WEBVTT 00:00:00.127 --> 00:00:05.010 - All right, today we've got a double unboxing. Not because either of these couldn't be their own video, 00:00:05.010 --> 00:00:09.040 but because I requested too many laptops and we need to get through them. 00:00:09.040 --> 00:00:14.260 So we've got the ASUS ZenBook. It's a 14 incher and it's relatively powerful. 00:00:14.260 --> 00:00:17.450 It's not as powerful as I'd like. And we've also got the ASUS ProArt. 00:00:17.450 --> 00:00:20.900 Probably more powerful than you'd ever want. Let's get into them. 00:00:20.900 --> 00:00:24.293 So first up is the ZenBook. Oh, is there a- 00:00:26.350 --> 00:00:29.420 We do get a laptop case, which is always nice to see. 00:00:29.420 --> 00:00:33.100 Nice and simple. Has some nice little writing on it. 00:00:33.100 --> 00:00:37.300 Seems like it's probably fake leather. Now we have the actual machine. 00:00:37.300 --> 00:00:40.780 Apparently it was best laptop brand winner 2020. 00:00:42.210 --> 00:00:45.350 Sure. And finally the power adaptor. 00:00:45.350 --> 00:00:49.090 So that's 100 watts being delivered over USB Type-C. 00:00:49.090 --> 00:00:50.890 Let's just go all the way right now. 00:00:52.976 --> 00:00:57.210 There we go. Nice aluminum chassis. 00:00:57.210 --> 00:01:00.750 Apparently it's diamond cut. That's all the rage these days. 00:01:00.750 --> 00:01:04.210 Although Samsung showed us, being CNC-machined 00:01:04.210 --> 00:01:09.030 and diamond cut doesn't mean it's a good chassis. It just means it's expensive. 00:01:09.030 --> 00:01:12.080 It feels pretty decent from first touches. 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:15.620 And first look at it, it looks pretty decent as well. 00:01:15.620 --> 00:01:19.860 Excellent screen-to-body ratio. Very little for bezels. 00:01:19.860 --> 00:01:24.340 Pretty big trackpad. It's kind of a weird shape so we might have some palm rejection issues, 00:01:24.340 --> 00:01:28.710 but we'll find out soon enough. And keyboard seems good at first glance. 00:01:28.710 --> 00:01:34.070 Although, we'll look more at that later. Now for IO, we have micro SD, 00:01:34.070 --> 00:01:38.250 two Thunderbolt ports, headphone, 3.5 millimeter. 00:01:38.250 --> 00:01:42.380 Thank you, ASUS. - ASUS. Repeat once again, ASUS. 00:01:42.380 --> 00:01:46.580 - [Alex] They took that off of one of their last laptops, which was bad. 00:01:46.580 --> 00:01:50.550 Also a full-size HTMI and along on the other side, 00:01:50.550 --> 00:01:53.830 a single USB Type-A port, which is nice to see 00:01:53.830 --> 00:01:57.119 'cause that'll probably be the one that you plug your mouse into. 00:01:57.119 --> 00:02:02.863 That can go off to the side. And our more powerful one here, the StudioBook 16. 00:02:04.190 --> 00:02:07.560 Start off with the power adaptor. I wonder if it's Type-C. 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:11.410 Nope, it's 240 watts, which means it's definitely not Type-C. 00:02:11.410 --> 00:02:14.003 It also means we have a powerful laptop here. 00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:19.413 Oh, this is a fancy box. 00:02:20.510 --> 00:02:23.518 It's upside down. Let's try that again. 00:02:23.518 --> 00:02:25.693 (David exclaims excitedly) Wow. 00:02:31.470 --> 00:02:37.000 Wow, at first look, this really reminds me of like the Zephyrus G15 or M16. 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:41.193 Yeah, so here we have the M16 and here we have the StudioBook 16. 00:02:41.193 --> 00:02:44.900 StudioBook actually looks a bit bigger. Wow, does this have a 3x2 display? 00:02:44.900 --> 00:02:48.000 That is massive. If it's OLED as well, 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:52.430 that's going to be really nice to look at. We also have this knobby chum, 00:02:52.430 --> 00:02:57.500 so it's kind of like a rotary dial and you can also press it in for a button. 