1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 What's up hypebeast gang? ASUS has sponsored this video 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,160 where we're looking at their bathing ape laptop 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,440 and I definitely knew what that was a couple minutes ago. 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,840 To help me with this unboxing, we have Arthur who has bought his clothing 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,920 from somewhere other than Mech and Sears. 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,000 This is actually cool. I have no clue. So once upon a time, 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,120 a bathing ape was one of the coolest streetwear brands 8 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:26,240 that you could wear. Nowadays, it's probably lost a little bit 9 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:31,940 of its relevancy, but still really cool. Okay, so this is something people would want. 10 00:00:31,940 --> 00:00:35,220 Yeah, pretty much. Oh my goodness. 11 00:00:35,220 --> 00:00:38,220 Oh my God, this is stupid. 12 00:00:38,220 --> 00:00:41,460 So what am I looking at? You're looking at a laptop case. 13 00:00:41,460 --> 00:00:43,140 Okay, thank you. Yes. 14 00:00:45,420 --> 00:00:46,860 Why we needed the expert? 15 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:52,860 Okay, cool. So this is the famous Bait Camo. 16 00:00:52,860 --> 00:00:57,140 You'll notice like hidden in some of the little camo pieces here. 17 00:00:57,140 --> 00:01:01,380 They're little apes. And you have all the little characters. You have baby Milo right here. 18 00:01:01,380 --> 00:01:07,060 Hey, Andy, you had a shirt with this guy on it, right? Yeah, 10 years ago and I was like Asian small size. 19 00:01:08,740 --> 00:01:14,780 All right. Okay, this, this, it looks pretty cool. If I'm honest, this case looks really sick. 20 00:01:16,660 --> 00:01:20,620 Oh my goodness. Look at this. This is pretty cool. 21 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:23,820 Okay. I've never seen a laptop with a, come with a figurine before. 22 00:01:24,820 --> 00:01:30,380 It's a monkey. All right. Anything else be aping here? 23 00:01:31,180 --> 00:01:34,900 Oh, what is this? Okay. 24 00:01:38,340 --> 00:01:42,180 Is this cool? Alex, if you see this camo on anything, 25 00:01:42,180 --> 00:01:45,660 it's instantly cool. Alex, are you familiar with the Teriyaki boys? 26 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:52,100 Like Tokyo drift? Yeah. Nego, the Teriyaki boys DJ. 27 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:55,540 This is his brand. Oh, cool. All right. 28 00:01:55,580 --> 00:01:58,980 That's the first bit of this that I've actually been somewhat intrigued by. 29 00:01:58,980 --> 00:02:02,100 Also, we have a bunch of stickers. 30 00:02:02,100 --> 00:02:05,700 If you put these on your keyboard, are you instantly rich and cool, apparently? 31 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:09,660 Look, Alex, I already explained this before. Anything with these guys on it, 32 00:02:09,660 --> 00:02:12,780 instantly cool and instantly rich. Okay, noted. 33 00:02:12,780 --> 00:02:15,300 Thank you very much for your expertise. Yeah. 34 00:02:16,220 --> 00:02:19,380 I just realized that this monkey comes with a laptop along with it. 35 00:02:19,380 --> 00:02:22,900 Okay, that's actually pretty cool. Let's have a look. Let's have a look. One sec. 36 00:02:25,580 --> 00:02:28,580 Oh my God, it's heavy. What is this made out of? 37 00:02:28,580 --> 00:02:34,580 I was not expecting this figurine to feel like that. Like, it is solid. 38 00:02:34,580 --> 00:02:38,060 The stability is not too good. If you look at the size of the head, 39 00:02:38,060 --> 00:02:42,860 compared to the size of the arse, it doesn't quite make a whole lot of sense. 40 00:02:42,860 --> 00:02:48,380 So you can get the center of gravity off of the area where it's sitting pretty easily. 41 00:02:50,420 --> 00:02:54,340 Aw. Look at the little laptop. It's actually adorable. 42 00:02:54,380 --> 00:02:57,940 We'll both be laptoping soon. Oh, his head turns. Cool. 43 00:02:57,940 --> 00:03:03,780 All right, that's enough of that. I wanna look at the laptop. In the box, we have a charger that is 90 watts. 44 00:03:03,780 --> 00:03:08,900 That is quite good for something of this size. Although I am slightly disappointed to see 45 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:13,300 that they've gone with a barrel charger instead of USB type-C. 46 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:18,300 The laptop itself does really look quite cool, 47 00:03:18,780 --> 00:03:23,900 if I'm honest. Like, look at the way that the light catches the design on the back. 48 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:28,340 The way that they etched that is just excellent. 