WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 What's up hypebeast gang? ASUS has sponsored this video 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.160 where we're looking at their bathing ape laptop 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:10.440 and I definitely knew what that was a couple minutes ago. 00:00:10.440 --> 00:00:13.840 To help me with this unboxing, we have Arthur who has bought his clothing 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:16.920 from somewhere other than Mech and Sears. 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:20.000 This is actually cool. I have no clue. So once upon a time, 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.120 a bathing ape was one of the coolest streetwear brands 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.240 that you could wear. Nowadays, it's probably lost a little bit 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:31.940 of its relevancy, but still really cool. Okay, so this is something people would want. 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:35.220 Yeah, pretty much. Oh my goodness. 00:00:35.220 --> 00:00:38.220 Oh my God, this is stupid. 00:00:38.220 --> 00:00:41.460 So what am I looking at? You're looking at a laptop case. 00:00:41.460 --> 00:00:43.140 Okay, thank you. Yes. 00:00:45.420 --> 00:00:46.860 Why we needed the expert? 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:52.860 Okay, cool. So this is the famous Bait Camo. 00:00:52.860 --> 00:00:57.140 You'll notice like hidden in some of the little camo pieces here. 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. 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. 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. 00:01:16.660 --> 00:01:20.620 Oh my goodness. Look at this. This is pretty cool. 00:01:20.620 --> 00:01:23.820 Okay. I've never seen a laptop with a, come with a figurine before. 00:01:24.820 --> 00:01:30.380 It's a monkey. All right. Anything else be aping here? 00:01:31.180 --> 00:01:34.900 Oh, what is this? Okay. 00:01:38.340 --> 00:01:42.180 Is this cool? Alex, if you see this camo on anything, 00:01:42.180 --> 00:01:45.660 it's instantly cool. Alex, are you familiar with the Teriyaki boys? 00:01:47.100 --> 00:01:52.100 Like Tokyo drift? Yeah. Nego, the Teriyaki boys DJ. 00:01:52.100 --> 00:01:55.540 This is his brand. Oh, cool. All right. 00:01:55.580 --> 00:01:58.980 That's the first bit of this that I've actually been somewhat intrigued by. 00:01:58.980 --> 00:02:02.100 Also, we have a bunch of stickers. 00:02:02.100 --> 00:02:05.700 If you put these on your keyboard, are you instantly rich and cool, apparently? 00:02:05.700 --> 00:02:09.660 Look, Alex, I already explained this before. Anything with these guys on it, 00:02:09.660 --> 00:02:12.780 instantly cool and instantly rich. Okay, noted. 00:02:12.780 --> 00:02:15.300 Thank you very much for your expertise. Yeah. 00:02:16.220 --> 00:02:19.380 I just realized that this monkey comes with a laptop along with it. 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. 00:02:25.580 --> 00:02:28.580 Oh my God, it's heavy. What is this made out of? 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:34.580 I was not expecting this figurine to feel like that. Like, it is solid. 00:02:34.580 --> 00:02:38.060 The stability is not too good. If you look at the size of the head, 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. 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. 00:02:50.420 --> 00:02:54.340 Aw. Look at the little laptop. It's actually adorable. 00:02:54.380 --> 00:02:57.940 We'll both be laptoping soon. Oh, his head turns. Cool. 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. 00:03:03.780 --> 00:03:08.900 That is quite good for something of this size. Although I am slightly disappointed to see 00:03:08.900 --> 00:03:13.300 that they've gone with a barrel charger instead of USB type-C. 00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:18.300 The laptop itself does really look quite cool, 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. 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:28.340 The way that they etched that is just excellent. 00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:31.860 Also looking at it, we have one foot that's orange, 00:03:32.820 --> 00:03:35.820 and actually quite a good bit of IO. 00:03:35.820 --> 00:03:38.900 So on the left here, we have one USB type-A. 00:03:38.900 --> 00:03:43.780 Then around on the right-hand side, we have 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, 00:03:43.780 --> 00:03:46.860 Thunderbolt 4, another USB type-A, 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:51.420 full-size HDMI, love to see that, and where your barrel plug goes in. 