WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.819 I'm here at ASUS's booth at CES 2023 and 00:00:03.300 --> 00:00:09.780 we have so many fast gaming laptops to look at but all of it starts with this 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:13.920 guy right here this is the flow x16 and they released it earlier this year but 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:18.359 in order to fit all of the Power into a chassis that's this small they had the 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:22.199 heatsink go all the way along the back after they did that they were like huh 00:00:20.220 --> 00:00:27.119 that's a pretty fantastic idea we should just do that for all of our laptops and 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:32.160 then they did look look at this David no it's just only heatsink the whole 00:00:30.119 --> 00:00:38.579 back of the laptop on all of them it's all heatsink I love it first up is the 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:41.160 scar 16 and this thing is an absolute 00:00:38.579 --> 00:00:45.600 Beast somehow in this well it's not exactly small or thin or light but for 00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:53.039 the amount of performance it certainly is this thing has an RTX 4090 in it with 00:00:49.379 --> 00:00:57.840 a tgp of 175 Watts as well as the Intel 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:59.460 Core I9 13980 HX which is just it's such 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:04.920 a stupid processor it's absolutely beautiful eight performance course 16 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:07.560 efficiencies course 5.6 gigahertz all 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:13.560 core this thing Freight and rips I imagine they have done that by just 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:16.080 heatsink heat sink even more heatsink 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:22.259 now ASUS brought over a whole bunch of motherboards and a whole bunch of things 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:24.060 like this the problem though there's no 00:01:22.259 --> 00:01:27.600 fans I kept on talking about we have a big fan we have another fan there's a 00:01:25.740 --> 00:01:31.619 whole other third fan down here that's new and we can't see them but I have a 00:01:29.939 --> 00:01:35.100 solution for that there's a few things I like more than taking apart laptops on 00:01:33.240 --> 00:01:39.740 the show floor it's too bad this isn't earlier at CES so that everyone would be 00:01:36.900 --> 00:01:43.820 way more stressed they still look very stressed 00:01:43.860 --> 00:01:52.140 one thing that I really appreciate in the past on their scar models ASUS had 00:01:49.020 --> 00:01:53.700 this RGB light but it was attached to 00:01:52.140 --> 00:01:58.920 the bottom panel so when you take it off there are these really fiddly RGB cables 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:03.119 huge pain in the butt now it's attached to the front of the laptop so that might 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:07.680 not be a problem aha 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:11.039 look at that it's so small I like this 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:14.580 one as you can see here the cooling in 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:16.980 this is obscene just so much heat sink 00:02:14.580 --> 00:02:21.360 all the way around now what you might be wondering ASUS has Vapor Chambers on a 00:02:19.140 --> 00:02:26.640 whole bunch of their laptops but this guy does not apparently NVIDIA's new 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.720 chips are so power dense that if you try and put the whole 175 Watts through a 00:02:28.980 --> 00:02:34.379 vapor chamber she just dries up doesn't even work that's why you need all of 00:02:32.220 --> 00:02:39.060 these heat pipes or with all of that heat away and take it to well all of 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:43.980 that right there also they added this additional third fan just sort of blow 00:02:41.580 --> 00:02:47.220 air across the CPU and GPU so you don't get stagnant air there and also 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:52.560 apparently it helps with your keyboard temp so your fingers don't get all toasty after a long gaming session 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:57.000 underneath this heat sink they're using liquid metal so it's thermal Grizzlies 00:02:54.239 --> 00:03:00.780 conducto knot extreme and that has two main benefits first of all stuff just 