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Asus says that incredible comes from within well I say that they sponsored

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this video so I can look at the New Zen screen fold OLED or as I like to call it

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the FED we got probably the monitor here but what I want to see is what's in this

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black box looks like it's a Max 30 W wall wart

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I'll just put that to the side take off this foam and look at what's under the

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box uh because this looks like a carrying case Asus Zen screen feels

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cushiony even though I've done is press it through the plastic the benefit to

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being foldable means that when it's folded up your portable monitor should

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be able to fit in this what 12 12 1/2 in

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bag I'm a little dubious but we're going to find out it's a pretty nice box with

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a pretty nice label it's our Asus zenc screen fold OLED portable monitor mq1

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17q when will they do away with crazy monitor names I'll never know but the

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funny thing is is the Box folds open

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too no one I couldn't just open it all

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right I guess they're really going for a folding experience this is probably the screen it's heavy enough uh it should be

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about 1.17 kilos so not super heavy uh

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We've also got an HDMI to Mini HDMI

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cable we've got a Asus booklet it thanked me for buying the product and

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then I gave me the warranty that's my VIP member notice um then what else have

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we got this is heavy this is oh if you

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want to put it on a stand it does come with a 1/4 in thread that you can use to

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attach it to a stand we've also got a right angle USBC to not right angle USBC

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connector uh We've also got a nice little what is this cleaning cloth not a

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big deal but it's nice that they include it why is it all in plastic this is my

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you know it's a really minor nitpick but I've had to take everything out of

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plastic for this whole thing and I

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really would have loved it if uh you know it's all sealed in here really nicely they could have just laid it flat

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and that would have been okay basically super easy peasy Ikea instructions

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telling me how to turn on the monitor all right let's open it take this

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plastic cover off and see what's inside I still it's

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like a giant book like it's like if I've got two

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tablets and I've got it like right in front of me it's like a giant book or

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something and then if you do want to read it like a book maybe a big cookbook on your countertop it's got a kickstand

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on the back look at that we'll talk about the price later it's very

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expensive I'm not going to lie to you guys it's very expensive but it's pretty cool it's pretty nifty it's the world's

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first portable OLED foldable monitor um

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it's also got hey look at this f- OLED

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on the back I was literally calling it fed for funsies and everyone's like

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that's stupid no one should call it foled I I was right we've got our qu

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inch thread right here that should hook into this guy it's got this little post

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on the bottom and then our screw at the top and then you can see it's got a

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guide there and then you just screw it down wow I like the Asus logo on the

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front here looks pretty cool reminds me of the Star Trek logo other than that

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it's pretty clean it's got little Asus Zen fold printing on the back here so

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you know exactly what it is and then we've got it on the side as well and uh

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then we've got our ports and power buttons or IO up here looks like we got

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a headphone jack mini HDMI DisplayPort

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alt DisplayPort alt through USBC I like

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how they're both uh DisplayPort it makes perfect sense it's a monitor um

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and then we've got an array of buttons I'm sure one is power the other three

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not sure we'll have to try them out we should be getting a nice 2560 by

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1920 in this aspect ratio which should

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be a good amount of PPI nothing too crazy as for the crease when it's folded

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out and it's all the way down and flat

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it's only really visible from some angles if I'm dead on it's actually not

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too bad and I'm sure with content you can barely even notice it but we'll have to judge that for ourselves later man I

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can't oh my God it just feels so uncomfortable for me to open and fold

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screens like it's it's like I'm opening a laptop but then it's just all screen

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but as uncomfortable as I may be folding it up to take it away with me let's

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power it on and see just what a portable foldable OLED monitor looks like in 2024

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one minor complaint Asus I really I know it's portable and most of the time your

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stuff's going to be right here but you do advertise it as being able to be put

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on a stand and used as a regular monitor but my computer's all the way down here

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and my power is a little further than that so I just want a longer cable

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please two longer cables the power will not reach where ours is

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and then our HDMI probably will reach but it's going to be a little tight so

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one moment please while I get the stuff plugged in okay now that it's all fired

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up it you know the colors look pretty good we actually tested them more on

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that later and they're not too not too shabby uh let's make sure everything's

