I'm here at ASUS's booth at CES 2023 and
we have so many fast gaming laptops to look at but all of it starts with this
guy right here this is the flow x16 and they released it earlier this year but
in order to fit all of the Power into a chassis that's this small they had the
heatsink go all the way along the back after they did that they were like huh
that's a pretty fantastic idea we should just do that for all of our laptops and
then they did look look at this David no it's just only heatsink the whole
back of the laptop on all of them it's all heatsink I love it first up is the
scar 16 and this thing is an absolute
Beast somehow in this well it's not exactly small or thin or light but for
the amount of performance it certainly is this thing has an RTX 4090 in it with
a tgp of 175 Watts as well as the Intel
Core I9 13980 HX which is just it's such
a stupid processor it's absolutely beautiful eight performance course 16
efficiencies course 5.6 gigahertz all
core this thing Freight and rips I imagine they have done that by just
heatsink heat sink even more heatsink
now ASUS brought over a whole bunch of motherboards and a whole bunch of things
like this the problem though there's no
fans I kept on talking about we have a big fan we have another fan there's a
whole other third fan down here that's new and we can't see them but I have a
solution for that there's a few things I like more than taking apart laptops on
the show floor it's too bad this isn't earlier at CES so that everyone would be
way more stressed they still look very stressed
one thing that I really appreciate in the past on their scar models ASUS had
this RGB light but it was attached to
the bottom panel so when you take it off there are these really fiddly RGB cables
huge pain in the butt now it's attached to the front of the laptop so that might
not be a problem aha
look at that it's so small I like this
one as you can see here the cooling in
this is obscene just so much heat sink
all the way around now what you might be wondering ASUS has Vapor Chambers on a
whole bunch of their laptops but this guy does not apparently NVIDIA's new
chips are so power dense that if you try and put the whole 175 Watts through a
vapor chamber she just dries up doesn't even work that's why you need all of
these heat pipes or with all of that heat away and take it to well all of
that right there also they added this additional third fan just sort of blow
air across the CPU and GPU so you don't get stagnant air there and also
apparently it helps with your keyboard temp so your fingers don't get all toasty after a long gaming session
underneath this heat sink they're using liquid metal so it's thermal Grizzlies
conducto knot extreme and that has two main benefits first of all stuff just
runs cooler fantastic the thing that's even better though is that apparently it
just lasts for I don't know they don't actually know how long they've had it
running in laptops for three years so far with no performance degradation but
either way that's way better than the typical stuff where like your silicon
thermal paste they sort of dry out after a while and then performance tanks you
need to take this all apart replace it pain in the ass don't have to do it here
while we're in here you have two upgradable ssds as well as two
upgradable RAM slots this right here is 4 800 Mega transfer per second ddr5
it looks like I have 64 gigabytes of the stuff in here this this cannot be a
cheap laptop also they have a 90 watt hour battery which I don't know how long
that's going to last but given the fact that it's 175 watt GPU and CPU they can
only do so much choosing a laptop gaming display can be
a little bit difficult especially for gamers because sometimes you might have
one that's very fast but it just kind of
looks like poo or maybe you have won that on paper sounds pretty good but the
response times are very bad ASUS wants to try and simplify that using their
nebula standards so nebula at a minimum gets you 165 Hertz three milliseconds
gray to gray 500 nits Peak brightness and full DCI P3 coverage that is
excellent and what we have on here but if you want to go even a step further
they have their mini LED displays with nebula HDR so that gets you 1100 nits
Peak brightness 240 hertz and this thing
is just so good to look at there's
1024 dimming zones in this making it one
of the best displays I have seen here the contrast ratio they claim is what is
this a hundred thousand to one it's not
it's not quite OLED but it's very close and so much brighter
it is very impressive below the panel things keep on being good this is so
cool they have this plastic that it's made out of but it's translucent up in
here apparently that was a huge pain for the designers of the laptop but they did
figure it out in the end and I think it looks fantastic especially like back
here look at that I really appreciate that people are having fun with plastics
again as well even though it is plastic it is stiff like I'm gonna absolutely
give her here that's about as much as
you can get and if we look here like I'm gonna press on it that's almost nothing
and of course with a stiff chassis that gives you a much better chance of having
a good keyboard and I'm happy to report
yeah ASUS is gaming laptops have had fantastic keyboards for years and this
one's no exception here you also have a track pad and if you press right here
you get a numpad look at that as a bonus
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
would have thought it and also the i o is pretty solid so we have headphone
microphone combo Jack right there love to see it can't take it for granted
these days even from ASUS we also have USB type c that is wired directly to the
GPU for all of your external monitor knees and Thunderbolt 4 HDMI 2.1 2.5
gigabit Lan and over on this side we have USB type A if 16 inches isn't big
