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so right here to my left we've got the ASUS rog g703 and this thing it's pretty

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freaking sick like we were able to achieve five gigahertz overclocking all six

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cores concurrently but can you really call it a laptop

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when it doesn't fit on your lap and should we be making the sacrifices

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required to have a clamshell design for a machine like this when quite literally

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everyone is going to be using it on a desk well

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ASUS thought knot and over here at our

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early preview of ces 2019 here in our

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studio because ASUS brought the show to us

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is the rog mothership

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a complete rethinking of the

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desktop rep oh it's still heavy though the desktop replacement category

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private internet access i mean that's basically it that's

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exactly what you get with pia and it's got loads of other features as well

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check it out at the link below okay so

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uh i guess step one is to kind of open the thing

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oof i've been informed there are tabs on the bottom

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don't no no i don't want the answer no

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wait no those are a little like no i don't want the answer

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oh that's weird so here's all these vents on the bottom here with some very

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hefty looking dense copper fit wow all the copper

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everywhere look at this freaking stuff and this ventilated perforated bottom

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here and i was expecting that this thick side was going to contain the laptop and

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then this thin side was going to contain the screen that's like sort of the the

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way that laptops have sort of traditionally worked

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no that's that is in fact the keyboard

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so what the crap so this piece comes down

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here and then this is what speaker grills

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intakes what is this speakers speakers

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hell yeah oh my god it's a surface for gamers how about that

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so instead of having the cooling of the

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CPU the GPU the ssds and all that stuff

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choked out against the desk or your lap or whatever the case may be

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they put them all up here and the results

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well they claim they are pretty darn impressive am i allowed to turn this

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thing on i can turn it on okay oh my god it came

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apart uh you can use it as an aio and you can

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just ditch the keyboard

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and like or you can just use the keyboard as more

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like a traditional keyboard and it's raised so check this shiz out you can

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either just kind of adjust it for a

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different ergonomic feel you got your trackpad on the right you got your keyboard on the left and then you can

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run a type-c wire over to your your actual like aio computer with a screen

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that folds onto the front of it i don't know what to even call this thing anymore or you can just flip over to

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wireless mode here bippity bop and you can like use it from the couch and you

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can have that hooked up to your tv or whatever the case may be i mean it's a pretty common use case actually for a

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laptop i will find the power button at some point this must be it

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there we go all right

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okay this is a prototype it's not working 100 here just going to

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plug in this mouse

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it's having a little little freak out

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okay i'm not saying i broke it i'm just saying it's broken and i'm the

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last person who touched it that's all where was i so the original concept here

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actually came from basically like going

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like this with a g703

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and then measuring how much better the temperatures of all

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those heat generating components are once you're not restricting the airflow

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by having them sitting up against something so

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in actuality this new device even if it did have the same hardware

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wouldn't necessarily run any cooler because they've gone and they've made it

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thinner to eat up that extra sort of thermal budget that they made for

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themselves which isn't to say they skimped on the components because

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what's in here requires some pretty hardcore cooling so it's rocking a six

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core core i9 8950 hk and rtx 2080 that

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they won't let me look at at all like

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not even in task manager they've actually gone and disabled it in the

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BIOS though given that we do know the model number and that is an rtx 2080

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we're expecting full-blown desktop performance

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but computing isn't the only way that the

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rog mothership that's what they're actually calling this thing is insanely

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fast so this will be their first

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mobile machine with greater than one gigabit networking it's actually two and

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a half g which might feel kind of strange given that we went from ten to

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one hundred to one thousand 000 but then now also there's these

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weird in-betweeners but that's still a really nice bump that's about 250

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megabytes per second real world to a server that is enabled for it so i mean

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it's not like you're going to have to do that necessarily because it's got three

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NVMe ssds in raid 0 that also get

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additional cooling by the way due to the upright nature of the device so these

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are so fast that ASUS couldn't put all of them running off of the chipset so

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two of them are directly connected to the CPU for a wild 8.7 gigabytes per

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second of data transfer speeds i mean just like

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you know it's not the most impressive demo but you know just like booting up

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like launching it just like you will definitely feel the difference

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it's faster than i can say shaden freud

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i don't even know what that means what did i just say is this a like german joke i don't get it's taking pleasure in

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someone else's misery got it the only problem though with the display is that

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when you have all of these components right up against the back of it all that

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heat can be a very bad time so to solve

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this problem no wonder this thing is so heavy they created this

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cnc machined heat shield so this right

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here is what actually separates the display

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and all of the heat generating components and guess what

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this takes 20

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hours to machine

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not to mention it costs a freaking lot of money but i guess you know

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the monkey was just out of the bag and the engineers went hog wild with the

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robots because actually pretty much everything about it

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this cnc machine out of solid freaking blocks of aluminum

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so this here is the back panel uh with

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the kickstand there uh where's the kickstand the kickstand ah yes i believe

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this is the kickstand listen to that thing is that not

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beautiful needless to say everything here

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there's a cost to cnc okay both in terms of materials and time but there's a

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benefit even without the actual laptop in it

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this thing is incredibly stiff like this is as much flex as i'd expect from a

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finished device and it's just a back plate so

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that's pretty much all we can say about it for now other than a quick look at i

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o you've got two power inputs so that should give you some idea how power

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hungry it's going to be you got your vr port here sd and HDMI all that good

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stuff other than to guess Thunderbolt 3

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nice that this thing is going to be

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extremely expensive

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so let me know you guys want to see a full review of this thing

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yeah you want to see a full review of this thing you know what alex i'm going to take

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away your desktop oh damn it why

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but i like my desktop right and so you're going to see if you

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can learn to like this

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yeah can you believe i missed this part look at this they've got the cooling solution

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here it's like it's massive it's massive like

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this weighs as much as a laptop

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and there's no laptop in it yet

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good heavens