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here today we have the ASUS Zenbook s13

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OLED and ASUS was nice enough to not only sponsor this video but uh

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not send us a box so we got her bananas wow look at that thank you ASUS for

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sponsoring this video first problem with it though they showed me at CES they're

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super nice ceramic coating that doesn't get you any fingerprints on the back

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this one right here you can see my grubby hand prints that said though this

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is a really cool finish look at this given how nasty my hands are right now

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it's doing a pretty good job and all you have to say this is a fantastic looking

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little machine we've got these nice little how the heck do they do this they

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must have anodized it bead blasted it and then machined out these little

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cutouts which would not have been a cheap operation that said though it does

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look really good ASUS got back to me about what exactly this lid is made out

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of this uses a special process to transform the aluminum lid into a plasma

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ceramic aluminum that is exclusive to ASUS what that means I have no idea I

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can guarantee you this right here is not a plasma at the moment you do not want

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the back of your laptop to be plastic also it's fully recyclable I

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think this thing is so thin it is 10.9

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millimeters thick which is like five six millimeters thinner than you would

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expect for a device of this size and with that I am a little bit concerned a

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lot of the time a company will pursue thinness or something along those lines

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and in the process just kind of forget that they need to make a good device but

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we have evidence that ASUS has not done that starting with the iOS right here

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full size type a port love to see it

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don't know how you did it in a device system also 3.5 millimeter headphone

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microphone combo Jack around the other side the i o continues to be shockingly

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good for a device of this size HDMI 2.1

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love to see it as well as two Thunderbolt 4S and well that's it but it

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still is pretty darn good they didn't even have the little flappy Chum

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normally with these you expect there to be a little like thingy there they

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didn't have to do that now for the thinness did they have to

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sacrifice build quality oh it does a little flippy uppy thing so if you look

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here the hinge goes down so that it lifts up the keyboard just a tiny bit

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which I'm guessing helps with thermals on something this large I don't care how

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good of a job you can do with The Thermals you're gonna have problems if

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it's this small but if you lift it up you have a nice fresh airflow going in

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there looks like they have a bunch of heatsink all along the back here maybe

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it'll actually be good is it flubby

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there's a tiny bit of flex around the keyboard but as far as I can tell it's

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all just sort of macro chassis flexing which is for the most part okay what's a

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real problem is if there's like a soft spot but I don't feel anything that

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isn't just the entire chassis moving also look at the size of this trackpad

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given the size of this thing they have used up all the space they could get I

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really appreciate that I'm able to put my hands on here have them on the home

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row and I'm not falling off the back on a lot of 13-inch devices they will Super

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aggressively remove like the bezels here the bezels down here ASUS has been kind

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of bad for this in the past and you're just left with no room for a trackpad or

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a palm rest but here they have done a fantastic job I can actually put my

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hands on here and it's all good and also the trackpad has had its size increased

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by nine and a half percent look at how big it is for the size of this thing I

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don't know why but we have a very small manatee in our search box can you can

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you see that David I don't know why but I like it thank you Windows we forgot to

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look at the power brick so this right here USB type-c love to see it and also

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this right here is 65 Watts so that's

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about what you expect with the device of this size it's pretty small but also 65

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Watts isn't a whole lot did I say what one kilogram shall we test it

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single kg 2.2 pounds

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one kilogram and 50 grams they have what

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one nickel worth of weight extra on here maybe we have a more SSD than the one

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kilogram model okay let's have a look at the keyboard here ASUS is rep said that

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for the most part making it this thin and light they didn't really have to do

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any compromises like they just did it by engineering the shell that the screen

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goes in a little bit better and shaving off a tiny bit like just by engineering

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it well the one spot that it's a little

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bit of a trade-off though is the keyboard so you do get less actuation

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than last gen I think this is 0.6 millimeters of travel fortunately the

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keyboard is still fantastic on this now

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it isn't as good as if it did have an extra half millimeter of travel or so

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but they have made the whole thing quite

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satisfying to use it is not a whole lot of actuation force like it is quite easy

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to hit the keys but they just sort of snap down and it's pretty satisfying it

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feels a lot like Cherry Reds like the really low profile ones I could see this

