WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:07.520 so right here to my left we've got the ASUS rog g703 and this thing it's pretty 00:00:05.920 --> 00:00:13.519 freaking sick like we were able to achieve five gigahertz overclocking all six 00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:17.600 cores concurrently but can you really call it a laptop 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:22.320 when it doesn't fit on your lap and should we be making the sacrifices 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:27.119 required to have a clamshell design for a machine like this when quite literally 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:32.000 everyone is going to be using it on a desk well 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:36.000 ASUS thought knot and over here at our 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:38.399 early preview of ces 2019 here in our 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:41.920 studio because ASUS brought the show to us 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:44.399 is the rog mothership 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:49.280 a complete rethinking of the 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:54.760 desktop rep oh it's still heavy though the desktop replacement category 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:04.960 private internet access i mean that's basically it that's 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:09.280 exactly what you get with pia and it's got loads of other features as well 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:13.520 check it out at the link below okay so 00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:17.200 uh i guess step one is to kind of open the thing 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:21.600 oof i've been informed there are tabs on the bottom 00:01:18.479 --> 00:01:23.360 don't no no i don't want the answer no 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:28.000 wait no those are a little like no i don't want the answer 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:32.240 oh that's weird so here's all these vents on the bottom here with some very 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:37.360 hefty looking dense copper fit wow all the copper 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:42.320 everywhere look at this freaking stuff and this ventilated perforated bottom 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:46.560 here and i was expecting that this thick side was going to contain the laptop and 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:51.119 then this thin side was going to contain the screen that's like sort of the the 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:56.079 way that laptops have sort of traditionally worked 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:57.360 no that's that is in fact the keyboard 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:02.479 so what the crap so this piece comes down 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:09.440 here and then this is what speaker grills 00:02:05.119 --> 00:02:12.400 intakes what is this speakers speakers 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:20.480 hell yeah oh my god it's a surface for gamers how about that 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:24.400 so instead of having the cooling of the 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:27.280 CPU the GPU the ssds and all that stuff 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:32.080 choked out against the desk or your lap or whatever the case may be 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:36.000 they put them all up here and the results 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:38.319 well they claim they are pretty darn impressive am i allowed to turn this 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:41.599 thing on i can turn it on okay oh my god it came 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:47.440 apart uh you can use it as an aio and you can 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:51.920 just ditch the keyboard 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:56.400 and like or you can just use the keyboard as more 00:02:54.239 --> 00:03:02.640 like a traditional keyboard and it's raised so check this shiz out you can 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:04.319 either just kind of adjust it for a 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:10.640 different ergonomic feel you got your trackpad on the right you got your keyboard on the left and then you can 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:14.319 run a type-c wire over to your your actual like aio computer with a screen 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:20.239 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 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:24.319 wireless mode here bippity bop and you can like use it from the couch and you 00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:29.599 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 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:33.680 laptop i will find the power button at some point this must be it 00:03:31.519 --> 00:03:35.920 there we go all right 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:46.400 okay this is a prototype it's not working 100 here just going to 00:03:42.799 --> 00:03:50.159 plug in this mouse 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:50.159 it's having a little little freak out 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:57.120 okay i'm not saying i broke it i'm just saying it's broken and i'm the 00:03:55.040 --> 00:04:03.519 last person who touched it that's all where was i so the original concept here 00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:05.040 actually came from basically like going 00:04:03.519 --> 00:04:08.319 like this with a g703 00:04:08.640 --> 00:04:14.239 and then measuring how much better the temperatures of all 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:18.479 those heat generating components are once you're not restricting the airflow 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:22.800 by having them sitting up against something so 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:27.199 in actuality this new device even if it did have the same hardware 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:31.280 wouldn't necessarily run any cooler because they've gone and they've made it 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:33.919 thinner to eat up that extra sort of thermal budget that they made for 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:38.160 themselves which isn't to say they skimped on the components because 00:04:36.080 --> 00:04:45.120 what's in here requires some pretty hardcore cooling so it's rocking a six 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:48.240 core core i9 8950 hk and rtx 2080 that 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:49.919 they won't let me look at at all like 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:54.080 not even in task manager they've actually gone and disabled it in the 00:04:52.080 --> 00:04:58.960 BIOS though given that we do know the model number and that is an rtx 2080 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:01.199 we're expecting full-blown desktop performance 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:05.840 but computing isn't the only way that the 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:11.440 rog mothership that's what they're actually calling this thing is insanely 00:05:07.919 --> 00:05:14.160 fast so this will be their first 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:18.320 mobile machine with greater than one gigabit networking it's actually two and 00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:23.600 a half g which might feel kind of strange given that we went from ten to 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:27.680 one hundred to one thousand 000 but then now also there's these 00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:32.160 weird in-betweeners but that's still a really nice bump that's about 250 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:36.800 megabytes per second real world to a server that is enabled for it so i mean 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:41.919 it's not like you're going to have to do that necessarily because it's got three 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:43.919 NVMe ssds in raid 0 that also get 00:05:41.919 --> 00:05:47.759 additional cooling by the way due to the upright nature of the device so these 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:52.000 are so fast that ASUS couldn't put all of them running off of the chipset so 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:57.600 two of them are directly connected to the CPU for a wild 8.7 gigabytes per 00:05:55.440 --> 00:06:00.080 second of data transfer speeds i mean just like 00:05:58.479 --> 00:06:04.479 you know it's not the most impressive demo but you know just like booting up 00:06:02.080 --> 00:06:10.720 like launching it just like you will definitely feel the difference 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:11.600 it's faster than i can say shaden freud 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:17.120 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 00:06:14.960 --> 00:06:21.520 someone else's misery got it the only problem though with the display is that 00:06:18.880 --> 00:06:27.120 when you have all of these components right up against the back of it all that 00:06:23.919 --> 00:06:29.759 heat can be a very bad time so to solve 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:36.240 this problem no wonder this thing is so heavy they created this 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:38.880 cnc machined heat shield so this right 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:41.680 here is what actually separates the display 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:44.319 and all of the heat generating components and guess what 00:06:43.440 --> 00:06:50.400 this takes 20 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:50.400 hours to machine 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:58.319 not to mention it costs a freaking lot of money but i guess you know 00:06:56.479 --> 00:07:02.160 the monkey was just out of the bag and the engineers went hog wild with the 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:05.680 robots because actually pretty much everything about it 00:07:03.840 --> 00:07:13.919 this cnc machine out of solid freaking blocks of aluminum 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:15.840 so this here is the back panel uh with 00:07:13.919 --> 00:07:21.599 the kickstand there uh where's the kickstand the kickstand ah yes i believe 00:07:18.880 --> 00:07:24.400 this is the kickstand listen to that thing is that not 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:30.080 beautiful needless to say everything here 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:32.639 there's a cost to cnc okay both in terms of materials and time but there's a 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:38.160 benefit even without the actual laptop in it 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:42.400 this thing is incredibly stiff like this is as much flex as i'd expect from a 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:47.440 finished device and it's just a back plate so 00:07:45.599 --> 00:07:51.199 that's pretty much all we can say about it for now other than a quick look at i 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:54.639 o you've got two power inputs so that should give you some idea how power 00:07:52.479 --> 00:07:58.639 hungry it's going to be you got your vr port here sd and HDMI all that good 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:02.720 stuff other than to guess Thunderbolt 3 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:07.440 nice that this thing is going 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cooling solution 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:37.760 here it's like it's massive it's massive like 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:40.959 this weighs as much as a laptop 00:09:37.760 --> 00:09:43.839 and there's no laptop in it yet 00:09:40.959 --> 00:09:43.839 good heavens