49 00:03:28,340 --> 00:03:31,860 Also looking at it, we have one foot that's orange, 50 00:03:32,820 --> 00:03:35,820 and actually quite a good bit of IO. 51 00:03:35,820 --> 00:03:38,900 So on the left here, we have one USB type-A. 52 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:43,780 Then around on the right-hand side, we have 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, 53 00:03:43,780 --> 00:03:46,860 Thunderbolt 4, another USB type-A, 54 00:03:46,860 --> 00:03:51,420 full-size HDMI, love to see that, and where your barrel plug goes in. 55 00:03:51,420 --> 00:03:55,180 I kinda like the way that they have the IO just sort of in its own little area here, 56 00:03:55,180 --> 00:03:59,740 while the rest of it gets to go up and be a little bit thinner. 57 00:03:59,740 --> 00:04:02,740 I really like that they gave us a good bit of IO on this. 58 00:04:02,740 --> 00:04:07,860 Even on 15-inch devices these days, sometimes they just don't, and I don't get it. 59 00:04:07,860 --> 00:04:13,980 Damn, okay. The way that they've done this trackpad is really cool. 60 00:04:13,980 --> 00:04:17,300 If you look here, it's a glass-topped trackpad, 61 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:20,300 and below the glass, they have this, 62 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:23,420 what is it, baby Milo camo crap? 63 00:04:23,420 --> 00:04:27,220 It looks really well done, and I'm glad that they didn't just slap a sticker 64 00:04:27,220 --> 00:04:30,740 on top of this. I don't think that the backlight's going to shine 65 00:04:30,740 --> 00:04:35,460 through the keys when you put the stickers over them, which kinda sucks. 66 00:04:35,460 --> 00:04:40,500 But the space part does not have a light, so we can just put this on here, and we're all good. 67 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:48,280 Nice. Of course, I'm sure many of you, like myself, 68 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:53,160 don't really care about the whole bathing aid thing, and just want to know if this is a good laptop, 69 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,520 and so far it's looking really quite good. 70 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:04,280 There is definitely a little bit of chassis deflection, like especially if I hit above the trackpad, 71 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:07,600 it's squishing a bit, it's a little bit, 72 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,400 but it's the sort of macro flexing that you're able to get away with. 73 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:16,160 What I really don't like to see are squishy spots where your keys are going to feel different. 74 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,200 It seems like much more of like a large area dipping 75 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,200 sort of thing, which is not as bad. Before we open the laptop, 76 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,640 I just want to open up this carrying case. It does look quite cool, and looking in here, 77 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,320 we have spot for two mice, a couple of pens, 78 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:36,000 I don't know what you put in here, but you can put something in there, and a nice spot for your laptop. 79 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:42,360 This is quite a nice case, if I'm honest. Oh, we have a fancy startup thing. 80 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,080 You know, as far as brand integrations that I've seen before, 81 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,560 they have done a really good job of, and we have a fun little background. 82 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,640 Okay, this background I have to admit is pretty cool. 83 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:57,760 I don't know what kind of CPU resources this uses, but as you put your mouse around it, 84 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,760 the little buys pop out from their hiding locations, 85 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:06,440 which is pretty cute. I do have to say, look at that, hello. 86 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:12,520 If you're into this whole hype beast, whatever, I do have to say this is quite exceptionally done, ASUS. 87 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:17,900 You did a really great job integrating that. So it is 2880 by 1620, 88 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:22,260 and it is an OLED panel at 120 Hertz. 89 00:06:22,260 --> 00:06:26,220 I really like that ASUS has brought the 120 Hertz 90 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:31,500 to their creator laptops, instead of just keeping all of it for their gamer ones. 91 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:36,380 Cause like, even in Photoshop, having your mouse move around more smoothly 92 00:06:36,380 --> 00:06:40,240 will make you faster and better. It's just, I love high refresh rates. 