00:02:57.500 --> 00:03:02.080 Let's also take a look at the IO before we get into it. So we have two USB Type-C's. 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:09.107 It doesn't say Thunderolt on it. You also have full-size HDMI, DC-In, full-size USB Type-A, 00:03:10.350 --> 00:03:14.500 and on the other side, full-size SD card reader. Love to see that. 00:03:14.500 --> 00:03:20.230 I really hate it when like the micro ones on this one, you can't just, you know, take your SD card from your camera 00:03:20.230 --> 00:03:23.410 straight into your laptop. Really like to be able to do that. 00:03:23.410 --> 00:03:27.790 And, oh, full-size Ethernet. Again, really like to see that. 00:03:27.790 --> 00:03:31.240 Should we just go right into it, David? - [David] Heck yeah. - Yeah. 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:35.930 But first, our sponsor. 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That's unfortunate. 00:04:07.270 --> 00:04:11.630 This trackpad's a bit odd because like you can't click it in 00:04:11.630 --> 00:04:16.810 and they do have dedicated mouse buttons, but the problem is that it's quite wide 00:04:16.810 --> 00:04:21.370 and they have three of them so it's kind of hard to hit left click. 00:04:21.370 --> 00:04:26.640 I want to be like right here, but then my finger is on middle click instead of left click. 00:04:26.640 --> 00:04:30.860 If you're one of those people that uses two hands to trackpad, you'd absolutely love this. 00:04:30.860 --> 00:04:34.090 Linus does it. It's gross, I agree. - [David] Chop his hands off. 00:04:34.090 --> 00:04:38.430 - Yeah. You'll probably get used to it and just kind of use it like here. 00:04:38.430 --> 00:04:41.920 For now it's annoying. Shut up. Damn it, there's no touch screen. 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:46.130 We'll worry about that later. I want to look at the little ones for now. 00:04:46.130 --> 00:04:52.230 This laptop, I was very excited to see until I saw the specs and then I was slightly disappointed. 00:04:52.230 --> 00:04:57.220 Not so much because this isn't powerful. It is a very powerful laptop. 00:04:57.220 --> 00:05:00.420 Just ASUS really set up my expectations 00:05:00.420 --> 00:05:04.640 by creating the Flow X13. And I was hoping that they'd be able to deliver 00:05:04.640 --> 00:05:11.180 a similar level of performance in this guy. But instead, the GPU is an MX450, 00:05:11.180 --> 00:05:16.453 which is just not fast enough. Also the track pad is very interesting. 00:05:18.550 --> 00:05:23.143 Damn it, this one also isn't a touch screen. And how do I use my trackpad? 00:05:24.107 --> 00:05:27.463 Okay. Swipe there, click that. 00:05:28.400 --> 00:05:32.020 Now it's a trackpad. Press up there. 00:05:32.020 --> 00:05:36.600 It's no longer a trackpad. Oh, what? The mouse goes down onto the trackpad. 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:39.810 - [David] Ew. - [Alex] Which is exactly where I want my mouse to be, ASUS. 00:05:39.810 --> 00:05:43.036 Thank you very much. - [Woman] ASUS. - Why? Who wants that? 00:05:44.150 --> 00:05:48.000 ASUS does have some laptops where you have a screen here and then they have another display here 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.470 that sort of like pops off and then your keyboard's down below. 00:05:51.470 --> 00:05:56.630 And I actually quite like those ones because it sort of gives you like more real estate. 00:05:56.630 --> 00:06:01.090 And if you're doing stuff like video editing, where you can take your timeline, put it down below 00:06:01.090 --> 00:06:04.200 and have your actual video full display up top. 00:06:04.200 --> 00:06:08.860 It's quite a nice way to do your work. But I just don't know how this display 00:06:08.860 --> 00:06:11.980 is ever going to make me like more productive. 