so right here to my left we've got the ASUS rog g703 and this thing it's pretty
freaking sick like we were able to achieve five gigahertz overclocking all six
cores concurrently but can you really call it a laptop
when it doesn't fit on your lap and should we be making the sacrifices
required to have a clamshell design for a machine like this when quite literally
everyone is going to be using it on a desk well
ASUS thought knot and over here at our
early preview of ces 2019 here in our
studio because ASUS brought the show to us
is the rog mothership
a complete rethinking of the
desktop rep oh it's still heavy though the desktop replacement category
private internet access i mean that's basically it that's
exactly what you get with pia and it's got loads of other features as well
check it out at the link below okay so
uh i guess step one is to kind of open the thing
oof i've been informed there are tabs on the bottom
don't no no i don't want the answer no
wait no those are a little like no i don't want the answer
oh that's weird so here's all these vents on the bottom here with some very
hefty looking dense copper fit wow all the copper
everywhere look at this freaking stuff and this ventilated perforated bottom
here and i was expecting that this thick side was going to contain the laptop and
then this thin side was going to contain the screen that's like sort of the the
way that laptops have sort of traditionally worked
no that's that is in fact the keyboard
so what the crap so this piece comes down
here and then this is what speaker grills
intakes what is this speakers speakers
hell yeah oh my god it's a surface for gamers how about that
so instead of having the cooling of the
CPU the GPU the ssds and all that stuff
choked out against the desk or your lap or whatever the case may be
they put them all up here and the results
well they claim they are pretty darn impressive am i allowed to turn this
thing on i can turn it on okay oh my god it came
apart uh you can use it as an aio and you can
just ditch the keyboard
and like or you can just use the keyboard as more
like a traditional keyboard and it's raised so check this shiz out you can
either just kind of adjust it for a
different ergonomic feel you got your trackpad on the right you got your keyboard on the left and then you can
run a type-c wire over to your your actual like aio computer with a screen
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
wireless mode here bippity bop and you can like use it from the couch and you
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
laptop i will find the power button at some point this must be it
there we go all right
okay this is a prototype it's not working 100 here just going to
plug in this mouse
it's having a little little freak out
okay i'm not saying i broke it i'm just saying it's broken and i'm the
last person who touched it that's all where was i so the original concept here
actually came from basically like going
like this with a g703
and then measuring how much better the temperatures of all
those heat generating components are once you're not restricting the airflow
by having them sitting up against something so
in actuality this new device even if it did have the same hardware
wouldn't necessarily run any cooler because they've gone and they've made it
thinner to eat up that extra sort of thermal budget that they made for
themselves which isn't to say they skimped on the components because
what's in here requires some pretty hardcore cooling so it's rocking a six
core core i9 8950 hk and rtx 2080 that
they won't let me look at at all like
not even in task manager they've actually gone and disabled it in the
BIOS though given that we do know the model number and that is an rtx 2080
we're expecting full-blown desktop performance
but computing isn't the only way that the
rog mothership that's what they're actually calling this thing is insanely
fast so this will be their first
mobile machine with greater than one gigabit networking it's actually two and
a half g which might feel kind of strange given that we went from ten to
one hundred to one thousand 000 but then now also there's these
weird in-betweeners but that's still a really nice bump that's about 250
megabytes per second real world to a server that is enabled for it so i mean
it's not like you're going to have to do that necessarily because it's got three
NVMe ssds in raid 0 that also get
additional cooling by the way due to the upright nature of the device so these
are so fast that ASUS couldn't put all of them running off of the chipset so
two of them are directly connected to the CPU for a wild 8.7 gigabytes per
second of data transfer speeds i mean just like
you know it's not the most impressive demo but you know just like booting up
like launching it just like you will definitely feel the difference
it's faster than i can say shaden freud
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
someone else's misery got it the only problem though with the display is that
when you have all of these components right up against the back of it all that
heat can be a very bad time so to solve
this problem no wonder this thing is so heavy they created this
cnc machined heat shield so this right
here is what actually separates the display
and all of the heat generating components and guess what
this takes 20
hours to machine
not to mention it costs a freaking lot of money but i guess you know
the monkey was just out of the bag and the engineers went hog wild with the
robots because actually pretty much everything about it
this cnc machine out of solid freaking blocks of aluminum
so this here is the back panel uh with
the kickstand there uh where's the kickstand the kickstand ah yes i believe
this is the kickstand listen to that thing is that not
beautiful needless to say everything here
there's a cost to cnc okay both in terms of materials and time but there's a
benefit even without the actual laptop in it
this thing is incredibly stiff like this is as much flex as i'd expect from a
finished device and it's just a back plate so
that's pretty much all we can say about it for now other than a quick look at i
o you've got two power inputs so that should give you some idea how power
hungry it's going to be you got your vr port here sd and HDMI all that good
stuff other than to guess Thunderbolt 3
nice that this thing is going to be
extremely expensive
so let me know you guys want to see a full review of this thing
yeah you want to see a full review of this thing you know what alex i'm going to take
away your desktop oh damn it why
but i like my desktop right and so you're going to see if you
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
here it's like it's massive it's massive like
this weighs as much as a laptop
and there's no laptop in it yet
good heavens