93 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:45,400 We did send this off to Labs, and our display engineer was incredibly impressed 94 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:50,500 with this display. Now, out of the box, it comes with a vivid mode on, 95 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:54,780 which just, it's too much saturation, especially in SDR. 96 00:06:54,780 --> 00:06:59,780 It's pushing it out to like full Adobe DCI P3 color spaces, 97 00:07:00,380 --> 00:07:05,540 and just, it's a bit too much. But that said, you can very easily go into their software, 98 00:07:05,540 --> 00:07:09,700 configure that, and make it really, really quite good. 99 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:15,980 This can really be seen in our testing results. So in the vivid mode that it comes with out of the box, 100 00:07:15,980 --> 00:07:19,540 we're looking at an average Delta E of 4.6 101 00:07:19,540 --> 00:07:24,500 with a max of 8.9. That just, you cannot trust it, it is not good, 102 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:27,660 but you put it in the actual color modes, 103 00:07:27,660 --> 00:07:32,660 and it is exceptional with an average Delta E of 0.9. 104 00:07:33,340 --> 00:07:39,580 We consider too good enough to do professional work on these. What's also impressive is that in HDR content, 105 00:07:39,580 --> 00:07:42,580 it's able to hit the full 600 nits, 106 00:07:42,580 --> 00:07:46,780 and even though you only need to hit 10% full brightness 107 00:07:46,780 --> 00:07:54,500 for the HDR 600 certification, this can do 600 nits up to a window size of 75%, 108 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:59,420 which is really, really great for an OLED display, because normally, like, you'd only be able to get 109 00:07:59,420 --> 00:08:02,700 a small amount of the display to be at full brightness, 110 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:08,820 and then it would just sort of run out of power and have to dim itself, whereas 75% is really quite good, 111 00:08:09,020 --> 00:08:12,700 I have to say. Moving on from the display, let's see how this mouse is. 112 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:18,020 I actually didn't have Labs test it, but I'm guessing it's not very good, if I'm honest. 113 00:08:18,020 --> 00:08:23,940 Ooh, oh. Well, positives, this mouse feels kind of heavy 114 00:08:23,940 --> 00:08:27,060 and well-built and has a cool camo thing on it. 115 00:08:27,060 --> 00:08:32,220 Not so positives, everything else, but that's okay, because we have an excellent track pad. 116 00:08:32,220 --> 00:08:37,380 As I said before, it's glass topped, we don't have to finger a little bit too much 117 00:08:37,380 --> 00:08:43,500 to get it nice and smooth out of the box, and the tracking is nice and accurate as well. 118 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:47,540 The click feel, really quite excellent, 119 00:08:47,540 --> 00:08:53,940 and it does have an actual physical click instead of the force touch that you do see on some laptops. 120 00:08:53,940 --> 00:08:57,460 For the keyboard, I think I'm gonna give it an A minus. 121 00:08:57,460 --> 00:09:01,700 It is quite good, but it's far from exceptional. 122 00:09:01,700 --> 00:09:06,900 The chassis is quite well-built, so we don't have problems with inconsistencies. 123 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:11,860 The keys themselves are consistent, and if you look here, when I press on the side, 124 00:09:11,860 --> 00:09:16,100 you can get a bit of deflection, but you can't get down to the chassis 125 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:20,980 before you actually actuate the key. The feels a little bit on the mushy side. 126 00:09:20,980 --> 00:09:24,540 I do think you'll have no problems getting up to full speed on this keyboard. 127 00:09:24,540 --> 00:09:27,660 It's just not as satisfying as some of their competitors. 128 00:09:27,660 --> 00:09:31,300 One nice little bonus, though, that I just realized is we have a numpad. 129 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:36,580 Some people really love numpads, and if you're one of those people, here you go. 130 00:09:36,580 --> 00:09:41,780 Moving on to the performance, we have the Intel Core i9-13900H, 131 00:09:41,780 --> 00:09:44,820 which is a 14-core, 20-thread, 132 00:09:44,820 --> 00:09:50,420 absolute beast of a processor. That's a little bit too much for this chassis. 