00:06:11.980 --> 00:06:18.590 I'm just going to disable it. Once it is just a trackpad, it's actually quite nice to use. 00:06:18.590 --> 00:06:21.840 The tracking's good. The click feels good. 00:06:21.840 --> 00:06:25.820 It's pretty large. I was a bit concerned about my hand hitting it, 00:06:25.820 --> 00:06:29.470 and I still am. 'Cause, like, this is where I would type 00:06:29.470 --> 00:06:34.440 and this palm's really on it, but it doesn't seem to be having issues, 00:06:34.440 --> 00:06:38.474 like it's not really moving around. Good job on the tuning, ASUS. 00:06:38.474 --> 00:06:42.290 - ASUS. (Alex mumbles) 00:06:42.290 --> 00:06:46.200 - Okay, that's like a very respectable keyboard. I give it like an A. 00:06:46.200 --> 00:06:50.520 A lot of thin and lights have really great keyboards these days. 00:06:50.520 --> 00:06:53.423 This one isn't at the top end of that. 00:06:54.610 --> 00:06:58.100 But at the same time, I can't really fault it. One thing I'm not a huge fan of 00:06:58.100 --> 00:07:04.290 is that they have like home, page up, page down, and stuff on the right, as well as pretty generous, like, 00:07:04.290 --> 00:07:10.170 shift, enter, backspace keys, which moves the whole thing over to the left quite a bit. 00:07:10.170 --> 00:07:14.650 And when you combine that with this also quite wide trackpad, 00:07:14.650 --> 00:07:19.400 my right hand is completely over the trackpad and it's kind of easy to click it. 00:07:19.400 --> 00:07:25.230 I could see that getting annoying, but at the same time, you'll probably just figure out how to hold your hands 00:07:25.230 --> 00:07:29.680 and it won't really be an issue. So this is an issue that I've had in the past 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:34.810 with OLED displays on laptops, and it seems to still be an issue here 00:07:34.810 --> 00:07:39.190 when I get it to full brightness. But when you're displaying something that's white, like, 00:07:39.190 --> 00:07:43.990 you know, just this notepad window, it just looks kind of dirty. 00:07:43.990 --> 00:07:47.030 There's a couple things that can contribute to it. 00:07:47.030 --> 00:07:51.720 So one, I might have a bit of a stigmatism in my left eye 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:56.580 and apparently, OLEDs and like the sub pixels 00:07:56.580 --> 00:08:00.750 can show up more for people with stigmatisms. Although, it's kind of annoying 00:08:00.750 --> 00:08:05.470 because this isn't a touch display. And for the most part, I only found like the graininess 00:08:05.470 --> 00:08:08.943 and such to be a problem when there was the digitizer over the top. 00:08:08.943 --> 00:08:12.970 I had to talk with a bunch of people from like CalMAN, HTC, 00:08:12.970 --> 00:08:17.120 HP, and Samsung a while ago when I was trying to figure out 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.760 what the problem was with this. There's so little space for all of the circuitry 00:08:20.760 --> 00:08:26.140 to be going to each individual pixel that they can kind of cause interference with each other 00:08:26.140 --> 00:08:31.580 and it's hard to calibrate it, so like white on every single pixel is exactly the same. 00:08:31.580 --> 00:08:36.090 Does look really good. Like, if I get rid of that, this looks incredible. 00:08:36.090 --> 00:08:39.200 Look at that black. It is 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:42.480 fantastic. Let's take a look at the specs on this thing. 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:45.720 So we have an Intel i7-1165G7. 