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, 00:03:55.180 --> 00:03:59.740 while the rest of it gets to go up and be a little bit thinner. 00:03:59.740 --> 00:04:02.740 I really like that they gave us a good bit of IO on this. 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. 00:04:07.860 --> 00:04:13.980 Damn, okay. The way that they've done this trackpad is really cool. 00:04:13.980 --> 00:04:17.300 If you look here, it's a glass-topped trackpad, 00:04:17.300 --> 00:04:20.300 and below the glass, they have this, 00:04:20.300 --> 00:04:23.420 what is it, baby Milo camo crap? 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 00:04:27.220 --> 00:04:30.740 on top of this. I don't think that the backlight's going to shine 00:04:30.740 --> 00:04:35.460 through the keys when you put the stickers over them, which kinda sucks. 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. 00:04:44.500 --> 00:04:48.280 Nice. Of course, I'm sure many of you, like myself, 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, 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:57.520 and so far it's looking really quite good. 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, 00:05:04.280 --> 00:05:07.600 it's squishing a bit, it's a little bit, 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:11.400 but it's the sort of macro flexing that you're able to get away with. 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. 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:20.200 It seems like much more of like a large area dipping 00:05:20.200 --> 00:05:23.200 sort of thing, which is not as bad. Before we open the laptop, 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, 00:05:27.640 --> 00:05:31.320 we have spot for two mice, a couple of pens, 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. 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. 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.080 You know, as far as brand integrations that I've seen before, 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:49.560 they have done a really good job of, and we have a fun little background. 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:52.640 Okay, this background I have to admit is pretty cool. 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, 00:05:57.760 --> 00:06:00.760 the little buys pop out from their hiding locations, 00:06:00.760 --> 00:06:06.440 which is pretty cute. I do have to say, look at that, hello. 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. 00:06:12.520 --> 00:06:17.900 You did a really great job integrating that. So it is 2880 by 1620, 00:06:17.900 --> 00:06:22.260 and it is an OLED panel at 120 Hertz. 00:06:22.260 --> 00:06:26.220 I really like that ASUS has brought the 120 Hertz 00:06:26.220 --> 00:06:31.500 to their creator laptops, instead of just keeping all of it for their gamer ones. 00:06:31.500 --> 00:06:36.380 Cause like, even in Photoshop, having your mouse move around more smoothly 00:06:36.380 --> 00:06:40.240 will make you faster and better. It's just, I love high refresh rates. 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:45.400 We did send this off to Labs, and our display engineer was incredibly impressed 00:06:45.400 --> 00:06:50.500 with this display. Now, out of the box, it comes with a vivid mode on, 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:54.780 which just, it's too much saturation, especially in SDR. 00:06:54.780 --> 00:06:59.780 It's pushing it out to like full Adobe DCI P3 color spaces, 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, 00:07:05.540 --> 00:07:09.700 configure that, and make it really, really quite good. 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, 00:07:15.980 --> 00:07:19.540 we're looking at an average Delta E of 4.6 00:07:19.540 --> 00:07:24.500 with a max of 8.9. That just, you cannot trust it, it is not good, 00:07:24.500 --> 00:07:27.660 but you put it in the actual color modes, 00:07:27.660 --> 00:07:32.660 and it is exceptional with an average Delta E of 0.9. 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, 00:07:39.580 --> 00:07:42.580 it's able to hit the full 600 nits, 00:07:42.580 --> 00:07:46.780 and even though you only need to hit 10% full brightness 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%, 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 00:07:59.420 --> 00:08:02.700 a small amount of the display to be at full brightness, 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, 00:08:09.020 --> 00:08:12.700 I have to say. Moving on from the display, let's see how this mouse is. 