133 00:09:50,420 --> 00:09:53,460 Now, it is able to sustain 45 watts, 134 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:57,580 which is what it's rated for, but you would normally expect an i9 135 00:09:57,580 --> 00:10:02,100 to be able to do a little bit more than that. I think this laptop might have been a bit better off 136 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:06,540 with an i7 or an i5, but that said, for quick bursty lows, 137 00:10:06,540 --> 00:10:09,620 the i9 is going to be able to go wicked fast 138 00:10:09,620 --> 00:10:14,740 for small amounts of time. One thing that I was really concerned about, though, 139 00:10:14,740 --> 00:10:21,860 when I saw that we had an i9 processor and 120 Hertz OLED display on this was the battery life, 140 00:10:21,860 --> 00:10:26,580 and I'm just moving that up to this section now because it is incredible 141 00:10:26,580 --> 00:10:33,100 what this 13th gen chip has been able to achieve. We got over 10 hours of battery life on this thing 142 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:37,140 in an endurance test, and this also really shows how power hungry 143 00:10:37,140 --> 00:10:42,020 the i9 can be when it wants to because we weren't able to manage two hours 144 00:10:42,020 --> 00:10:45,460 in our full out stress test of the battery. 145 00:10:45,460 --> 00:10:49,340 I have never seen that kind of a gap between the two. 146 00:10:49,340 --> 00:10:55,380 Normally it'll be like four hours and six hours, not like hour and a half and 10 and a half. 147 00:10:55,380 --> 00:10:59,460 So you kind of get to choose how much battery life you have 148 00:10:59,460 --> 00:11:04,500 depending on what you're doing, but if you treat it nice, you will have it all day. 149 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:09,820 Also nice, the RAM. We have 16 gigabytes of 4,800 mega transfer 150 00:11:09,820 --> 00:11:15,020 per second stuff here. For the disc, we have one terabyte of NVMe storage, 151 00:11:15,020 --> 00:11:18,580 Intel Wi-Fi 6E, and for a GPU, 152 00:11:18,580 --> 00:11:22,420 it's just the built-in Iris XE onboard stuff. 153 00:11:22,420 --> 00:11:25,500 You can, if you wanna play games at 1080p, 154 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:31,180 get away with some low settings with this or 2D games, runs them just fine, 155 00:11:31,180 --> 00:11:34,780 but of course, it does not have a dedicated GPU. 156 00:11:34,780 --> 00:11:37,780 Do not buy this if you want to like play games all the time. 157 00:11:37,780 --> 00:11:41,420 That said though, for the games that it does have the performance to run, 158 00:11:41,420 --> 00:11:46,180 we've got 120 Hertz OLED display. You can get competitive and rocketly with that kind of a thing 159 00:11:46,180 --> 00:11:49,500 instead of like a business laptop with this CPU 160 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:54,180 where even though it can, the display will not keep up. 161 00:11:54,180 --> 00:11:59,060 All right, let's see how a game of rocket league feels in this. I have a 1080p medium. 162 00:11:59,060 --> 00:12:02,780 Oh, this is not what I was hoping for. 163 00:12:02,780 --> 00:12:05,220 This is pretty rough. 164 00:12:06,580 --> 00:12:10,540 It's the sort of thing where it's not atrocious, 165 00:12:11,460 --> 00:12:15,340 but the number that you're seeing is not very accurate. 166 00:12:15,340 --> 00:12:18,340 So like it's saying that I'm getting like 167 00:12:18,340 --> 00:12:21,660 70, 80 FPS in rocket league, 168 00:12:21,660 --> 00:12:24,660 but the frame times feel like they're kind of 169 00:12:24,660 --> 00:12:27,820 all over the place. So for a competitive game like this, 170 00:12:27,860 --> 00:12:33,820 you're going to struggle, even if the number itself says it's doing pretty good. 171 00:12:33,820 --> 00:12:38,220 Okay, I have discovered a thing that is quite interesting. 172 00:12:38,220 --> 00:12:41,540 So you remember that fancy wallpaper that ASUS has 173 00:12:41,540 --> 00:12:46,780 that had the little buys jumping out and stuff? Turns out that uses a lot of system resources 174 00:12:46,780 --> 00:12:51,900 as I was kind of afraid of. So I was having some brutal stuttering in rocket league 175 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:56,660 even at lower resolutions. It was not what I would consider playable. 176 00:12:56,700 --> 00:13:00,260 Turned off the wallpaper thing and now she's great. 177 00:13:00,260 --> 00:13:04,780 Now I am getting a hundred FPS and it's actually rock solid. 178 00:13:04,780 --> 00:13:08,220 So maybe just disable that, get rid of it. 179 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:13,900 Sorry, babe, you're not worth the CP resources. Moving on from gaming performance, 180 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:16,340 let's give the speakers a little sniffy sniff. 181 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:21,980 My friggin' love OLED displays. Even just these bars right here. 182 00:13:21,980 --> 00:13:28,580 Look at how black that is. Trouble seems good, nice and clear. 183 00:13:28,580 --> 00:13:34,780 It also has a surprising amount of sound, but do these Harman Kardon speakers have any bass? 184 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:41,100 Not bad, not too bad, all right. 