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this can't happen at least it shouldn't how could this be faster than this but

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the thing is guys the numbers don't lie this absolute Beast of a gaming laptop

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running intels Flagship 8 core 5.3 GHz

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Boost mobile processor is getting destroyed before our very eyes by a thin

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and light I mean look at this thing I can like wave it around with two fingers

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by harnessing AMD's new ryzen 5000 series mobile CPU use the ASUS flow x13

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has created a whole new class of laptop

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we're going to call it the the ultra Ultra

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Book super book Wonder Book okay I'm not

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sure but I am sure that this is a segueway to our

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sponsor from the specs alone you'd assume that the flow x13 is at least 2

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weeks classes higher it's got an AMD ryzen 9 59 adhs an 8 core 16 thread

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Beast of a processor that pushes at 7 NM transistors to 4.6 GHz and it's got an

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NVIDIA GTX 1650 graphics card to crank

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out reasonable frame rates as long as you don't mind turning down some of the

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eye candy I mean dedicated graphics baby

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and while we've seen situations where great specs can be let down by

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disappointing cooling I mean we just showed it Shred reading the MSI ge66

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Raider In fairness that really isn't MSI's fault I mean they have pumped

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every last wat of power that they can into that Intel processor and the GPU in

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the MSI laptop will leave the flow x13 dead in the water so let's pivot then to

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a more relevant comparison that's where

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this comes in just a couple of months ago we lauded the XPS 15 for its

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combination of power and design designating it the best Windows laptop

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period but now that it looks like we might be able to get more performance

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from a much more portable machine it's looking a lot more like the best Windows

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laptop huge asterisk despite being the

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size of an XPS 13 the flow x13 was

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trading blows with Dell's much larger pride and joy in CPU benchmarks and uh

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that was only until I discovered something rather fun in ASUS's Rog soft

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software you can flip over to manual mode which lets you turn the CPU from a

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35 wat TDP up to 45 now unsurprisingly

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that's a little too much for the poor cooler in this thing to handle like look

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at it but it's also a twoin one and if

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you flip it around so the intake doesn't get choked against the

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table look at this peaking at 95° C

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we've got the co cooling for 45 Watts now which knocked a whole minute off of

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our blender BMW test and allowed the flow x13 to handily shred the XPS 15 in

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pretty much everything else where the flow x13 didn't do quite as well though

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is GPU benchmarks the 1650 TI and the

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xps15 outpaced our 1650 Max Q on the x13

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pretty easily but the experience wasn't

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that different we're talking 1080p medium to high details the same can't be

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said of the XPS 13 which if you think

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about it is a way fairer fight so yeah the flow x13 punches well above its

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weight class for power particularly in the CPU department but the thing is the

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power of the xps15 is only part of its

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draw the people we know who bought XPS

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15s did it for the overall experience

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the materials the trackpad the keyboard and of course flexing on everyone that

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can't afford a $3,000 laptop so is the

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flow x13 able to compete in this

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regard to a degree the Magnesium chassis

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is fairly stiff but does flex a bit if you press on it especially up at the top

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and as for Aesthetics personally I think they struck a great balance between

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professionalism and gamer appeal but it's not quite as sexy as for Io at

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first glance it looks exception for this class of laptop you get two USB type C's

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a type A and full-sized HDMI but I was a

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little disappointed when I realized it was HDMI 2.0 and when I remembered that

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AMD machines don't have Thunderbolt at

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first I was like ah you know at least I'll have a full-sized USB port so maybe

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I can deal with this but I was kind of shocked at how many things I use on a

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daily basis that require Thunderbolt our 10 gig network adapters our best

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external capture card they both run Thunderbolt 3 and when it comes to

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docking or running an external graphics card Thunderbolt is the only way to do

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it or is it the flow x13 has yet another

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really cool trick up its sleeve the XG mobile connect interface which gives us

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a PCI Express gen 3x8 link straight into

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this the XG mobile egpu now you get a