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. 00:08:18.020 --> 00:08:23.940 Ooh, oh. Well, positives, this mouse feels kind of heavy 00:08:23.940 --> 00:08:27.060 and well-built and has a cool camo thing on it. 00:08:27.060 --> 00:08:32.220 Not so positives, everything else, but that's okay, because we have an excellent track pad. 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 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. 00:08:43.500 --> 00:08:47.540 The click feel, really quite excellent, 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. 00:08:53.940 --> 00:08:57.460 For the keyboard, I think I'm gonna give it an A minus. 00:08:57.460 --> 00:09:01.700 It is quite good, but it's far from exceptional. 00:09:01.700 --> 00:09:06.900 The chassis is quite well-built, so we don't have problems with inconsistencies. 00:09:06.940 --> 00:09:11.860 The keys themselves are consistent, and if you look here, when I press on the side, 00:09:11.860 --> 00:09:16.100 you can get a bit of deflection, but you can't get down to the chassis 00:09:16.100 --> 00:09:20.980 before you actually actuate the key. The feels a little bit on the mushy side. 00:09:20.980 --> 00:09:24.540 I do think you'll have no problems getting up to full speed on this keyboard. 00:09:24.540 --> 00:09:27.660 It's just not as satisfying as some of their competitors. 00:09:27.660 --> 00:09:31.300 One nice little bonus, though, that I just realized is we have a numpad. 00:09:31.300 --> 00:09:36.580 Some people really love numpads, and if you're one of those people, here you go. 00:09:36.580 --> 00:09:41.780 Moving on to the performance, we have the Intel Core i9-13900H, 00:09:41.780 --> 00:09:44.820 which is a 14-core, 20-thread, 00:09:44.820 --> 00:09:50.420 absolute beast of a processor. That's a little bit too much for this chassis. 00:09:50.420 --> 00:09:53.460 Now, it is able to sustain 45 watts, 00:09:53.460 --> 00:09:57.580 which is what it's rated for, but you would normally expect an i9 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 00:10:02.100 --> 00:10:06.540 with an i7 or an i5, but that said, for quick bursty lows, 00:10:06.540 --> 00:10:09.620 the i9 is going to be able to go wicked fast 00:10:09.620 --> 00:10:14.740 for small amounts of time. One thing that I was really concerned about, though, 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, 00:10:21.860 --> 00:10:26.580 and I'm just moving that up to this section now because it is incredible 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 00:10:33.100 --> 00:10:37.140 in an endurance test, and this also really shows how power hungry 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 00:10:42.020 --> 00:10:45.460 in our full out stress test of the battery. 00:10:45.460 --> 00:10:49.340 I have never seen that kind of a gap between the two. 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. 00:10:55.380 --> 00:10:59.460 So you kind of get to choose how much battery life you have 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. 00:11:04.500 --> 00:11:09.820 Also nice, the RAM. We have 16 gigabytes of 4,800 mega transfer 00:11:09.820 --> 00:11:15.020 per second stuff here. For the disc, we have one terabyte of NVMe storage, 00:11:15.020 --> 00:11:18.580 Intel Wi-Fi 6E, and for a GPU, 00:11:18.580 --> 00:11:22.420 it's just the built-in Iris XE onboard stuff. 00:11:22.420 --> 00:11:25.500 You can, if you wanna play games at 1080p, 00:11:25.500 --> 00:11:31.180 get away with some low settings with this or 2D games, runs them just fine, 00:11:31.180 --> 00:11:34.780 but of course, it does not have a dedicated GPU. 00:11:34.780 --> 00:11:37.780 Do not buy this if you want to like play games all the time. 00:11:37.780 --> 00:11:41.420 That said though, for the games that it does have the performance to run, 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 00:11:46.180 --> 00:11:49.500 instead of like a business laptop with this CPU 00:11:49.500 --> 00:11:54.180 where even though it can, the display will not keep up. 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. 00:11:59.060 --> 00:12:02.780 Oh, this is not what I was hoping for. 00:12:02.780 --> 00:12:05.220 This is pretty rough. 00:12:06.580 --> 00:12:10.540 It's the sort of thing where it's not atrocious, 00:12:11.460 --> 00:12:15.340 but the number that you're seeing is not very accurate. 00:12:15.340 --> 00:12:18.340 So like it's saying that I'm getting like 00:12:18.340 --> 00:12:21.660 70, 80 FPS in rocket league, 00:12:21.660 --> 00:12:24.660 but the frame times feel like they're kind of 00:12:24.660 --> 00:12:27.820 all over the place. So for a competitive game like this, 00:12:27.860 --> 00:12:33.820 you're going to struggle, even if the number itself says it's doing pretty good. 00:12:33.820 --> 00:12:38.220 Okay, I have discovered a thing that is quite interesting. 