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:50.220 So that does have Tiger Lake graphics and the good ones, 00:08:50.220 --> 00:08:53.823 which is why when we have a GeForce MX450, 00:08:55.440 --> 00:09:01.940 do you really need it? I would say probably not, but Intel's Xe drivers 00:09:01.940 --> 00:09:07.700 have been honestly kind of (beep), so you might be very happy 00:09:07.700 --> 00:09:13.453 to be able to have NVIDIA's drivers, so that like things just work. 00:09:14.415 --> 00:09:18.930 There's also an Intel Wi-Fi 6 card, 1TB of storage, 00:09:18.930 --> 00:09:23.750 and 16GB of RAM. I do believe that the RAM is soldered on, 00:09:23.750 --> 00:09:28.780 which is unfortunate because if you are using this for productivity stuff, 00:09:28.780 --> 00:09:33.610 you might want 32GB in the future. Okay, let's put this guy away for a second 00:09:33.610 --> 00:09:37.404 and take a look at its bigger brother. 00:09:37.404 --> 00:09:41.950 And we're at full brightness. Now, we do have a little bit of sort of like the graininess 00:09:41.950 --> 00:09:48.000 that I was talking about on the other display, but I have to be like here in order to see it. 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.510 4k. 3840x2400. 00:09:52.510 --> 00:09:57.560 Kind of a weird resolution, but it looks really good to my eyes. 00:09:57.560 --> 00:10:02.393 Viewing angles are fantastic as you would expect. And it just looks so good. 00:10:05.310 --> 00:10:08.640 All right, I think it's the exact same piece, which is as on the other one, 00:10:08.640 --> 00:10:12.610 which I can't really fault it except for the trackpad placement. 00:10:12.610 --> 00:10:15.610 So we have numb pad over here, 00:10:15.610 --> 00:10:19.000 which moves the whole keyboard to the left. So once again, 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:22.950 like my right hand's in the middle of the laptop, 00:10:22.950 --> 00:10:26.930 so I'm kind of doing this weird, like, I don't know, T-Rex arms thing. 00:10:26.930 --> 00:10:30.010 And my right hand is completely over the trackpad. 00:10:30.010 --> 00:10:33.550 Like, I just right clicked there. I thought it was my palm clicking it, 00:10:33.550 --> 00:10:36.880 but it's like way back here, like, the real heel of my hand. 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:40.430 I don't really know how to solve this. I guess that one thing that they could have done 00:10:40.430 --> 00:10:45.570 is just not have these physical buttons. I know some people really like them and if they were gone, 00:10:45.570 --> 00:10:50.400 it probably would have been a lot easier to just have a trackpad with good palm rejection, 00:10:50.400 --> 00:10:53.780 because, like, you can't reject a click. 00:10:53.780 --> 00:10:59.010 I feel like I'm doing a lot of complaining about things that don't really matter, but it's the kind of thing 00:10:59.010 --> 00:11:04.230 where a bunch of annoying little things can add up to a lot of being very annoyed. 00:11:04.230 --> 00:11:07.490 Let's use this thing properly though. I'm going to go grab a mouse. 00:11:07.490 --> 00:11:11.750 Ryzen 9 5900HX. So that's why we don't have Thunderbolt, 00:11:11.750 --> 00:11:18.614 but eight core, 16 threads, basically the best CPU you can have in a laptop. 00:11:18.614 --> 00:11:22.110 32GB of RAM. Intel Wi-Fi 6 card. 00:11:22.110 --> 00:11:25.418 Like to see that, glad they didn't have a MediaTek one. 00:11:25.418 --> 00:11:28.910 And RTX 3070. So this thing is a frigging beast, 00:11:28.910 --> 00:11:31.360 especially for how thick it is. Look at this. 00:11:32.220 --> 00:11:35.580 I wonder if that will be a problem. Disable the trackpad. 