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:04.860 runs cooler fantastic the thing that's even better though is that apparently it 00:03:03.060 --> 00:03:07.980 just lasts for I don't know they don't actually know how long they've had it 00:03:06.420 --> 00:03:12.540 running in laptops for three years so far with no performance degradation but 00:03:10.500 --> 00:03:16.200 either way that's way better than the typical stuff where like your silicon 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:19.860 thermal paste they sort of dry out after a while and then performance tanks you 00:03:18.300 --> 00:03:23.519 need to take this all apart replace it pain in the ass don't have to do it here 00:03:21.480 --> 00:03:28.860 while we're in here you have two upgradable ssds as well as two 00:03:26.760 --> 00:03:33.900 upgradable RAM slots this right here is 4 800 Mega transfer per second ddr5 00:03:31.920 --> 00:03:39.239 it looks like I have 64 gigabytes of the stuff in here this this cannot be a 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:42.780 cheap laptop also they have a 90 watt hour battery which I don't know how long 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:48.900 that's going to last but given the fact that it's 175 watt GPU and CPU they can 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:52.799 only do so much choosing a laptop gaming display can be 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:57.900 a little bit difficult especially for gamers because sometimes you might have 00:03:54.659 --> 00:04:00.180 one that's very fast but it just kind of 00:03:57.900 --> 00:04:05.099 looks like poo or maybe you have won that on paper sounds pretty good but the 00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:09.480 response times are very bad ASUS wants to try and simplify that using their 00:04:06.540 --> 00:04:14.159 nebula standards so nebula at a minimum gets you 165 Hertz three milliseconds 00:04:12.180 --> 00:04:18.660 gray to gray 500 nits Peak brightness and full DCI P3 coverage that is 00:04:16.739 --> 00:04:22.560 excellent and what we have on here but if you want to go even a step further 00:04:20.220 --> 00:04:28.860 they have their mini LED displays with nebula HDR so that gets you 1100 nits 00:04:25.080 --> 00:04:33.020 Peak brightness 240 hertz and this thing 00:04:28.860 --> 00:04:37.440 is just so good to look at there's 00:04:33.020 --> 00:04:39.720 1024 dimming zones in this making it one 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:46.139 of the best displays I have seen here the contrast ratio they claim is what is 00:04:42.840 --> 00:04:48.360 this a hundred thousand to one it's not 00:04:46.139 --> 00:04:54.000 it's not quite OLED but it's very close and so much brighter 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:59.520 it is very impressive below the panel things keep on being good this is so 00:04:57.300 --> 00:05:04.680 cool they have this plastic that it's made out of but it's translucent up in 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:08.460 here apparently that was a huge pain for the designers of the laptop but they did 00:05:06.780 --> 00:05:12.000 figure it out in the end and I think it looks fantastic especially like back 00:05:10.139 --> 00:05:15.900 here look at that I really appreciate that people are having fun with plastics 00:05:13.500 --> 00:05:22.320 again as well even though it is plastic it is stiff like I'm gonna absolutely 00:05:19.139 --> 00:05:24.840 give her here that's about as much as 00:05:22.320 --> 00:05:30.360 you can get and if we look here like I'm gonna press on it that's almost nothing 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:35.580 and of course with a stiff chassis that gives you a much better chance of having 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:37.860 a good keyboard and I'm happy to report 00:05:35.580 --> 00:05:42.000 yeah ASUS is gaming laptops have had fantastic keyboards for years and this 00:05:39.780 --> 00:05:46.979 one's no exception here you also have a track pad and if you press right here 00:05:43.860 --> 00:05:48.360 you get a numpad look at that as a bonus 00:05:46.979 --> 00:05:54.720 just a little treat it's sort of thing you don't know if you're going to get with ASUS they have webcam on top who 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:58.680 would have thought it and also the i o is pretty solid so we have headphone 00:05:56.400 --> 00:06:02.460 microphone combo Jack right there love to see it can't take it for granted 00:06:00.300 --> 00:06:07.259 these days even from ASUS we also have USB type c that is wired directly to the 00:06:05.400 --> 00:06:12.900 GPU for all of your external monitor