enough for you though we have the strixcar 18. this thing has a massive
18.3 inch display and even though it's only nebula and not the nebula HDR I
don't think you're gonna complain Quad HD 240 hertz DCI P3 500 nits oh I didn't
even match without a 16 by 10. I absolutely love that gaming laptops have
16 by 10 now it's gone past productivity and stuff like this makes it just like
if you want a video edit on something like this which given you know the color
accuracy you can just makes it easier so many more timeline bits the specs remain
the same from the 16 inch because well you can't make it any faster NVIDIA
actually just doesn't let you increase the TDP even if you can kind of sucks
anyway it doesn't matter because you still get a RTX 4090 and I9 175 Watts on
both of them Absolute Beast this one's probably a little bit quieter you guys
know probably probably it has a bigger fan
we already know this but if you want to be just a tiny bit cheaper we have the
strix G18 so this thing's not quite as
powerful you only get a 4080 oh poor you
you only get a 4080 geez that's about like a 30 80 30 90 and a laptop
no one knows okay
the cooling system Remains the Same on this guy although if you go for lower
than the RTX 4080 you are not going to be getting that conducto not extreme not
that you're really going to need it moving around from those big powerful
boys to the more smaller ones but first of all ah you guys have too many awards
jeez you need to move them so we can see the laptops the new flow x13 is an
absolute Monster not just like you know power wise you kind of expect that but
it has a 75 watt hour battery in this thing I know it's friggin amazing how
so small I love it for real I don't know how they crammed so much stuff into this
so you can get up to an RTX 4070 in this
and it's not even the it's not even that garbage 35 watt version it goes up to 60
watts in this on top of that they have
an AMD processor that gets you up to 55 Watts 55 Watts excellent yes this is
better than most thin and lights and you can legitimately game on it how the heck
did they do this of course the build quality remains excellent and the
trackpad's 57 percent larger so you can look it's actually a track pad now it's
not like a quarter of one not only is the trackpad bigger but they also
managed to somehow make it 10 millimeters smaller I really like this
thing I really want to get into our office and see just how long it'll last
with a 75 watt hour battery although then again 40 70 maybe it's not too good
maybe it isn't but either way they're finally putting proper webcams on
everything Windows hello facial recognition up there unlock the laptop
super easily absolutely love it also
full HD webcam just thank you for putting them on your laptops guys it's
the absolute bare minimum but you're doing it now
for the flow z13 they haven't changed a
whole lot not that they really needed to we just get a very simple TDP bump to 65
Watts on the GPU which given that Microsoft still can't manage to cool the
Surface Pro is very very impressive also
this little glass panel on the back that's all covered in fingerprints right
now it used to be kind of like out a little bit but now they've managed to
get it in just flush with this so it doesn't I don't know it just looks
better of course you also get a nebula display on here so 16 by 10 Quad HD 165
Hertz fantastic
but do you know what's really crazy you know the G14 that like sort of small
sort of not too small gaming laptop they've had for a while well this is a
40 90 in it now how yes it has a four
it's not the full fat 490 like they had in the strix but it still has 125 watts
and a laptop that's this big this one have the cooler that goes all the way
across the back no well it still is very impressive you should have done that
though I thought that was a thing that's what I said at the start they put on
everything yeah okay apparently that is a vapor chamber that's why they said you
don't need it but you need on the flow the big one anyway don't worry about it
yeah it has an animatrix on the back the G14 also gets a display upgrade so
this right here is a Quad HD mini LED display and it has
504 zones looks really good look at that
we also want to look at is the new zephyrus M16 it's the same basic thing
but just a little bit bigger this one have a heatsink that goes all the way across the back it does heck yeah there
we go that's the theme of the video right there all the way across the back
has an RTX 4090 in it once again but
this one comes with a TDP of of a 140
watts in something that's this thin look
at that it even goes all the way flat we also have some excellent i o here so
micro SD card USB type c type a it's a
Thunderbolt 4 HDMI and USB type a rounded out with a headphone microphone
combo Jack it has the same mini LED display as the scar and also it has a
webcam with Windows hello facial recognition again
love to see it just on all of these laptops good job guys and finally for
the 16 they brought the animatrix to it great big so many LEDs I enjoy putting
like line of spaces on here rabbit's fun too finally we have their
new tough gaming laptops this one right here comes with a new sand color it
actually does look pretty cool now even though this is one of their more budget
laptops I'm sure you can still get it obscenely expensive you can have options
like Quad HD 240Hz display 16
foot again if you're topping this thing out I don't know how much it's going to cost
but uh they also don't yet either so we'll comment on budget laptops later
and finally I just a little cherry on top they have a gaming Chromebook uh
there's absolutely no reason that you should ever get a gaming Chromebook but
I can think of one and that's because these keys are orange and I do
appreciate that what I also appreciate is ASUS sponsoring this video huge
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