00:11:35.580 --> 00:11:39.860 Goodbye. And as a mobile workstation for video or photo editing, 00:11:39.860 --> 00:11:43.240 this seems like it might be one of the best laptops 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.500 you could get. This knob wheel just isn't working 00:11:46.500 --> 00:11:52.170 in Lightroom right now, sucks. Getting it to work probably isn't hard 00:11:52.170 --> 00:11:55.610 or ASUS is going to fix it very soon. 00:11:55.610 --> 00:12:01.233 And when they do fix it, which I'm sure they will, 'cause it's a core reason why you get this laptop, 00:12:02.460 --> 00:12:05.610 it's going to be an absolute beast. 00:12:05.610 --> 00:12:08.790 This knob, where you can just immediately adjust exposure, 00:12:08.790 --> 00:12:14.860 blacks, whites, shadows, saturation, all of that stuff from just this little wheel. 00:12:14.860 --> 00:12:18.360 It's so good. Like, that's 90% of your photo editing, right there. 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:21.680 System volume. - [Computer AI] Entire work flows with it. - [Alex] That works. - [Computer AI] Work docs 00:12:21.680 --> 00:12:25.413 are connected to all your work apps and data. - [Alex] That's very nice. 00:12:26.988 --> 00:12:31.260 But how does it do with "Crab Rave"? ("Crab Rave") 00:12:31.260 --> 00:12:33.103 All right. Okay. 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.223 My first impressions of that are that it's very solid, 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:47.310 but probably not quite as much bass as the XPS, but you can hear all of the bits from like highs, mids, 00:12:47.310 --> 00:12:51.970 lows, they're all there, which is quite impressive in a laptop, really. 00:12:51.970 --> 00:12:56.290 All right, so we're on the ASUS. ("Crab Rave") 00:12:56.290 --> 00:12:59.700 Over to the XPS, the soundstage feels a lot wider. 00:12:59.700 --> 00:13:04.266 That is for sure. ("Crab Rave") 00:13:07.190 --> 00:13:11.320 Oh, it doesn't sound as good now. (Alex laughs) 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:13.463 That's why we have a comparison laptop. 00:13:17.716 --> 00:13:20.810 ("Crab Rave") 00:13:20.810 --> 00:13:23.963 Yeah, there's a lot more happening in the XPS version. 00:13:26.380 --> 00:13:28.330 That sounds like a tinny piece of crap. 00:13:30.010 --> 00:13:34.280 Well, good try, ASUS. - [Woman] ASUS. - It filled me until I listened to them side by side. 00:13:34.280 --> 00:13:38.840 Let's try the other one out. Getting distracted, but I do want to see if this is a fingerprint reader. 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:43.290 It is. Excellent. So, love to see that. 00:13:43.290 --> 00:13:48.100 Getting into your laptop, just using your fingerprint. ("Crab Rave") 00:13:48.100 --> 00:13:49.533 So this is the little boy. 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.263 Here's the much bigger one. It sounds way fuller. 00:13:55.717 --> 00:13:57.420 - [David] Why? - [Alex] Yeah, how? 00:13:59.937 --> 00:14:03.070 This one has down firing speakers as well instead of up firing ones. 00:14:03.070 --> 00:14:08.443 Why does it sound so much better? All right, let's break out the XPS for a proper comparison. 00:14:08.443 --> 00:14:10.943 ("Crab Rave") 00:14:12.296 --> 00:14:13.129 All right. 00:14:31.100 --> 00:14:35.930 All right, I would say that the XPS 15 is like marginally better, 00:14:35.930 --> 00:14:42.500 but this guy sounds really good. This is a fine sounding laptop, especially for its size. 00:14:42.500 --> 00:14:47.920 Like, I don't expect a laptop that's this big to sound better than one that's larger, 00:14:47.920 --> 00:14:54.550 simply because it has more space for subs. So, like, A plus on the speakers on this guy, ASUS. 00:14:54.550 --> 00:14:58.660 I don't know how you screwed it up on the bigger one. Let's just go back to this guy for a second, 00:14:58.660 --> 00:15:02.270 'cause I feel like I didn't really give my full thoughts on it. 00:15:02.270 --> 00:15:05.270 It's very well built. The screen is exceptional, 00:15:05.270 --> 00:15:10.230 as long as you're not only doing productivity tasks. Like, this looks great. 