knees and Thunderbolt 4 HDMI 2.1 2.5 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:16.680 gigabit Lan and over on this side we have USB type A if 16 inches isn't big 00:06:15.479 --> 00:06:22.319 enough for you though we have the strixcar 18. this thing has a massive 00:06:19.460 --> 00:06:27.180 18.3 inch display and even though it's only nebula and not the nebula HDR I 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:33.419 don't think you're gonna complain Quad HD 240 hertz DCI P3 500 nits oh I didn't 00:06:31.500 --> 00:06:37.259 even match without a 16 by 10. I absolutely love that gaming laptops have 00:06:34.919 --> 00:06:40.560 16 by 10 now it's gone past productivity and stuff like this makes it just like 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:45.600 if you want a video edit on something like this which given you know the color 00:06:42.660 --> 00:06:49.800 accuracy you can just makes it easier so many more timeline bits the specs remain 00:06:47.699 --> 00:06:53.220 the same from the 16 inch because well you can't make it any faster NVIDIA 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:58.139 actually just doesn't let you increase the TDP even if you can kind of sucks 00:06:55.380 --> 00:07:04.800 anyway it doesn't matter because you still get a RTX 4090 and I9 175 Watts on 00:07:02.580 --> 00:07:07.440 both of them Absolute Beast this one's probably a little bit quieter you guys 00:07:06.180 --> 00:07:12.180 know probably probably it has a bigger fan 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:19.080 we already know this but if you want to be just a tiny bit cheaper we have the 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:22.319 strix G18 so this thing's not quite as 00:07:19.080 --> 00:07:25.259 powerful you only get a 4080 oh poor you 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:31.699 you only get a 4080 geez that's about like a 30 80 30 90 and a laptop 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:31.699 no one knows okay 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:39.900 the cooling system Remains the Same on this guy although if you go for lower 00:07:37.080 --> 00:07:44.160 than the RTX 4080 you are not going to be getting that conducto not extreme not 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:48.300 that you're really going to need it moving around from those big powerful 00:07:46.440 --> 00:07:53.039 boys to the more smaller ones but first of all ah you guys have too many awards 00:07:50.580 --> 00:07:59.280 jeez you need to move them so we can see the laptops the new flow x13 is an 00:07:56.460 --> 00:08:04.380 absolute Monster not just like you know power wise you kind of expect that but 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:10.620 it has a 75 watt hour battery in this thing I know it's friggin amazing how 00:08:08.099 --> 00:08:16.380 so small I love it for real I don't know how they crammed so much stuff into this 00:08:12.900 --> 00:08:18.060 so you can get up to an RTX 4070 in this 00:08:16.380 --> 00:08:24.479 and it's not even the it's not even that garbage 35 watt version it goes up to 60 00:08:20.940 --> 00:08:27.180 watts in this on top of that they have 00:08:24.479 --> 00:08:32.219 an AMD processor that gets you up to 55 Watts 55 Watts excellent yes this is 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:37.440 better than most thin and lights and you can legitimately game on it how the heck 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:42.419 did they do this of course the build quality remains excellent and the 00:08:39.779 --> 00:08:47.459 trackpad's 57 percent larger so you can look it's actually a track pad now it's 00:08:44.520 --> 00:08:51.120 not like a quarter of one not only is the trackpad bigger but they also 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:56.760 managed to somehow make it 10 millimeters smaller I really like this 00:08:54.779 --> 00:09:01.680 thing I really want to get into our office and see just how long it'll last 00:08:59.220 --> 00:09:07.920 with a 75 watt hour battery although then again 40 70 maybe it's not too good 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:11.459 maybe it isn't but either way they're finally putting proper webcams on 00:09:09.959 --> 00:09:16.320 everything Windows hello facial recognition up there unlock the laptop 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:18.779 super easily absolutely love it also 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:22.500 full HD webcam just thank you for putting them on your laptops guys it's 00:09:20.640 --> 00:09:27.000 the absolute bare minimum but you're doing it now 00:09:23.640 --> 00:09:28.620 for the