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being an excellent keyboard if you were a gamer like you could really really

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quickly hit the keys one of the largest concerns with having really low

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actuation keyboards is that if the key stability isn't good you can very easily

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end up in situations where the key is dipping below the chassis before it

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actually actuates but here that isn't a problem the whole thing is actuating

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before it's able to sort of slop its way down it doesn't feel like the key

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consistency is perfect like I feel like R is slightly less forced than E I would

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still overall though give this keyboard an A so fantastic job below that we have

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the trackpad is this glass topped doesn't look like it that said though it

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does still feel good to use it doesn't have like fancy Force actuators or stuff

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like that it is just a very simple click but at the same time

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simple clicks work oh does it pass the pickup test good question it's all good

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you can hold it by the edge still Clicks in here for the processor

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we get the 13th gen core i7 1355u so

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that's two performance cores and eight efficiency and those performance cores

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go up to five gigahertz and a laptop like this like sure you only have two

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performance cores but you also still have 10 cores in a laptop that you can

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just toss around like this for RAM we have 16 gigabytes of ddr5 running at 6

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000 Mega transfers per second it says slots used eight of eight which means it

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is almost definitely soldered directly to the board although if you want you

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can get 32 gigabytes when you buy laptop also for storage we have a one terabyte

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NVMe SSD from Micron Wi-Fi 6E love to

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see it and of course Intel Iris XE Graphics which is fine of course this

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being the Zenbook s13 OLED it has an OLED screen and it looks pretty darn

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good it is 2080 by 1800 so that's 16 by

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10 and it is an OLED panel which means it just looks fantastic and part of it

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looking fantastic is that uh yeah there is no touch screen here which

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normally I don't like too much but on OLED panels it is extraordinarily easy

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to screw it up the sub pixels between an LCD display and an OLED display are

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different and if you don't perfectly line up the digitizer for the touch

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screen it can make your OLED just look like trash here we do not have to worry

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about that at all and this right here looks darn good normally I expect on an

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OLED display to start being able to see the sub pixels somewhere around like

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here I'm probably out here on this I

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cannot see anything like there is no dirtiness of the gaps between the

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subpixels or I literally cannot focus on the display close enough to see the sub

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pixel oh there we go that right there is

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really showing off why OLED is just the absolute King especially when combined

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with the 550 nit Peak brightness like this right here I don't know computer

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generated Pringle just looks absolutely fantastic which is good because the OLED

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screen does of course have its trade-offs namely battery life but it

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would not look as good now this having Dolby Atmos means that it should be able

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to use some sound trickery stuff to make

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it sound much larger than actually is and with Sound by Harman Kardon

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hopefully it sounds good oh that's pretty good

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not very loud though

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the Dolby Atmos of it is very interesting it sounds very thin when I'm

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back here and like it's just from coming from this then I moved somewhere right

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around here it becomes way larger I wonder it looks

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like the speakers are down firing if we have it on a hard surface

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I would say those speakers are Nifty

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but not very good so it's kind of strange because the Dolby Atmos

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surrounding you only really works when

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you're closer to the laptop than is comfortable I would want to be like

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right here which sounds fine but it's way better

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when I'm actually above it so here it

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sounds enveloping one thing that is really fun about the speakers though is

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that they vibrate the whole chassis you get this like tactile experience with

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the bass instead of actually hearing it

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it's it's a bit on the quiet side for sure but given how much the whole thing

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is like jamming I feel like that if they

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had it any louder it would just be Distortion one thing that's awesome

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about OLED displays is that the pixel response time is just so so fast even

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though this is only 60 hertz just ripping around with the gaming mouse

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feels super responsive in a way that a lot of particularly unprofessional

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devices you just can't get that it'll feel super gross so we're here at 1080p

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medium getting a solid uh 24 FPS which does not feel as bad

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because again pixel response times excellent but I I don't love it oh dang

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this is this is doing pretty good so the 24fps was actually at 1800p which is

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impressive I am now at 1200p which is 16

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by 10 1080 and I'm getting a solid 40

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FPS which is honestly a lot faster than

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I was expecting so right here is quite playable and I didn't have to completely