00:15:10.230 --> 00:15:14.260 I do wish that it had a touch screen option, but whatever, 00:15:14.260 --> 00:15:18.190 not everyone wants to touch screen, so if that's you, get this, I guess. 00:15:18.190 --> 00:15:22.870 This is kind of like everything that I was hoping from those Samsung laptops 00:15:22.870 --> 00:15:27.510 where like it has an awesome OLED display and overall just great build quality. 00:15:27.510 --> 00:15:32.720 Like, I think this is quite a good laptop, but ASUS kind of just shot themselves in the foot 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:37.610 by creating the Flow X13 and having a 3050 in that. 00:15:37.610 --> 00:15:41.400 If it had an RTX 3050 or a 3050 Ti, 00:15:41.400 --> 00:15:47.790 I would probably want to like daily drive this thing, 'cause it's very nice and light, screen's exceptional, 00:15:47.790 --> 00:15:51.340 keyboard's good, trackpad, well, it's a good trackpad 00:15:51.340 --> 00:15:55.490 as long as you don't have the dumb thing on, IO's solid. 00:15:55.490 --> 00:15:59.150 Like, it's a laptop that's really hard to fault 00:15:59.150 --> 00:16:04.063 except for the spec config. And if you just got the version without the MX 450, 00:16:04.930 --> 00:16:08.320 then like, great job. And like, I'm not saying 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:12.940 this won't be powerful enough for you. It's probably going to be for what you're going to want to use it for. 00:16:12.940 --> 00:16:17.280 I just wish that they gave it a little bit more beans 'cause I know that they can do it. 00:16:17.280 --> 00:16:21.660 One more problem with the 14 incher here. 00:16:21.660 --> 00:16:25.770 It has a 63 watt hour battery, which is a lot of battery, 00:16:25.770 --> 00:16:31.300 but they say it's good for eight hours, which means it's probably good for six hours, 00:16:31.300 --> 00:16:36.300 which means it's a lot less efficient than the HP Envy 14, 00:16:36.450 --> 00:16:39.880 which I would expect to get like eight to ten hours 00:16:39.880 --> 00:16:43.893 instead of six to eight. As for our big boy here. 00:16:45.910 --> 00:16:51.010 If what you're mainly doing is video editing and photo editing, this thing is sick. 00:16:51.010 --> 00:16:54.780 Like, it's really unfortunate that the knob wasn't working in Lightroom, 00:16:54.780 --> 00:17:00.180 but when you have your hand right here, you have like mouse over there, hand like this, 00:17:00.180 --> 00:17:05.100 and you can easily operate the knob with your thumb. Like, I'm just doing the system brightness right now. 00:17:05.100 --> 00:17:08.530 That feels really good. And I could see it saving you a lot of time 00:17:08.530 --> 00:17:13.530 if what you mainly do is like Lightroom or photo editing 00:17:13.760 --> 00:17:18.110 or video editing, like you're going to use this thing all the time. 00:17:18.110 --> 00:17:24.690 If that's your primary use case, especially with the 3x2 display, I really like this laptop. 00:17:24.690 --> 00:17:28.710 If you aren't primarily using that and you're not going to be like using the knob 00:17:28.710 --> 00:17:34.750 every single day, M16, better trackpad, I like the keyboard a bit more, 00:17:34.750 --> 00:17:38.883 higher refresh rate display. This thing's really, really sick. 00:17:39.840 --> 00:17:45.120 It's probably also less expensive 'cause stuff aimed at creators is dumb expensive. 00:17:45.120 --> 00:17:49.264 But damn, that OLED display. Well, there you go. 00:17:49.264 --> 00:17:54.113 (Alex laughs) Thanks for watching. Hit like, get subscribed, and just have a great day.