it comes down to what

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you plan on doing if you want to get real nerdy and do some memory

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overclocking and you know you need to do professional video editing or you can't

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stand the idea of losing 5 to 10 FPS get

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the Neo by the way we'll have a video going over this laptop more thoroughly

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on our ShortCircuit channel so make sure you subscribe to that for my money

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though I would choose the zephrus for its easier daily drivability and

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although we haven't been able to test it so I can't say this for sure I think

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that the RTX 3070 equipped version looks like The Sweet Spot since you could save

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a couple bucks likely have similar class

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performance and a cooler and overall quieter experience just like how you can

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be cooler by purchasing a t-shirt from LTT

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store.com something that anyone looking at an RTX 3070 or 3080 equipped laptop

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needs to do is check the available display options the thing is at 1080p

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you're going to be wasting this GPU's power and 4K is still stupid at these

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screen sizes not offering any kind of meaningful benefit so I absolutely love

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that the industry has begun moving towards 1440p for this generation and

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the 1440p 165hz IPS panel on the zephrus

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is an absolute joy to game on it's got

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adaptive sync to eliminate tearing and smooth out stutter and it strikes an

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Ideal Balance of sharpness High High refresh rate and Rich color with 100%

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coverage of the DCI P3 color space if I had a complaint it would be that it's

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not particularly bright and that if you were a professional trying to do color

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accurate work on it the average Delta of 3.8 out of the box is going to require

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you to get it professionally calibrated before you can really trust it with that

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said it's definitely good enough for gaming right out of the box continuing

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with things that are great the trackpad for a gaming laptop it's freaking huge

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and the glass top makes using it a breeze also given we were able to get

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about 10 hours of Office work on battery

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the g15 is one of the first gaming laptops that you could whip out at the

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coffee shop or the Library without losing too much street cred with the

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Apple M1 MacBook crowd when you have to drag an extension cord out of your

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bag no no this is what you want yeah what

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the heck is that what do you mean what this moving up the keyboard is excellent

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with a Snappy but soft feel that allowed me to easily get up to full speed and

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ASUS also added this little bit of venting under the WD keys they claimed

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that this was to uh keep your gamer fingers nice and cool but I think they

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mostly had to do this to avoid the keyboard getting too hot during long

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gaming sessions for the typing feel though and overall layout this is an

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easy A+ in my book but I I would like to

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take a second to nitpick First although

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I respect that ASUS's designers have stuck with white lighting rather than

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RGB I do wish that they had done the light piping a little bit better and the

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function keys frankly don't make a ton of sense we've got plane mode sleep fan

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control and then Aura RGB software but

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this is on a laptop without RGB and then

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they didn't include pause and play I

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mean I don't know about you guys but I turn my music on and off way more often

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than I go onto a plane especially in the last year or so and being able to change

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the song quickly would also be appreciated speaking of things that suck

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to say that the webcam is unexceptional would be an

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understatement because it hasn't got one

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and no webcam also means no facial recognition when questioned asusa said

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they don't bother including webcams because Gamers don't need them but then

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this is weird they dedicate this huge chunk of the product page to the fancy

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trode microphone not only does the AI

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noise cancelling suck but who is using the integrated microphone on their

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laptop but not using the webcam if

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you're a gamer you got a headset and if you're not a gamer then you need a

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webcam for your for your Skype calls at least ASUS managed to include

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the second best way to unlock a laptop hidden in the power button is a

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fingerprint reader that caches your fingerprint with when you press it then

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hands it over to Windows at the login screen for a super seamless login

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experience opening it up we get a look at the 90w hour battery and the two subs

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on either side that offer decent base even if it's not quite at the same level

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as a Macbook or an xps15 and we also find two m.2 slots for easy storage

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upgradeability and a single sodm slot for what I would describe as somewhat

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easy RAM upgradeability I use the word somewhat

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because one half is soldered directly to the board while the other half is on a

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stick above that is the exceptionally complicated looking cooling system with

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six heat pipes snaking their way across the chassis along with these very slim

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but very wide heat SNS so the zephrus

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g15 g503 is really an excellent laptop

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the RTX 370 model that we lean toward is going to set you back a casual

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$1,800 which is a lot of money but for

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what you're getting it really doesn't look too bad you just have to hope that

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the chin