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set to the right thing yeah 2560 by 1920 and unfortunately to say it is only 60

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HZ it is a portable monitor but you know what when you're land gaming like at a

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land event do you need 12 Herz it'd be nice but 60 it's good enough to gain so

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let's uh turn HDR on I've got to say the

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crease on a dark background is a lot

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more noticeable especially when you're off AIS but when there's color and

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there's actually content displaying and you're kind of bang on it's really not

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that bad let's try some games let's try doom doom Eternal look at that aspect

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ratio it's weird with the

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blue boxing the nice thing about Doom is

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that we know it'll do a weird aspect ratio I've just got to set it within the

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actual menu 16 by 10 no no no no no we want 4x3 babies 2560 by 1920 apply yeah

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this is doomed the way it was meant to be played on a CRT well now it's OLED

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but we're still 4x3 and I got to say I really like 4x3 I think for games

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there's something kind of nice about it especially on a smaller screen and like

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I've got to say say the display looks really good like that's just OLED for

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you uh with self admissive pixels it's such a good time compared to even like a

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really high-end mini LED display I'm just kind of team OLED now and

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especially with image retention and Vernon being such a thing of the past

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it's still possible but like most people who are daily driving these monitors

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even a year or two now from now myself included I still don't see any so I mean

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maybe down the line but so far so good I

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wish it was a higher refresh rate but like it looks solid you know what I'm not

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going to sit here and tell you it's the most responsive display I've ever used

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in my entire life but if I was at a land event or if I'm just kind of gaming on

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the go this is totally good enough with an OLED portable monitor like this we're

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getting a crazy high contrast ratio some people like to say it's like a million

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to one or infinite because your black is going to be perfectly black and then

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your brights are going to be not too bad I think we're getting a top end of about

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500 nits in HDR which is perfectly respectable it's not

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going to be you know a high-end TV or anything like that but I mean it's a

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portable monitor do you really need it to be 1,000 nits I don't you know that

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does look really good yeah it's about 4.9 million pixels so even though it's

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4x3 it's kind of like it's QHD or 1440p

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um and and a on a 17-in screen it's plenty of pixels it looks pretty good

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really decent PPI just going to check out the latency a little bit with

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Counterstrike I'm going to like you know it's not perfect obviously it's 60 HZ

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but it's totally usable I hope that if you're trying to be competitive at a l

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event you're bringing like a full scale monitor like this is just for if you

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want to Game On The Go it's okay I think we measured about 8 millisecs for

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response times and about 37 milliseconds of latency but that's perfectly usable

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for a foldable OLED monitor but next up let's talk color accuracy and the rest

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of our testing results in standard mode we measured an average Delta e of five

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with a Max of 8.5 rounding up nothing groundbreaking but solid for a portable

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monitor as for HDR in bt2020 game HDR was our most accurate mode with a Delta

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ITP of 7.7 on average and a Max of 17.9

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it's actually pretty respectable for HDR content we've seen better we've seen

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worse it's not going to be a

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disappointing display when you're looking at HDR content OLED just looks

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so good these days because they finally figured out how to make it bright enough

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without having to worry too much about image retention or bur in and the result

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is good it speaks for itself I mean it's

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it's really just hard to beat and until microed can come out with something that

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makes it single pain instead of multiple small pains so that you're always

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looking at a crease it's going to be good but the reality is it's $2,200 us

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which is very expensive and I assume

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it's going to be for a very Niche crowd however those of you who do want it who

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can afford it it's pretty sick because

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check this out just going to unplug

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it Fold It Up put it into our handy danding

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carrying case now that it's only 12 1/2 in and then we just drop it in the case

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came with it so you don't have to go buy one and like at about 2 and2 lb it's

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pretty light this will fit in a backpack no problem uh I feel pretty comfortable

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just like tossing it around even though it's a very expensive monitor um feels

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like a pretty sturdy case to be perfectly honest and that's the Asus Zen

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screen foldable OLED world's first it's

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awesome it's expensive I think that if

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you do want it you know check out the link below you'll be able to find one

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there and if you don't want it just don't buy one thanks so much Asus for

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