185 00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:45,700 I can jam out to this. That's the sort of speakers where you're not going to be 186 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:48,860 reaching for a Bluetooth speaker every single time that you play music. 187 00:13:48,860 --> 00:13:53,740 Good job, ASUS. For the webcam, ASUS has given us a 1080p one 188 00:13:53,740 --> 00:13:57,540 and apparently it has 3D noise reduction. 189 00:13:57,540 --> 00:14:03,860 So it uses multiple microphones to only get your voice in and no one else's. 190 00:14:03,860 --> 00:14:07,420 I can't really evaluate how well it works in this, 191 00:14:07,420 --> 00:14:12,660 but I can say that the camera looks fine. I'm sort of blown out right here 192 00:14:12,660 --> 00:14:15,300 and if we move ourselves around. 193 00:14:18,660 --> 00:14:24,140 I think that it would much prefer if I was in a darker area, which is kind of strange. 194 00:14:24,140 --> 00:14:28,420 It's very bright, it is incredibly bright. 195 00:14:28,420 --> 00:14:35,220 This is one of the brightest webcams that I've ever seen. So if you're in a basement, maybe it's great. 196 00:14:35,220 --> 00:14:39,300 One last thing about the webcam that I quite like is we do have a physical shutter here 197 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:44,140 just so that you have that extra peace of mind that no one's having a look at you, 198 00:14:44,140 --> 00:14:47,860 even though we do not have Windows facial recognition up here, 199 00:14:47,900 --> 00:14:52,940 but we do have a fingerprint reader in the power button, which is the best spot for it. 200 00:14:52,940 --> 00:14:57,860 Thank you, ASUS. Okay, 10 T6 screws later, we're able to get inside. 201 00:14:57,860 --> 00:15:01,820 Those screws are different lengths, so make sure that you have them organized 202 00:15:01,820 --> 00:15:08,300 in some sort of way so you put them back in the right spot. But we are greeted here with our 75 watt hour battery. 203 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:14,140 That is what allowed us to have our exceptional 10 hours of battery life out of this thing. 204 00:15:14,140 --> 00:15:16,580 Andy, what do you think about that? 205 00:15:17,340 --> 00:15:19,580 How's it making you feel? Oh. 206 00:15:22,420 --> 00:15:26,220 Why did you do this, ASUS? Turn the camera off. 207 00:15:27,220 --> 00:15:31,700 The good news is you can upgrade your storage and you can upgrade your Wi-Fi card, 208 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:36,420 but if you watch this video, you will know that they are both crooked and ASUS, 209 00:15:36,420 --> 00:15:41,580 I cannot believe that you have done this. Looking at the cooler, we have one fan, 210 00:15:41,580 --> 00:15:47,460 two heat pipes and two heat sinks. And if you look here, the heat pipe's kind of longer 211 00:15:47,460 --> 00:15:51,740 than you think that you might want it. And that's because this is actually available 212 00:15:51,740 --> 00:15:55,460 with a GPU that goes right here. Not the Bape Edition, of course, 213 00:15:55,460 --> 00:15:59,420 but you can get it with up to an Intel ARC A350M, 214 00:15:59,420 --> 00:16:02,820 which is one of the GPUs that exists 215 00:16:02,820 --> 00:16:06,660 that you can put in a laptop. If I'm honest, I haven't looked at ARC a whole lot 216 00:16:06,660 --> 00:16:13,420 in the last year as they have developed it, so I can't really comment on how powerful that thing is. 217 00:16:13,420 --> 00:16:17,140 Just that the last time that I looked at it, it was not. 218 00:16:17,140 --> 00:16:22,220 We also have our RAM soldered down right here, the speakers that were quite great. 219 00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:25,660 And I think that's about all that's in here. 220 00:16:25,660 --> 00:16:29,020 Now for the Bape Edition of this guy right here, 221 00:16:29,020 --> 00:16:34,020 it is $1,300 and that's about a $200 premium 222 00:16:34,660 --> 00:16:39,180 over a similar-ish config without all of the monkeys 223 00:16:39,180 --> 00:16:43,140 and camo and crap. Overall, I do think that ASUS has done 224 00:16:43,180 --> 00:16:47,700 an excellent job here combining the 120 Hertz OLED display 225 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:51,740 and the 75 watt hour battery into a laptop 226 00:16:51,740 --> 00:16:55,940 for a bit over $1,000 is quite impressive. 227 00:16:55,940 --> 00:17:00,220 I'm not entirely sure what the availability of the Bape Edition is going to be, 228 00:17:00,220 --> 00:17:04,700 but you can check it out in the link down below and huge thanks to ASUS for sponsoring this video 229 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:10,300 and huge thanks to you for watching it. Hit like, get subscribed and just have a great old day. 230 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:11,300 I'll see you later.