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couple of options for the GPU that you can have crammed in here but of course

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we're showing off the most powerful one an RTX 380 mobile with a 280 W power

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supply built right in the RTX 380 and this compact package is able to boost up

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to 1810 MHz allowing you to connect to

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either a high refresh rate 1440p display or a 4K 60 display and have a pretty

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darn good time especially with your uh extra connectivity got your Ethernet got

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your USB SD card slot this combination was even able to slightly beat out the

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zephrus g15 a ryzen 9 RTX 380 beast but

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there is a problem a mobile RTX 380 is

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pretty close to a desktop RTX 370 in

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terms of performance and you will be paying nearly RTX 390 money for this

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package I mean I get it it's currently the best egpu notebook combination on

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the Market Bar None and good engineering costs good money but ASUS's kind of shot

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themselves in the foot here by making the new zephrus G14 and g15 so darn good

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for everyday use that it's hard to not just recommend buying one of those

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instead we'll have a review of those coming by the way so make sure you're

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subscribed and of course what I say and what I do are two entirely different

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things and given the option personally I would choose the much lighter flow x13

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largely thanks to its screen there are two options for the display we have the

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4K touch option which you should absolutely not buy Because unless you

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are a literal Hawk you don't need over9 million pixels in a 13.4 in form factor

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but that's okay because there's also a full HD Plus model that runs at 120 Herz

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we got to check it out on a pre-production unit and it is

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exceptional it brings a level of fluidity that has previously simply not

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been available on Ultrabooks and especially not on ones that also have a

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touchcreen now it's possible that the 120 HZ SMI of it does harm battery life

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but then again soda's running at unnecessarily High resolutions so I

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would I would expect it to be pretty similar to the 7 and 1/2 hours we were

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able to get from our machine one area ASUS could definitely improve though is

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well this area above the keyboard using

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this space for media Keys is fine on a big chungus 15inch gaming laptop but

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here every last bit of space needs to be used efficiently and I would rather have

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had a larger trackpad like it's fine but

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it definitely feels very 3 years ago and cramped compared to offerings from Dell

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HP and Razer the keyboard is also a bit

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of a sore spot for a gaming laptop it's

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well it's excellent and I can get up to full speed on it effortlessly but at

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this size it's competing against the likes of the XPS 13 HP Spectre and

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Lenovo ThinkPad all of which have pretty much perfected getting an incredible

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typing feel out of a small laptop to be clear the flow x13 is still good but the

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slight mushiness makes it more of a a minus at least compared to that group

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unlike some of their other RG machines ASUS wisely included a webcam on the

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flow X3 definitely grateful for that the quality is even not bad and I would

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normally complain that they didn't include Windows hello facial recognition

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on the thing but get this the fingerprint reader on the side has

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ausa's Special Sauce fingerprint caching

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so you don't actually have to touch it again after the boot sequence it just Lo

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logs right in the speakers are also good but not incredible the Dual be Atmos

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integration offers excellent stereo separation and good detail but the Bas

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is pretty lacking compared to something like the MacBook Air or the quality of

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this t-shirt from LTT Store.com totally unbiased by the way meaning that the

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flow x13 isn't the perfect Ultra Book

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and if you plan on doing all day typing browsing the web and even light photo

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editing you'll probably be better served by an XPS 133 or a spectre 14 but if you

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need performance the flow x13 is

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completely in a class of its own with more grunt than an I9 10900 HK and a

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reasonably powerful GPU this thing shreds when it comes to light gaming

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video editing or even light cadw work also given how the prices of Ultrabooks

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have ballooned the $14.99 asking price isn't even out of this world so the real

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tough decision is if you value the touchcreen and the lightness enough to

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choose this or over the similarly priced zephrus G14 with an RTX

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3060 that is assuming of course that you can find either of them in stock anyway

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I mean you can't buy ryzen 5000 you can't buy RTX 3000 and this has

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literally both so is it like un obtainium squared yeah L that I've seen

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