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tank the visuals like we have grass and stuff it's so rare that you get grass

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when we're on an ultralight uh we are currently in the standard mode but let's

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put it into performance mode oh there's

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the fans they were quite quiet before

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now another audible that has netted us

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hmm six FPS or so this thing is going a lot

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faster than I was expecting like what's our processor at right now okay 2.1 but

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the GPU is getting absolutely hammered I'm shocked how good this is

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good job ASUS see I'm gonna knock it down just a tiny bit more 900p

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solid 60 FPS this right here is doing

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shockingly well I'm impressed this is not a gaming laptop to be very clear

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but for something with just a simple igpu and given that it's barely over a

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centimeter thick Dang or in the ASUS software let's just

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see what else they have here so we have ai noise canceling microphone

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omnidirectional mode hello I am speaking this is the

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microphone and we are in omnidirectional mode uh can you guys start making a

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racket a racket okay so they're making

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your racket we're now going to unidirectional mode

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I wonder if you can tell anything

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back to omnidirectional mode where you can apparently hear everything

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let's see what that was like all right we're good

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we're now going to unidirectional mode that's good I wonder if you can tell

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anything it's definitely not perfect like you

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could hear some of the raveling well it was in the single presenter mode but at

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the same time it did not bad and that's a pretty challenging situation so for a

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webcam it is 1080p I would say this right here is completely usable and the

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microphone is very very above average also alongside the camera ASUS has

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Windows hello facial recognition up there which again fantastic absolutely

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love to see it so you don't have to worry about typing in your password or

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your PIN or anything you can just whoop and you're right in okay so apparently

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this has adaptive color so that means

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that depending on the color temperature of your surroundings it will change the

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display let's turn that on now I don't know if this is going to show up on the

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screen recording or not but I'm going to walk over there and maybe it'll change

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that's great it seems to work and that's the sort of thing where if you are using

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this for photo editing you can just trust that the colors that you see on

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the display are much closer to what it

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actually is instead of getting screwed up by ambient light or something like

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that in here we also have options for the display settings so I really

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appreciate they have it on normal mode instead of a chipping with Vivid which

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David described as the colors screaming at your eyes I agree we also have true

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to life which sounds bad but it's off by default so who cares and oh more camera

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stuff apparently they do the background blurring stuff and uh the Gaze

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correction if you want to be real creepy looking okay light optimization how does

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that do it looks the same but maybe with a lower frame rate

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um I cannot tell the difference at all it almost looks like a smoothing filter

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like I look worse I think okay so we'll leave that off background blurring how

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is this the background is certainly blurred and uh okay if I move around I

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can show it pretty well but it is doing its job it's not the most convincing

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bokeh I've ever seen that's for sure Gay's correction this is gonna be creepy

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uh so apparently it is correcting my great gaze I'm going to look over here

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is it I I don't know I I can't tell if

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this is working motion tracking it's zooming in okay cool and appearance

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filter it kind of just looks like it's a 720p webcam now uh I would probably

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never use any of that again but it's there if you want it 11 T5 screws later

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and we are in now do note they have longer screws at the back of the device

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than all of the ones in the front don't screw that up or you will have a bad

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time wow that's a battery right there 63

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watt hour battery I think it is very fair to say that they could not have fit

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any more in here for one it is super thin this is an incredibly small battery

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Z depth wise but it is absolutely

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massive in every other way that is comical I love it it is unfortunate that

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they only have OLED screen options because it does hurt your battery life

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but this right here is going to do as good of a job as you can in something of

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this size without like having no speakers now the cooling system is

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nothing too special we have too little incredibly slim fans and two heat pipes

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but as we saw in valheim it does its job incredibly well also we have our RAM

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it's soldered down so you're not going to be able to replace that yourself but

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at the same time hit 6000 Mega transfer per second so nice and close to the die

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right there excellent even though you can't upgrade the RAM that's a all

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soldered down right here you can upgrade the SSD right here well overall I think

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this end book is a fantastic little machine they have not fallen for making

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it terrible in the pursuit of it being exceptionally thin it's a huge thanks to

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ASUS for sponsoring this video you can check them out in the link down below

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and just have a good old day see you later