00:12:38.220 --> 00:12:41.540 So you remember that fancy wallpaper that ASUS has 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 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 00:12:51.900 --> 00:12:56.660 even at lower resolutions. It was not what I would consider playable. 00:12:56.700 --> 00:13:00.260 Turned off the wallpaper thing and now she's great. 00:13:00.260 --> 00:13:04.780 Now I am getting a hundred FPS and it's actually rock solid. 00:13:04.780 --> 00:13:08.220 So maybe just disable that, get rid of it. 00:13:09.300 --> 00:13:13.900 Sorry, babe, you're not worth the CP resources. Moving on from gaming performance, 00:13:13.900 --> 00:13:16.340 let's give the speakers a little sniffy sniff. 00:13:17.380 --> 00:13:21.980 My friggin' love OLED displays. Even just these bars right here. 00:13:21.980 --> 00:13:28.580 Look at how black that is. Trouble seems good, nice and clear. 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? 00:13:38.100 --> 00:13:41.100 Not bad, not too bad, all right. 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 00:13:45.700 --> 00:13:48.860 reaching for a Bluetooth speaker every single time that you play music. 00:13:48.860 --> 00:13:53.740 Good job, ASUS. For the webcam, ASUS has given us a 1080p one 00:13:53.740 --> 00:13:57.540 and apparently it has 3D noise reduction. 00:13:57.540 --> 00:14:03.860 So it uses multiple microphones to only get your voice in and no one else's. 00:14:03.860 --> 00:14:07.420 I can't really evaluate how well it works in this, 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 00:14:12.660 --> 00:14:15.300 and if we move ourselves around. 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. 00:14:24.140 --> 00:14:28.420 It's very bright, it is incredibly bright. 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. 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 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, 00:14:44.140 --> 00:14:47.860 even though we do not have Windows facial recognition up here, 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. 00:14:52.940 --> 00:14:57.860 Thank you, ASUS. Okay, 10 T6 screws later, we're able to get inside. 00:14:57.860 --> 00:15:01.820 Those screws are different lengths, so make sure that you have them organized 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. 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. 00:15:14.140 --> 00:15:16.580 Andy, what do you think about that? 00:15:17.340 --> 00:15:19.580 How's it making you feel? Oh. 00:15:22.420 --> 00:15:26.220 Why did you do this, ASUS? Turn the camera off. 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, 00:15:31.700 --> 00:15:36.420 but if you watch this video, you will know that they are both crooked and ASUS, 00:15:36.420 --> 00:15:41.580 I cannot believe that you have done this. Looking at the cooler, we have one fan, 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 00:15:47.460 --> 00:15:51.740 than you think that you might want it. And that's because this is actually available 00:15:51.740 --> 00:15:55.460 with a GPU that goes right here. Not the Bape Edition, of course, 00:15:55.460 --> 00:15:59.420 but you can get it with up to an Intel ARC A350M, 00:15:59.420 --> 00:16:02.820 which is one of the GPUs that exists 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 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. 00:16:13.420 --> 00:16:17.140 Just that the last time that I looked at it, it was not. 00:16:17.140 --> 00:16:22.220 We also have our RAM soldered down right here, the speakers that were quite great. 00:16:22.220 --> 00:16:25.660 And I think that's about all that's in here. 00:16:25.660 --> 00:16:29.020 Now for the Bape Edition of this guy right here, 00:16:29.020 --> 00:16:34.020 it is $1,300 and that's about a $200 premium 00:16:34.660 --> 00:16:39.180 over a similar-ish config without all of the monkeys 00:16:39.180 --> 00:16:43.140 and camo and crap. Overall, I do think that ASUS has done 00:16:43.180 --> 00:16:47.700 an excellent job here combining the 120 Hertz OLED display 00:16:47.700 --> 00:16:51.740 and the 75 watt hour battery into a laptop 00:16:51.740 --> 00:16:55.940 for a bit over $1,000 is quite impressive. 00:16:55.940 --> 00:17:00.220 I'm not entirely sure what the availability of the Bape Edition is going to be, 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 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. 00:17:10.300 --> 00:17:11.300 I'll see you later.