flow z13 they haven't changed a 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:35.160 whole lot not that they really needed to we just get a very simple TDP bump to 65 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:41.339 Watts on the GPU which given that Microsoft still can't manage to cool the 00:09:37.260 --> 00:09:43.860 Surface Pro is very very impressive also 00:09:41.339 --> 00:09:47.880 this little glass panel on the back that's all covered in fingerprints right 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:51.360 now it used to be kind of like out a little bit but now they've managed to 00:09:49.260 --> 00:09:54.959 get it in just flush with this so it doesn't I don't know it just looks 00:09:52.800 --> 00:10:01.800 better of course you also get a nebula display on here so 16 by 10 Quad HD 165 00:09:58.800 --> 00:10:04.260 Hertz fantastic 00:10:01.800 --> 00:10:08.820 but do you know what's really crazy you know the G14 that like sort of small 00:10:06.899 --> 00:10:14.160 sort of not too small gaming laptop they've had for a while well this is a 00:10:10.920 --> 00:10:16.500 40 90 in it now how yes it has a four 00:10:14.160 --> 00:10:21.959 it's not the full fat 490 like they had in the strix but it still has 125 watts 00:10:19.740 --> 00:10:26.040 and a laptop that's this big this one have the cooler that goes all the way 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:28.860 across the back no well it still is very impressive you should have done that 00:10:27.180 --> 00:10:32.519 though I thought that was a thing that's what I said at the start they put on 00:10:30.180 --> 00:10:35.640 everything yeah okay apparently that is a vapor chamber that's why they said you 00:10:34.140 --> 00:10:40.200 don't need it but you need on the flow the big one anyway don't worry about it 00:10:37.860 --> 00:10:45.720 yeah it has an animatrix on the back the G14 also gets a display upgrade so 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:52.079 this right here is a Quad HD mini LED display and it has 00:10:47.959 --> 00:10:54.300 504 zones looks really good look at that 00:10:52.079 --> 00:11:00.240 we also want to look at is the new zephyrus M16 it's the same basic thing 00:10:58.260 --> 00:11:05.160 but just a little bit bigger this one have a heatsink that goes all the way across the back it does heck yeah there 00:11:03.540 --> 00:11:09.959 we go that's the theme of the video right there all the way across the back 00:11:06.839 --> 00:11:13.620 has an RTX 4090 in it once again but 00:11:09.959 --> 00:11:17.100 this one comes with a TDP of of a 140 00:11:13.620 --> 00:11:19.320 watts in something that's this thin look 00:11:17.100 --> 00:11:26.100 at that it even goes all the way flat we also have some excellent i o here so 00:11:21.779 --> 00:11:28.980 micro SD card USB type c type a it's a 00:11:26.100 --> 00:11:33.779 Thunderbolt 4 HDMI and USB type a rounded out with a headphone microphone 00:11:30.899 --> 00:11:38.459 combo Jack it has the same mini LED display as the scar and also it has a 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:41.700 webcam with Windows hello facial recognition again 00:11:39.839 --> 00:11:47.100 love to see it just on all of these laptops good job guys and finally for 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:52.620 the 16 they brought the animatrix to it great big so many LEDs I enjoy putting 00:11:50.820 --> 00:11:57.660 like line of spaces on here rabbit's fun too finally we have their 00:11:55.019 --> 00:12:02.040 new tough gaming laptops this one right here comes with a new sand color it 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:05.959 actually does look pretty cool now even though this is one of their more budget 00:12:03.779 --> 00:12:13.579 laptops I'm sure you can still get it obscenely expensive you can have options 00:12:08.820 --> 00:12:13.579 like Quad HD 240Hz display 16 00:12:15.060 --> 00:12:21.839 foot again if you're topping this thing out I don't know how much it's going to cost 00:12:19.260 --> 00:12:26.160 but uh they also don't yet either so we'll comment on budget laptops later 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:29.820 and finally I just a little cherry on top they have a gaming Chromebook uh 00:12:28.500 --> 00:12:33.420 there's absolutely no reason that you should ever get a gaming Chromebook but 00:12:31.680 --> 00:12:37.260 I can think of one and that's because these keys are orange and I do 00:12:35.160 --> 00:12:41.820 appreciate that what I also appreciate is ASUS sponsoring this video huge 00:12:39.540 --> 00:12:46.339 thanks guys so hit like get subscribed and just have a fantastic cool day see 00:12:44.100 --> 00:12:46.339 you later